Baroque opera is not for everyone. It is a bit slow moving and focuses more on the music than on the action. It is full of Da Capo arias that can either be exhilarating or drab, but when done well leaves an audience grasping for more. The Boston Early Music Festival is known for their [...]
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Let’s face it; it has been looking a lot like Christmas since Halloween. The early onset of retail promotions tends to leave my holiday cheer a bit stale and smelling a bit of mothballs. Much like unpacking my winter sweaters, I often find my holiday cheer to [...]
It has often been my experience that political dramas can lack a certain ‘je ne sais quoi’ in capturing the true turmoil of any particular body politic. Company One’s production of The Overwhelming, however, was an exceptional exception. The entire performance was tightly wound around an invisible, but palpable tension of something impending. Every element [...]
What a spectacular little gem of a show the Speakeasy Stage Company has bestowed upon us with their holiday offering, Reckless by Craig Lucas. Without a hint of irony, Reckless manages to offer true manifestations of holiday emotions, joy, thankfulness, forgiveness, fear, loneliness- all without being preachy or hokey. With colorful and imaginative set dressings [...]
The number of times I have seen a production of You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown has escaped me, but without a doubt The Longwood Players production of this simple, yet timeless piece, was a true depiction of and tribute to the American Institution that is Charles Schultz Peanuts comic strip. Director Kaitlyn Chantry led [...]
When on my way to see The Boston Opera Collaborative’s production of The Crucible this weekend, I mistakenly went in the wrong entrance. Instead of the ticket booth and refreshment table, I was greeted by people shuffling large instruments through small door ways, people shmoozing with would-be donors pre-show and the far off sounds of [...]
I’m happy to inform you all that the demand for great theatre reviews keeps growing and growing! There has been such a clamor for Boston Theatre Review’s attendance at Boston-area shows, that I have decided to take on two new feature reviewers to help me with the heavy load! Seeing 4 shows a week can [...]
It’s difficult to review something I know so intimately as Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Besides having been a part of this production myself at Emerson College in 2005, I have seen many regional productions of the piece, from the dance floor at Axis to a small lecture hall at Tufts. It’s not hard to [...]
It’s a time-honored tradition for the All American Male. Grab a few buddies, a trusty canine, a few beers, a bag of beef jerky, and head out into the woods for a guys only retreat. Craig Wright’s Lady is a peek into one such excursion- where childhood friends Kenny, Dyson and Graham, along with Kenny’s [...]
If someone told me that a play that included a man doing a techno dance in a full body panda suit would be my favorite show of 2009, I would never have believed them, and yet sitting here looking over the program for Boston Playwrights Theatre’s The Salt Girl, I cannot help but relive the [...]