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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The lucky guests of the Boston Gay Men’s Chorus Pride Concert, “All You Need is Love,” The Music of the Beatles, were treated to more than just a musical performance of light and nostalgic Beatles tunes. This music-concert-come- ballet, the brain child of Kevin Robinson, strings the Beatles songs we know and love loosely around [...]
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 [...]