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 [...]
¡Ay Dios mio! The long awaited ¡Cubiania! has arrived; a three-part concert to conclude the 25th anniversary season of the Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre. Mateo brought together three pieces inspired by the rhythms of his native Cuba. Escape and Ayer Pasado were revived from their debut in 2004 as preludes to the evenings original premier [...]
“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 [...]
Boston Lyric Opera has been pushing the excitement factor for their new production of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream for quite some time. I totally bought into it and have been holding my breath for the show that was to come. Not only did BLO have their regular outreach programs at the Library and [...]
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 [...]
“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, [...]
I will admit, I’ve had a lot of trouble deconstructing my thoughts on this piece. I struggle to be the one to speak against the popular opinion, notably those in awe of the use of technology in this supposedly progressive piece. But does that really make something new and unique? Does it make something [...]