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 12:44PMLENOX - Though she did dabble (secretly) in a bit of genteel porn, Edith Wharton wrote no plays that we know of. Perhaps in her exalted social circle, it simply wasn’t done. Neither wa…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:27PMJohn Doyle's new "musical" using the songs of Rodgers & Hart produces little but grimaces.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMRachel York and Graham Rowat shine in Barrington Stage Company's excellent musical based on Les Liaisons Dangereuses
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMMatt Loehr and Vanessa Sonon give terrific performances in the Cape Playhouse's delightful production of the 1992 hit Broadway musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:21PMPROVINCETOWN - If you’re not familiar with Varla Jean Merman, nom du drag of the actor Jeffery Roberson, introductions are in order: The self-described love child of Ethel Merman and E…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:33PMSTOCKBRIDGE - Forgive one extramarital affair? Possibly. Plenty of spouses manage. But how about one and a half - as in, having already dealt with one infidelity, you discover your mate in t…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:17PMA stellar cast lead by Noah E. Galvin and Tom Hewitt enlivens this sometimes monotonous-feeling adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDiane Paulus directs Death and the Powers: The Robots' Opera, with area highlights also including Car Talk: The Musical!, The Select (The Sun Also Rises), The Grand Inquisitor, My Wonderful …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe Texas-based group's new piece about a 1970s theater troupe affords only fleeting pleasures.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGavin Creel stars in this surprisingly touching and often deafening musical retelling of the Greek myth.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMandy Patinkin gives an engrossing performance in Rinne Groff's troubling play about a writer's obsession with Anne Frank.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDavid Hay's play about a gathering of Manhattanites is muddled and often unbelievable.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAmerican Repertory Theatre's brief and bloody rendition of Sophocles' tragedy features strong work from Ron Cephas-Jones and Linda Powell.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLynn Rosen's absurdist comedy gets a first-rate production at the Women's Project.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMLynn Rosen's absurdist comedy gets a first-rate production at the Women's Project.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOlympia Dukakis gives a grounded yet juicy performance in Michael Wilson's sharp staging of Tennessee Williams' rarely-performed drama.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGavin Creel stars in Steven Sater and Serj Tankian's Prometheus Bound musical, with other highlights including Ajax, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Terminus, Pussy on the House, Mary Poppins, RAI…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOlympia Dukakis gives a grounded yet juicy performance in Michael Wilson's sharp staging of Tennessee Williams' rarely-performed drama.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMGavin Creel stars in Steven Sater and Serj Tankian's Prometheus Bound musical, with other highlights including Ajax, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Terminus, Pussy on the House, Mary Poppins, RAI…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSusan Hamnett's 70-minute solo adaptation of the Bard's tragedy doesn't fully succeed in introducing youngsters to this classic work.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMTonye Patano stars in Ruined, while Boston-area audiences can also catch The Understudy, Nine, Bread and Puppet Theater's The Return of Ulysses, The Civilians' In the Footprint, Cirque du So…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMA.R.T.'s new production of Jim and Ruth Bauer's musical about the entanglements among four Weimar-era historical figures is wholly captivating.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBread & Puppet's latest spectacle is both understated and confusing.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMRebecca Northan's improv-based show about the vagaries of human intimacy is so good it may leave audiences yearning for a repeat fix.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDecember highlights include Daniel Jenkins and Meghan McGeary in The Blue Flower, Ryan Landry in Mrs. Grinchley's Christmas Carol, The Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Jim Dale and Jane Kra…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMDecember highlights include Daniel Jenkins and Meghan McGeary in The Blue Flower, Ryan Landry in Mrs. Grinchley's Christmas Carol, The Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Jim Dale and Jane Kra…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis new musical about six ordinary New Yorkers feels overlong and often unbelievable.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMAndre De Shields stars in Charles Smith's lively play about the family of African-American activist W.E.B. Du Bois.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBill Camp is superb in this coruscating adaptation of the Dostoevsky novella.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMHarry Groener and Anthony Chilsholm give consummate performances in Athol Fugard's trenchant new two-hander.
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