183 stories by "Lynne Weiss"
LOVE IN UNEXPECTED PLACES Two women, from quite different backgrounds, meet in Boston in 1968, a time and a place where ancient grudges and present-day conflicts seem sure to keep them apart…
MISERY LOVES COMPANY… AND A GOOD PLOT Karen MacDonald and Tom Coiner do a wonderful job of animating William Goldman's stage adaptation of Stephen King's intriguing, twisty novel by the sa…
OH HAPPY DAY! BRINGS A HAPPY DAY Playwright and actor Jordan E. Cooper's heart-breaking but joyously gospel-inflected New York premiere of Oh Happy Day! is an earned emotional treat. The sho…
TWO LONG HOURS WITH THE FORMER MAN OF THE HOUR There is no question that Churchill was a hero who played a major role in saving the world from Hitler's fascism (though perhaps not as big a r…
SOMETHING WICKED GOOD THIS WAY COMES You've probably seen one or more productions of William Shakespeare's Macbeth before, but you've likely never seen one like this Christopher V. Edwards-d…
STANDING UP FOR HUMANITY Here are my criteria for a good night of comedy: 1) It needs to be surprising. 2) It needs to make me think. 3) It needs to promote values that make us better human …
SIRENS, BELLS AND WHISTLES Conductor Andris Nelsons led the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a richly anticipated program of Nocturnes by Claude Debussy and Gustav Mahler's Symphony No 4 in G. T…
A STRONG BREW OF CHARACTER AND STORY The Counter is the latest in a series of plays in greater Boston featuring a character who pours drinks. In recent months we've had Primary Trust, Two St…
LEGACY MEETS MORTALITY IN THE MOUNTAINTOP This superb production of Katori Hall's The Mountaintop, a surprise-filled two-hander depicting King's last night before his assassination, is not j…
STILL SCRAPPY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS It has been more than ten years since Hamilton's Off-Broadway premiere. Alexander Hamilton may have declared himself"like his country""young, scrappy, and…
MULTILINGUAL PRE-WEDDING JITTERS The sixth play in Mfoniso Udofia's nine-play Ufot Family Cycle brings us the adorable couple Ekong Ufot (Kadahj Bennett) and Lumanti Shrestha (Mahima Saigal)…
SLEUTHING FOR LAUGHS? YOU'LL FIND THEM HERE It's elementary! A clever script, thanks to the prolific and popular playwright Kate Hamill, and superb physical and verbal comedy, thanks to a gr…
STAR STRUCK Awe-inspiring lighting design (Eduardo M. Ramirez) and beautiful sound effects and music (Kai Bohlman with Violet Wang) elevate Lauren Gunderson's fictionalized biography of astr…
THAT'S WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR Not every life-altering relationship is romantic. Sometimes it's a friend who helps us endure, who shapes us in ways that can last long after the friendship has e…
COMEDY IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS So much could have gone wrong in this production of playwright David Templeton's delightfully original and utterly unique Featherbaby, but in the able hands…
TAKE MY HUSBAND, PLEASE Marriage has long been fodder for male stand-up comics, but it has generally been women who have been the butt of the jokes. Actress, comic, and TV personality Joy Be…
ON THE RIGHT TRACK The 7 Fingers (Les 7 Doigts), a Montréal-based circus arts company, brings 90 spellbinding minutes of exhibitions of strength, flexibility, coordination, balance, courage…
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�…
