PORT PLAYERS

by R. Scott Reedy - June 04, 2024

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 approve?” When it com...

by R. Scott Reedy - May 28, 2024

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 at the ...

by Marc Savitt - May 20, 2024

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....

by R. Scott Reedy - May 19, 2024

What did our critic think of ROMEO AND JULIET at Roberts Theatre, Calderwood Pavilion At Boston Center For The Arts?...

by R. Scott Reedy - May 15, 2024

There were three great pianists on the program when the Boston Pops recently opened its 138th season at Symphony Hall....

by R. Scott Reedy - May 14, 2024

What did our critic think of JERSEY BOYS at North Shore Music Theatre?...

by R. Scott Reedy - May 12, 2024

What did our critic think of AN EVENING WITH LESLIE ODOM, JR. at Emerson Colonial Theatre?...

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...

by R. Scott Reedy - May 02, 2024

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

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...