Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Somerville is a city as steeped in its past as an industrial mecca as it is in its present as a center for artists...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 10:52PMMonday, November 28, 2011
For a show about the wild and raucous days of the Harlem Renaissance, "Ain't Misbehavin'" is disappointingly well-behaved....
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 11:27PMWednesday, November 23, 2011
At the center of Com-pany One's program for "The Brother/Sister Plays," there's a handy family tree to help you...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 10:58PMWe like our bad guys to come dressed in black, not shades of gray. But drama - and history - have proven that things...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 10:44PMWednesday, November 16, 2011
There's a lot of expository reading you could do before seeing "In the Red and Brown Water," the first of Tarell...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 11:04PMMonday, November 14, 2011
It's hard to watch a satire that's nearly as long as the object of parody itself. But Eugene Ionesco isn't content...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 10:58PMThursday, November 10, 2011
Staging "Peter Pan" is always a balancing act - and not just counterweights and flying ropes. There has to be an...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 11:11PMSunday, November 6, 2011
Playwright Tom Stoppard has always been known as a master of wordplay. In "Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth," an...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 10:54PMFriday, November 4, 2011
When "A Doll's House" was first performed in 1879, it shocked 19th century values. Henrik Ibsen's play, which famously...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 11:05PMThursday, November 3, 2011
The first thing you should know about "Buddy Cop 2" is that there is no "Buddy Cop 1." The second thing you should...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 11:26PMOn a rainy Sunday afternoon, there are few things that can raise my spirits out of the drizzle better than pure,...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 11:00PMMonday, October 31, 2011
Only hard-core Shakespeareophiles need apply to "Women of Will." In Tina Packer's Bard-a-thon, the three hours'...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 10:49PMFriday, October 28, 2011
"You Better Sit Down: Tales from My Parents' Divorce" seemingly takes place in a permanent state of limbo. Emotions...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 10:58PMWednesday, October 26, 2011
Not content with simply breaking the fourth wall, ImprovBoston hurls blood and guts over it. Literally. After a...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 11:11PMMonday, October 24, 2011
Restoration-era playwrights were so wacky! If you take Liz Duffy Adams' "Or," at its word, life in 17th century...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 10:57PMThursday, October 13, 2011
Not all that much happens in the cozy, book-strewn Manhattan living room that serves as the setting of New Repertory...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 11:25PMFriday, October 7, 2011
Tony Kushner carved out a permanent place in American drama with his seminal two-part epic "Angels in America."...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 01:29AMThursday, October 6, 2011
Nowhere in Shakespeare is love a slipperier concept than in "Twelfth Night," the Bard's mid-career comedy of bisecting...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 10:47PMFriday, September 30, 2011
Live musical theater has the power to transport an audience as few other mediums can. That's easy to forget with...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 10:59PMIf anyone other than Laurie Anderson tried to do something like "Delusion," it wouldn't work. But the venerable...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 10:53PMThursday, September 29, 2011
There's a secondhand feeling pervading Sarna Lapine's production of "South Pacific," the Rodgers and Hammerstein...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 11:21PMMonday, September 26, 2011
"Next Fall" proves that, like real life, the action of a play doesn't have to be limited to one genre. Geoffrey...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 11:26PMFriday, September 23, 2011
Robert Brustein can't actually be serious about this play. He's just messing with us, right? That's the only explanation...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 11:39PM"Steel Magnolias" is to a theater season what mashed potatoes are to a dinner: predictable and mild, but also undeniably...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 11:35PMTuesday, September 20, 2011
Every progressive theater company worth its salt these days seems intent on breaking down the wall between audience...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 10:41PMSaturday, September 17, 2011
Theater may be the only animal that hibernates in the summer. But this fall season is full to bursting with shows...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 11:29PMFriday, September 16, 2011
Though they've had only 15 days to rehearse, there's rarely been an ensemble that's so at ease with each other...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 10:58PMFriday, September 9, 2011
It's that time of year again, kids, when Cirque du Soleil makes its annual pit stop here, and we all get a crick...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 11:06PMThursday, September 8, 2011
We can't seem to get enough of the '90s these days. Nickelodeon is re-airing all of its classic Clinton-era TV...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 11:27PMMonday, September 5, 2011
The Lyric Stage Company has a thing for staging classic literature. Last season, artistic director Spiro Veloudos...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 11:41PMFriday, August 19, 2011
Let's be honest here: No one goes to see "Footloose" for the story. That went for the 1984 film, and it goes double...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 11:42PM 
