Speakeasy’s reborn ‘Carrie’ works best as high camp
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
Category Archive: Reviews
‘Into the Woods’: Sondheim and Lyric at their best
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
Wordiness wears on audience in ‘On The Verge’
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
RSC’s ‘Comedy’ gets the laugh and gets out
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
‘Sila’ is a strong blend of entertainment, education
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
BCT’s ‘Homework Machine’ showcases talented teens
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
‘Becoming Cuba’ loses focus in the second act
BOSTON — The Huntington Theatre Company has certainly put its money where its mouth is in supporting and presenting the work of a whole cadre of young playwrights. including Melinda Lopez, Kirsten Greenidge,… Continue reading
‘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
‘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