Tag Archive: Reviews

Ripley, McDaniel to perform at free BPL event Friday

BOSTON — Tony Award winner Alice Ripley (Best Actress in a Musical for “Next to Normal”) and Grammy Award winner John McDaniel (Best Musical Show Album for “Annie Get Your Gun”) will appear… Continue reading →

GBSC’s ‘Old school’ ‘Guys and Dolls’ is still fun

By Rich Fahey STONEHAM ––  “Guys and Dolls” is an “old-school” musical, and that’s meant in the best possible way. The current production at the Greater Boston Stage Company has all of the… Continue reading →

Lyric’s ‘Yellow Face’: A cry for racial justice

By Rich Fahey 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… Continue reading →

The unstoppable ‘Toni Stone’ made baseball history

By Rich Fahey BOSTON – Stage the show in a  city where the history of pro baseball dates back to 1871. Have the heroine be a woman who made history on the field… Continue reading →

Updated ‘Dial M for Murder’ still has the goods

By Rich Fahey STONEHAM – Sometimes, a show lands right in the wheelhouse of what a theater company does best. The Greater Boston Stage Company – formerly the Stoneham Theatre – has embraced… Continue reading →

In ‘A Strange Loop,’ a human work in progress

By Rich Fahey BOSTON – Years ago, Michael R. Jackson’s voice might never have been heard. It may have been lost amid many other voices trying to be heard and recognized. After all,… Continue reading →

ART’s ‘Real Women Have Curves’ is joyous, uplifting

By Rich Fahey CAMBRIDGE – The American Repertory Theater’s world premiere musical “Real Women Have Curves: The Musical” is a heartfelt, uplifting, often joyous celebration of Latino culture and the immigrant experience. It… Continue reading →