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 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 STONEHAM — If you’re an actor with great comic chops, this is the show for you. How often do you get the chance to play a sadistic dentist overdosing on… Continue reading
By Rich Fahey BEVERLY – It’s always fun to come home. It’s especially fun if you can show off all you’ve learned since you left home. The husband-and-wife team of Boxford native Matt… Continue reading
By Rich Fahey CAMBRIDGE – At first, it sounds like the opening line of a joke: Two strangers carry a cake across New York. But the romantic musical comedy “Two Strangers (Carry a… Continue reading
By Rich Fahey BEVERLY – Three men on a boat for nine weeks in 1974, often at each other’s throats. An endless series of delays due to a number of mechanical sharks with… Continue reading
By Rich Fahey CAMBRIDGE — Passion projects often provide great insights and truths. And, along the way, can also provide great entertainment. Ayodele Casel is a woman on a mission. She is using… Continue reading
By Rich Fahey BOSTON – The competition is keen. Just up the street at the Wang Center, the Grinch and his dog Max are terrorizing The Whos. On Washington Street at the Citizens… Continue reading