By Rich Fahey BOSTON – Welcome to The Renaissance, as seen through the eyes of some delightfully wacky playwrights/composers, a superb cast, and crews of musicians and designers who will together constantly tickle… Continue reading
By Rich Fahey CAMBRIDGE – In the American Repertory Theater’s world premiere production of the musical “Wonder,” the message is loud and clear. “Wonder” not only talks the talk but walks the walk… Continue reading
By Rich Fahey BEVERLY – When the North Shore Music Theatre completed its first-ever season as a year-round theater producing its own shows, the theater’s adaptation of the Charles Dickens novella “A Christmas… Continue reading
By Rich Fahey STONEHAM – The Irish pub has long been a staple in literature, theater, and the movies, and it mattered not whether that pub was in Ireland itself or any one… Continue reading
By Rich Fahey BOSTON – Cirque du Soleil’s first entry into the holiday entertainment genre borrows from a host of other works – notably, the holiday poem at the heart of the piece… Continue reading
By Rich Fahey BOSTON – Through the decades, the works and characters originated by Charles Dickens and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle have been bent, folded, spindled, mutilated and twisted every which way, until… Continue reading
By Rich Fahey CAMBRIDGE – Often, the children hold the key. They make friends in school, on the playground, on the soccer or softball field or while bouncing around in a kiddie pool.… Continue reading
By Rich Fahey BOSTON – The play “Kim’s Convenience” is a lot like the items found in the play’s site, a store of the same name in downtown Toronto run by a Korean… Continue reading
By Rich Fahey BOSTON – We all have dragons. We may keep them locked up in a closet, under a bed, or rooted deep in our subconscious. But sometimes they escape, and when… Continue reading
By Rich Fahey BEVERLY – You know you’ve really made it as an entertainer when you say only one name and everybody knows who you are. Elvis. Sting. Bono. Frank. Liza and, probably,… Continue reading