CAN THIS MARRIAGE BE SAVED? The creative and absorbing world premiere of P. Carl's Becoming a Man at A.R.T. brings the joys and challenges of gender transition for one person and those who l…
GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE POWER Kimberly Belflower's riveting John Proctor is the Villain, which had its world-premiere at Studio Theatre in D.C. in 2022, opened last night at The Huntington. It…
SOLIDARITY FOREVER The workshop reading of Food Tank's Little Peasants at The Burren Backroom, a venue known more for Irish, Bluegrass, Appalachian, Roots, Jazz, and Blues than theater, is a…
FROM NOTORIOUS TO VICTORIOUS Michelle Azar vividly invokes the spirit of famed jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Rupert Holmes's one-woman show All Things Equal. As implied in the play's subtitl…
PURE PLEASURE Acclaimed vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant brought nothing but pleasure to Sanders Theater in Cambridge last night, courtesy of Celebrity Series of Boston. From the moment she …
A MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING Â "When the curtain is down, and it's three minutes before the show, what're you wishing for?" playwright John Kolvenbach wondered as he wrote Stand Up If You're…
A CASE FOR SEEING THIS PLAY Toward the end of A Case for the Existence of God (named Best Play of the 21"22 Season by the New York Drama Critics' Circle), I tried to recall what I had learne…
GOOD TROUBLE Â Trouble in Mind, the first full-length play written and directed by Alice Childress premiered off-Broadway in 1955, yet nearly everyone who encounters this play is astonishe…
YOU'D BE A FOOL TO MISS THIS FEAST OF FUN The long-playing Midwinter Revels (founded as Christmas Revels in 1971) is a unique mix of professional performance, volunteer talent, and audience …
THESE GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN Two young women, one from Korea, the other from the Philippines, encounter one another in a grocery story on Thanksgiving morning in a small midwestern Americ…
BLACK JOY RIDE This collaboration between Boston's Black theater company Front Porch Arts Collective and the Atlanta-based Alliance Theater Company, directed by Stevie Walker-Webb, takes its…
LIVES OF NOT-SO-QUIET DESPERATION The premise is simple: Each of nine people who have tried to kill or who actually have killed an American president is given a chance to persuade us of his …
ONE PLAGUE OR ANOTHER What happens when you put eight actors on a stage with a script that includes the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s, the Mormon Visitors Center, the Jewish mysticism of philos…
WELCOME TO THE WEST WING, WHERE THE WOMEN ARE FUCKED AND THE MAN IS FECKLESS Seven women propping up one man"that's the premise behind Selena Fillinger's POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbas…
HOW DO YOU SOLVE A PROBLEM LIKE KATRINA? What to do about The Taming of the Shrew, a play that seems to glorify the subjugation of women? Actors' Shakespeare Project offers an intriguing and…
A PRAYER FOR ALL OF US Should they stay or should they go? That is the question that haunts the characters of this brilliant play by Joshua Harmon (Bad Jews, Skintight). It is directed by…
A SHOWER OF CREATIVE INNOVATION The A.R.T. production of the stunningly staged and audaciously acted The Half-God of Rainfall is an act of creative destruction. It begins with the seven acto…
DOWN AND UP IN HARLEM Barrington Stage Company's riveting production of Pearl Cleage's Blues for an Alabama Sky, directed by Candis C. Jones, opens with a fast-paced scene in which Guy Jacob…
A FENCES THAT KEEPS US IN Actors "ranney" and Ella Joyce bring a fresh and warm humanity to Shakespeare and Company's excellent and very satisfying production of August Wilson's Fences, whic…
FASCINATING, FUN AND FEEL-GOOD RHYTHM With stellar performances on two baby grands, a few silly props, and creative use of audience participation, Kirsten Salpini (sometimes wearing a tie to…
A DUAL DUARTE DE PERÓN Understudy Isabella Lopez won a heartfelt standing ovation for her captivating portrayal of Eva Perón, the spiritual leader of Argentina last night in this A.R.…
AMAZING THEATER? BANK ON IT Steven Skybell (Henry Lehman), Joshua David Robinson (Emanuel Lehman), and Firdous Bamji (Mayer Lehman) absolutely stunned in the the first American-made producti…
AS WE LOVE IT Talk about chemistry! The amazing Genevieve Simon, who wowed us with a riveting performance in the title role of Coriolanus earlier this year, flirts and schemes into our heart…
THE MILLENNIUM HAS COME AND GONE, BUT THE THEMES REMAIN THE SAME Central Square Theater's collaboration with Bedlam of Tony Kushner's still-relevant masterpiece Angels in America: A Gay Fant…
FAITH, HOPE AND SCIENCE I found myself thinking of Henrik Ibsen and Lucille Ball as I watched this world premiere of acclaimed playwright and performance artist Taylor Mac. Ibsen and Ball ar…