Huntington’s ‘Rapture’ a satisfying coda to season
BOSTON — You can have it all as a woman, says one camp. Family, kids, career, all doable and all done well. Not so fast, say others. A woman on a strong career… Continue reading
Category Archive: Reviews
The ‘Pirates’ have a great time, and so will you
CAMBRIDGE — I have a feeling the boys would approve. No one has ever turned inspired silliness into high art better than the duo of W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, who turned cleverer-than-clever… Continue reading
Speakeasy’s ‘In The Heights’ raises the roof
BOSTON — If you were able to harness all the energy in the theater, it would light the city of Boston for a week. As it is, the roof in the Roberts… Continue reading
There’s a spring in the step of ‘On The Town’
BOSTON — Artistic Director Spiro Veloudos has always found a way to fit large-scale musicals such as “1776,” “Sunday in the Park with George” and “Follies” into his intimate theater atop the YWCA… Continue reading
URT’s ‘Distracted’ entertains as it informs
CAMBRIDGE — It’s not funny, but the way it is presented is. The medical condition Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) — or, as it is now more commonly known now, Attention Hyperactive Deficit… Continue reading
Longwood’s ‘Chess’ makes all the right moves
CAMBRIDGE — The Cold War seems almost a quaint time in history, given what we have been through as a country since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the dissolution… Continue reading
Blood in the water in MRT’s ‘Glengarry’
LOWELL — There will be blood shed — maybe not literally but figuratively — when jobs and a Cadillac are the prizes in a cruel competition among 1984 Chicago real estate salesmen in… Continue reading
Pinch-hitter hits home run in ‘Amadeus’
WATERTOWN — Theater is a lot like baseball. If you give a great actor a pitch in his wheelhouse, you expect him to hit it out of the park. Even if that… Continue reading
‘Millie’ tap dances her way into your heart
STONEHAM — Director/choreographer Ilyse Robbins has been on quite a roll lately. Her recent direction of “Marry Me a Little” at the New Repertory Theatre was warmly received, and she is currently choreographing… Continue reading
War, science collide in ‘Operation Epsilon’
CAMBRIDGE — The race to build an atomic bomb against the backdrop of World War II wasn’t just a matter of life and death, but the survival of countries and peoples. From… Continue reading