106 stories by "Bob Verini"
★★★★★ Audra McDonald brilliantly brings to life a masterful examination of bigotry and violence by a 91-year-old Broadway novice
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★★★★★ David Lindsay-Abaire and Jeanine Tesori transform a quirky black comedy into a tuneful affirmation of life and difference
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★★★☆☆ Ukrainian artist Igor Golyak plays fast and loose with a classic text, to intriguing if mixed results (with Baryshnikov)
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★★★★☆ The renovated Huntington reopens with a full-blooded, full-voiced revival of an August Wilson classic
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★★★★★ The power of music to empower, powers a rousing theatrical experience
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★★☆☆☆ A cinematic salute to an inspiring teacher is musicalized into something less than inspiring
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★★★★★ Broadway veterans demonstrate stardom's power to make a Sondheim gem glitter ever more brightly
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★★★☆☆ Jerry Lewis's classic 1963 farce, pleasantly musicalized, has its (buck) teeth pulled
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★☆☆☆☆ A glum expressionistic concert does a classic Frank Loesser score, and the audience, no favors
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A provocative new play, and a grand musical revival, prove that the Pittsfield-based Barrington Stage is alive and well
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★★★★★ The first U.S. regional production reframes Matthew López's Olivier & Tony-winner as an intimate epic
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★★★☆☆ A long, smartly-written dysfunctional-family drama that feels somewhat longer than necessary
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★★★★☆ A one-of-a-kind musical creator unravels the very strands of human identity
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★★★★★ Thornton Wilder's epic, and epically funny, American classic is reborn in a brilliant new staging
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★★☆☆☆ Beanie Feldstein gives us a different take on the long-ago legend, but the rest is the same old fast shuffle
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★★★★☆ An entertaining revival of Richard Greenberg's award winner about baseball and identity sacrifices some edge
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★★★☆☆ Susan Hill's cozy ghost story gets a cozy mounting in a cozy pub
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★★★★☆ A gifted dancer-choreographer taps into mood and meaning with a stunning troupe of artists
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★★☆☆☆ Sorry to say, an intriguing true story is fictionalized into something less than intriguing
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★★★★★ Shakespeare's all-powerful sorcerer Prospero, driven near-mad, learns the power of redemption on Boston Common
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★★★★☆ Legendary veteran of Broadway's Golden Age shares his career highs, though not the lows
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★★★☆☆ Dan Cleary's salute to post-WWII Americana is sweet, sentimental, safe"and shallow
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★★★★☆ The Tik Tok generation cooks up a streaming tribute to a Pixar classic of their youth
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★★★★☆ A father and son prepare a real dish, while they really dish and heal
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★★★★☆ A self-described "holiday public access show on LSD" is more sentimental than subversive
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