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Monday, June 20, 2011

Rival siblings, a ghost-mother’s longings by Don Aucoin, Globe Staff

LENOX — If memory is selective and slippery and altogether untrustworthy, how do you come to terms with your past?

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:13PM
Saturday, June 18, 2011

Critic's picks by Don Aucoin, Globe Staff

Last chance MY FAIR LADY A charming production of the classic Lerner & Loewe musical, with Lisa O’Hare captivating as Eliza Doolittle and Charles Shaughnessy acquitting himself wel…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PM
Thursday, June 16, 2011

Tony, Maria, and the gangs are all here by Don Aucoin, Globe Staff

With the death last month of Arthur Laurents, only Stephen Sondheim remains of the remarkable four-man galaxy that created “West Side Story’’ and brought it to Broadway in …

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:35PM
Wednesday, June 15, 2011

$70m superhero and special effects not so super special by Don Aucoin, Globe Staff

NEW YORK — In the end, all the hullabaloo surrounding “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark’’ proves to be more compelling than anything that actually happens onstage —…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:00AM
Monday, June 13, 2011

‘Mormon’ is big winner at Tony Awards by Don Aucoin, Globe Staff

“The Book of Mormon,’’ a taboo-toppling yet essentially sweet-natured musical about a pair of Mormon missionaries in Uganda, racked up nine Tony Awards Sunday night, includ…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:41PM

‘The Book of Mormon’ is big winner at Tony Awards by Don Aucoin, Globe Staff

“The Book of Mormon,’’ a taboo-toppling yet essentially sweet-natured musical about a pair of Mormon missionaries in Uganda, racked up nine Tony Awards last night, includin…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:26AM
Saturday, June 11, 2011

2011 Tony Awards: Honor-bound? by Don Aucoin, Globe Staff

NEW YORK — “Funny how people can be more than one thing, ain’t it?’’ Amid the flying shards of language in “The [Expletive] With the Hat,’’ th…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PM
Friday, June 10, 2011

North Shore theater marks comeback with charming ‘Lady’ by Don Aucoin, Globe Staff

In brief remarks to the audience before the opening-night performance of “My Fair Lady,’’ North Shore Music Theatre owner Bill Hanney noted that the show represents the kic…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:24PM
Saturday, June 4, 2011

She has some killer stories to tell by Don Aucoin, Globe Staff

PAWTUCKET, R.I. — Barely two minutes into an interview, Arlene Violet tosses off a sentence that quite possibly has never been uttered before by a librettist in the entire history of t…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PM

A cast of characters by Don Aucoin, Globe Staff

According to Arlene Violet, numerous characters in “The Family’’ were inspired by real-life figures. Here are a few:

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PM
Thursday, June 2, 2011

Critic's picks by Don Aucoin, Globe Staff

ANIMAL CRACKERS There are periods of sluggishness when this 1928 musical comedy shows its age, but verbal sparks fly when Ed Hoopman (pictured) holds center stage as Captain Jeffrey T. Spaul…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:39PM
Monday, May 23, 2011

The Bard, light and dark, back to back by Don Aucoin, Globe Staff

Versatility, thy name is Propeller. It’s a head-spinning experience to watch actors from Britain’s all-male Propeller Theatre Company tear up the stage in a slapstick performance…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:13PM
Saturday, May 21, 2011

Critic's picks by Don Aucoin, Globe Staff

JIHAD JONES AND THE KALASHNIKOV BABES In Yussef El Guindi’s Hollywood satire, a struggling Arab-American stage actor is offered a big-bucks movie role. But the role — an Islamic …

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PM

No, not that Mormon musical by Don Aucoin, Globe Staff

Sam Salmond and Will Aronson are only too aware that the title of their new musical, “Mormons, Mothers and Monsters,’’ might prompt some theatergoers to assume they’r…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PM
Thursday, May 19, 2011

In ‘Susurrus,’ the stage is Boston Public Garden by Don Aucoin, Globe Staff

Ordinarily, we experience theater in an enclosed space that is at a certain remove, literally and psychologically, from the outside world. And when we assume the role of spectators, it’…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:06AM
Friday, May 13, 2011

