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 wanted to like Company One and Phoenix Theatre Artist’s production of Christmas Belles so much.  It seemed to me like a little gift from heaven, a Holiday show by the creators of one of my favorite and arguably one of the funniest television sitcoms of all time, The Golden Girls, and I was prepared [...]

The Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and Boston Children’s Theatre have joined forces this month to present the warm, nostalgic, little jewel, A Child’s Christmas in Wales.  Dylan Thomas’ touching tribute to the holiday spirit of his youth is enchantingly captured and lovingly celebrated by this delightful cast. Part holiday story, part salutation to a beloved aunt, [...]

If someone told me that a play that included a man doing a techno dance in a full body panda suit would be my favorite show of 2009, I would never have believed them, and yet sitting here looking over the program for Boston Playwrights Theatre’s The Salt Girl, I cannot help but relive the [...]

My love affair with Ronan Noone started way back when I was a starry-eyed college sophomore at my very first American College Theatre Festival.  Fresh from the high of competing in the festival with Stonehill College’s rendition of Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury, I was replete with enthusiasm for the art form- and ran head [...]