BOSTON — All you need to know about the title character in David Lindsay-Abaire‘s “Kimberly Akimbo” is that she is a 65-year-old teenager. And she’s the normal one. Moonbox Productions takes on the… Continue reading
STONEHAM — It‘s “Lord of the Flies” meets “The Office” with a splash of Monty Python and “Gilligan’s Island” thrown in for good measure. And a veddy British feel and touch. That’s the… Continue reading
BOSTON — A set is our doorway and entrance into a theatrical piece. It seems appropriate to mention right from the start the set designed by Stephen Dobay for the Huntington Theatre Company’s… Continue reading
WATERTOWN — We human beings are wired to find the humor in the most tragic, dark situations, as a way of keeping our sanity or as part of the healing or grieving process.… Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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