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 [...]

Walking into the Wheelock Family Theater, I was immediately surrounded by children of all ages, bouncing with anticipation, as they waited for Annie to take the stage.  Patten leather shoes, hair bows and the occasional matching pajama set (after all, this was a late night!) immediately brought me back to my own childhood, and I [...]

Turtle Lane’s intimate playing space was not at its best this past week as it ended its month long run of Mel Brooks’ The Producers.  The normally intimate 120 seat theatre was awkwardly crammed with tables and oddly placed chairs.  In this “cabaret style”, sight lines were terrible and it was impossible to get up [...]

Call me a theatre snob, (no, really, go ahead, I’m still 60k in debt for my Master’s in Theatre, it is the least you can do) but there just aren’t a lot of opportunities for me to see shows in Boston that I have never seen or heard much about.  That is why I jumped [...]