The Zeitgeist Stage Company has yet again transformed the intimate BCA Black Box into a unique playing space for their winter production, Alan Ayckbourn’s Private Fears in Public Places. Part apartment, part office, part hotel bar, the thrust-style space is fully explored by the actors, hiding and highlighting different interactions for different areas in the [...]
As I sit down to write this review for the Orfeo Group’s production of The Island of Slaves, I am presented with a particular conundrum. In reading the directors note I was thus informed, “[Y]ou’ll probably enjoy yourself more if you don’t know what’s coming.” At first glance, I took [...]
I like to believe that I was well suited to review The Company Theater’s production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. I have a particular love for words. One might describe me as sesquipedalian. One of my favorite words is even a song title from the show (Weltanschauung). Some may say I go [...]
The Boston Opera Collaborative was at its most spectacular this past weekend with their production of A Little Night Music, Stephen Sondheim’s charming and funny tale of love across generations. The show is a favorite of opera companies for its musical intricacies and a favorite of audience members for its clever dialog, witty puns and [...]
If you are looking for a family-friendly theatrical experience to help combat those winter blues, Wheelock Family Theatre’s production of Honk!, a plucky little retelling of the Ugly Duckling by Drewe and Stiles is an absolute winner. Packed full to the brim with theatrics that would appeal to the 5-10 year-old crowd, this production is [...]
The story of The Rheingold Curse comes from a long tradition of Viking myths that deal with family values, greed and lust- subjects that still relate to so much in our lives today. The vikings had a nomadic aural tradition which has been almost completely absent for hundreds of years. Sequentia made the massive effort [...]
I had my first taste of Bread and Puppet Theatre as a graduate student under the incomparable tutelage of Emerson College’s John Bell- a world-renowned expert in the puppetry field. Bell infused each lecture with biting political commentary- and completely expanded my understanding of what puppetry could be and how it could be used to [...]