Thursday, June 14, 2012
This musical based on the silly 1979 film fails to capture the fun of the era.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:58PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 10, 2012
This striking adaptation of Ursula K. Le Guin's complex sci-fi novel unfolds with admirable simplicity.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:01PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Lynne Winsterstellar and Nancy Johnston give deft performances in Kari Floren's dramedy about two long-time friends.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 20, 2012
Susan Charlotte's play about two old friends is too full of dramatic gimmickry.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:59PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 9, 2012
This brilliant docudrama revisits the struggle for women's voting rights.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 29, 2012
Rivka Bekerman-Greenberg's play about a Holocaust survivor and her family is well acted, but feels more like a case study than a full-bodied drama.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:59PM[SHARE]Monday, April 23, 2012
This new musical set in a jazz club is sunk by its witless, unoriginal script.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:58PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 19, 2012
The Maly Drama Theatre of St. Petersburg offers a well-acted but inertly staged production of Anton Chekhov's classic drama at BAM.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Mary Beth Peil is excellent as an aging violinist in Willy Holtzman's note-perfect play.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 1, 2012
Mario Fratti's mystery about the death of a sexually adventurous Democratic fundraiser is ploddingly plotted.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 11, 2012
Marcella Goheen's solo docudrama about her family's history is remarkably self-indulgent.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:59PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 8, 2012
Jacob Appel's play about three squabbling siblings is too predictable and belabored.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 31, 2012
This musical spoof of 1970s "disaster" movies is downright hilarious.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Erin Browne's fantasy tale set in the future is too simplistic to fully care about.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Patrick Woodall and Jessica Myhr give adroit performances in this 18th-century play about a young apprentice who falls for a manipulative courtesan.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:58PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 5, 2012
Catherine Treischmann's intriguing play pits a Kansas teenager against his teacher.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 13, 2011
This modest sequel to Michael Morpurgo's runaway hit War Horse is an all-too-predictable tale.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:59PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 6, 2011
David Jenkins' homey play about life in a small Illinois town packs both surprising depth and humor.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Michael Cristofer gives a riveting performance in Evan Weiner's too-predictable play about the capture of Adolf Eichmann.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Jaygee Macapugay delivers a charismatic performance in Pan Asian Repertory's revival of this otherwise middling tuner.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Carla Ching's excellent new play is an update on Hansel and Gretel.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 10, 2011
Prospect Theater Company revives this hilarious musical about two song-and-dance men conscripted to Moscow during the Cold War.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:58PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Jim and Ruth Bauer's Weimar-era musical is lush and transporting.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 5, 2011
Julia Jarcho's artily fractured play makes it hard for audiences to connect the narrative dots.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 20, 2011
The Goodspeed Opera House presents a sumptuous revival of the exceedingly well-conceived Broadway musical by Larry Gelbart, Cy Coleman, and David Zippel.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 16, 2011
John Morgiello's little gem of a comedy focuses on an overloaded theater literary manager and his ambitious acolyte.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Friday, October 7, 2011
This musical about a transgender community in Georgia doesn't do full justice to its innately compelling subject.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 4, 2011
This evening of thematically-linked one-act plays, written by authors such as Beth Henley and Theresa Rebeck, is beautifully varied and paced.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Friday, September 30, 2011
John Malkovich stars in this oddly conceived piece that combines classical music with the story of a real-life psychopath.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PM[SHARE]Friday, August 26, 2011
The Boston Globe review of Cape Playhouse's regional premiere of "Unnecessary Farce" starring Dee Hoty, Michael McGrath, John Scherer, Jennifer Cody, and Jeremy Webb.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:09PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 25, 2011
DENNIS - Actors have an edge when it comes to writing for actors: Just ask Molière. Actor/playwright Paul Slade Smith, whose “Unnecessary Farce’’ is enjoying a whip-sm…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:44PM[SHARE] 
