Candide, at Huntington Theatre Company this fall, is amazing. Amazing. AMAZING! I have not gone to a more visually stunning and musically moving show in a long while. Candide runs through October 16th as the kickoff to Huntington’s 30th Anniversary Season. Huntington welcomes a production that is clearly part remount, part newly produced, bringing several [...]
As the final curtain fell, the house lights rose, and I began my way out of the Loeb Drama Center, my ears couldn’t help but hone into the conversation happening behind me. A woman remarked to her theatergoing companion, “Well, I give it an A for effort.” In the moment, I couldn’t help but [...]
“Slaves have options. Cowards ain’t got shit,” states the main character of New Repertory Theatre’s Passing Strange. Youth – as he is referred to in the playbook, and who remains nameless throughout this production – spends a great deal of the show making comparisons between his middle-class California life in the 1960’s to that of [...]
Hearing the very first minutely affected syllable breathed through a totally dark theatre, I knew that I was in for something special as an audience member of Speak Easy Stage Company’s final production of the season, Tony award winning, The Drowsy Chaperone. Our narrator, “Man in chair”, is quick to bring us into the particulars [...]
The Glorious Ones is the newest Boston-area premiere for The F.U.D.G.E. Theatre Company to claim as its own- and what a multi-faced little jewel of a production it was! From Ahrens and Flaherty’s evocative score, to Lindsay Hurley and AnneMarie Alvarez’ delightfully detailed costume design, this 90 minute romp into the historical world of Italian [...]
“The Last Five Years” (and Timeless Thoughts on Art and Love) As a fellow theatre artist, it is rare to experience a play that explores the intoxicating sadness of two artists falling in and out of love – or is it? Whether in New Repertory Theatre’s production of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years, [...]
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. [...]
It’s a brand new year for the Boston theatre scene, and most of the local production companies are well into their seasons. Their holiday shows just a pleasant memory, it’s time to up the ante and add a little “pow” to the hum-drum winter months in order to keep their audiences awake through the seasonal [...]
A.R.T.’s presentation of “The Blue Flower” is a stunning feat both musically and visually. The audience is thrust into a time warp, maybe to a simpler time, immediately upon entering the theatre. This isn’t just some time warp though, with unsettling pieces such as mannequin body parts scattered throughout the space. The audience collectively knows [...]
Walking into the Wheelock Family Theater, I was immediately surrounded by children of all ages, bouncing with anticipation, as they waited for Annie to take the stage. Patten leather shoes, hair bows and the occasional matching pajama set (after all, this was a late night!) immediately brought me back to my own childhood, and I [...]