Friday, March 23, 2018
Spring has spru " well, OK, it still feels like the depths of winter. But eventually spring will arrive, and with it an amazing calendar of theater.From classics to new works, musicals both …
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 01:00AM[SHARE]Friday, January 12, 2018
It's going to be a long, cold winter. Art will keep your spirit warm.Oh, you'll still need to spend a fortune on your heating bills of course. But experimental theater and tried-and-true mus…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 01:00AM[SHARE]Friday, December 15, 2017
Thanks to artistic director Diane Paulus, Cambridge's American Repertory Theater has become a pipeline to Broadway. With original shows and revivals, superstars (Bryan Cranston! Audra McDona…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 01:00AM[SHARE]Friday, December 1, 2017
It almost takes a miracle to transform a modern piece of art into a Christmas standard. Between "It's a Wonderful Life" and "A Christmas Carol," "Jingle Bell Rock" and "Have Yourself a Merry…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 01:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 8, 2017
Great job waiting for "Hamilton" to come to Boston. The good news is you only have another year: The storied show arrives in our city in September 2018.But no need to while away the time dre…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 01:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 11, 2017
Pirates improve any adventure tale, especially when the dastardly Capt. Hook commands the crew of buccaneers. Unfortunately it takes the creative team of "Finding Neverland" a whole act to r…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 01:00AM[SHARE]Friday, June 2, 2017
This summer's theater season has range. Not "from Stephen Sondheim to Andrew Lloyd Webber" range, but epic jumps from Chekhov to trouble in River City, Peter Pan to robot battle nuns.Our the…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 01:00AM[SHARE]Friday, April 7, 2017
Rejoice! "Hamilton" is coming … in September … of 2018.While we wait for the greatest theater sensation since Hamlet pondered "To be, or not to be," let's enjoy a few other masterpieces …
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 01:00AM[SHARE]Friday, January 13, 2017
A big thumbs-up to theaÂter. From "Hamilton" to "Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812" (straight from Cambridge to Broadway), theater has returned as a major art form. It can als…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 01:00AM[SHARE]Friday, November 18, 2016
When you say you are going to "The Nutcracker" this season, you will need to be a smidge more specific. The Boston Ballet or Jose Mateo production? Or maybe you mean the touring Russian show…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 01:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 23, 2016
When the Sal's delivery guy walked on stage with five large pizzas, I understood why Filter Theatre artistic director Ferdy Roberts described "Twelfth Night" as "anarchic."In an interview wi…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 11:13AM[SHARE]Monday, January 18, 2016
Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" has often been described as whimsical " madcap even. But anarchic?It's a word Filter Theatre artistic director Ferdy Roberts uses over and over again to describ…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 06:33AM[SHARE]Friday, November 20, 2015
Ron Swanson's personality resembled a hundred-year-old oak growing out of the grave of Ernest Hemingway. But don't conflate the muted emotional range of Nick Offerman's "Parks and Recreation…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 06:52PM[SHARE]Friday, November 6, 2015
The Shirelles turned "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?" into a two-and-a-half minute opera of longing, hope and pop glory (those strings!). Smokey Robinson transformed the tune into a slow-burn so…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 06:44AM[SHARE]Friday, September 4, 2015
It's time to play the music. It's time to light the lights. It's time to check out the fall theater lineup.What? You expected Muppets?While we're all excited about the Muppets' return to TV …
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 09:19AM[SHARE]Friday, August 14, 2015
"Kinky Boots" is the best based-on-a-movie modern musical about an unlikely band of misfits who pull together just in time to save the day.Oh wait, what about "Newsies?" And what about "Brin…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 11:32AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 8, 2015
Writer Harvey Fierstein and director Jerry Mitchell know plenty of song experts. They needed an authority on songs and shoes to pen the music for the Broadway adaptation of "Kinky Boots.""Ha…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 07:57AM[SHARE]Friday, June 19, 2015
Think Broadway audiences are tough?Try doing song and dance numbers for couples in cabana-wear killing time ahead of the midnight buffet.Before Michael Ryan landed a spot in the national tou…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 02:24PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 24, 2015
It's time to play the music. It's time to light the lights. It's time to put away those brainy novels and dark TV shows and go to see a musical " "Mad Men" is over, go see "Guys and Dolls."T…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 16, 2015
"The Last Two People on Earth: An Apocalyptic Vaudeville" examines how love and patience can overcome trauma.Or maybe the two-man show starring Mandy Patinkin and Taylor Mac reflects on how …
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 23, 2015
If you had the time of your life, you owe it to Eleanor Bergstein. The woman who wrote "Dirty Dancing" created a piece of mythology as rich and beloved as any sci-fi epic " "Nobody puts Baby…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, January 26, 2015
The Motown sound changed music as profoundly as Bob Dylan or the Beatles did. Jesse Nager knew this almost innately as a 5-year-old bopping around his house in Somerville listening to the Ja…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, December 5, 2014
'The Nutcracker" 
or "A Christmas Carol"? I generally side with anything that casts Jiminy Cricket as the Ghost of Christmas Past.Whatever your preference this holiday season " be it "…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, September 8, 2014
Nia Holloway comes from a musical family.Wait, strike that, it doesn't capture the astonishing legacy of the young star of "The Lion King" (tomorrow through Oct. 12 at the Boston Opera House…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, September 5, 2014
Time to go back to school. No, not just the kids. After a summer of robots and monsters and turtles kung fu fighting, the time has come for some culture. Here are seven fall theater producti…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 1, 2014
Popcorn and champagne.Walking into the big top set up for Cirque du Soleil's "Amaluna" " now to July 6 at Marine Industrial Park " the smell of circus popcorn hits you hard. Then, as your ey…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Anything goes in this summer's theater lineup.There are a few brainy, emotionally raw offerings to keep your mind and soul challenged. But they're outnumbered by witty Shakespeare comedies, …
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Diane Paulus likes story and spectacle. And the artistic director of Harvard's American Repertory Theater has had a lot of luck combining the two " Paulus' revivals "Pippin" and "Hair" won T…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 17, 2014
Teller aims for a grand trick with "The Tempest," now through June 15 at the American Repertory Theater. The legendary illusionist and half of Penn & Teller seeks to bind his populist ma…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 10, 2014
There's magic in Shakespeare.Not just literary wizardry. The Bard populated his works with witches, ghosts and the mighty sorcerer Prospero.The lead character in Shakespeare's "The Tempest,"…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, May 2, 2014
Jason Alexander's role as stocky bald man George Costanza tops his resume. But just below his "Seinfeld" work, musical theater fills Alexander's CV.The actor has appeared in a dozen stage pr…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 12:00AM[SHARE] 
