Review: THE VICTIM at Shakespeare & Company
THE VICTIM achieves a level of brilliance wherein the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
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Review: THE GLASS MENAGERIE Makes New Memories at Gloucester Stage
Tennessee Williams found fame with 1944’s “The Glass Menagerie,” which is considered to be one of the gifted playwright’s most notable works along with “A Streetcar Named Desire, “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and “Sweet Bird of Youth.
Review: Reagle Music Theatre's BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL Lives Up to its Name
When it comes to jukebox musicals, “Beautiful – The Carole King Musical” is one of the very best – a veritable Wurlitzer 1015.
Review: N/A - A NEW PLAY at Barrington Stage Company
N/A is a gripping two-hander that imagines a fictional meeting between two powerhouse women in American politics: one, a seasoned Speaker of the House; the other, a newly elected congresswoman with a disruptive streak.
Review: HOW TO NOT SAVE THE WORLD WITH MR. BEZOS at Great Barrington Public Theater
HOW TO NOT SAVE THE WORLD WITH MR.
Review: Orville Peck Celebrated PRIDE NIGHT AT POPS
Orville Peck didn’t put his feet up on a recent night off from “Cabaret” – instead he planted them firmly onstage with Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops at Symphony Hall, to headline the orchestra’s second annual Pride Night.
Review: Greater Boston Stage Company's LITTLE SHOP of Delights
The fragrant aroma wafting through Greater Boston Stage Company these days isn’t only the scent of the nearby florist, it’s also the sweet smell of the success that the Stoneham company is having with its wondrously well done production of “Little Shop of Horrors.
Review: WAITRESS Serves Up Great Score and More at Bill Hanney's North Shore Music Theatre
After its sold-out world premiere at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge in 2015, a four-year Broadway run, and a national tour that played Boston’s Citizens Opera House in 2018, the Tony and Grammy Award-nominated musical “Waitress” is open for business in a marvelously entertaining n
Review: American Repertory Theater's TWO STRANGERS (CARRY A CAKE ACROSS NEW YORK) is Delicious Treat
The term “rom com” has often been used to describe the musical “Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York).
Review: THE ELEPHANT MAN at Berkshire Theatre Group
The production is uniformly strong in all respects as is the cast.
Review: Chuang Stage & Company One Theatre's LEARNING HOW TO READ BY MOONLIGHT
History is being made on Broadway this season, with seven performers of Filipino descent simultaneously bringing luster to the stage and ticket buyers to the box office.
Review: The Huntington's THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA is Sweepingly Cinematic
The 1962 feature film “Light in the Piazza” was shot on location at the Piazza della Signoria and the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, and the Via Veneto and Roma Ostiense railway station in Rome, making its technicolor splendor a hard act to follow when the story, based on a 1960 novella by Elizabet
Review: FOUNDING F%!#ERS: THE STORY OF ETHAN ALLEN AND BENEDICT ARNOLD at Greater Boston Stage Company
And if you’re too busy to take your pencils back to school, and maybe not the biggest stickler for accuracy, then you may want to head to Stoneham for “Founding F%!#ers: The Story of Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold,” a play by Conor Casey being given its world premiere at Greater Boston Stage
Review: Cynthia Erivo Brings Her Star Power to OPENING NIGHT AT POPS
Conductor Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops set the mood for the recent Opening Night at Pops, featuring the luminous Cynthia Erivo, with a rhythmic “The Club” from Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “In the Heights” and the rousing “Gotta Dance” medley from “Jerome Robbins’ Broadway.
Review: SpeakEasy Stage Company's JAJA'S AFRICAN HAIR BRAIDING
And when it comes to the humble Harlem hair salon in Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, now in its New England premiere at SpeakEasy Stage in the Roberts Studio Theatre, Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA, through May 31, make that something to marvel at.
Review: Make a Reservation at THE SPITFIRE GRILL
The musical “The Spitfire Grill” – with book and music by James Valcq and lyrics by the late Fred Alley, who also co-wrote the book – perfectly captures the small-town ethos of its rural Gilead, Wisconsin, setting.
Review: North Shore Music Theatre's THE SHARK IS BROKEN Looks Inside Jaws
In the summer of 1975, moviegoers flocked to theaters to see “Jaws,” the story of the hunt for a man-eating great white shark attacking beachgoers at a summer vacation spot, making the picture the first summer blockbuster.
Review: Sondheim Musical is in Good COMPANY at Sullivan Rep
Over 50 years since its original Broadway production had its out-of-town tryout at Boston’s Shubert Theatre, the Stephen Sondheim musical Company, with book by George Furth, has had three revivals.
Review: North American Tour of SHUCKED Serves Up Sweet Corn in Boston
Indeed, when those one-liners and puns are not only corny but all about corn, you just may want to surrender and let the laughs burst like Jiffy Pop, as they are on the North American tour of “Shucked,” the musical being presented by Broadway in Boston at Citizens Opera House now through April 2
Review: Central Square Theater and Front Porch Arts Collective's HER PORTMANTEAU Packs a Lot Into Fraught Family Meeting
In “Sojourners,” the first play in the nine-part Ufot Family Cycle by first-generation Nigerian American playwright Mfoniso Udofia – presented last fall by the Huntington – Boston audiences met Abasiama, a hardworking Nigerian living in Houston, Texas, in 1978 and working toward a degree in
Review: American Repertory Theater's NIGHT SIDE SONGS Shows Power of Community and Music
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Review: Greater Boston Stage Company gets everything right with THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG
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Review: Harbor Stage Serves Up a Tasty MY DINNER WITH ANDRÉ
Written by and starring comedic actor and playwright Wallace Shawn and avant garde theater director André Gregory, and based on their lives, the 1981 film is the story of two old friends who share dinner at a New York bistro while revisiting their ongoing debate about the life of an artist and the
Review: The Huntington's THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE is Just That
The first production of Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux’s “The Triumph of Love” – performed in Paris in 1732 – was no box-office bonanza.
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Come From Away North Shore Music Theatre (9/16-9/27) VIDEOS |
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Beetlejuice Boch Center Wang Theatre (2/09-2/21) |
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Wicked Citizens Opera House (9/23-11/15) |
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Hadestown Emerson Colonial Theatre (11/10-11/14) |
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Little Bear Ridge Road SpeakEasy Stage Company (1/29-2/20) |