There’s just no show that can capture my heart like a Boston Gay Men’s Chorus concert.  With warm ballads, beat boxing, the worm, a gaggle of dancing cowboys, and a startling tribute led by one of Boston’s finest actors, We the people was no exception to this claim.  It makes sense to talk about this [...]

Boston Lyric Opera’s production of Ariadne auf Naxos has made headlines around the world as it is a revival of the European Welsh National Opera. I was very excited to have the chance to see this production come to life here in Boston, and am still delighted that I had the opportunity. Revival director and [...]

After taking our seats to watch The Company Theatre’s production of RENT, I heard the young ladies behind me saying how difficult it would be to refrain from singing along, having seen the movie.  This tickled me a bit; I briefly imagined myself as a staunch old man turning around and saying with indignation “In [...]

I am going to say right off the bat that I have a very intimate relationship with Elmer Rice’s play, The Adding Machine.  Having played Mrs. Zero myself, and having been nominated for a National acting scholarship because of that performance (/ shameless self promotion) I feel not only an intimate bond with the character, [...]

Since reviewing José  Mateo Ballet Theatre’s production of The Nutcracker, I have been anticipating their next production.  Having enjoyed the performance of the JMBT Company of dancers accompanied by 200+ students in The Nutcracker, I was looking forward to seeing a program performed exclusively by the company.  Out of the Dark, the second of a [...]

It takes a widely respected, seamlessly integrated, and seriously dedicated team to produce a comedy so delightfully realistic that you completely forget you’re in a theatre, and the wonderful Huntington Theatre Company succeeds in leaps and bounds with their production of Gina Gionfriddo’s Becky Shaw. The show was clever, touching, and laugh-out-loud hysterical.  Always willing [...]

The American Repertory Theater’s spring festival, America: Boom, Bust and Baseball, presented it’s second offering at the Loeb Drama Center this week.  Falling under the label “Bust”, Clifford Odet’s Paradise Lost is a pithy tale of loss in the wake of the Great Depression which has some startling, and at times disturbing similarities to our [...]

After Brian Tuttle and 11:11 Theatre Company’s holiday season offering, The Three (Un)Wise Men, I was apprehensive about my trip to The Factory Theatre for Tuttle’s newest tale, Foreverendia.  The Three (Un)Wise Men wasn’t a BAD show, in fact, I gave it a pretty good overall review, but it wasn’t a pithy thing, and it [...]