73 stories by "Jenna Scherer"
If you make the trek up the four flights of stairs at 380 Broadway to the Access Theater, you’ll come upon an unlikely sight: a small black box in the middle of a spacious white room, …
In the myth, Eurydice didn't have much of a choice. She died, woke up in the underworld and waited around for Orpheus to save her. Not so in Hadestown, singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell's …
Don't get mad, write a play. That's the principle behind Gioia De Cari's "Truth Values: One Girl's Romp Through MIT's Male Math Maze."
Has it finally happened? Is Boston theater getting over its inferiority complex?
From Dresden Dolls to ART stage, Amanda Palmer's a creative force
When you've been wearing nothing but a suit and tie for nine years, what do you put on next? Try a big blond wig and enough glitter to give Kinky Boots a run for its money. Next month, Neil …
If any previous incarnation of "The Addams Family" met their Broadway musical selves, they would throw those wimps...
It's all close quarters once you step into the Ames Hotel on Court Street. A tiny lobby gives way to a tinier elevator....
There are plenty of plays out there about civilized people descending into -chaos and destroying their own living...
Robbie McCauley is the kind of storyteller whose kitchen you could pass an -afternoon in, a quarter of your attention...
There's a little grenade of irony at the heart of "American Idiot," Green Day's rock opera currently onstage at...
Of the mid-20th century's prominent painters, Mark Rothko's work may leave the most gallerygoers scratching their...
It's the darkest, coldest time of the year. The holidays are over; the sun's down before supper. It's the easiest...
There's something about seeing your kid threatened that brings out the beast in even the most civilized parents....
There comes a time in every holiday season when cynicism and fatigue threaten to eclipse the jolliness. Too many...
The dudes behind "Three Pianos" have discovered the true secret of theater: that great entertainment aside, the...
You can't blame New Repertory Theatre for wanting to try a different Christmas classic in an endless, snowbound...
"The Merry Wives of Windsor" isn't great Shakespeare. It isn't even good Shakespeare. But it is fun Shakespeare,...
For a story set in France in the 1970s, "La Cage Aux Folles" seems tailor-made to address one of the biggest hot-button...
"Marley was dead: to begin with." Regular Christmastime theatergoers likely have heard this sentence more times...
The Boston crime scene has spent the past decade shaking Hollywood by the scruff of its neck. But even with all...
You've gotta hand it to the Gold Dust Orphans - they're a company for all seasons. They're still performing their...
Taken on one level, Matthew Lombardo's drug-addict drama "High" can look like a very blunt instrument. But intricacy...
