Boston, it elates me to say, is an enclave for upstart, up-and-coming, unconventional and unseen theatre. Boston houses countless theaters and likely thrice as many theatre companies. There is an incredible amount of diversity. The plethora of production companies and the cost of Boston real estate make establishing a new company an [...]
A cool summer night kissed with a gentle breeze, the electric hum of thousands of excited audience members, and the clash of car horns mixed with the primal sounds of crickets chirping provided the perfect backdrop to one of Boston’s most anticipated summer events, the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s Shakespeare on the Common. This year we [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I have had the pleasure of reviewing much of the Company One 2009-2010 season. They have consistently demonstrated a great skill in play making, and I have often been drawn into the illusion they create. Once again Company One brought together the elements of a great production to lift the [...]
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 [...]
I am ever leery of productions of Shakespeare. Too often it feels as though the actors are not exactly sure of what they are saying. Surely a name like The Actors’ Shakespeare Project would imply an understanding of Shakespeare. With their production of Othello, the company demonstrated a commitment to Shakespeare’s [...]
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 [...]