Rothko! Fantastic! Inspirational! Yes! I was very excited to to invited to view this new production at the SpeakEasy. Red, a Tony Award winning play from 2010 is centered on the great painter, Rothko in the late 1950’s as he finishes his master piece murals for the soon to be opened Four Seasons Restaurant in [...]
The centerpiece for the bi-annual Boston Early Music Festival is Niobe, Regina di Tebe, a baroque opera by Agostino Steffani, first produced in 1688. People come from across the world for BEMF’s production every other year full of excitement at what will be produced. I could hardly maintain my composure as I sat down in [...]
Boston Lyric Opera has been pushing the excitement factor for their new production of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream for quite some time. I totally bought into it and have been holding my breath for the show that was to come. Not only did BLO have their regular outreach programs at the Library and [...]
I will admit, I’ve had a lot of trouble deconstructing my thoughts on this piece. I struggle to be the one to speak against the popular opinion, notably those in awe of the use of technology in this supposedly progressive piece. But does that really make something new and unique? Does it make something [...]
Boston Lyric Operas production of Agrippina was nothing at all like I imagined it to be. Full of slap stick humor, ridiculous random props and over dramatized staging this was not your typical Handel opera. The audience fell in love with the comedy that Lillian Groag, fresh off directing the same production for the New [...]
The ART continues it’s Greek Fest with it’s stunning premiere musical theater piece “Prometheus Bound.” The first three words that come to mind when leaving the theater are FANTASTIC, SEXY, and ROCKIN’! This show was a great representation of new trends in the theater and exemplified a-typical direction and bringing the theater to the people. [...]
I walked into the American Repertory Theater’s Loeb Drama Center on a cold February evening to find it abuzz with excitement. The lobby was packed with people of all kinds waiting to be let into the theater for a new translated version of Sophocles’ epic war tragedy Ajax. The experience began in the lobby with [...]
I had high expectations for Boston Opera Collaborative’s production of Little Women. BOC is well known for having great musicians and this production had Michael Sakir, a favorite of mine, as the music director. It was housed in a beautiful newer hall in Dudley Square that I’ve been wanting to visit, and it is a [...]
I must admit that I went into the Factory Theater to see Whistler in the Dark’s production of Ted Hughes’s Tales from Ovid with more than a little apprehension. Supplied with my prior knowledge of the limited capabilities of the Factory Theatre space, and being told that the actors perform Cirque d’Soleil style acrobatics on [...]
Sarah Ruhl’s play concerning women’s sexual awakening and their men’s response in the electrical age is a thrilling subject. Ruhl stepped out of the box when writing this 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony Nominated play. I had very high expectations for what was called a “laugh-out-loud provocative and touching play” but I was surprised [...]