73 stories by "Jenna Scherer"
CLASSIC
"A Christmas Carol"
North Shore Music -Theatre's richly appointed musical pumps up the more magical...
There's something kind of endearing about watching the "Radio City Christmas Spectacular," a show that is by definition...
In recent years, Kathleen Turner has made a definitive jump from film to the stage. Originally known for head-turning...
Aside from his omnipresent suntan and iconic turn as Zorro, George Hamilton might be best known for the sheer force...
Somerville is a city as steeped in its past as an industrial mecca as it is in its present as a center for artists...
For a show about the wild and raucous days of the Harlem Renaissance, "Ain't Misbehavin'" is disappointingly well-behaved....
At the center of Com-pany One's program for "The Brother/Sister Plays," there's a handy family tree to help you...
We like our bad guys to come dressed in black, not shades of gray. But drama - and history - have proven that things...
There's a lot of expository reading you could do before seeing "In the Red and Brown Water," the first of Tarell...
It's hard to watch a satire that's nearly as long as the object of parody itself. But Eugene Ionesco isn't content...
Staging "Peter Pan" is always a balancing act - and not just counterweights and flying ropes. There has to be an...
Playwright Tom Stoppard has always been known as a master of wordplay. In "Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth," an...
When "A Doll's House" was first performed in 1879, it shocked 19th century values. Henrik Ibsen's play, which famously...
The first thing you should know about "Buddy Cop 2" is that there is no "Buddy Cop 1." The second thing you should...
On a rainy Sunday afternoon, there are few things that can raise my spirits out of the drizzle better than pure,...
Only hard-core Shakespeareophiles need apply to "Women of Will." In Tina Packer's Bard-a-thon, the three hours'...
"You Better Sit Down: Tales from My Parents' Divorce" seemingly takes place in a permanent state of limbo. Emotions...
Not content with simply breaking the fourth wall, ImprovBoston hurls blood and guts over it. Literally. After a...
Restoration-era playwrights were so wacky! If you take Liz Duffy Adams' "Or," at its word, life in 17th century...
Not all that much happens in the cozy, book-strewn Manhattan living room that serves as the setting of New Repertory...
Tony Kushner carved out a permanent place in American drama with his seminal two-part epic "Angels in America."...
Nowhere in Shakespeare is love a slipperier concept than in "Twelfth Night," the Bard's mid-career comedy of bisecting...
Live musical theater has the power to transport an audience as few other mediums can. That's easy to forget with...
If anyone other than Laurie Anderson tried to do something like "Delusion," it wouldn't work. But the venerable...
