90 stories by "Nancy Grossman"
. It was inspired for Fuller and Kleinbort to find the dramatic justification to turn the play into a musical. That isn't always the case, but this duo found the way to make this story sing …
The 1943 novella by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the most-read and most-translated book in French language history, has been adapted into a musical by John Scoullar (book and lyrics) and Rick …
Director Larry Coen, who previously staged Busch's The Divine Sister (SpeakEasy Stage 2011), has done his homework to capture the sensibility and sentiments of the playwright.
Reprising her 2013 Tony Award-winning and Emmy Award-nominated performance as Carrie Watts, Tyson is joined by Vanessa Williams and Blair Underwood to round out the conflicted family triangl…
If Bad Jews happened to be a person, rather than a play, its Jewish parents would be kvelling over its achievements.
Renowned 20th century poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell exchanged more than 400 letters during their thirty-year friendship, and from them playwright Sarah Ruhl has culled a represent…
The Huntington Theatre Company production is a crisp, tight vehicle driven expertly by director David Esbjornson (All My Sons at the Huntington), who follows Kreidler's lead in focusing on t…
Featuring an ensemble of gifted singers and actors, supported by the skills of music director Jonathan Goldberg and his live six-piece orchestra, and surrounded by masterful design elements,…
[director] Paulus has repeatedly demonstrated her ability to put her imagination on display with amazing stagecraft and her streak remains intact. However, arguably more important, she engag…
Producing Artistic Director Spiro Veloudos has a proven record as an interpreter of Sondheim's works, and his well-chosen cast of 17 actors meets the challenges of the composer's complex sco…
... a contemporary version of The Heiress which swaps a high-powered, controlling mother for the film's emotionally abusive father of a plain Jane being romantically pursued by a struggling …
This is an example of the SpeakEasy production surpassing the play with its stellar performances, considered direction and skilled design elements.
Merrimack Repertory Theatre in Lowell, Massachusetts, presents the regional premiere of Oscar-winning British playwright Ronald Harwood's Equally Divided, a character study that homes in on …
Whether Hoffman is staring at the floor or tilting her head back to emit a primal wail, her shame and pain are visceral. When she finally has reason to smile and sing out loudly, declaring h…
Set in a fictional bar in the playwright's hometown of South Philadelphia, the play looks deeply into the hearts of two people who are facing lonely futures unless they find the courage to t…
A well-structured comedy of manners that dissects the foibles of a quartet of upper-class WASPs, The Cocktail Hour peels back the veneer of cordiality and propriety to reveal the internecine…
Take a nostalgia-filled journey to 1940 Indiana via the heartwarming reminiscences of the late, legendary radio humorist Jean Shepherd in the 2012 Tony-nominated Best Musical A Christmas Sto…
SpeakEasy Stage Company is branching out, adding new plays to its programming which has been a model of excellence in the categories of revivals and second productions for two decades.
There are times when a review virtually writes itself; the fingers fly across the keyboard struggling to keep up with the onslaught of words spilling out of the brain.
The utterly delightful memory play Mrs. Mannerly runs through November 17 at MRT in Lowell, while his adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde…
... the New England premiere of Stephen Belber's The Power of Duff by the Huntington Theatre Company, under the direction of Artistic Director Peter DuBois at the Boston Center for the Arts.
Two plays currently at local theaters plumb the depths of human connection and examine the definitions of community; are virtual relationships more or less nurturing than face-to-face contac…
As it turns out, the mirage metaphor comes into play on many levels as three affluent suburban couples gather for a dinner party where the foundations of their friendships and marriages are …
Baritone happens to be my favorite among the male voice roles, but personal preference aside, my ability to articulate what is special about the register pales next to the comprehensive and …
While some lines are taken from historical documents, it bears stating that All the Way is a dramatization, albeit a darn good one, and the gestalt captures the feel of the period in rivetin…
