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Late in the second act of “A Little Night Music,” the Stephen Sondheim musical about love – and the amorous, sometimes adulterous, always complicated entanglements that accompany it – the opening lines of the plaintive ballad “Send in the Clowns” ask, “Isn’t it bliss? Don’t you app
It’s baseball season in a baseball town, Red Sox caps are sprouting like spring flowers, and the Huntington is getting in on the act, too, with a crackerjack production of “Toni Stone,” a play about the first woman to play professional baseball on a men’s team, which will run through June 16
The production is well paced, charming, often funny, and yet another example of the fine, high quality theatre Berkshire audiences are fortunate to have available on a consistent basis.
What did our critic think of ROMEO AND JULIET at Roberts Theatre, Calderwood Pavilion At Boston Center For The Arts?
There were three great pianists on the program when the Boston Pops recently opened its 138th season at Symphony Hall.
What did our critic think of JERSEY BOYS at North Shore Music Theatre?
What did our critic think of AN EVENING WITH LESLIE ODOM, JR.
Between its 2019 off-Broadway run, 2021 Washington, D.
What did our critic think of CLUE: A NEW COMEDY at Emerson Colonial Theatre?
Under Larry Sousa’s wonderfully imaginative direction and with his choreography, a 16-person company of some of Boston’s brightest, most versatile performers is bringing the Canadian musical, with music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Gregg Morrison and book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar, to daz
More than 50 years after its original Broadway production, which had a Boston tryout at the Shubert Theatre, the Stephen Sondheim musical Company, with book by George Furth, had its third revival in 2021, in a sprightly, cleverly reimagined, gender-swapped production that won five Tony Awards includ
What did our critic think of ANTHONY RAPP'S WITHOUT YOU at Calderwood Pavilion At Boston Center For The Arts?
In the past few years, Patti LuPone has resigned from Actor’s Equity Association and suspended her legendary Broadway career, but as she proved with her Celebrity Series of Boston performance at Symphony Hall on April 2, the three-time Tony Award winner can still command a concert stage.
What did our critic think of ALAN CUMMING IS NOT ACTING HIS AGE at Sanders Theatre? In his eponymous show Alan Cumming Is Not Acting His Age, the performer definitely lives up to the title.
What did our critic think of COST OF LIVING at Roberts Theatre, Calderwood Pavilion At Boston Center For The Arts?
What did our critic think of JOHN PROCTOR IS THE VILLAIN at The Huntington?
What did our critic think of THIRST at The Lyric Stage Company Of Boston?
What did our critic think of GOLDA'S BALCONY at Shakespeare & Company? Golda Meir – Israel’s first, and so far only, female prime minister – was seen by some as the straight-talking grandmother of the Jewish people.
What did our critic think of BECOMING A MAN at Loeb Drama Center?
Many of the pieces provide laughs, some perspective.
What did our critic think of THE ANONYMOUS LOVER at Boston Lyric Opera?
What did our critic think of ALL THINGS EQUAL: THE LIFE & TRIALS OF RUTH BADER GINSBURG at Emerson Colonial Theatre?
What did our critic think of VOICE OF NATURE: THE ANTHROPOCENE at Symphony Hall? With her sold-out Celebrity Series of Boston performance this past Sunday at Symphony Hall, Renée Fleming offered a splendid reminder, although none is needed, of why she is widely considered to be the preeminent Ameri
What did our critic think of A CASE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD at SpeakEasy Stage Company?
What did our critic think of STAND UP IF YOU'RE HERE TONIGHT at The Huntington Theatre?
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The Norwegians Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre (9/04-10/04) |
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show (All audience members regardless of age must have a ticket. Children under the age of 15 must be accompanied by an adult Emerson Colonial Theatre (10/27-10/27) |
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A Christmas Carol The Unicorn Theatre (12/03-12/20) |
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Oh, Mary! Emerson Colonial Theatre (12/21-1/03) |
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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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Buena Vista Orchestra Emerson Colonial Theatre (10/08-10/08) |
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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) |
