BOSTON – You can say a lot with humor. When people are laughing, it’s a great opportunity to make your point – or a series of points. Playwright/actress Jocelyn Bioh was very aware… Continue reading
BOSTON – “Kinky Boots” may be a musical sending a message, but the message is wrapped so lovingly in a bouncy pop-rock score, high-energy choreography and a winning, funny book that the audience… Continue reading
BOSTON – Who doesn’t love a classic Edwardian thriller? The classics stand the test of time. Among them is “An Inspector Calls,” the J.B. Priestley play first produced in 1945 and now being… Continue reading
BOSTON – The Boston Children’s Theatre produces works for a wide range of young adults. It challenges its older members by staging some of the most iconic pieces in the theatrical canon. That… Continue reading
BOSTON – The world of magic and illusion, once largely confined to the showrooms of Las Vegas hotels, has long since gone big-time, often appearing on Broadway or in televised specials. The latest… Continue reading
CAMBRIDGE –As a Korean-Canadian playwright – twice an immigrant – Celine Song felt a special urge to write a play abut her identity. She emigrated from Seoul to Toronto when she was 12… Continue reading
BOSTON – Even Broadway, the home of such blockbusters as “Phantom of the Opera” and “Les Miserables,” occasional succumbs to the charms of a smaller, more intimate work, with the accent on characters,… Continue reading
WELLESLEY – When it is not performing on Boston Common, Babson College is the home of the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, and it has quickly become an important part of the Boston theater scene,… Continue reading
BOSTON – Fiat lux. Let there be light. In a dark, dystopian world, light becomes that more precious, and we become focused on those singular beams and their illumination of the human form… Continue reading
BOSTON – The dysfunctional Southern family has long been a staple of American drama, perhaps best exemplified by Tennessee Williams’ 1955 work “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.” But before Williams explored the… Continue reading