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Huntington announces 2013-2014 season

Courtesy Huntington Theatre Company BOSTON – Huntington Theatre Company has announced four productions of its 2013-2014 Season, each featuring celebrated artists beloved by Boston audiences. Continuing its 31-year tradition, the Huntington will present… Continue reading

‘Lungs’: Living, loving, making good choices

WATERTOWN — During our lifetimes we will make many, many decisions which will have profound and long-lasting effects. We will agonize over those decisions, and how they affect us, and we may take… Continue reading

Acclaimed ‘Clybourne Park’ comes to Speakeasy

Courtesy Speakeasy Stage Company BOSTON – From March 1-30, 2013, SpeakEasy Stage Company will proudly present the Boston-area premiere of “Clybourne Park,” winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the 2011 Olivier… Continue reading

Brustein’s ‘Last Will’ a loving coda to The Bard

BOSTON — The Bard and his bride have been getting considerable face time lately. Last month, Seana McKenna had her turn as Anne Hathaway in the Merrimack Repertory Theatre’s production of Vern Thiessen’s… Continue reading

BPT’s ‘Legally Dead’ just misses the mark

BOSTON — The Boston Playwrights Theatre is like Forest Gump’s box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get. That’s because the BPT’s currency is new works, and risk-taking and theatrical… Continue reading

Gloucester Stage’s 34th Season: Rites of Passion!

GLOUCESTER — Gloucester Stage Artistic Director Eric C. Engel recently announced Gloucester Stage’s 34th season of producing professional theatre in Gloucester, to begin on June 20 with the award-winning musical “Spring Awakening,“ directed… Continue reading

ART’s ‘Glass Menagerie’ was worth the wait

CAMBRIDGE — It took 32 years for Tennessee Williams to find his way into the canon of the American Repertory Theatre. In this case, it was worth the wait. Once ART finally decided… Continue reading

Many will buy ‘wonderful feeling’ of ‘Oliver”

BOSTON — In the second act of the musical “Oliver,” the title character, sent on a mission to return some books, comes upon a myriad of vendors selling their wares in a city… Continue reading

‘The Boys’ are a welcome sight at Colonial

BOSTON — “Jersey Boys” is the perfect marriage of music and story. The most successful of the so-called “jukebox musicals” — musicals where the source music is already part of popular culture —… Continue reading

Nuns’ singing, dancing saves ‘Sister Act’

BOSTON — Singing nuns have always been good box office. “The Sound of Music,” anyone? Playwright Dan Goggin has spun off his hit musical “Nunsense” so many times it makes you dizzy. “Late… Continue reading