Friday, February 15, 2013
It took the American Repertory Theater thirty-two years to get around to producing a play by the great American playwright Tennessee Williams, but they got it right on the first try.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:18PMSunday, January 6, 2013
This production of Pippin has so much going for it, it is hard to know where to begin to sing its praises.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:19AMSaturday, December 22, 2012
The Huntington Theatre Company is remounting the 2009 Off-Broadway production with Obie Award winner Cromer reprising his role as Stage Manager (through December 30) and imparting his contem…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:58AMMonday, November 19, 2012
Despite Allen Moyer's outstanding minimalist set, with creative use of curtain rectangles opening and closing on the scenes, the time stamp effectiveness of Nancy Brennan's costume design, a…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:41PMTuesday, October 16, 2012
More visual and aural spectacle than literary achievement, the 2011 Tony Award-winning Best Play is a new generation of theater event that combines cinematic techniques with live performance…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:30PMFriday, September 28, 2012
The Huntington Theatre Company opens its 31st season with a surefire blockbuster, the New England premiere of David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:38AMSaturday, September 22, 2012
Considering the deep-seated rivalries that exist between Boston and New York City, is it possible that a play rooted in the Big Apple, obviously written in a New York state of mind, can reso…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:22AMSunday, September 16, 2012
To meet the challenge of converting this epic drama that spans two continents, flashes back and forth in history across thirty years, and paints a colorful picture of the Afghani culture, Sp…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:13PMMonday, June 4, 2012
The rapier wit of Noel Coward meets the assured experience of Director Maria Aitken, a pitch-perfect leading couple in Bianca Amato and James Waterston, and the outstanding production values…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:26PMMonday, May 21, 2012
If nothing else, "Xanadu" serves as a reminder that not all art needs to be high, but throwing in a bunch of gods can make it heavenly.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:09PMWednesday, April 18, 2012
An unpleasant footnote to Boston's storied racial past is revealed in Kirsten Greenidge's The Luck of the Irish, a world premiere play showcased in a world class production by the Huntington…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:59PMSaturday, April 7, 2012
New Repertory Theatre offers up a taut, dramatic staging of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning American classic Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:46AMThursday, March 22, 2012
"Next to Normal" triumphs because Tom Kitt (music) and Brian Yorkey (book and lyrics) treat the topic with sensitivity, examining the human toll in a way that is relatable, and give us chara…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:09PMSaturday, March 3, 2012
With a deft touch, Scott Edmiston directs the Lyric Stage Company production featuring Laura Latreille and Barlow Adamson as the couple facing an important crossroads in their personal and p…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:05PMJeff Zinn directs this absorbing co-production by New Repertory Theatre and Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater (WHAT) in the Black Box Theater at the Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown as…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:57AMThursday, January 26, 2012
. The Tony Award-nominated and Grammy Award-winning punk rock musical lives up to the hype as a raucous and emotionally charged staging of Green Day's 2004 concept album, in the tradition of…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:57AMSaturday, January 21, 2012
"Art" is, on the surface, about a white painting. However, when penned by Yasmina Reza, the surface is a thin veneer that is easily chipped and scraped away to reveal what the play is actual…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:34AMWednesday, January 18, 2012
John Logan's 2010 Tony Award-winning Best Play "Red" offers a compelling portrait of a great artist plying his craft.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:34PMSaturday, January 14, 2012
The Novaks and the Raleighs are oh, so civilized; that is, until they are not. And that tells you the crux of what you need to know about these four upscale Brooklyn parents who worship at t…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:33PMMonday, January 2, 2012
The Apollinaire Theatre Company is thinking outside the box in its staging of Anton Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" at Chelsea Theatre Works, inviting the audience to move from garden to room, to ro…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:36PMMonday, December 12, 2011
More than two decades before the historic legalization of same-sex marriage in Massachusetts, Harvey Fierstein (Book) and Jerry Herman (Lyrics/Music) delivered a musical message of love, lif…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:14PMSunday, November 27, 2011
A combination of art deco scenic design, evocative 1930s costumes, and rhythmic pounding of stride piano electrify the stage for a lively rendition of "Ain't Misbehavin'," the Fats Waller mu…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:34AMSaturday, October 15, 2011
New Repertory Theatre's production of "Collected Stories" by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies is a treasure trove of brilliant writing, dynamic acting, thoughtful directing…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:33PMTuesday, October 4, 2011
In addition to the range, power, and magnificence of her incredible vocal instrument, it is Audra McDonalds stunning capacity for storytelling in her singing that places her in the upper str…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:57PMFriday, September 30, 2011
The brilliance of the score cannot be fully appreciated with the downsizing of the orchestra, and the sound quality is uneven, coming across as tinny when the volume is turned up. "Rodgers &…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:20PMTuesday, September 27, 2011
Optimism is in short supply these days, but not at the main stage of the Huntington Theatre Company where the 30th season gets off to a grand start with a new adaptation of Leonard Bernstein…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:26PMThursday, September 22, 2011
"Next Fall" is an intelligent play with great depth which covers a range of serious topics while maintaining a wonderful sense of humor. The dialogue is peppered with comic banter and scathi…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:56PMSunday, September 4, 2011
The highly anticipated reimagining of the classic American opera Porgy and Bess as musical theater opened at the American Repertory Theater's Loeb Drama Center on Wednesday night, and appear…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:26AMThursday, July 14, 2011
. Set in Affleck's Somerville apartment circa 1996, Matt & Ben offers an imaginative explanation of how these two best friends wrote the brilliant, award-winning screenplay for Good Will Hun…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:10PMThursday, June 16, 2011
Gloucester Stage Company bursts onto the summer scene with "Living Together," the second play in Alan Ayckbourn's marvelous trilogy, The "Norman Conquests."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:13PM 
