Monday, June 27, 2011
SALEM — It’s every prospective parent’s nightmare: a new baby born with deformities. Coping with the shock and learning to love again are the driving forces behind playwrig…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:59PMThursday, June 16, 2011
PROVIDENCE — An original musical set in Providence, staged in the venerable Trinity Repertory Company’s Lederer Theater Center, and written by a local has built-in credibility an…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:37PMWednesday, June 15, 2011
The appeal of “According to Tip’’ lies in the combination of folksy accommodation and steely determination that defined Thomas P. “Tip’’ O’Neill Jr.…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:14PMMonday, June 13, 2011
WELLFLEET — “A Behanding in Spokane’’ opens with a bit of muffled grunting and a gunshot, followed by the gunman’s phone message to his mother: “All is we…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:55PMMonday, June 6, 2011
WELLFLEET — At one point in “Jihad Jones and the Kalashnikov Babes,’’ a movie script is described as having “enough stereotypes to start a cartoon network.̵…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:14PMThursday, May 12, 2011
Before entering the Jackie Liebergott Black Box theater at the Paramount Center, audience members are asked to remove their shoes. It’s the first indication of the gentle, childlike wo…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:09PMWednesday, May 11, 2011
Muppet mermaids, a bawdy band of pirates cavorting to the theme of TV’s “The Love Boat,’’ and characters snorting “pixie dust’’ in order to fly. Wel…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:42PMTuesday, May 10, 2011
The power of Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird’’ comes from its perspective: the voice of the young heroine, Scout Finch. In the Boston Children’s Theatre pro…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:44PMMonday, April 18, 2011
The characters in Jon Lipsky’s “Walking the Volcano’’ struggle for connection. Bursting with anger, fear, regret, lust, and occasionally love, the couples in this ser…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:55PMWhen the Wheelock Family Theatre audience first glimpses Melissa Miller’s impressive array of shimmering costumes and creative headdresses, expectations are high. With lush colors and …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:54PMWednesday, April 13, 2011
CAMBRIDGE — In “Breaking the Code,’’ the brilliant British mathematician Alan Turing waxes poetic at the possibility of a brain released from the burden of a body. Tu…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:17PMSunday, April 3, 2011
‘Dance On!’’ this year’s installment of the Big Apple Circus, combines a playful sense of rhythm with the company’s trademarked mix of talented circus acts. Thi…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:11PMFriday, April 1, 2011
WATERTOWN — For a musical about a marriage, “The Last Five Years’’ doesn’t have much to say about couples. Jason Robert Brown’s thin one-act has an intere…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:45PMTuesday, March 29, 2011
STONEHAM — Lanford Wilson’s “The Rimers of Eldritch’’ is a symphony, full of both harmony and complexity. In the Stoneham Theatre’s current production, a …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:12PMMonday, March 21, 2011
“9 Circles’’ is full of contradictions, the kind that keep an audience leaning forward, drawn irresistibly into the swirling drama. In the riveting Publick Theatre producti…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 06:08PMSOMERVILLE — The Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s breathtaking production of “Living in Exile’’ is powered by simple, elegant staging that evokes vivid sceni…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 06:08PMFriday, March 11, 2011
By performing at the 360-seat Wimberly Theatre and hiring Broadway veteran Danielle Ferland to direct, the Boston Children’s Theatre raises the bar on the quality expected from their p…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:37PMMonday, March 7, 2011
The brilliance of Alan Ayckbourn’s “My Wonderful Day’’ lies in the playwright’s ability to balance elements of a wildly funny farce with a poignant story of inn…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:57PMIn the expletive-hurling opening of “reasons to be pretty,’’ a ferocious Steph (Angie Jepson) finally gets her boyfriend Greg (Andy Macdonald) to admit to the insulting wor…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:42PMSunday, March 6, 2011
It’s hard to believe a trio of bald, blue men has been banging on PVC pipes at the Charles Playhouse for more than 15 years now, but Blue Man Group is as wildly entertaining today as i…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:17PMWednesday, March 2, 2011
WATERTOWN — There’s a moment, near the end of “DollHouse,’’ when the men in the audience chuckle together at a comment about a woman attracting a man by talking…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:54AMMonday, February 28, 2011
SOMERVILLE — The word “misfit’’ doesn’t begin to describe the wacky assortment of visitors to “The Hotel Nepenthe.’’ Award-winning actor and p…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 06:00PMSunday, February 20, 2011
You have to hand it to The Mouse. Disney has mastered the art of reconstituting its popular movies and characters into various forms. Disney on Ice’s “Toy Story 3’’ i…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:53PMWednesday, February 16, 2011
LOWELL — Playwright Bob Clyman doesn’t waste time. Within the first five minutes of “The Exceptionals,’’ which is having its world premiere at Merrimack Reperto…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:09PMTuesday, February 15, 2011
STONEHAM — Audiences rarely have a chance to see a new musical take its first breath because the commitment of time and resources is beyond the means of most theater companies. Stoneha…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:36PMMonday, January 31, 2011
The star of Wheelock Family Theatre’s latest production is Matthew T. Lazure’s creative set. That’s not to detract from “The Secret Garden’s’’ ensem…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 06:54PMSunday, January 9, 2011
WELLESLEY — Playwright Alfred Uhry is a master at finding the humanity behind stereotypes. His “Driving Miss Daisy’’ took the notion of a Southern Jewish woman hiring…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:22PMMonday, December 13, 2010
BEVERLY — North Shore Music Theatre’s sumptuous production of “A Christmas Carol’’ is subtitled “A Musical Ghost Story,’’ which serves as an a…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:18PMSunday, December 5, 2010
Very little qualifies as “spectacular’’ in the “Radio City Christmas Spectacular’’ now playing through Dec. 29 at the Wang Theatre.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:34PMMonday, November 29, 2010
STONEHAM — The story of Christmas restaged as “The Revenge of Bethlehem’’? It could happen if the rough and rowdy Herdman siblings have their way. Children’s bo…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:44PMCHELSEA — Two Vassar grads are ready to make it in the big city. Are they looking for love, success, fulfillment?
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:42PM 
