Passion, pride bring revolution in Cuba to life
BOSTON – The distance between Cuba and the United States is about 90 miles, but when you are a refugee adrift in the treacherous ocean waters between the two countries, it might as… Continue reading
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MRT’s ‘Home of the Brave’ veers off the rails
LOWELL – Sean Daniels, the first-year artistic director of the Merrimack Repertory Theatre, has made premiering new works a raison d’etre for the theater. But new works are like Forrest Gump’s box of… Continue reading
‘Historia de Amor’ is both beautiful and ugly
BOSTON – How can something be both simultaneously beautiful and ugly? It’s when the beauty of a new theatrical technique that seamlessly combines film and animation with live acting is contrasted against the… Continue reading
Lyric’s ‘Mr. Burns’: Discomfort without the payoff
BOSTON – Just for the record, I’m a huge fan of “The Simpsons.” The animated comedy has skillfully skewered virtually every aspect of American culture for more than a quarter-century and earned an… Continue reading
ASP cast delivers a delicious ‘School for Scandal’
CAMBRIDGE – The Actors Shakespeare Project has had a strong record when it chooses to detour from The Bard’s canon, with critically-acclaimed productions such as Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard” in 2014, the award-winning… Continue reading
‘Wizard of Oz’ reboot a treat for the eye and ears
BOSTON – It takes a lot to grab and keep a child’s interest these days. I guess that goes for adults, too. And if you are adapting and restaging an iconic work of… Continue reading
Science and sex are partners in Nora’s ‘Acadia’
CAMBRIDGE – Looking back on events that happened more than 180 years ago and reconstructing them is a bit like solving one of those huge jigsaw puzzles. It’s easy filling in those big… Continue reading
Huntington’s ‘Can You Forgive Her?’ is a mixed bag
BOSTON — The playwright Gina Gionfriddo has found an artistic home at the Huntington Theatre Company, where productions of her ”Becky Shaw” and “Rapture, Blister, Burn” were warmly greeted after debuting off-Broadway. Now the… Continue reading
Dunleavy, Robbins make ‘Sweet Charity’ swing
STONEHAM – The choreography of the late Bob Fosse is so singular that it seems you might recognize it blindfolded, just by the sound of the tapping of feet on stage. The angles,… Continue reading
A king’s fast fall from grace in ASP’s ‘Richard II’
CAMBRIDGE – It is the political season – would that it weren’t – and thus a fine time for Actors Shakespeare Project to delve into the politics of Britain in the late 14th… Continue reading