Need laughs? ‘Nunsense’ answers your prayers
BRAINTREE – We always knew that nuns could handle a classroom of 50 rowdy kids with one hand tied their back. But who know they could sing, dance, act and tell jokes? Playwright Dan… Continue reading
Category Archive: Reviews
With ‘Fun Home,’ Speakeasy Stage makes a statement
BOSTON – Speakeasy Stage Company has emerged from its fringe beginnings to become one of the finest theatrical troupes in the city – period. Speakeasy has made a habit of bringing some of… Continue reading
Lyric Stage finds comedic gold in ‘The Roommate’
BOSTON — It has been a fertile and well-explored area for playwrights. “You say tomahto. I say tomahto. You say potato, I say pohtato.” Cole Porter made it a song, and Neil Simon… Continue reading
At New Rep: An uprising that sparks an awakening
WATERTOWN – The notion of sacrifice for the greater good is a noble one, but it can seem distant or unreal until an event – or a world war – makes it come… Continue reading
A not-so-simple Simon portrayed in Gloucester
GLOUCESTER – When the right role is matched with the right actor, it can be magical. The late Simon Geller was a singular sensation at Gloucester radio station WVCA-FM – 104.9 on your… Continue reading
Praxis Stage’s ‘All My Sons’: The downside of a dream
CHELSEA – In his greatest works, the late Arthur Miller explored the downside of the American Dream and how it is exposed when, for his deeply flawed characters, the chickens come home to… Continue reading
At Central Square, a ‘Frankenstein’ we never knew
CAMBRIDGE – Creature, we never really knew ye. Director David R. Gammons has used Nick Dear’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel “Frankenstein” as a template to explore the timeless tale of a creature… Continue reading
It’s elementary: Huntington’s ‘Sherlock’ is great fun
BOSTON – How best to entertain an audience? Elementary, my dear theater-goer. Take some timeless characters, add some dazzling production values, and supply a plot with more twists and turns than a cheap… Continue reading
From a basement lab, a woman changed the world
WATERTOWN – One by one, the stories of women who loved science at a time when it didn’t love them back are being told. The women in question were heavily involved in some… Continue reading
‘Hamnet’ may reflect on our own relationships
BOSTON – What a difference one letter can make. That’s what the title character in the ArtsEmerson production of “Hamnet” reminds us. It’s the difference, in his case, of the son of playwright… Continue reading