166 stories by "Lynne Weiss"
THE LEFT BEHIND Frankly, I was in theater hell this Saturday afternoon. Two women on one side of me were whispering to one another throughout the first 10 minutes of the show; a man on the o…
A BEWITCHING WIZ Director Schele Williams's touring adaptation of The Wiz touches down in Boston like a technicolor cyclone and lifts its audience up with a storm of funk, gospel, and unapol…
REPAIR AND REPARATIONS Company One's world premiere of The Meeting Tree powerfully evokes the debate and the struggle over reparations and restitution through the lives of six women, some Bl…
WIN OR LOSE, IT'S ABOUT LOVE Wow! Whoever wrote Love's Labour's Lost was a comic genius. The wordplay, the multi-lingual puns, and the send-ups of characters stumbling over their own foolish…
A WINNING ROLL OF THE DICE The musical theater classic Guys and Dolls has been produced so many times and in so many ways you might think it couldn't get much better, but don't bet on it. Th…
A TRASH-TALKING ODD COUPLE The Garbologists opens with a few seconds of complete darkness and the clang and grind of machinery before two bright headlights move straight toward the audience.…
ANOTHER FAMOUS BALCONY SCENE Romeo and Juliet isn't the only play with a famous balcony scene. The London revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Evita has attracted attention for the …
THE DEVIL'S IN THE FINGERS: TRIFONOV TAKES FLIGHT AT A THUNDEROUS TANGLEWOOD OPENING Conductor Andris Nelson led the Boston Symphony Orchestra at last night's opening of its 2025 Tanglewood�…
SHAKEN AND STIRRED "Shake it up" is exactly what this cabaret-style production does"blending rock 'n' roll and R&B classics with lines from Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. The focus is …
BULLISH ON WOMEN'S EDUCATION With sharp, witty, and informative dialogue, Bryna Turner's Bull in a China Shop offers a fascinating glimpse into the life and accomplishments of Mary Wooley (L…
A BEAUTIFUL TAPESTRY OF SONGS AND STORY Reagle Music Theatre kicks off the summer with a vibrant, lovingly crafted staging of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, directed with finesse and fl…
REVENUE AND RESPECTABILITY George Bernard Shaw (1856"1950) knew about cancel culture long before the term came into vogue. The first New York production (1905) of Mrs. Warren's Profession wa…
A CAKEWALK THROUGH NEW YORK The delightfully poignant and gorgeously hilarious West End hit Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) by Jim Barne and Kit Buchan made its North Amer…
LEARNING HOW TO BE IN COMMUNITY Few productions manage to collapse the space between art and community like Learning How to Read by Moonlight. In this world premiere from Gaven D. Trinidad, …
HOW SWEET IT IS! From the opening scene of As Bees in Honey Drown, we know that young Evan Wyler (Michael Mazzone) is doomed, but we also know that we are going to be happily amused as he tu…
SOME DARE CALL IT TREASON Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold can hardly be called founders of the United States. In fact, while both acted as military leaders in the American War for Independen…
BRAIDED LIVES Director Summer L. Williams brings a uplifting and inspiring production of up-and-coming playwright Jocelyn Bioh's Tony-nominated Jaja's African Hair Braiding to the SpeakEasy …
THREE MEN IN A BOAT Playwrights Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon provide a gratifying change from the too-frequent, obviously profit-driven movie-to-musical adaptations that litter so many stages t…
PREDATORS IN PINK Tina Fey (book), Jeff Richmond (music), and Nell Benjamin (lyrics) hit all the standard Broadway musical marks with Mean Girls, now in Boston as part of a national tour. It…
SOMETHING TASTY AT UMBRELLA STAGE Leo Tolstoy said there were only two stories in the world"either someone goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. The Umbrella Stage Company's musical…
A BITTER TRUTH WRAPPED IN A SWEET TITLE Fresh Ink's absorbing production of Sugar, by playwright Tara Moses, is anything but saccharine. Under the sure direction of Audrey Seraphin, Sugar is…
HALCYON AND ON AND ON Director Maurice Emmanuel Parent's vibrant, pulsing production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream transforms the woods outside Athens into a 1990s dance floor. …
THE THINGS THEY CARRIED The fourth episode in Mfoniso Udofia's ambitious nine-episode Ufot Family Cycle, Her Portmanteau, takes us deeper into the fascinating story of a very specific Nigeri…
IT DON'T GET MUCH CORNIER" AND THAT'S THE POINT In Shucked, the jokes fly fast as exploding kernels of popcorn in this Tony-award winning musical comedy"part Brigadoon, part Music Man, and w…
A SPIRITED REVIVAL WITH DEPTH AND DISSONANCE Eighty years after Carousel had its final pre-Broadway preview at Boston's Colonial Theatre, Boston Lyric Opera revives Rodgers and Hammerstein's…
