Celeste Danner (Marty Mason) is a city girl at heart and out of her element in the country town the family now calls home. Everything – even the roads she drives on every day –… Continue reading
In revamping Swedish playwright August Strindberg’s classic tragedy “Miss Julie” into her own work called “Julia,” Brazilian theater and film artist Christiane Jatahy has fashioned a multi-faceted, multi-layered, multimedia event — performed in Portuguese with English subtitles —… Continue reading
Laura Rocklyn and Kaedon Gray in “Cato & Dolly.” Photo: History At Play LLC/ Nile Scott Studios As the pandemic silenced and shuttered most area theaters, the interactive, immersive on-line troupe History At Play (HAP),… Continue reading
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Necessity is the mother of invention. The Covid-19 pandemic posed huge challenges if the Trinity Repertory Company were to keep alive its 43-year-old tradition of presenting an annual production of… Continue reading
Is home really where the heart is? Or are you someone who has always been struggling to break the bonds of your homeland, especially if that homeland has been for many generations racked… Continue reading
WATERTOWN – “All the world’s a stage,” says the character Jacques in Shakespeare’s “As You Like It.” That’s especially true during a pandemic. Outside – in this case, Watertown Square and nearby sites… Continue reading
She was a woman of her time. But the story of Lucy Stone, the iconic suffragette and abolitionist and the first woman to graduate from college in the state of Massachusetts, has never… Continue reading
BOSTON – If The Son, the middle-aged, unnamed character portrayed by Ken Cheeseman, is certain of only one thing, it is this: He is headed to hell. He serves as our narrator… Continue reading
BOSTON – The legendary Second City comedy complex is a must-see when visiting the city of Chicago, and since its founding in 1959 it has proven to be a training ground for success… Continue reading
LOWELL – The late singer/songwriter Nina Simone — who rose to fame in the late 1950s and early ’60s, performing in clubs in Atlantic City and Greenwich Village – was not about making… Continue reading