Lyric’s ‘City of Angels’ delights on several levels
BOSTON – It’s easy to skewer Hollywood, and no one is better at it than Hollywood – “Singin’ in the Rain” is a skilled example – with the possible exception of live theater.… Continue reading
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LeFranc‘s ‘The Big Meal’ satisfies at Zeitgeist Stage
BOSTON — Large themes are played out around the tables of unnamed restaurants in the Midwest in Dan LeFranc’s “The Big Meal,” a Zeitgeist Stage production now at the Black Box Theatre… Continue reading
Blue skies turn stormy in Nora’s tense ‘Grounded’
CAMBRIDGE — The image of the fighter pilot — nurtured and reinforced in movies such as “Top Gun” — is that of a swashbuckling, hard-livin’, hard-playin’, hard-drinkin’, and hard-lovin’ daredevil, who yearns to… Continue reading
Gandiello’s ‘Oceanside’ a promising, flawed debut
LOWELL — It’s exciting when a new playwright gets his first fully-staged professional production. It’s even more exciting when that world premiere boasts an excellent cast, a strong set of designers and an… Continue reading
Flat Earth’s ‘Terra Nova’ packs a powerful punch
WATERTOWN — Where does duty to God and country end and duty to family begin? Does not outweigh the other? And do you, as family man, have the right to seek your glory… Continue reading
Lyric’s ‘Intimate Apparel’ a pitch-perfect production
BOSTON — Many blacks who migrated north from the South in the decades after the Civil War in search of a better life found heartbreak. They found racism didn’t stop at the Mason-Dixon… Continue reading
Fiddlehead’s ‘The Wiz’ is a warm, winning musical
DORCHESTER — It would be a shame if The Winter of Our Discontent caused many strong productions to go unnoticed or unappreciated. It’s hard enough to get people out to the theater in… Continue reading
Don’t be a putz! Get to Brustein’s ‘The King’
WATERTOWN –– The millions of Jews who emigrated from Eastern Europe to Western Europe and America in the late 19th-early 20th Centuries brought with them their hopes, their dreams, and a language: Yiddish.… Continue reading
‘Second Girl’ chronicles Irish immigrants’ struggle
BOSTON — The young women came to these shores by the droves from Ireland in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, seeking a better life but in many cases finding only backbreaking… Continue reading
ArtsEmerson’s ’Breath’ is passionate, powerful
BOSTON — Roland Hayes was not your typical concert singer. Even if it were only the fact that he was an African-American, the son of a slave, who grew up in the segregated… Continue reading