‘The Drowsy Chaperone’ is delightfully ditzy fun
NORWELL — “The Drowsy Chaperone” is pretty much the perfect spring musical. Escape is what we want from the dreariness of the past winter and even the early spring, and here it is… Continue reading
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‘Lebensraum’ a worthy tribute to silent-era comics
BOSTON — Silence can be a lot of things — golden, deafening. But silence in the Dutch production “Lebensraum” (“Habitat”) which ends a short run this weekend (April 13) at the Paramount… Continue reading
Once started, no stopping ‘Heartbeat of Home’
BOSTON — It is hard to overstate what a sensation “Riverdance” caused a generation ago. It debuted almost 20 years ago and helped spawn a whole new appreciation of Irish culture worldwide —… Continue reading
Terrific cast, stunning set lift ‘Talley’s Folly’
LOWELL — Actor Benim Foster as Matt Friedman addresses us just before “Talley’s Folly” begins, telling us how long the performance will be, and what he expects to happen. It is a device… Continue reading
Chekhov’s ‘Seagull’ in good hands at Huntington
BOSTON — The winter of our discontent because of the endless bad weather has also become a winter of strong revivals of the Russian writer Anton Chekhov’s work. So the Huntington Theatre Company’s… Continue reading
Murder most funny in ‘Something’s Afoot’
STONEHAM — Now that’s entertainment. If you’re a fan of the British murder mysteries that Agatha Christie and her like turned into an art form, you should get thee to “Something’s Afoot,” a… Continue reading
‘Equally Divided’ will get your full attention
LOWELL — Merrimack Repertory Theatre has done well by British comedies, and Artistic Director Charles Towers has shown a deft hand in the past with comedy of any sort. So it’s no… Continue reading
Davenport leads sterling cast in ‘The Whipping Man’
WATERTOWN — War is hell. And that’s for the winners. For the losers, it’s that much worse. Slavery is a different kind of hell. The two different kinds of hell collide in… Continue reading
Speakeasy’s ‘Color Purple’ is powerful, uplifting
BOSTON — In recent decades, the musical theater genre has taken us to places that those who pioneered the art form could never imagine. A mass murderer into cannibalism and profiles of other… Continue reading
New Rep’s ‘Madoff’ examines who more than why
WATERTOWN — There are villains, and there are villains. Bernard Madoff became an almost imcomprehensible $20 billion villain when his elaborate Ponzi scheme defrauded individuals and institutions alike for decades. But was Madoff… Continue reading