“This play feels like it could have been written two months ago. It feels very much of today,’’ Tyler Marchant says.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PMHis TV show, “Burn Notice,’’ is a cable hit, already renewed for next season. He recently shot his second movie role for director Clint Eastwood, playing opposite Leonardo …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:11PMBEVERLY — Bill Hanney, who bought North Shore Music Theatre last year, would love to talk about this season’s musicals all day long. But he’s just as focused on operational…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:40PM“There’s a lot of great traditional theater in Boston, and we like to offer something that is alternative,’’ says Jennifer Johnson, co-director of the Charlestown Wor…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PMCAMBRIDGE — Playwright Amy Merrill and folk singer Si Kahn wrote a musical together. As these old friends tell the story, sitting side by side in her condo near Inman Square, they seem…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:06AMThey need expert direction. He’s giving it. On a recent Saturday morning in the Theater at Club Café on Columbus Avenue, Boston’s newest comedy-improv-interactive theater at…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:24PMAndy Warhol made Josh Kornbluth back into a Jew. True, Kornbluth’s parents are Jewish. His mother even speaks Yiddish. But they were also communists and atheists. Growing up in New Yor…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:34PMThe killing of Osama bin Laden by US forces affected 9/11 victims’ families, global security, and maybe even the next presidential election.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:30PMAsk Stew about the craft behind his acting in “Passing Strange,’’ and he laughs long and loud.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:04PMThe first time actress Paula Plum prepared a monologue for an audition, she chose Cleopatra’s death scene from Shakespeare’s “Antony and Cleopatra.’’ She was a …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:53PMComposer Zhou Long won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Music yesterday for “Madame White Snake,’’ the first opera commissioned by Opera Boston — and the first one he has …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:11PMStaging the New England premiere of “Book of Grace,’’ by Suzan-Lori Parks (“Topdog/Underdog’’), would itself be a coup for theater’s upstart Company…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:12PMBeginning Friday, Larry Coen will play the role of the Magician in Wheelock Family Theatre’s “Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp.’’ He comes to the role fresh from his tu…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30AMDarren Evans says the next production from Theatre on Fire is aimed both at the head and the belly.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:10PMLast fall, in the thick of SpeakEasy Stage Company’s 20th season, with a big musical to direct, Paul Daigneault started feeling tired and feverish, and it kept getting worse. Eventuall…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:46PM‘Car Talk: The Musical!!!’’ is the kind of show in which a character borrows the tune of “Maria’’ from “West Side Story’’ to sing a love…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:10PMIt has been almost 30 years since Bill Cain went to a theater rehearsal in Boston. But on this sunny Saturday afternoon, he’s planning to look in as Publick Theatre Boston prepares for…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:03PMA week or so ago, actor Robert Walsh began to feel excruciating pain from a disk problem in his back. That’s especially difficult when his next show is theatrical heavy lifting.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:34PMNEWBURYPORT — Call it counterintuitive. In a difficult economy, Theater in the Open is dropping the admission charge for its big outdoor productions at Maudslay State Park. The theater…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:00AMNeil LaBute’s “Reasons to Be Pretty’’ opens with a couple in the middle of a screaming fight.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:14PMTheresa Rebeck says she isn’t surprised that she’d be asked to update one of Henrik Ibsen’s plays examining gender and power. Left to her own devices, she’d go with &…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:26PM“Hotels scare me a little bit,’’ says John Kuntz. “There’s something strange about being in a hotel, this place that wants to be a home, but it’s not. Thi…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:21PMNorth region residents visiting the new Art of the Americas Wing at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston should feel right at home.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:05PMThere was a moment during rehearsals for “My Name Is Asher Lev’’ when Jason Schuchman felt like the Wandering Jew of Watertown.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:43PMIf you go to see Ira Glass at Sanders Theatre tomorrow night, you’ll only hear him at first.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:14PMGLOUCESTER — A visit to the Diving Locker induces its own sort of rapture of the deep, with symptoms including giddiness and mild disorientation.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:12PMUlysses meets WikiLeaks in Bread and Puppet Theater’s latest production. Claudio Monteverdi’s opera “The Return of Ulysses’’ caps off a weeklong residency by ar…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:24PMTo play a guy with lots of woman troubles, you have to be an actor whom actresses can trust.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:37PM“Playwriting is something you can do by yourself, but theater is not,’’ Steve Yockey says.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:24PMHysteria is a staple of farce. Terminal cancer, sexual abuse, and Nazi persecution of the Jews, not so much.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:59PMThe handsome action-movie star wants to prove himself in a Broadway play. The new understudy carries a huge chip on his shoulder about Hollywood. The world-weary stage manager just wants the…
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