BOSTON THEATER REVIEWS

Continue your merry-making with a post-holiday performance at New Repertory Theatre at the Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown. Departing Artistic Director Rick Lombardo's adaptation is a classic for our times. ...

Adam Bock's play, directed by Curt Columbus, is meant to be unsettling. It is, mostly, unsatisfying....

Excess volume, perkiness and hype can't disguise the vapid book and mindless score of this cheesy musical adaptation of a beloved movie that may have been bright pink on the outside but was always true blue in its heart...

Broadway alums make return engagement of the reconceived Tony Award-winning Broadway revival a welcome addition to Boston's Broadway Across America schedule...

Decidedly different holiday spirits conjure mystery, menace and magic in the Boston area premiere of Conor McPherson's lyrical, funny and fearful Tony-nominated Irish folk play...

A brand new all-musical celebration of the season brings joy to the Worcester Foothills Theatre Company stage ...

Intellectualism gives way to emotion in Tom Stoppard's complex chronicle of the impact of Cold War politics and social revolution on life, love, and rock and roll...

With Neil A. Casey and John Kuntz on the scene, it's no mystery that the Lyric Stage Company has a very funny holiday hit on its hands ...

Taylor Hicks is not the only reason that Grease is the Word at the Providence Performing Arts Center, through December 7th ...

David Hare sheds light on the human condition in MRT's intelligent production...

Peggy Sawyer saves the day in the North Shore Music Theatre production of this tap-happy backstage musical...

Director Judith swift mixes it up, with a 'Husband' set in the Jazz Age...

Brutally funny, fully realized, and downright bloody, New Repertory Theatre successfully knocks off another Martin McDonagh play ...

The Publick Theatre concludes the 38th season on a high note with three masterful performances articulately directed by Nora Hussey ...

Merrimack Repertory Theatre kicks off 30th season with the world's longest-running musical and it'll leave you humming ...

Stale jokes and silly situations blunt the potential for scathing humor in David Mamet's sophomoric send-up of the Oval Office and its inhabitants...

Carrie Fisher teaches an outrageous lesson in survival when fame, family, and pharmaceuticals fail to fulfill - but the funny bone remains in tact...

Julianne Boyd and the Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield present a bold, straightforward production of the great American classic 'To Kill a Mockingbird' for the Fall Mainstage Season...

A Fall Foliage Celebration in Stockbridge on October 12th featured a train ride on the BTF Foliage Express and a gala concert with stars of Broadway in honor of the 80th anniversary season ...

Under Ed Shea's direction, Lillian Hellman's prequel to 'The Little Foxes' keeps its bite....

North Shore Music Theatre pays homage to the endurance of a classic and the human spirit in its presentation of the 1994 Hal Prince Broadway revival...

Extra! Extra! Read all about it...and you can, because Gutenberg has just invented the printing press. You'll learn things you never knew in this piece of 'historical fiction' set to music, performed by two actors wearing many hats in New Rep's Downstage Black Box Theater...

Lovely performances from a stellar ensemble create intimate portraits of a family learning to grow up and let go...

'Moonlight and Magnolias' goes behind closed doors at Selznick International Pictures in 1939 as the highly anticipated epic gets a new screenplay and a new director to meet boffo expectations...

Skip the movie and head to the theater to experience Tracy Letts' claustrophobic thriller....