‘Unbleached American’: Fine acting, needs tweaking
STONEHAM — Fame can be very much a two-edged sword, especially when your fame is generated by a song whose title will end up haunting you until the end of your days. And… Continue reading
Category Archive: Reviews
‘The Drowsy Chaperone’ is delightfully ditzy fun
NORWELL — “The Drowsy Chaperone” is pretty much the perfect spring musical. Escape is what we want from the dreariness of the past winter and even the early spring, and here it is… Continue reading
‘Lebensraum’ a worthy tribute to silent-era comics
BOSTON — Silence can be a lot of things — golden, deafening. But silence in the Dutch production “Lebensraum” (“Habitat”) which ends a short run this weekend (April 13) at the Paramount… Continue reading
New Rep’s ‘In Between’ is food for the soul
WATERTOWN — Depending on how you look at it, he is a man with two countries, or a man with no country. Playwright and performer Ibrahim Miari uses very personal experiences in his… Continue reading
‘Rich Girl’: A thin script, but well-played
BOSTON — Is there a parent alive who hasn‘t wanted to advise a son or daughter making a choice as important as marriage?And how many of you parents out there have wanted… Continue reading
Once started, no stopping ‘Heartbeat of Home’
BOSTON — It is hard to overstate what a sensation “Riverdance” caused a generation ago. It debuted almost 20 years ago and helped spawn a whole new appreciation of Irish culture worldwide —… Continue reading
Terrific cast, stunning set lift ‘Talley’s Folly’
LOWELL — Actor Benim Foster as Matt Friedman addresses us just before “Talley’s Folly” begins, telling us how long the performance will be, and what he expects to happen. It is a device… Continue reading
Chekhov’s ‘Seagull’ in good hands at Huntington
BOSTON — The winter of our discontent because of the endless bad weather has also become a winter of strong revivals of the Russian writer Anton Chekhov’s work. So the Huntington Theatre Company’s… Continue reading
Kuntz is ‘all in’ in Speakeasy’s ‘The Whale’
BOSTON — John Kuntz is — to use a poker term — “all in” the Speakeasy Stage Company’s production of Samuel D. Hunter‘s “The Whale.” The performance by playwright/actor Kuntz now at the… Continue reading
When the dancing stops, ‘Flashdance’ fizzles
BOSTON — It’s back to the 80s at the Citi Emerson Colonial Theater. The script for the hit 1983 movie “Flashdance”was originally targeted for the stage before the rights were sold and… Continue reading