The 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…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:02AMApparently they get their Christmas shopping done early out in the Berkshires, as Lenox-based Shakespeare & Company and the Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield both just announced the…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:53PMThey kicked Scrooge and Tiny Tim to the curb at New Repertory Theatre this holiday season.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:17PMThis year, they’ll summon the Ghosts of Christmas Revels Past. For its 40th season, the celebratory Cambridge event will commune with the specters of its predecessors in England. ̶…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:05PMA good Frankie Valli is hard to find. Actors hoping to be cast as Valli in “Jersey Boys,’’ which returns to Boston Dec. 16-Jan. 30 at the Colonial Theatre, must measure the…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PM‘All’s Well That Ends Well’’ indeed. Commonwealth Shakespeare Company will perform the Bard’s comedy at the Parkman Bandstand on the Boston Common July 27-Aug. …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:37PMThere’s a grumpy guy who doesn’t want his spirits raised, an urchin freezing to death on the city streets, and a trio of musicians with mixed feelings about telling those tales i…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:56PM“No dramaturge — That’s such a strange word, it sounds so filthy! — no dramaturge’s opinion is going to change what my spider sense, my instinct tells me.’…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:41PMCarl Forsman wanted to create an original Christmas show for his New York theater troupe, Keen Company, which specializes in “sincere plays.’’ He looked for four years for …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PM“The other night I dreamed I was Anne Frank,’’ Najla Said says. Not unusual, maybe, for an actress playing a young Israeli woman in a drama about the Middle East. But it…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:29PMJames Swindell lived in Tennessee and Texas, Saudi Arabia and the Netherlands. He worked at theaters all his life, always behind the scenes, on lighting and sound and sets and house manageme…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:34PMBarroom readings of new works by little-known playwrights seldom get much attention. But at the Burren in Somerville on Saturday, a troupe of actors will give new life to a classic Boston cr…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:33PMStyrofoam chips serve as lunar dust. Buckets take the place of helmets. And a colorful beach ball stands in for Sputnik.
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