Company’s ‘Legally Blonde’ is light, frothy fun
NORWELL – When the weather gets hotter, the shows should get lighter. “Death of a Salesman” doesn’t sell well in the summer, when our mood is lighter and sunnier. What do we want?… Continue reading
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‘Yellow Face’: For this playwright, it’s personal
BOSTON – In the years when I was working nights and couldn’t sleep, I would stumble onto movies about a Chinese-American, Honolulu-based detective named Charlie Chan. The early movies featured East Asian actors,… Continue reading
Disney’s new ‘Hunchback’ is a dark, grand spectacle
OGUNQUIT, ME. – When Disney Theatrical, the live theater arm of the Disney Corp., came into being, it found gold in converting Disney’s successful animated film musicals into live stage productions. The third… Continue reading
‘Cuisine’ cleverly combines feats and food
BOSTON – You don’t often get to meet the man or woman behind the acrobat and get their story. Just as the late Michael Bennett allowed us to peek behind the facades of… Continue reading
‘Mary Poppins’ is practically perfect in every way
BEVERLY – It’s practically perfect in every way. The North Shore Music Theatre’s production of Disney’s “Mary Poppins” combines Disney magic with its own kind and the result is a joyously spectacular production… Continue reading
‘The Last Schwartz’: Keeping family and faith alive
GLOUCESTER – You never know what will cause the ties that bind families together to fray. Family gatherings are often emotional powder kegs ready to explode. It can happen even at a memorial… Continue reading
Burns helps ‘If/Then’ overcome its shortcomings
BOSTON – What would our lives look like if, at a key juncture, we went off in another direction than the one we actually chose? The team that created the musical “Next To… Continue reading
Lavish, loving ‘Show Boat’ is the king of the river
BOSTON – This is the show Stacey Stephens and Meg Fofonoff always wanted to do, in the theater they always wanted to do it in. The co-artistic producers of the Fiddlehead Theatre Company… Continue reading
Dahl’s ‘Matilda’ makes a seamless move to the stage
BOSTON – Perhaps one of the reasons Roald Dahl was one of the greatest writers of children’s books is that he never treated his readers as children. Instead of avoiding issues that the… Continue reading
‘Lobster Girl’ sets off on an ill-fated voyage
STONEHAM – You can have a bevy of talented people working on a project but when things don’t come together, they don’t come together. It’s fun to welcome a new work into the… Continue reading