GBST’s ‘Blackhollow’: It takes a team to terrorize you
By Rich Fahey STONEHAM – It takes a team to terrorize you. Start with the writer, crafting a tale. It goes nowhere without an actor with the chops to bring those characters to… Continue reading
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Sister, ‘Catechism’ make raucous return to Boston
By Rich Fahey BOSTON — She’s back. So spit out the gum, sit up straight and prepare to deliver a precise definition of a sacrament. Thirty-one years after “Late Nite Catechism” first arrived… Continue reading
Huntington, Sorkin team to re-imagine ‘Mockingbird’
By Rich Fahey BOSTON – This time, it’s Atticus who may be on trial. And, in Aaron Sorkin’s version, he has questions that have to be answered. Sorkin (“The West Wing”) dramatically reimagined… Continue reading
Many years later, ‘All My Sons’ is still teaching us
By Rich Fahey BOSTON – At a time in the late 1940’s when Americans basked in the euphoria of winning World War II, everything seemed possible. The American Dream was in full sway.… Continue reading
‘Paranormal Activity’: True terror comes to stage
By Rich Fahey BOSTON – News flash. People love to be scared. And, when you scare an audience half to death, the screams – go figure — are often followed by nervous laughter.… Continue reading
‘Gatsby’ is big and beautiful, but something’s missing
By Rich Fahey BOSTON – It’s big. It’s bold. It’s beautiful. But in the end the national touring company of the Broadway musical production of “The Great Gatsby” at the Citizens Bank Opera… Continue reading
Lyric’s ‘Something Rotten’ is actually very fresh
By Rich Fahey BOSTON – Welcome to The Renaissance, as seen through the eyes of some delightfully wacky playwrights/composers, a superb cast, and crews of musicians and designers who will together constantly tickle… Continue reading
Dickens and Doyle team up in ‘A Sherlock Carol’
By Rich Fahey BOSTON – Through the decades, the works and characters originated by Charles Dickens and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle have been bent, folded, spindled, mutilated and twisted every which way, until… Continue reading
CST’s ‘Summer, 1976’ is a series of small pleasures
By Rich Fahey CAMBRIDGE – Often, the children hold the key. They make friends in school, on the playground, on the soccer or softball field or while bouncing around in a kiddie pool.… Continue reading
Dazzling duo’s many talents lift ‘Murder for Two’
By Rich Fahey STONEHAM — It may appear to be frivolous fun, but it is the theatrical and musical equivalent of running the Boston Marathon. It is Greater Boston Stage Company’s “Murder for… Continue reading