BOSTON — Sometimes smart, well-educated, well-spoken people can get tripped up when it comes to issues of race and class. And big controversial ideas can drive wedges between people — even as… Continue reading
STONEHAM — There is much that is beautiful about the Stoneham Theatre’s production of the musical “The Secret Garden,” but you can’t get away from the fact that it is decidedly downbeat… Continue reading
BOSTON — Hershey Felder is an actor and musician who’s rarely out of work, probably because he’s constantly inventing new ways to meld his acting and musical talents. In the last 15 years… Continue reading
CAMBRIDGE — It turns out that even after the Tony Award-winning revival of “Pippin,” the American Repertory Theatre still had more “Magic To Do.” And while ART Artistic Director Diane Paulus was… Continue reading
BOSTON — Admit it. You guffawed when you first heard the title: “Carrie, the Musical.” After all, who might dare set to music a Stephen King tale about a tortured young girl with… Continue reading
BOSTON — The businessman and author Harvey MacKay said “Find something you love to do, and you’ll never work a day in your life.” Suffice it to say that Spiro Veloudos, the producing… Continue reading
WATERTOWN — How would you or I cope if somehow we were to find ourselves, through some miracle, thrust many decades into the future? Three very different adventure-seeking American women from 1888 set… Continue reading
LOWELL — You knew they’d get this one right. After skewering and slicing-and-dicing such topics as the Bible and Christmas, the Reduced Shakespeare Company found a topic that was right in its wheelhouse:… Continue reading
CAMBRIDGE — The partnership between the two resident theaters at the Central Square Theatre and nearby MIT — the Catalyst Collaborative@MIT —- has produced, far more often than not, plays that have been… Continue reading
BOSTON — Sometimes, when you talk to people who have just seen a production of the Boston Children’s Theatre, they remark on the quality of the production, and are surprised how professional both… Continue reading