Science and sex are partners in Nora’s ‘Acadia’
CAMBRIDGE – Looking back on events that happened more than 180 years ago and reconstructing them is a bit like solving one of those huge jigsaw puzzles. It’s easy filling in those big… Continue reading
Category Archive: Reviews
Huntington’s ‘Can You Forgive Her?’ is a mixed bag
BOSTON — The playwright Gina Gionfriddo has found an artistic home at the Huntington Theatre Company, where productions of her ”Becky Shaw” and “Rapture, Blister, Burn” were warmly greeted after debuting off-Broadway. Now the… Continue reading
Dunleavy, Robbins make ‘Sweet Charity’ swing
STONEHAM – The choreography of the late Bob Fosse is so singular that it seems you might recognize it blindfolded, just by the sound of the tapping of feet on stage. The angles,… Continue reading
A king’s fast fall from grace in ASP’s ‘Richard II’
CAMBRIDGE – It is the political season – would that it weren’t – and thus a fine time for Actors Shakespeare Project to delve into the politics of Britain in the late 14th… Continue reading
‘The Wong Kids’: Adventure and magic with a message
BOSTON – Story-telling has changed markedly when it comes to drawing young people into a film or a live stage play. In an era of ever-more-amazing video games and 3-D movies with special… Continue reading
New adaptation of ‘1984’ looks forward and back
CAMBRIDGE – Walk down the street of any major city in the U.S., and chances are there are several sets of eyes on you. There may be several sets of eyes – or… Continue reading
At MRT, love for baseball icon forges family bonds
LOWELL – In baseball, there is winning and losing just as there are wins and losses in the game of life. But baseball is more than just a game here in Boston or… Continue reading
‘An Octoroon’: A new take on mixed-race melodrama
BOSTON – An octoroon , by definition, is someone with one-eighth black blood, an amount that still made it illegal for the person to marry a white person in the South before the… Continue reading
Goodbye, Columbus: Those wacky, wild Spaniards
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – As historical figures, both Christopher Columbus and Queen Isabella have been in sore need of some PR repair after the full extent of what really happened more than five centuries… Continue reading
Greenidge’s ‘Milk Like Sugar’: Teens see no way out
BOSTON – Listen and learn. That would seem to be the motto of playwright Kirsten Greenidge, who grew up in Arlington and now lives in Waltham. It might help to explain her facility… Continue reading