Unfortunately, grim is the best way to describe Company One’s recent production of Grimm, a retelling of seven classic Brother’s Grimm fairy-tales. Clocking in at a laborious 2 hours and forty five minutes, these “re-imagined” vignettes were not the dark and thoughtful pieces I had hoped for, but on the whole were a poorly written [...]
Love is in the air in Boston in June. We all breathe a collective sigh of contentment as the cold air floats away to make room for balmier breezes. The flowers melt into a glorious rainbow, reminding us that the winter is behind us, and we can look forward to a few magnificent months of [...]
The Huntington Theatre Company continues to shatter expectations this season with their tender, wistful production of Prelude to a Kiss. A shimmery, elegant stage filled with thousands of sparkling lights and garlands of flowers that fade effortlessly into a classic, almost European feeling city-scape, set the perfect backdrop of this tale that floats somewhere between [...]
“You are in for a treat, my friend,” I told my companion as we took our seats in the Calderwood Pavilion to see Speakeasy Stage Company’s last production of the season, The Great American Trailer Park Musical by David Nehls and Betsy Kelso. I was admittedly unfamiliar with the show (so refreshing) but I did [...]
The Zeitgeist Stage Company really hit one out of the park on their last production of the season, Beau Willimon’s Farragut North. I have enjoyed each production that Zeitgeist has offered this season, but the impeccable acting, riveting story, and thoughtful use of staging put this show in a class all of it’s own. I [...]
If you’re looking for sophisticated dialog, witty repartee, and a thoughtfully developed and seamless plot- you won’t be finding it in Boston’s newest interactive theatre piece, Fishnet.networks.net- but if you’re looking for a fun way to spend an evening with friends, throw back a few beers, and have a few laughs, it might be just [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]