Company marks 40th season with rousing ‘Ragtime’
NORWELL – A major milestone is often a chance to take stock of who you are or what you are. For the Company Theatre, the beginning of their 40th season was also a… Continue reading
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‘Peter Pan,’ at NSMT, is standing the test of time
BEVERLY – The true test of a musical score doesn’t come the first time you hear it, though once is often enough to determine the songs are strong enough to stand on their… Continue reading
Disney’s ‘Aladdin’ is both dazzling and delightful
BOSTON – From the earliest days to the present – from “Beauty and the Beast, “ “The Little Mermaid” and “The Lion King,” to today’s “Frozen,” — Disney Theatrical’s magic has come to… Continue reading
Local lights shine brightly in ‘Anything Goes’
WALTHAM – Once a Rockette, always a Rockette. And no Rockette is likely to forget what made the name world-famous and the troupe the standard bearers for precision choreography. Former Rockette Eileen Grace… Continue reading
Cirque’s ‘Luzia’ brings Mexican culture to life
EAST BOSTON – The sun pretty much never sets on the entertainment giant that is Cirque du Soleil. There are 23 Cirque shows currently performing somewhere, seven of them in Las Vegas alone… Continue reading
After 75 years, you’re lookin’ good, “Oklahoma!”
OGUNQUIT, Maine – The show must go on and it did. And it seems an overwhelming majority of theater-goers were glad it did. When Stephen Mark Lukas, who plays the lead male… Continue reading
‘The Nether’: The lines separating two worlds blur
WATERTOWN – With virtual reality becoming an actual reality, we as a society are being asked to confront some uncomfortable questions about where technology may take us in the future. What if our… Continue reading
Dazzling dancers, choreography lift NSMT’s “Mame’
BEVERLY – “Mame” is a battleship of a musical and North Shore Music Theatre has the crew to sail it. “Mame” had already been a best-selling book by Patrick Dennis, a celebrated play… Continue reading
Reagle’s ‘Chorus Line’ faithful to creators’ vision
WALTHAM – Some musicals age well and others don’t. Some musicals will still be performed 50 years from now while others will be neglected and forgotten The Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece “A Chorus Line”… Continue reading
OWI’s ‘Red Velvet’: A powerful bookend of Othellos
BOSTON – June is bustin’ out all over. For some of Boston’s smaller theater companies, that isn’t good news. With June has come first sighting of decent weather and everyone rushing outside ,… Continue reading