Monday, May 19, 2025
LEARNING HOW TO BE IN COMMUNITY Few productions manage to collapse the space between art and community like Learning How to Read by Moonlight. In this world premiere from Gaven D. Trinidad, …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:40AMHOW SWEET IT IS! From the opening scene of As Bees in Honey Drown, we know that young Evan Wyler (Michael Mazzone) is doomed, but we also know that we are going to be happily amused as he tu…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:40AMSaturday, May 10, 2025
SOME DARE CALL IT TREASON Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold can hardly be called founders of the United States. In fact, while both acted as military leaders in the American War for Independen…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 12:39PMMonday, May 5, 2025
THREE MEN IN A BOAT Playwrights Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon provide a gratifying change from the too-frequent, obviously profit-driven movie-to-musical adaptations that litter so many stages t…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:14PMBRAIDED LIVES Director Summer L. Williams brings a uplifting and inspiring production of up-and-coming playwright Jocelyn Bioh’s Tony-nominated Jaja’s African Hair Braiding to the SpeakE…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:14PMSaturday, May 3, 2025
PREDATORS IN PINK Tina Fey (book), Jeff Richmond (music), and Nell Benjamin (lyrics) hit all the standard Broadway musical marks with Mean Girls, now in Boston as part of a national tour. It…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 10:07PMMonday, April 28, 2025
SOMETHING TASTY AT UMBRELLA STAGE Leo Tolstoy said there were only two stories in the world—either someone goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. The Umbrella Stage Company’s mus…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:52PMFriday, April 25, 2025
A BITTER TRUTH WRAPPED IN A SWEET TITLE Fresh Ink’s absorbing production of Sugar, by playwright Tara Moses, is anything but saccharine. Under the sure direction of Audrey Seraphin, Sugar …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:49AMMonday, April 14, 2025
HALCYON AND ON AND ON Director Maurice Emmanuel Parent’s vibrant, pulsing production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream transforms the woods outside Athens into a 1990s dance f…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:50PMSunday, April 13, 2025
THE THINGS THEY CARRIED The fourth episode in Mfoniso Udofia’s ambitious nine-episode Ufot Family Cycle, Her Portmanteau, takes us deeper into the fascinating story of a very specific Nige…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:53AMFriday, April 11, 2025
IT DON’T GET MUCH CORNIER– AND THAT’S THE POINT In Shucked, the jokes fly fast as exploding kernels of popcorn in this Tony-award winning musical comedy—part Brigadoon, part Music Ma…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 10:42PMSunday, April 6, 2025
A SPIRITED REVIVAL WITH DEPTH AND DISSONANCE Eighty years after Carousel had its final pre-Broadway preview at Boston’s Colonial Theatre, Boston Lyric Opera revives Rodgers and Hammerstein…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:43PMMURDER BY MANGO Ricardo Pérez González’s Don’t Eat the Mangos—a tragicomedy brimming with revelation, rage, and retribution—transforms the Calderwood stage into a site of reckoning…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:13AMSunday, March 16, 2025
THE TRIUMPH OF ALLISON ALTMAN There are many reasons to see The Triumph of Love, director Loretta Greco’s gender-bending comedy that channels equal parts Shakespeare, Billy Wilder, and a d…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:20AMFriday, March 14, 2025
STILL WAITING FOR JUSTICE At its heart, Parade is a gripping exploration of prejudice, justice, and the power of perception. This Tony Award-winning revival, directed by Michael Arden, is ba…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 12:44PMTuesday, March 4, 2025
UNTYING THE SPELL Tongva and Mescalero Apache actor GiGi Buddie delivers a spellbinding performance in Where We Belong, an autobiographical one-woman show by Madeline Sayet, who weaves a dee…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:06AMIT’S NOT SO MUCH HOW IRISH BECAME AMERICANS — IT’S HOW AMERICA BECAME IRISH Greater Boston Stage Company’s lively production of Frank McCourt’s The Irish and How They Got That Way …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:06AMSunday, March 2, 2025
THE REDEEMING POWER OF ART Picture this. A white wall—or is it gray? or a blank canvas?—and a pale tile floor. Are we in an austere modern art museum or gallery? The lights go out and wh…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:21PMSunday, February 23, 2025
OUT OF THE WOODS AND INTO THE GROVE The second in Mfoniso Udofia’s ambitious nine-play Ufot Family Cycle, The Grove, directed by Awoye Timpo, picks up the story of the Ufot family over thr…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 05:36PMA FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE ON A FAMILIAR JOURNEY Playwright Kate Hamill takes Homer’s Odyssey and gives it a sharp, contemporary spin, transforming the tale of wily and deceitful Odysseus (Way…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:27PMBEAUTIFUL, BORED AND BENT ON DESTRUCTION For a taut psychological drama fraught with sexual tension, Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler remains unrivaled, and Parker Jennings delivers a mesmerizi…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:27PMSunday, February 9, 2025
TO BOLDLY GO WHERE NO WOMAN HAS GONE BEFORE After seeing SPACE at Central Square Theater, the line that haunted me came from Mae Jemison, the first Black woman to travel into space: “Rocke…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 11:00PMSunday, February 2, 2025
A SEARCH FOR MEANING BROUGHT TO GLORIOUS LIFE BY A PUPPET Based on the Booker-prize winning novel by Nobel-laureate South African J.M. Coetzee and adapted and directed by Lara Foot in collab…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 12:28PMTuesday, January 28, 2025
A LESSON ON FAMILY LEGACY Actors’ Shakespeare Project continues its exploration of August Wilson’s Century Cycle with an absolutely superb production of the 1987 Pulitzer-winning masterp…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:32AMSunday, January 19, 2025
HOW THE COOKIE CRUMBLES From Intimate Apparel and Sweat to Clyde’s, playwright Lynn Nottage is known for her ability to illuminate the lives of ordinary and working-class people, Black and…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:40AMMonday, January 13, 2025
THE ELATION OF NEGATION Written by Jordan E. Cooper and directed by Dawn M. Simmons, the Boston premiere of this Tony-nominated series of provocative satirical sketches explores various face…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:09PMMonday, December 16, 2024
TAP INTO JOY AT A.R.T. I felt the first chills early in Diary of a Tap Dancer. It was during an ensemble number set in the Bronx and the birth of hip hop – I got that feeling in my solar p…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:34PMThursday, December 12, 2024
FEAST ON THIS! For the second year, Front Porch Arts Collective offers its Holiday Feast of staged readings of scripts from the holiday episodes of Black sitcoms of the 1970s, ’80s, and �…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:46AMWednesday, December 4, 2024
A PLAY TO BE THANKFUL FOR Director Tara Moses (Seminole Nation of Oklahoma/Mvskoke) leans into the challenge of bringing the satirical comedy The Thanksgiving Play to the stage with “a ful…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:56PMThursday, November 28, 2024
NOISES OFF, LAUGHS ON Just in time for the holiday season, Lyric Stage Company of Boston has something for audiences eager for some silly fun. Written by Michael Frayn the quintessential far…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 12:50AMWednesday, November 27, 2024
GALILEO’S THEORIES WOULD PROVE THAT THE SUN DOESN’T MOVE – GALILEO’S DAUGHTER ALSO DOESN’T MOVE It’s an intriguing notion: the ground-breaking scientist and astronomer Galileo Ga…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:23PM 
