‘Witness Uganda’: An inspiring African journey
CAMBRIDGE — When you travel 7,000 miles to find yourself, what happens when you feel even more lost than you were before you started? That was the situation for a young black man… Continue reading
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Moonbox’s cheery ‘Company’ does Sondheim credit
BOSTON — Bobby is a 35-year-old bachelor in Manhattan, but it seems that all of his friends are married. Five married couples, in fact. They form a close-knit protective cocoon around him, fussing… Continue reading
Fresh Ink’s ‘Handicapping’: More hits than misses
BOSTON — Very often, a racetrack is a place of desperation. Not, perhaps, on a sunny August afternoon when vacationers are sopping up the sun in the elegance of, say, the Saratoga Race… Continue reading
Davenport leads sterling cast in ‘The Whipping Man’
WATERTOWN — War is hell. And that’s for the winners. For the losers, it’s that much worse. Slavery is a different kind of hell. The two different kinds of hell collide in… Continue reading
Speakeasy’s ‘Color Purple’ is powerful, uplifting
BOSTON — In recent decades, the musical theater genre has taken us to places that those who pioneered the art form could never imagine. A mass murderer into cannibalism and profiles of other… Continue reading
Lyric’s ‘Working’ doesn’t work most of the time
BOSTON — We all do it — working, that is — but that doesn’t mean it will make for a great musical. Studs Terkel’s epic 1974 work that compiled oral histories of the… Continue reading
Huntington’s ‘Venus in Fur’ is smart, sexy fun
BOSTON — There’s a storm a-brewin’ outside, and soon there’ll be a storm brewing inside in the Huntington Theatre Company’s production of David Ives’ “Venus in Fur” at the BU Theatre. A New… Continue reading
New Rep’s ‘Madoff’ examines who more than why
WATERTOWN — There are villains, and there are villains. Bernard Madoff became an almost imcomprehensible $20 billion villain when his elaborate Ponzi scheme defrauded individuals and institutions alike for decades. But was Madoff… Continue reading
‘Henry VIII’ isn’t Bard’s best, but it is well done
BOSTON — I have been a fan of famed Shakespeare interpreter/actor/director Tina Packer since I first stumbled onto Shakespeare & Company in Lenox while vacationing in the Berkshires years ago. She has often… Continue reading
ART offers fresh, funny ‘Heart of Robin Hood’
CAMBRIDGE — The legend of Robin Hood has been told so many different times in so many different ways — even Mel Brooks took a whack at it — that you would be… Continue reading