BOSTON THEATER SHOWS

Review: The Huntington's THE ART OF BURNING Could Use a Bit More Fire
by Erik Bailey - February 03, 2023

The trend of modern plays seems to be that playwrights a trimming down their plays, often to ninety minutes or less. While this brevity can work for many plays, it doesn’t work for all. There’s only so much a playwright can say or do in ninety minutes and sometimes plays move too quickly and the aud...

Review: TORCH SONG at Moonbox Productions
by Nancy Grossman - December 08, 2022

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Review: LITTLE WOMEN: THE BROADWAY MUSICAL
by Nancy Grossman - December 01, 2022

Have there ever been such devoted sisters as the four March girls, birthed by Louisa May Alcott in her postbellum semi-autobiographical novel LITTLE WOMEN? Director Ilyse Robbins shows her abiding affection for the story with her devotion to its heart and soul on display in the production of the 200...

REVIEW: THE EDGAR ALLAN POE DOUBLEHEADER
by Nancy Grossman - October 28, 2022

If you have yet to reach your fright limit for the Halloween season, you still have two chances to experience chills of the dramatic variety at THT Rep at the BrickBox Theater in Worcester. Reprising the production she created for small, socially-distanced audiences of 20 in the early days of the pa...

REVIEW: THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
by Nancy Grossman - October 26, 2022

Two hundred years after Washington Irving introduced the little hamlet of Sleepy Hollow and its superstitious denizens to the canon of American literature, the legend remains among the most enduring of stories that capture the imagination of adults and children alike, inspire questions about the sup...

Review: AUGUST WILSON'S JOE TURNER'S COME AND GONE
by Nancy Grossman - October 22, 2022

JOE TURNER'S COME AND GONE was the first Wilson play produced at the Huntington in 1986, the beginning of a 19-year relationship that saw all ten of his American Century Cycle plays chronicling the African American experience in the 20th century performed on the local stage....

Review: SEASCAPES at Berkshire Theatre Group
by Marc Savitt - October 03, 2022

Typically, I don’t care much for works that fall into the realm of existentialism, theatre of the absurd, and the like. SEASCAPE, however, is different. Perhaps because it is primarily focused on interpersonal communication. Also, the characters, for the most part are dynamic, interesting, and rathe...

Review: GOLDEN LEAF RAGTIME BLUES at Shakespeare & Company
by Marc Savitt - September 29, 2022

GOLDEN LEAF RAGTIME BLUES does provide a pleasant hour and 20 minutes of pleasant entertainment free of politics, angst and the chance to sit back and relax, and focus on something completely different for a bit which most of us can use and appreciate these days....

Review: ALL OF ME at Barrington Stage Company
by Marc Savitt - September 27, 2022

ALL OF ME is all kinds of good. Not good for a show about a particular group or type of people, it’s just good. There is some aspect that should fit or tickle the funny bone for just about everyone. So, as the song with the same title asks: why not take ALL OF ME?...

Review: JERKER at The Provincetown Theater
by Michael Rabice - August 31, 2022

What at first sounds like an evening of gratuitous nudity for the pleasure of gay men actually turns into quite the opposite. In one of it’s final performances this summer, Robert Chesley’s play JERKER proved to be a perfect fit for The Provincetown  Theater’s mission of presenting previously unsee...