LENOX — If memory is selective and slippery and altogether untrustworthy, how do you come to terms with your past?
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:13PMLast 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 01:30PMWith 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 12:35PMNEW 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“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,’’ 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 01:26AMNEW 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 01:30PMIn 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 01:24PMPAWTUCKET, 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 01:30PMAccording to Arlene Violet, numerous characters in “The Family’’ were inspired by real-life figures. Here are a few:
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PMANIMAL 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 12:39PMVersatility, 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 08:13PMJIHAD 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 01:30PMSam 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 01:30PMOrdinarily, 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“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 12:24PMIn “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 12:20PMIn Cirque Éloize’s “iD,’’ the city is alive, a place of wonder where anything can happen.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:09PMLess 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 11:55PMAt 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 09:49PMWATERTOWN — Musicals — and coming-of-age stories, for that matter — either grab you or they don’t.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:37PMIn 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 08:44PMIt 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 01:19PMCRANSTON, 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 01:04PMNEW HAVEN — If visual texture were all that mattered, “Autumn Sonata’’ would be a success.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:14PMNearly 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 12:29PMSebastian Smee, art critic of The Boston Globe, yesterday was awarded the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for criticism.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:42AMA 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 12:09PMJust 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 01:05AMThe 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.
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