Thursday, April 4, 2024
A NIGHT OF HIGH NOTES The beloved and versatile award-winning musical theater star Patti LuPone delighted those who packed Boston’s Symphony Hall last evening with a series of high notes, …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:13AMSaturday, March 16, 2024
CUMMING OR GOING, YOU’LL WANT TO SEE THIS ONE Man of many parts, Alan Cumming discusses life’s big issues: death, love, and, yes, the size of his scrotum in Alan Cumming Is Not Acting Hi…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 10:00PMFriday, March 15, 2024
FINDING NEW ABILITIES Cost of Living is full of surprises, and I don’t mean inflation or unexpected banking fees. Speakeasy Stage Company brings the Pulitzer-winning play from playwright M…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:11PMMonday, March 11, 2024
KING HEDLEY II: A CROWNING PRODUCTION The Actors’ Shakespeare Project production of King Hedley II follows ASP’s acclaimed Seven Guitars of last season, once again bringing a work by Aug…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 05:54PMMonday, March 4, 2024
HER MOTHER, HERSELF It’s a truism that many women fear “becoming their mother,” and that’s certainly the implied starting point of Karin Trachtenberg’s one-woman show, My Mother Ha…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 10:09PMThursday, February 29, 2024
Indigo Girls, Jinkx Monsoon, Bianca Del Rio, Marilyn Maye, HBO’s Gilded Age Stars Denée Benton and Claybourne Elder Will Play Provincetown Town Hall This Summer and Broadway Stars Chey…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:08PMFriday, February 23, 2024
CAN THIS MARRIAGE BE SAVED? The creative and absorbing world premiere of P. Carl’s Becoming a Man at A.R.T. brings the joys and challenges of gender transition for one person and those who…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:34AMSunday, February 18, 2024
GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE POWER Kimberly Belflower’s riveting John Proctor is the Villain, which had its world-premiere at Studio Theatre in D.C. in 2022, opened last night at The Huntington. …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMFriday, February 9, 2024
SOLIDARITY FOREVER The workshop reading of Food Tank’s Little Peasants at The Burren Backroom, a venue known more for Irish, Bluegrass, Appalachian, Roots, Jazz, and Blues than theater, is…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:00AMSunday, February 4, 2024
FROM NOTORIOUS TO VICTORIOUS Michelle Azar vividly invokes the spirit of famed jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Rupert Holmes’s one-woman show All Things Equal. As implied in the play’s sub…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:14PMSaturday, February 3, 2024
PURE PLEASURE Acclaimed vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant brought nothing but pleasure to Sanders Theater in Cambridge last night, courtesy of Celebrity Series of Boston. From the moment she …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:01AMMonday, January 29, 2024
A MAN’S SEARCH FOR MEANING “When the curtain is down, and it’s three minutes before the show, what’re you wishing for?” playwright John Kolvenbach wondered as he wrote Stand Up I…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:04PMA CASE FOR SEEING THIS PLAY Toward the end of A Case for the Existence of God (named Best Play of the 21–22 Season by the New York Drama Critics’ Circle), I tried to recall what I had le…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:40AMMonday, January 22, 2024
GOOD TROUBLE Trouble in Mind, the first full-length play written and directed by Alice Childress premiered off-Broadway in 1955, yet nearly everyone who encounters this play is astonished …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:02AMTuesday, December 19, 2023
YOU’D BE A FOOL TO MISS THIS FEAST OF FUN The long-playing Midwinter Revels (founded as Christmas Revels in 1971) is a unique mix of professional performance, volunteer talent, and audienc…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:58AMThursday, December 7, 2023
THESE GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN Two young women, one from Korea, the other from the Philippines, encounter one another in a grocery story on Thanksgiving morning in a small midwestern Americ…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 05:51AMMonday, October 2, 2023
BLACK JOY RIDE This collaboration between Boston’s Black theater company Front Porch Arts Collective and the Atlanta-based Alliance Theater Company, directed by Stevie Walker-Webb, takes i…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:52AMWednesday, September 27, 2023
LIVES OF NOT-SO-QUIET DESPERATION The premise is simple: Each of nine people who have tried to kill or who actually have killed an American president is given a chance to persuade us of his …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:13AMSaturday, September 23, 2023
ONE PLAGUE OR ANOTHER What happens when you put eight actors on a stage with a script that includes the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s, the Mormon Visitors Center, the Jewish mysticism of philos…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:30PMTuesday, September 19, 2023
WELCOME TO THE WEST WING, WHERE THE WOMEN ARE FUCKED AND THE MAN IS FECKLESS Seven women propping up one man—that’s the premise behind Selena Fillinger’s POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMMonday, September 18, 2023
HOW DO YOU SOLVE A PROBLEM LIKE KATRINA? What to do about The Taming of the Shrew, a play that seems to glorify the subjugation of women? Actors’ Shakespeare Project offers an intriguing a…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:58AMThursday, September 14, 2023
A PRAYER FOR ALL OF US Should they stay or should they go? That is the question that haunts the characters of this brilliant play by Joshua Harmon (Bad Jews, Skintight). It is directed by L…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:45PMWednesday, September 13, 2023
A SHOWER OF CREATIVE INNOVATION The A.R.T. production of the stunningly staged and audaciously acted The Half-God of Rainfall is an act of creative destruction. It begins with the seven acto…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:31AMSaturday, July 29, 2023
DOWN AND UP IN HARLEM Barrington Stage Company’s riveting production of Pearl Cleage’s Blues for an Alabama Sky, directed by Candis C. Jones, opens with a fast-paced scene in which Guy J…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:00AMWednesday, July 26, 2023
A FENCES THAT KEEPS US IN Actors “ranney” and Ella Joyce bring a fresh and warm humanity to Shakespeare and Company‘s excellent and very satisfying production of August Wilson’s Fenc…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:13AMSaturday, July 8, 2023
FASCINATING, FUN AND FEEL-GOOD RHYTHM With stellar performances on two baby grands, a few silly props, and creative use of audience participation, Kirsten Salpini (sometimes wearing a tie to…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:27PMSunday, July 2, 2023
A DUAL DUARTE DE PERÓN Understudy Isabella Lopez won a heartfelt standing ovation for her captivating portrayal of Eva Perón, the spiritual leader of Argentina last night in this A.R.T. re…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMFriday, June 30, 2023
AMAZING THEATER? BANK ON IT Steven Skybell (Henry Lehman), Joshua David Robinson (Emanuel Lehman), and Firdous Bamji (Mayer Lehman) absolutely stunned in the the first American-made producti…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMMonday, June 19, 2023
AS WE LOVE IT Talk about chemistry! The amazing Genevieve Simon, who wowed us with a riveting performance in the title role of Coriolanus earlier this year, flirts and schemes into our heart…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:47PMSaturday, May 6, 2023
THE MILLENNIUM HAS COME AND GONE, BUT THE THEMES REMAIN THE SAME Central Square Theater’s collaboration with Bedlam of Tony Kushner’s still-relevant masterpiece Angels in America: A Gay …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:59PMFriday, May 5, 2023
FAITH, HOPE AND SCIENCE I found myself thinking of Henrik Ibsen and Lucille Ball as I watched this world premiere of acclaimed playwright and performance artist Taylor Mac. Ibsen and Ball ar…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:49PM 
