BOSTON – The stage is bare except for the traditional “ghost light” as actors drift in and out while Gloucester Stage Company Artistic Director Robert Walsh greets the audience with his “curtain speech.”… Continue reading
BOSTON – Playwright Matthew Lombardo said he spent 18 years rewriting his play “Tea at Five” with the actress Faye Dunaway in mind. The new production of “Tea at Five” is having a… Continue reading
BOSTON – As the Huntington Theatre Company’s playwright in residence, Melinda Lopez has explored several aspects of her Cuban-American heritage and the country itself in works such as “Sonia Flew” – which opened… Continue reading
STONEHAM – It is theater’s summer season, and area theaters have taken notice. For their first collaboration, the newly-established Front Porch Arts Collective and the Greater Boston Stage Company have selected a sure-fire… Continue reading
BOSTON – As the celebration of Boston’s annual Pride Week continued on the streets of the city, a group of actors were observing the occasion in a very different way: By retelling the… Continue reading
BEVERLY – The farmers and the cowboys had not been seen on the stage of the North Shore Music Theatre for a quarter-century. NSMT Producer/Owner Bill Hanney celebrated their return and the 10th… Continue reading
BOSTON – It is finally summertime and, as George Gershwin wrote, the living is easy. And theater companies that had been staging heavy-handed dramas such as — I don’t know, say “Hamlet” —… Continue reading
CAMBRIDGE – It was the first revolution that played itself out on social media, and brought one million people out to raise their voices and topple a regime. And it was one picture… Continue reading
BOSTON – American foreign policy is often not as enlightened as we would like it to be. As with anything else, follow the money, and you’ll be able to decipher the motives… Continue reading
BOSTON – You can say a lot with humor. When people are laughing, it’s a great opportunity to make your point – or a series of points. Playwright/actress Jocelyn Bioh was very aware… Continue reading