Flat Earth’s ‘Terra Nova’ packs a powerful punch
WATERTOWN — Where does duty to God and country end and duty to family begin? Does not outweigh the other? And do you, as family man, have the right to seek your glory… Continue reading
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Lyric’s ‘Intimate Apparel’ a pitch-perfect production
BOSTON — Many blacks who migrated north from the South in the decades after the Civil War in search of a better life found heartbreak. They found racism didn’t stop at the Mason-Dixon… Continue reading
Fiddlehead’s ‘The Wiz’ is a warm, winning musical
DORCHESTER — It would be a shame if The Winter of Our Discontent caused many strong productions to go unnoticed or unappreciated. It’s hard enough to get people out to the theater in… Continue reading
Don’t be a putz! Get to Brustein’s ‘The King’
WATERTOWN –– The millions of Jews who emigrated from Eastern Europe to Western Europe and America in the late 19th-early 20th Centuries brought with them their hopes, their dreams, and a language: Yiddish.… Continue reading
‘Second Girl’ chronicles Irish immigrants’ struggle
BOSTON — The young women came to these shores by the droves from Ireland in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, seeking a better life but in many cases finding only backbreaking… Continue reading
ArtsEmerson’s ’Breath’ is passionate, powerful
BOSTON — Roland Hayes was not your typical concert singer. Even if it were only the fact that he was an African-American, the son of a slave, who grew up in the segregated… Continue reading
Parks’ ‘Father’: Greek poetry meets the Civil War
CAMBRIDGE — I knew the time I spent translating Homer’s “The Odyssey” and “The Iliad” from the ancient Greek into English at B.C. High decades ago would come in handy someday. It has… Continue reading
Michael, Marvin, and Diana return in ‘Motown’
BOSTON — If you were moved by Michael, dazzled by Diana, and were smitten with Smokey, “Motown: The Musical” is your cup of tea. The national touring production of “Motown: The Musical”… Continue reading
There’s not enough there there in ‘Middletown’
PROVIDENCE — Will Eno’s “Middletown” is a place with quirky and interesting characters, but in the production directed by Curt Columbus at the Trinity Repertory Theatre, it’s hard to find a there there. … Continue reading
There’s plenty of fun in funky ‘Measure for Measure’
CAMBRIDGE — Actors Shakespeare Project fears no piece in The Bard‘s canon, even works not often performed because they have been designated one of Shakespeare‘s “problem plays.” That would include “Measure for Measure,”… Continue reading