Monday, January 29, 2024
A 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 03:49PMFriday, 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 06:58PM 
