Sunday, March 13, 2016
When experienced in the intimacy of the Public's LuEsther Theater earlier this season, Danai Gurira's searing drama about women's roles in the Liberian civil war had an extraordinarily visce…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 06:07PMThursday, November 12, 2015
Monday, November 2, 2015
Monday, July 13, 2015
Over the past 14 years, you could catch Penn & Teller live in Vegas, all over television, including on their Showtime series "Penn & Teller: Bulls--!," and even on a Katy Perry music…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 10:35PMWednesday, June 17, 2015
"The Tempest" and Central Park were made for each other, so it must have taken a Herculean effort on the part of director Michael Greif to drain Shakespeare's most mysterious play of all its…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 03:45PMFriday, April 17, 2015
In its heart of hearts, the extraordinarily deep and often underutilized thrust stage of Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater has probably always yearned to host an opera. That's pretty …
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 04:43AMFriday, April 3, 2015
The fierce pas de deux of love and loss and anguish executed by Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy in "Skylight" leaves you breathless -- and wondering how they can sustain this level of emotiona…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 09:56AMMonday, March 9, 2015
Long live the Queen! Long live Queen Helen!
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 09:44AMFriday, March 6, 2015
In the matter of "Fish In the Dark," the people have spoken. This outlandish comedy penned by Larry David, who also plays the lead role, opened with a stratospheric advance of $13.5 million …
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 08:49AMMonday, December 22, 2014
As all of New York knows by now, Sting has stepped into "The Last Ship," the dark and gorgeously melodic musical he conceived and scored from the fabric of his own life. The surge of sales a…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 06:06AMMonday, December 8, 2014
For a play about social perceptions of physical ugliness, this Williamstown Theater Festival production of Bernard Pomerance's Tony Award-winning 1979 drama, "The Elephant Man," is breathtak…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 04:54AMTuesday, November 4, 2014
Sarah Ruhl's new play, "The Oldest Boy," is extremely imaginative and hypnotically beautiful, but the plot is a puzzler. An American woman, the wife of a Tibetan man, is visited by a high-ra…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 07:47AMTuesday, October 28, 2014
Sting lives up to his nickname, "the King of Pain," with "The Last Ship."
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 07:11AMMonday, October 6, 2014
Friday, October 3, 2014
Donald Margulies gets a big, sloppy kiss from leading lady Blythe Danner, who is effortlessly lovely and irresistibly charismatic as the queenly head of a fractious theatrical family in his …
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 09:28AMFriday, September 19, 2014
Friday, September 12, 2014
Steppenwolf's revival of "This Is Our Youth," Kenneth Lonergan's 1996 play about disaffected rich kids in the Reagan era, might be re-titled (or marketed as) "These Are Your Parents." These …
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 03:17AMThursday, July 31, 2014
"Sex With Strangers" sounds like fun. Scribe Laura Eason certainly tries hard to make it so, with a cunning plot about a callow young author of bestselling dreck who seduces a gifted older n…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 11:32AMSunday, July 13, 2014
Here's the big question that should be on the minds of the producers of "Holler If Ya Hear Me": Now that we've built it, will they come? The quick answer: Maybe. Maybe not. Depends on the ma…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 08:28AMTuesday, April 1, 2014
Like the cult movie to which it pays homage, "Heathers" the musical should score with all those teen misfits who fantasized about getting even with the popular kids who humiliated them in hi…
SOURCE: bostonherald.com at 08:44AM 
