Huntington’s ‘Rapture’ a satisfying coda to season
BOSTON — You can have it all as a woman, says one camp. Family, kids, career, all doable and all done well. Not so fast, say others. A woman on a strong career… Continue reading
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‘Sound of Music’ opens NSMT season
BEVERLY — Let’s start at the very beginning… the award-winning North Shore Music Theatre (NSMT) is alive with THE SOUND OF MUSIC as the treasured musical takes the stage for the first time… Continue reading
Blue Man Group show aids One Fund
BOSTON — Blue Man Group and Broadway In Boston have announced that a special benefit performance has been added on Monday, June 10 at 7:30 pm at The Charles Playhouse. One hundred percent… Continue reading
Vonnegut premiere highlights Speakeasy season
BOSTON — The World Premiere of KURT VONNEGUT’S MAKE UP YOUR MIND, the acclaimed Off-Broadway drama TRIBES, and the soul-stirring Broadway musical THE COLOR PURPLE are among the five premiere productions that SpeakEasy… Continue reading
The ‘Pirates’ have a great time, and so will you
CAMBRIDGE — I have a feeling the boys would approve. No one has ever turned inspired silliness into high art better than the duo of W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, who turned cleverer-than-clever… Continue reading
Speakeasy’s ‘In The Heights’ raises the roof
BOSTON — If you were able to harness all the energy in the theater, it would light the city of Boston for a week. As it is, the roof in the Roberts… Continue reading
There’s a spring in the step of ‘On The Town’
BOSTON — Artistic Director Spiro Veloudos has always found a way to fit large-scale musicals such as “1776,” “Sunday in the Park with George” and “Follies” into his intimate theater atop the YWCA… Continue reading
URT’s ‘Distracted’ entertains as it informs
CAMBRIDGE — It’s not funny, but the way it is presented is. The medical condition Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) — or, as it is now more commonly known now, Attention Hyperactive Deficit… Continue reading
Longwood’s ‘Chess’ makes all the right moves
CAMBRIDGE — The Cold War seems almost a quaint time in history, given what we have been through as a country since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the dissolution… Continue reading
Blood in the water in MRT’s ‘Glengarry’
LOWELL — There will be blood shed — maybe not literally but figuratively — when jobs and a Cadillac are the prizes in a cruel competition among 1984 Chicago real estate salesmen in… Continue reading