Friday, 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 03:49PMFriday, April 14, 2023
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE WHITE SUPREMACIST MEETING If you’re looking for great night of humor about white supremacy and anti-Semitism (and who isn’t?), this is the show f…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:26AMMonday, April 3, 2023
MAMA’S BOY, FOR BETTER OR WORSE When I think of Shakespeare’s women, many names come to mind: Gertrude, Lady Macbeth, Ophelia, Beatrice, Portia, Helena, Titania, Rosalind, Juliet, Desdem…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:25AMSaturday, April 1, 2023
A SATISFYING MEAL OF TASTY THEATER You might call Clyde’s the other piece of bread in Lynn Nottage’s sandwich about Reading, Pennsylvania, where the playwright spent two years conducting…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:07AMWednesday, March 22, 2023
NO FAIRY TALE ENDINGS Last night, Boston became the third stop in the 2023 National Tour of the 2022 Broadway Revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s much-Tony’d and much-loved ma…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:27PMFriday, March 17, 2023
A-M-A-Z-I-N-G Poet, screenwriter, and performer Lenelle Moïse (pronounced Len-EL Moy-EEZ) is a playwright for this co-production from The Front Porch Arts Collective and The Huntington, the…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:39PMSaturday, March 4, 2023
WHAT DO WOMEN WANT? A ROLLICKING NIGHT OUT WITH THE WIFE OF WILLESDEN After a sold-out run at London’s Kiln Theatre, The Wife of Willesden has arrived in North America. Let me begin by say…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:50AMTuesday, February 28, 2023
A SLAM DUNK! The Great Leap opens with hearty humor and carries its audience along in an absorbing story until a profound poignancy begins to permeate the senses. Tyler Simahk plays Manford …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:55AMMonday, February 20, 2023
SEVEN CHEERS FOR SEVEN GUITARS The Actors Shakespeare Company’s production of Seven Guitars deserves at least seven cheers for this powerful production of August Wilson’s Pulitzer-nomina…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:26PMSunday, February 19, 2023
A MAGIC AFTERNOON Beautiful music (Christopher Vu, composer; Bo Jones (Lee) flute; Thomas Barth, cello, and Michael Weinfeld-Zell, percussion) and richly colored projected visuals gave a sol…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 03:09PMFriday, January 27, 2023
THE ART OF BURNING WITH RAGE Fast-paced and gripping, laced at times with humor, The Art of Burning opens with an ominous threat: “Sometimes you have to kill the things you love to save th…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 07:03PMThursday, January 19, 2023
THIS FREEDOM RINGS In a weekend of numerous uplifting events celebrating the life and legacy of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Hear Her Sing for Freedom stood out for bringing for…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:52AMThursday, January 12, 2023
PRELUDE TO A BREAKTHROUGH The Lyric Stage Company brings powerful performances to Dave Malloy’s remarkable evocation of the composer Sergei Rachmaninoff’s struggles with a creative block…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:58PMTuesday, December 27, 2022
LET THE REVELS’ SUN SHINE IN TO YOUR HOME Like the waning of the old year and the arrival of the new that it celebrates, The Revels organization has returned to the stage in 2022 with a ne…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 10:05PMSunday, December 18, 2022
COME FOR A THEATRICAL EVENT; STAY FOR THE STORY The eye-popping special effects of Life of Pi are reason enough to see this show. When video, lighting, and sound designers Andrzej Goulding, …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:16AMSunday, November 20, 2022
BONE-DEEP CHINA Afong Moy was brought to the United States by Boston-born traders known as the Carnes Brothers, merchants who exhibited Moy in a room filled with “Chinese curiosities” in…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:36AMMonday, October 24, 2022
Don’t let this gripping production of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone come and go without seeing it yourself. This is classic American theater essential to our collective un…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:14PM 
