CAMBRIDGE — What really happened in the hours before the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King was shot to death outside his motel room in Memphis? Playwright Katori Hall has plucked from her imagination… Continue reading
WELLESLEY — Wellesley Summer Theatre is one of the best-kept theatrical secrets in the Greater Boston area.. Director Nora Hussey has assembled what amounts to a small professional repertory company at Wellesley… Continue reading
BOSTON — Genius is not easily explained or explored. Even if you make it your life’s work. Just why did a musical genius such as Ludwig van Beethoven devote several precious years of… Continue reading
BOSTON — When I scanned my high school summer reading list one summer, a title caught my eye. “Invisible Man.” Ah. Finally, some science fiction. But it wasn’t the H.G. Wells novella, but… Continue reading
WATERTOWN — In composer Stephen Sondheim’s “trash,” there are many treasures.The so-called “trash” isn’t trash at all, of course, but “trunk songs,” songs that Sondheim composed for specific shows but were cut from… Continue reading
CAMBRIDGE — What is magic but theater that ups the ante when it comes to creating an illusion? So the decision by American Reperoty Theatre artistic director Diane Paulus to combine jaw-dropping Cirque… Continue reading
BOSTON — When Thornton Wilder was conjuring up the town of Grover’s Corners, N.H., for his Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece “Our Town,“ he took great pains to describe just how unremarkable a place it… Continue reading
WATERTOWN — There are many kinds of madness during the holiday season. One kind is manning the reservations desk at a beyond-upscale Manhattan restaurant close to Christmas, as an actor named Sam does… Continue reading
WATERTOWN — As we get older, our memories of holidays tend to get more bittersweet, tempered, perhaps, by the death of a loved one at holiday time. The New Repertory Theatre’s production of… Continue reading
BOSTON — John Steinbeck proved that he had a real feel for the plight of the working man in his masterworks “The Grapes of Wrath” and “Of Mice and Men.” He wrote of… Continue reading