BOSTON THEATER REVIEWS

The sight and smell of smoke, the surrounding walls draped in sheets of white fabric, and a brew of eerie sounds and lights combine to set the mood for Boston Center for American Performance's MONSTER, a rendering of the oft-told FRANKENSTEIN tale that is not likely to be confused with earlier film ...

Following the success of their last production, the 1943 play THE VOICE OF THE TURTLE, Merrimack Repertory Theatre mines the early 20th century for source material and strikes gold. Think about bringing your daughters and granddaughters to meet the extremely likeable and capable young female protago...

National tour of revamped Broadway musical based on the darkly humorous comics of Charles Addams is more sweetly traditional than deliciously cutting edge...

Boston's Lyric Stage production of Tracy Letts' kinder, gentler follow-up to 'August: Osage County' boasts a superb cast of vivid characters grappling with a changing neighborhood and changing times...

Tennessee Williams' "new" play set in hotel bedroom where its characters can play out their psychosexual fantasies in front of an intimate audience. Company One presents Boston premiere in collaboration with Chris Keegan and The Kindness and Director Travis Chamberlain....

Tony Award-winning play by Yasmina Reza takes a penetrating look at the fragility of friendship in a thought-provoking production at the New Rep in Watertown...

Boston premiere of 2010 Tony Award-winning play GOD OF CARNAGE at the Huntington Theatre is full of laughs but short on deeper satisfactions...

National tour of 2010 Tony-nominated rock musical 'Green Day's American Idiot' electrifies Boston with hard-driving message of alienation and finding one's way back home...

'Winter Panto 2012: The Half-Baked & Hard-to-Swallow History of Humpty Dumpty, Or, One Egg is Enough' is imaginary beasts' first foray to Boston following nine years of developing accessible theatre for the North Shore community. Think Fractured Fairy Tales meets Dr. Seuss, and you've got a pretty g...

Thomas Derrah gives a tour de force performance as the noted but troubled artist Mark Rothko in a crackling SpeakEasy Stage Company production of John Logan's Tony Award-winning play...

Merrimack Repertory Theatre delivers a heartwarming production of an old chestnut. The 1943 wartime classic reminds us how sweet it is to live in the moment and grab the brass ring when it comes along....

The American Repertory Theater presents a loving tribute to Franz Schubert and his romantic song cycle 'Winterreise.' Part piano concert, part storytelling, and part salon known as Schubertiade, 'Three Pianos' hopes to educate as it entertains....

Nostalgia piece at New Repertory Theatre is a humorous, heartwarming play based on the 1983 film and Jean Sheperd stories. Features the classic line, "You'll shoot your eye out," the tongue stuck on the frozen flagpole, the gaudy lamp, and the Red Ryder BB gun. A great outing for the whole family. ...

National tour of Tony Award-winning revival starring George Hamilton and Christopher Seiber is a naughty but nice Christmas present to Boston through December 18...

Fringe theatre company debuts with new, award-winning play by Walt McGough at Factory Theatre. While she struggles to overcome a trauma in her life, two aliens approach Priscilla to save their world. She looks for answers from a game show savant and learns that some things are unknowable, but that w...

National tour of failed Broadway production of 'High,' Matthew Lombardo's muddled new play about addiction and the role of faith in recovery, opens in Boston with stars Kathleen Turner and Evan Jonigkeit reprising their roles...

Ryan Landry and the Gold Dust Orphans hope to start a new holiday tradition with the reprise of last year's hit 'Mrs. Grinchley's Christmas Carol' at Theater Machine at the Ramrod Center for the Performing Arts. This is not your grandfather's Dickens or your children's Dr. Seuss, but features the us...

Playwright Jeffrey Hatcher's witty trio of compelling monologues is skillfully directed and powerfully presented by New Rep in the Black Box Theater, the setting serving as an ideal space to witness these intimate stories....

Merrimack Repertory Theatre presents its audience with the ultimate Christmas present - the return of the Reduced Shakespeare Company and the East Coast premiere of 'The Ultimate Christmas Show (abridged).' All of your favorite holiday characters - Baby Jesus, Joseph, Mary, Santa Claus, and the Bee ...

Michael Cristofer and Louis Cancelmi give captivating performances as Adolph Eichmann and Israeli Mossad agent Peter Malkin respectively in Evan M. Weiner's play receiving its world premiere at Huntington Theatre Company....

The Boston Center for American Performance, the professional extension of the Boston University School of Theatre, continues its fourth season with Canadian playwright Daniel MacIvor's darkly humorous one-man play that alters the typical theatrical boundaries and brings the audience into the story....

The Threesixty Theatre brings its 1,300 seat state-of-the-art tent to Boston's City Hall Plaza, transforming the barren expanse into a magical land filled with flying fairies, Lost Boys, pirates, and the delightful boy who refuses to grow up. 3D projections are brilliantly colorful, larger than life...

Huntington Theatre Company presents the premiere of Huntington Playwriting Fellow Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro's love story for grownups. Her insight into the hearts and minds of sixty-something old friends, her crisp and witty writing, and Jonathan Silverstein's smooth direction make this a worthwhile -...

The halls (of the Calderwood Pavilion) are alive with the sound of…laughter, generated by the SpeakEasy Stage production of Charles Busch's 'The Divine Sister.' Directed by Larry Coen, the New England premiere of the 2010 hit Off-Broadway comedy stars Jeffery Roberson (aka Varla Jean Merman) and B...

The title may not grab you, but Director Daniel Gidron's production at the Lyric Stage will keep you laughing and guessing in Liz Duffy Adams' comic sex farce. ...