By Rich Fahey BOSTON – Welcome to Beverly, “Rent-heads.” The good news is that the North Shore Music Theatre has done right by your baby. About three decades after it first exploded on… Continue reading
By Rich Fahey BOSTON – Sometimes big ideas are drawn on small canvases. That includes the 2024 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama “Primary Trust,” which opens the SpeakEasy Stage Company’s 35th season and runs through… Continue reading
By Rich Fahey STONEHAM – By any account, Paul Melendy has found an artistic home with the Greater Boston Stage Company. He has lent his talents to many area stages, but the gifted… Continue reading
By Rich Fahey BOSTON – When it comes to following in the footsteps of a great comic actor, there is one name that stands above the rest and casts the longest shadow: The… Continue reading
By Rich Fahey BEVERLY – Nostalgia sells. And it really sells when much of your subscriber base may consist of “Baby Boomers” who grew up during the Golden Age of Rock ‘n Roll.… Continue reading
By Rich Fahey BOSTON – Perhaps I have been part of the problem right along. In writing theater reviews for the past three decades, I never noted the names of the actors understudying… Continue reading
By Rich Fahey PLYMOUTH – The magic of live theater doesn’t always have to come from a falling chandelier. Sometimes it can be as simple as a rope, a prop used to resemble… Continue reading
By Rich Fahey WALTHAM — When you write a large number of musicals – many of them long-running mega-hits – it may take decades to determine which one of “your children” you love… Continue reading
By Rich Fahey BOSTON – Let’s get it straight right away. The national touring production “Back to the Future: The Musical” is a theatrical thrill ride of the first order, a series of… Continue reading
By Rich Fahey BEVERLY – It took Carole King years and years before she looked into the mirror and found the perfect person to deliver her music the way she wanted: Herself. The… Continue reading