Young people hear what ‘Evan Hansen’ is saying
BOSTON – The vibe at the Citizens Bank Opera House in Boston was young, and the applause at the end of each of the musical numbers was as strong and sustained as if… Continue reading
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NSMT’s ‘Freaky Friday’ ranks with other Disney hits
BEVERLY – July is the traditional spot for the North Shore Music Theatre’s annual “family musical.” In the past, owner/producer Bill Hanney has relied on a proven list of family-friendly works, many… Continue reading
The chase is on in Gloucester Stage’s ‘The 39 Steps’
BOSTON – The stage is bare except for the traditional “ghost light” as actors drift in and out while Gloucester Stage Company Artistic Director Robert Walsh greets the audience with his “curtain speech.”… Continue reading
Lopez’s revisited ‘Yerma’: A riveting, tragic journey
BOSTON – As the Huntington Theatre Company’s playwright in residence, Melinda Lopez has explored several aspects of her Cuban-American heritage and the country itself in works such as “Sonia Flew” – which opened… Continue reading
Front Porch’s ‘Musketeers’ cuts a wide swath
STONEHAM – It is theater’s summer season, and area theaters have taken notice. For their first collaboration, the newly-established Front Porch Arts Collective and the Greater Boston Stage Company have selected a sure-fire… Continue reading
A musical fantasy recalls a dark day for gays
BOSTON – As the celebration of Boston’s annual Pride Week continued on the streets of the city, a group of actors were observing the occasion in a very different way: By retelling the… Continue reading
25 years later, you’re looking good, ‘Oklahoma!’
BEVERLY – The farmers and the cowboys had not been seen on the stage of the North Shore Music Theatre for a quarter-century. NSMT Producer/Owner Bill Hanney celebrated their return and the 10th… Continue reading
It’s just the right time for fast, funny ‘Hamlet’
BOSTON – It is finally summertime and, as George Gershwin wrote, the living is easy. And theater companies that had been staging heavy-handed dramas such as — I don’t know, say “Hamlet” —… Continue reading
‘We Live in Cairo’: A promising, imperfect debut
CAMBRIDGE – It was the first revolution that played itself out on social media, and brought one million people out to raise their voices and topple a regime. And it was one picture… Continue reading
Sparkling ‘Overtures’ serves as a Sondheim coda
BOSTON – American foreign policy is often not as enlightened as we would like it to be. As with anything else, follow the money, and you’ll be able to decipher the motives… Continue reading