MURDER BY MANGO Ricardo Pérez González's Don't Eat the Mangos"a tragicomedy brimming with revelation, rage, and retribution"transforms the Calderwood stage into a site of reckoning. Dire…
THE TRIUMPH OF ALLISON ALTMAN There are many reasons to see The Triumph of Love, director Loretta Greco's gender-bending comedy that channels equal parts Shakespeare, Billy Wilder, and a das…
STILL WAITING FOR JUSTICE At its heart, Parade is a gripping exploration of prejudice, justice, and the power of perception. This Tony Award-winning revival, directed by Michael Arden, is ba…
UNTYING THE SPELL Tongva and Mescalero Apache actor GiGi Buddie delivers a spellbinding performance in Where We Belong, an autobiographical one-woman show by Madeline Sayet, who weaves a dee…
IT'S NOT SO MUCH HOW IRISH BECAME AMERICANS " IT'S HOW AMERICA BECAME IRISH Greater Boston Stage Company's lively production of Frank McCourt's The Irish and How They Got That Way ennobles o…
THE REDEEMING POWER OF ART Picture this. A white wall"or is it gray? or a blank canvas?"and a pale tile floor. Are we in an austere modern art museum or gallery? The lights go out and when t…
OUT OF THE WOODS AND INTO THE GROVE The second in Mfoniso Udofia's ambitious nine-play Ufot Family Cycle, The Grove, directed by Awoye Timpo, picks up the story of the Ufot family over three…
BEAUTIFUL, BORED AND BENT ON DESTRUCTION For a taut psychological drama fraught with sexual tension, Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler remains unrivaled, and Parker Jennings delivers a mesmerizing…
A FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE ON A FAMILIAR JOURNEY Playwright Kate Hamill takes Homer's Odyssey and gives it a sharp, contemporary spin, transforming the tale of wily and deceitful Odysseus (Wayne…
TO BOLDLY GO WHERE NO WOMAN HAS GONE BEFORE After seeing SPACE at Central Square Theater, the line that haunted me came from Mae Jemison, the first Black woman to travel into space: "Rockets…
A SEARCH FOR MEANING BROUGHT TO GLORIOUS LIFE BY A PUPPET Based on the Booker-prize winning novel by Nobel-laureate South African J.M. Coetzee and adapted and directed by Lara Foot in collab…
A LESSON ON FAMILY LEGACY Actors' Shakespeare Project continues its exploration of August Wilson's Century Cycle with an absolutely superb production of the 1987 Pulitzer-winning masterpiece…
HOW THE COOKIE CRUMBLES From Intimate Apparel and Sweat to Clyde's, playwright Lynn Nottage is known for her ability to illuminate the lives of ordinary and working-class people, Black and w…
THE ELATION OF NEGATION Written by Jordan E. Cooper and directed by Dawn M. Simmons, the Boston premiere of this Tony-nominated series of provocative satirical sketches explores various face…
TAP INTO JOY AT A.R.T. I felt the first chills early in Diary of a Tap Dancer. It was during an ensemble number set in the Bronx and the birth of hip hop " I got that feeling in my solar ple…
FEAST ON THIS! For the second year, Front Porch Arts Collective offers its Holiday Feast of staged readings of scripts from the holiday episodes of Black sitcoms of the 1970s, '80s, and '90s…
A PLAY TO BE THANKFUL FOR Director Tara Moses (Seminole Nation of Oklahoma/Mvskoke) leans into the challenge of bringing the satirical comedy The Thanksgiving Play to the stage with "a full …
NOISES OFF, LAUGHS ON Just in time for the holiday season, Lyric Stage Company of Boston has something for audiences eager for some silly fun. Written by Michael Frayn the quintessential far…
GALILEO'S THEORIES WOULD PROVE THAT THE SUN DOESN'T MOVE " GALILEO'S DAUGHTER ALSO DOESN'T MOVE It's an intriguing notion: the ground-breaking scientist and astronomer Galileo Galilei, who d…
A TIME-TRAVELING JANE AUSTEN What if Jane Austen had managed to read The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan's groundbreaking 1963 exploration of why well-educated and prosperous women were so …
SOMETIMES YOU CAN GET WHAT YOU WANT I have been in a foul mood for the past several days, looking for ways to smash the patriarchy, cursing the unseasonably warm and dry November in my soul …
SETTING THE STAGE FOR AN EXTRAORDINARY CYCLE OF SHOWS How appropriate! I thought, as I stood in the August Wilson Lobby of the Huntington Theatre last night. I was about to see Sojourners, t…
On Sunday, November 10, 2024, Boston Lyric Opera's one-performance-only of Giuseppe Verdi's triumphal masterpiece Aida precedes the return of its annual fundraiser that supports access throu…
MEMORY AS AN ACT OF LOVE The East Coast premiere of playwright Steven Drukman's snappy and cleverly written Pru Payne is movingly brought to the stage under SpeakEasy Stage founder Paul Daig…
A PLAY THAT'S OUT OF THE BOX Like an acrobat without a net who thrills us with her daring, Iranian-German playwright Nassim Soleimanpour offers a play with virtually no set, no costumes, and…