Tuesday, April 12, 2011
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 01:03PMMonday, April 4, 2011
LOWELL — When you think of Afghanistan at this particular moment in history, comedy is not the first thing that comes to mind. It might be the last, actually.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 06:54PMSunday, April 3, 2011
When “Broke-ology’’ opened last week at Lyric Stage Company, with an all-black cast performing a work by a black playwright under the guidance of a black director, the rema…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30AMSaturday, April 2, 2011
With a demeanor as formal and stiff as his high, old-fashioned collar, Dick Pricey seems the perfect emcee for the sedate history lesson that “Chautauqua!’’ at first shapes…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:07AMThursday, March 31, 2011
When F. Murray Abraham, as Shylock, faces his contemptuous foes and delivers the most famous speech in “The Merchant of Venice’’ (“Hath not a Jew eyes? . . . If you p…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:48PMMonday, March 28, 2011
When we first see William King, the ebullient, hard-working family man at the center of “Broke-ology,’’ he is such a larger-than-life figure that his house seems barely abl…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:11PMFriday, March 25, 2011
When Bruce Myers began his performance of “The Grand Inquisitor’’ at the Paramount Black Box on Thursday night, it seemed as if the audience was in for a special evening.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:38PM“We’ll never hear the human voice again,’’ laments a one-legged old man in “Rough for Theatre I,’’ one of five short plays by Samuel Beckett now at …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:11PMThursday, March 24, 2011
A cultural touchstone for some and a cultural hot button for others, the 1960s long outlived the actual end of the decade.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:53PMWednesday, March 23, 2011
PAWTUCKET, R.I. — “How do I get ‘faith’?’’ a former temple guard named Barnabas asks the title character in “Paul,’’ a retelling of Chri…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:35PMThursday, March 17, 2011
Near the beginning of the second act in the Huntington Theatre Company’s production of “Educating Rita,’’ the effervescent title character struggles to open a window …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:10PMWhen you adapt a novel whose characters are mired in inertia and ennui and aimlessness much of the time, how do you prevent the stage version from succumbing to those same forces?
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:09PMFriday, March 11, 2011
PROVIDENCE — No one who has seen the protean transformations of Joe Wilson Jr. at Trinity Repertory Company over the years will be surprised by the breadth and depth of his performance…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:36PMWednesday, March 9, 2011
To those of us cursed with two left feet, there is something almost otherworldly about supremely skilled dancing.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:43PMThursday, March 3, 2011
NEW YORK — With regard to dramas set in South Boston, the law of diminishing returns is bound to kick in at some point.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:13PMThursday, February 17, 2011
CAMBRIDGE — Shame and humiliation, Sophocles knew, are foes that even the bravest and most relentless warrior cannot defeat.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:18PMMonday, February 14, 2011
When Asher Lev’s strict Hasidic father gets his first look at the crucifixions and nudes his 12-year-old son has drawn after the boy visited an art museum, the father hits the roof.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 06:13PMSOMERVILLE — In the Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s most recent foray into the works of its namesake playwright, the company pulled out all the stops with an ambitious, swash…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 06:11PMThursday, February 10, 2011
If Hieronymus Bosch were alive today and decided to turn his hand to playwriting rather than painting, he might concoct a nightmarish vision akin to that of Mark O’Rowe’s “…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:44PMMonday, February 7, 2011
NEW HAVEN — Anyone who saw the Yale Repertory Theatre’s sizzling 1984 premiere of the play that established August Wilson’s reputation, “Ma Rainey’s Black Botto…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 04:38PMSaturday, February 5, 2011
MY NAME IS ASHER LEV Anne Gottlieb, Joel Colodner, and Jason Schuchman star in Aaron Posner’s adaptation of Chaim Potok’s novel about an artistically talented Jewish youth whose …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30AMFriday, February 4, 2011
Martin McDonagh never wants you to get too comfortable. Frequently hilarious though it is, there is a lacerating and unpredictable edge to the playwright’s “The Cripple of Inishm…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:27PMThursday, February 3, 2011
Playwright uses a small Irish town as a study of the good and bad of human nature.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:40PMMonday, January 31, 2011
When I covered Rose Kennedy’s 1995 funeral at a North End church, it wasn’t the tributes to her storied resiliency in the face of unthinkable loss that were most striking. Rather…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 06:55PMSaturday, January 29, 2011
Friday, January 28, 2011
PAWTUCKET, R.I. — When we first see Nora in the Gamm Theatre’s production of “A Doll’s House,’’ she and her two children are belting out “Santa Clau…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:23PMThursday, January 27, 2011
"Most dreams last only five to 20 minutes,’’ an authoritative voice intones in the opening moments of “PSY,’’ purporting to impart nuggets of psychological wisd…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:20PMMonday, January 24, 2011
When he was a teenager, Paul Daigneault saw the original 1982 production of “Nine.’’ It was the first Broadway show he ever saw.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:02PMFriday, January 21, 2011
Hell hath no fury like a neighborhood dissed, especially if said neighborhood is located in the pugnacious, dukes-up borough of Brooklyn.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:04PMThursday, January 20, 2011
WATERTOWN — Life is hard. The afterlife is harder. That’s one reading of Steve Yockey’s “afterlife: a ghost story.’’ But this unsettling new drama, which …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:36PMCAMBRIDGE — The last time Thomas Derrah appeared in an American Repertory Theater production, in the September “Cabaret’’ that starred Amanda Palmer, he wore a dress …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:35PM 
