By Rich Fahey Actor Neil McGarry said he really only has one job as he prepares for his 13th tour of his one-man presentation of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” “That’s to get… Continue reading
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
By Rich Fahey BEVERLY – When making Gaston Leroux’s 1910 novel “The Phantom of the Opera” into a musical, events showed there were two very different ways to approach the material. And history… Continue reading
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
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
By Rich Fahey BOSTON – The British Invasion Redux. This time, they’re not coming in on the back of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, or lanterns signaling one if by land, two… Continue reading
By Rich Fahey WATERTOWN – Since 1897, the tale of Count Dracula told by Bram Stoker has been bent, folded, spindled, and mutilated beyond recognition in a multitude of ways across every possible… Continue reading
By Rich Fahey BOSTON — Once a Python, always a Python. The British comedy troupe Monty Python arrived on our shores in 1974 when PBS began distributing episodes of “Monty Python’s Flying Circus”… Continue reading
By Rich Fahey BOSTON – When you see the musical theater phenomenon that is “Wicked,” you’ll be seeing a lot of green. And it’s not just the Emerald City It makes a lot… Continue reading
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