Sunday, 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 02:23PMMonday, November 18, 2024
A TIME-TRAVELING JANE AUSTEN What if Jane Austen had managed to read The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan’s groundbreaking 1963 exploration of why well-educated and prosperous women were s…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 10:05PMSunday, November 10, 2024
SOMETIMES YOU CAN GET WHAT YOU WANT I have been in a foul mood for the past several days, looking for ways to smash the patriarchy, cursing the unseasonably warm and dry November in my soul …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:44PMSaturday, November 9, 2024
SETTING THE STAGE FOR AN EXTRAORDINARY CYCLE OF SHOWS How appropriate! I thought, as I stood in the August Wilson Lobby of the Huntington Theatre last night. I was about to see Sojourners, t…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:01AMWednesday, November 6, 2024
On Sunday, November 10, 2024, Boston Lyric Opera’s one-performance-only of Giuseppe Verdi’s triumphal masterpiece Aida precedes the return of its annual fundraiser that supports access t…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMSaturday, October 26, 2024
MEMORY AS AN ACT OF LOVE The East Coast premiere of playwright Steven Drukman’s snappy and cleverly written Pru Payne is movingly brought to the stage under SpeakEasy Stage founder Paul Da…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:37PMFriday, October 11, 2024
A PLAY THAT’S OUT OF THE BOX Like an acrobat without a net who thrills us with her daring, Iranian-German playwright Nassim Soleimanpour offers a play with virtually no set, no costumes, a…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:16PMWednesday, October 2, 2024
THE LAUGHS ARE IN SPANISH AND ENGLISH, TOO Playwright Alexis Scheer draws on her Colombian-Jewish upbringing in Miami to create this comic celebration of the city’s Wynwood arts scene and …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMTuesday, September 24, 2024
MIND YOUR PEES AND QUEUES Courtney O’Connor’s masterful direction of the unpleasantly titled Urinetown: The Musical brings together numerous wonderful performances along with great music…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:55AMA LIVELY AND TIMELY EXAMINATION OF VOTING BEHAVIOR Fight Night, brought to seven American states by the Belgian performance group Ontroerend Goed (a punning name, roughly translated as “Fe…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:51AMFriday, September 20, 2024
A TRIUMPHANT SAGA OF A VIENNESE FAMILY The Huntington and director Carey Perloff bring Tom Stoppard’s beautifully written Leopoldstadt to Boston with engaging performances that make the co…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:40AMFriday, September 6, 2024
ATMOSPHERIC, MOODY, DARK AND MODERN, ROMEO AND JULIET AT A.R.T. BELONGS TO THE AGES As summer turns to autumn, American Repertory Theater brings a dark and moody interpretation of Romeo and …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:25PM 
