15 stories by "Jeffrey Gantz"
Perhaps not every production of the 1982 cult-classic musical “Little Shop of Horrors” conjures Shakespeare’s Scottish play, but the one that’s currently up at New Re…
In the spring - well, actually, any time of year - a corps de ballet member’s fancy not so lightly turns to thoughts of featured roles in his or her company’s next production. &#…
Who’s an American idiot? Certainly not Green Day. In 2004, the trio of Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, and Tré Cool revived their band’s career with a concept album, …
Bill Doncaster and Stickball Productions have turned George V. Higgins’s crime novel, “The Friends of Eddie Coyle,’’ into an atmospheric, enjoyable theater piece at O…
This season’s ‘‘Nutcracker’’ by the Boston Ballet is the last for the current sets and costumes, so if you’ve developed a fondness for them, don’t w…
"The more you turn the leg out, the more the hip will be in the correct place."
Free Tchaikovsky on the Esplanade is a Boston tradition. What would the Fourth of July be without the “1812 Overture’’? But free Tchaikovsky ballet - with dancers and a liv…
BEVERLY - Let’s hear it for the summer-theater audiences who just want to see guys and dolls cut loose on stage. As musicals go, “Footloose,’’ the 1998 Broadway show …
Are poetry slams popular? There were 1,200 folks on line to get into the Berklee Performance Center Saturday for the final night of the National Poetry Slam, which was making its first visit…
While the American Repertory Theater prepares to open its musical-theater version of George Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess’’ in Cambridge, the Boston Symphony Orchestra i…
Whether it’s “Swan Lake’’ or a piece of Lucinda Childs minimalism, dance has always told stories. George Balanchine may have eschewed plot in his neo-classical ballet…
Is there a sexier tale than Scheherazade’s 1,001 nights - how she beguiled her royal husband, Shahriyar, with stories of Sinbad and Aladdin and Ali Baba to keep him from cutting off he…
It’s a little early to speak of Bill T. Jones’s legacy; he’s only 59, after all. The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company is already 29, however, and it has spawned many …
It’s a little early to speak of Bill T. Jones’s legacy; he’s only 59, after all. The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company is already 29, however, and it has spawned many …
BEVERLY - Ushers in pith helmets. Giant mosquito netting overhead. Tropical birds singing everywhere, plus the occasional ominous drumbeat. And ropes hanging all about the stage, representin…