‘Good People’ is tops with drama critics' circle by Don Aucoin, Globe Staff

“Good People,’’ a drama by South Boston native David Lindsay-Abaire (inset) that is set in Southie and Chestnut Hill, has been named best play of 2010-11 by the New York Dr…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:24PM

The sad end of Poe’s story by Don Aucoin, Globe Staff

In “Poe: A Life Cut Short,’’ the biographer Peter Ackroyd writes that a few weeks before Edgar Allan Poe died, the author said: “I do believe God gave me a spark of g…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:20PM
Thursday, May 12, 2011

Cirque Éloize offers deft, surprising fusion of acts by Don Aucoin, Globe Staff

In Cirque Éloize’s “iD,’’ the city is alive, a place of wonder where anything can happen.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:09PM
Monday, May 9, 2011

When Groucho’s onstage, ‘Animal’ crackles by Don Aucoin, Globe Staff

Less filler, more Groucho. That’s what I kept thinking during the Lyric Stage Company’s production of “Animal Crackers,’’ directed by Spiro Veloudos from an ada…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:55PM
Sunday, May 8, 2011

The comic relief is perfectly real by Don Aucoin, Globe Staff

At one point during the madcap proceedings of “The Drowsy Chaperone,’’ the narrator takes pains to remind the audience: “It’s not real! It’s a musical.…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:49PM
Wednesday, May 4, 2011

European misadventures rock his world by Don Aucoin, Globe Staff

WATERTOWN — Musicals — and coming-of-age stories, for that matter — either grab you or they don’t.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:37PM
Sunday, May 1, 2011

Plum takes firm hold of Shakespeare’s Cleopatra by Don Aucoin, Globe Staff

In Shakespeare’s “Antony and Cleopatra,’’ a Roman soldier speaks, famously, of the Egyptian queen’s “infinite variety’’ as he tries to explain…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:44PM
Thursday, April 28, 2011

‘Grease’ isn’t getting any fresher by Don Aucoin, Globe Staff

It has now been four decades since the premiere of “Grease’’ and more than three decades since the release of the movie version starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-Joh…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:19PM

Holding court by Don Aucoin, Globe Staff

CRANSTON, R.I. -- Standing backstage at the Park Theatre just minutes before showtime, Nancy Auerbach Collins glanced dubiously at an actor who was wearing a bald wig, holding a zeppelin-siz…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:04PM
Monday, April 25, 2011

‘Autumn Sonata’ wrestles with emotional resonance by Don Aucoin, Globe Staff

NEW HAVEN — If visual texture were all that mattered, “Autumn Sonata’’ would be a success.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:14PM
Saturday, April 23, 2011

Critic's picks by Don Aucoin, Globe Staff

Opening ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30AM
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

A compelling, oppressive state of ‘Grace’ by Don Aucoin, Globe Staff

Nearly 50 years after he first emerged as a significant force in Boston theater, David Wheeler retains his gift for generating a certain kinetic power onstage.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:29PM
Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Globe art critic Smee wins Pulitzer by Don Aucoin, Globe Staff

Sebastian Smee, art critic of The Boston Globe, yesterday was awarded the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for criticism.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:42AM
Thursday, April 14, 2011

Wit and wisdom in overstuffed ‘Sons’ by Don Aucoin, Globe Staff

A father’s death reverberates in unexpected ways in “Sons of the Prophet,’’ Stephen Karam’s clever and deeply felt but scattershot comedy-drama, now receiving i…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:09PM
Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Onstage, Sheen has nothing to say by Don Aucoin, Globe Staff

Just before 10 last night, as hundreds of disgusted spectators streamed toward the exits at Agganis Arena, Charlie Sheen shouted from the stage: “Wait, don’t leave! I’m not…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:05AM
Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Hit or miss, ‘Blackadder II’ is jolly good by Don Aucoin, Globe Staff

The British have few peers when it comes to humor that manages to be bracingly smart and deeply silly at the same time. Think Monty Python.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:03PM

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