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 [...]
Three Pianos at American Repertory Theatre has prompted me to begin this review with a brief but important Public Service Announcement: To all of the theatres who produce plays that run longer than 90 minutes, please be advised: Your play is not so special that it does not require an intermission. Your play is not [...]
Our Town at Riverside Theatre Works made me cry. So, if you are one of the few people on the planet that don’t know the basic premise of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, please stop reading this review and purchase your tickets for Riverside Theatre Works’ production, which is only open for a couple more weeks. [...]
Opening the 21st Season (they’re finally able to legally drink!) at SpeakEasy Stage Company is Geoffrey Nauffts’ Tony award-nominated play, Next Fall. With a cast chock full of talent tackling some incredibly engaging issues, Next Fall was a stellar (and seasonally appropriate) kickoff to the season. The central plot unfolds in a hospital waiting room [...]
Hideous Progeny, produced by Holland Productions and running through July 23rd at the Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, is a phenomenal work exploring the lives of Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley and Lord Byron before Frankenstein was written. The play begins after Lord Byron had received much fame as a poet, and infamy as a sodomite, and before [...]
I’ve lived in Boston my whole life. Yet, I’m always seeing productions offered by companies I’ve yet to encounter. This is one of the beautiful aspects of the Boston theatre scene. Happy Medium Theatre is one such company. Having never seen a production by the group, I was not sure what to expect. In the future, [...]
I start this review by confessing to you, I love Edward Albee’s Zoo Story, and I’m a bit of an absurdist-ophile. Definitions of “absurdistophile”: a word I just invented; of or pertaining to people who love absurdist theatre; theatre nerds who compare knowledge of obscure quotes from absurdist plays at parties; artists who find absurdism [...]
With a celebrated past spanning 30 years, I was a bit disappointed that Wheelock Family Theatre’s production of Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp was bit lackluster compared to past shows. The production seemed void of the professionalism, morals and visual wonder that I usually associate with this accomplished theater. Guests expecting Disney’s version of [...]
It has been a long time since I have enjoyed a play this much. Publick Theatre Boston’s production of 9 Circles was a weighty treat. The script, written by Bill Cain, offers an irreverent look at military justice. Authenticity and wit were the trademarks of this work. The production created the catharsis for what’s [...]
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 [...]