90 stories by "Nancy Grossman"
Tony Award-winner Mary Zimmerman's adaptation of The Jungle Book, based on Rudyard Kipling's 1893 collection of stories and Walt Disney's 1967 animated film, tells the tale of the little orp…
The life lessons he learns along the way resonate for anyone searching for their place in the world and a way to meaningfully communicate with others.
Directed by Artistic Director Jim Petosa, the drama features an accomplished cast of five men and two women, all but one of whom play multiple parts.
Fortunately for us, the Lyric Stage Company has Neil A. Casey in the lead role. His energy carries the play, ratcheting up the laughs with his ad libs and impish grin, and keeping the audien…
The Huntington Theatre Company concludes its 31st season on a high note with the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama finalist Rapture, Blister, Burn by Gina Gionfriddo.
The recently twice-extended Boston regional premiere of In The Heights, directed by SpeakEasy Producing Artistic Director Paul Daigneault, continues the fine tradition of ascending every pea…
By comparison to the boy prodigy, Salieri's talents may have been pedestrian, but there is nothing pedestrian about the New Repertory Theatre's production, directed by Artistic Director Jim …
Making her debut on the Watertown stage, IRNE Award-winning Boston actress Amelia Broome gives a tour de force performance, the force of which will knock your socks off, pin you to your seat…
There are so many layers and themes in A Raisin in the Sun that fifty-five years after Hansberry wrote the play, there is still so much to explore and analyze within its pages.
Inspired by Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun (which coincidentally is running through April 7 at Boston's Huntington Theatre Company), Clybourne Park is Norris' not-so-sunny view of …
It took the American Repertory Theater thirty-two years to get around to producing a play by the great American playwright Tennessee Williams, but they got it right on the first try.
This production of Pippin has so much going for it, it is hard to know where to begin to sing its praises.
The Huntington Theatre Company is remounting the 2009 Off-Broadway production with Obie Award winner Cromer reprising his role as Stage Manager (through December 30) and imparting his contem…
Despite Allen Moyer's outstanding minimalist set, with creative use of curtain rectangles opening and closing on the scenes, the time stamp effectiveness of Nancy Brennan's costume design, a…
More visual and aural spectacle than literary achievement, the 2011 Tony Award-winning Best Play is a new generation of theater event that combines cinematic techniques with live performance…
The Huntington Theatre Company opens its 31st season with a surefire blockbuster, the New England premiere of David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People.
Considering the deep-seated rivalries that exist between Boston and New York City, is it possible that a play rooted in the Big Apple, obviously written in a New York state of mind, can reso…
To meet the challenge of converting this epic drama that spans two continents, flashes back and forth in history across thirty years, and paints a colorful picture of the Afghani culture, Sp…
The rapier wit of Noel Coward meets the assured experience of Director Maria Aitken, a pitch-perfect leading couple in Bianca Amato and James Waterston, and the outstanding production values…
If nothing else, "Xanadu" serves as a reminder that not all art needs to be high, but throwing in a bunch of gods can make it heavenly.
An unpleasant footnote to Boston's storied racial past is revealed in Kirsten Greenidge's The Luck of the Irish, a world premiere play showcased in a world class production by the Huntington…
New Repertory Theatre offers up a taut, dramatic staging of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning American classic Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill.
"Next to Normal" triumphs because Tom Kitt (music) and Brian Yorkey (book and lyrics) treat the topic with sensitivity, examining the human toll in a way that is relatable, and give us chara…
With a deft touch, Scott Edmiston directs the Lyric Stage Company production featuring Laura Latreille and Barlow Adamson as the couple facing an important crossroads in their personal and p…
Jeff Zinn directs this absorbing co-production by New Repertory Theatre and Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater (WHAT) in the Black Box Theater at the Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown as…
