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Review: Humor and heartache abound in SpeakEasy Stage and Front Porch Arts Collective co-production of A STRANGE LOOP


by R. Scott Reedy - May 08, 2024

Between its 2019 off-Broadway run, 2021 Washington, D.C., staging, and 2022–2023 Broadway engagement at the Lyceum Theatre, the musical “A Strange Loop” – with music, lyrics, and book by Michael R. Jackson – has won a much-deserved 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 2022 Tony Awards for Best Musi...

Review: CLUE: A NEW COMEDY brings full out fun to Emerson Colonial Theatre


by R. Scott Reedy - May 02, 2024

What did our critic think of CLUE: A NEW COMEDY at Emerson Colonial Theatre?...

Review: Lyric Stage Company's THE DROWSY CHAPERONE is an Irresistible Delight


by R. Scott Reedy - April 22, 2024

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 dazzlin...

Review: Gender-Swapped COMPANY Cleverly Reimagines Sondheim Show


by R. Scott Reedy - April 08, 2024

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...

Review: ANTHONY RAPP'S WITHOUT YOU Looks at the Joy and Sadness in RENT Star's Life


by R. Scott Reedy - April 06, 2024

What did our critic think of ANTHONY RAPP'S WITHOUT YOU at Calderwood Pavilion At Boston Center For The Arts?...

Review: Patti LuPone Splendidly Sings of A LIFE IN NOTES


by R. Scott Reedy - April 03, 2024

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....

Review: ALAN CUMMING IS NOT ACTING HIS AGE delights Sanders Theatre audience


by R. Scott Reedy - March 27, 2024

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....

Review: SpeakEasy Stage Company presents a deeply moving COST OF LIVING


by R. Scott Reedy - March 18, 2024

What did our critic think of COST OF LIVING at Roberts Theatre, Calderwood Pavilion At Boston Center For The Arts?...

Review: The Huntington's JOHN PROCTOR IS THE VILLAIN Takes Fresh Look at Classic Play


by R. Scott Reedy - March 09, 2024

What did our critic think of JOHN PROCTOR IS THE VILLAIN at The Huntington?...

Review: The Lyric Stage Company Of Boston Presents A First-Rate Production of THIRST


by R. Scott Reedy - March 04, 2024

What did our critic think of THIRST at The Lyric Stage Company Of Boston?...

Past Shows

Saltonstall's Trial: One Man Stands in Defense of the Salem Witches


Saltonstall's Trial is an Equity Staged Reading of a new work. In 1692, as the Salem witch scare reached its apex, Nathaniel Saltonstall of Haverhill, ...

Homebody by Tony Kushner
Homebody by Tony Kushner
9/23 - 9/24/2017


HOMEBODY Holding only an outdated guidebook of Kabul, an eccentric and agoraphobic British housewife proclaims her unconsummated passion for the world. She grapples with the ...

Second Chances: Two Events: Past, Present, and Future


Join us for a weekend of extraordinary performances that present a meditation on culture: the connection between the past, present and the future. Exceptional, award-winning ...

Barn Sale: A life, one trinket at a time


Reading of a New Work Thursday, September 21, 7:30pm A biographical story of a gifted, mature actress whose life spans decades of real history, from ...

Wilber's War: An American Family's Journey through WWII - A Staged Book Talk


Wilber’s War is a deeply personal story of one family and the impact of the war on a soldier fighting in the Pacific theater during ...

VINCENT
VINCENT
7/13 - 7/16/2017


Vincent  is a stunning full-length two-act one-man play — written and originally performed over 150 times by Leonard Nimoy — about the life, work, death, ...

Reading of New Play: The Battle Not Begun: MUNICH 1938


The World Premiere Reading of THE BATTLE NOT BEGUN  MUNICH 1938 A new play by JACK BEATTY Directed by Myriam Cyr   Black Box Lab at Stage284 announces ...

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The Full Monty in Boston The Full Monty
The Umbrella Arts Center (4/26 - 5/19) Tracker
Spiritus/Virgil's Dance in Boston Spiritus/Virgil's Dance
Merrimack Repertory Theatre (5/8 - 5/26)
Baby Jane in Boston Baby Jane
The Company Theatre (10/11 - 10/27)
Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein in Boston Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein
Colonial Theatre (6/27 - 7/21)
The Life and Music of George Michael in Boston The Life and Music of George Michael
Emerson Colonial Theatre (9/20 - 9/20)
Mix and Mingle with Annie Adams Fields in Boston Mix and Mingle with Annie Adams Fields
Hidden Gardens of Beacon Hill Annual Tour (5/16 - 5/16)
Les Miserables in Boston Les Miserables
Boston Opera House (8/13 - 8/25)
Head Over Heels – High School Edition in Boston Head Over Heels – High School Edition
The Company Theatre (7/11 - 7/13)
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