Category Archive: Reviews

CST’s ‘Irma Vep’ lovingly recreates Ludlam’s world

By Rich Fahey CAMBRIDGE – Once again, birds of a feather are getting together. And the result is just as hilarious. Paul Melendy and Gabriel Graetz, who teamed up in Greater Boston Stage’s… Continue reading →

It’s just the right time for ‘Annie’ to return

By Rich Fahey STONEHAM – A theater is never as alive as when it is filled with young people – many of whom are experiencing live theater for the first time. And so… Continue reading →

Reimagined ‘Oedipus’: A tragic king in the barrio

By Rich Fahey BOSTON — From the beginning we know the ending; we are watching a slow-motion deadly car crash with many casualties. Sophocles wrote “Oedipus Rex” around 430 BC, so we have… Continue reading →

Lyric’s ‘Something Rotten’ is actually very fresh

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 →

ART’s musical ‘Wonder’ is promising, but imperfect

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 →

Notes of ‘Carol’ may have changed, but magic hasn’t

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 →

‘An Irish Carol’: Dickens’ piece does a pub crawl

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 →

‘Twas the Night Before’ is a dazzling holiday delight

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 →

Dickens and Doyle team up in ‘A Sherlock Carol’

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 →

CST’s ‘Summer, 1976’ is a series of small pleasures

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 →