25 stories by "Joel Brown"
Catherine Cox and Leslie Kritzer star in "The Memory Show" at Barrington Stage Company.
As the touring musical "Wicked" returns to town, five of its cast members with local ties talk of life on the road.
Rude Mechs, an Austin, Texas-based troupe with a thirst for the theatrical edge, make their Boston debut with their play about theater guru Stella Burden's followers, called "The Method Gun."
It's a long way from being a Marine officer in Fallujah to acting at the ART. But Ed Walsh says it's not as far as you might think.
In a way, the times have caught up to the play, says Gionfriddo, who wrote its first draft as a grad student at Brown in the late ’90s.
Andrew Grosso's 'Perfect Harmony' explores the drama, and humor, of competitive a cappella
Michael Towers took a year off from teaching to attend an MFA play writing program.
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company had chosen "Twelfth Night" for this summer's Free Shakespeare on the Common production by the time Steven Maler left for a Miami vacation last December. But …
Turns out it’s not that far from here to 19th-century Russia. Beginning next Thursday, the Apollinaire Theatre Company will use the high ceilings and architectural details of its 1906 …
“The Rocky Horror Show,’’ the omnisexual alien monster musical, has taught millions of people to do the Time Warp since its stage and film incarnations debuted in the 1970s…
“Peter Pan,’’ says producer Charlie Burnell, is a “portal story’’: “You fly off through the window and off to Neverland.’’ But the three…
In the mid-1970s, Kathleen Cahill spent 10 months teaching English to young women in the Shah’s Iran. Watching the Green Revolution led her to read about the modern history of the coun…
“I will be honest. The worst part about our festival is that it’s called the Boston Improv Festival,’’ says Jeremiah Jordan. Now in its third year, the event is not j…
On Sept. 11, Israel Horovitz will fly to New York and back. His one-man play about the aftermath of 9/11, “After Paradise,’’ will be performed in New York and in Gloucester…
At first, “Mad Men’’ and Edith Wharton seem not to belong in the same sentence. But if you think of them both as chronicling the lives of people at a particular moment in s…
MEDFORD - The scene suggests Dante’s “Inferno’’ rewritten by a small boy. Under the full moon, torches throw off torrents of sparks, while shattered cement and twiste…
On night shoots, Stephen SetteDucati does things with his camera that most people won’t, pushing it to extreme settings (ISO 6400) and shooting handheld images at 1/50th of a second, a…
Maude Gutman is a piece of work, a gun-toting ex-bartender who peppers her speech with F-bombs while tossing back shots of Jack Daniel’s. Lionel Percy is a refined art expert more accu…
NEWBURYPORT - The actors of “Terezin, Children of the Holocaust’’ are mostly teenagers, a few even younger. Until now, they have never met anyone like Zdenka Fantlova. She …
The first production of the season at Charlestown Working Theater is all about “the power of connecting,’’ says Risher Reddick, the play’s director. That’s also…
When your theater company performs in a 144-seat town hall auditorium on a rural road in the Berkshires, you have to work extra hard to get the word out.
The news that Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan are back in the spotlight together may inspire a moan of “Why? Why? Why?’’
Playing the most famous deaf, mute, and blind boy of all time, Randy Harrison likes what he sees and hears at Pittsfield’s Colonial Theatre.
STONEHAM — They’ve been singing and dancing together for years. Backstage they laugh and cry and argue and tease. They’re the Andrews Sisters onstage — and more than …
Late trains, missed stops, broken air conditioning. . . . Few Bostonians would mistake the MBTA for the yellow brick road these days. But three harried 20-somethings find an old T map that l…
