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Charles Towers, artistic director of Merrimack Repertory Theatre, likes Richard Dresser's plays so much he scheduled not one but three of them over last season and this.
Law's words frame gut-wrenching play
Broadway legend Chita Rivera was at the Royal Sonesta Hotel Saturday, but the (dance) shoes were on the other feet.
With Nicole Van Giesen.
Singers from Julie Andrews to Cher and Frederica von Stade applaud Boston throat specialist and music lover Steven Zeitels for his voice-saving innovations.
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"What the Butler Saw," with Paxton Whitehead.
'Slugging,' not comforting, is this master's aim
Eight times a week, 11-year-old Mattapoisett native Koby Williamson puts on rags and turns into a 19th-century urchin who sings about "food, glorious food." He's joined onstage by 16 other c…
Billy Joel had received the call before, plenty of times, from major Hollywood producers and respected television writers and a few anonymous wannabes.
When Brian Dennehy speaks, theater people listen.
Of the play, which is headed next to Broadway, the actor acknowledged it's still a work in progress. "[Wednesday] was one of the most historic free falls of my career, but [Thursday] was goo…
Just because good theater critics ignore the effects of their judgments doesn't make them cruel or immoral.
Dreyfuss, 'Sly Fox' sneak into Boston before hitting Broadway
The readings kick off on March 18, with "Stabbing," a Calderwood-commissioned work by Stephen Belber, a playwright and screenwriter whose new play "Match," directed by Huntington artistic di…
Tony Kushner's "Angels in America" lasted about seven hours, but his new work -- actually a work-in-progress -- will only last about a half-hour tonight, when the reading of the first act ma…
The Trinity Repertory Company might have called this production "The Merry Wives of Windsor: The Remix." It opens with OutKast's "Hey Ya!," ends with Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Wanna Have Fu…
Van Pattens give Simon classic a kick
Seven Boston banks and the city of Boston will loan $7 million to help finance two new theaters at the Boston Center for the Arts, Mayor Thomas M. Menino and the Huntington Theatre Company announced yesterday.
The theaters will be the first built in Boston in 75 years, organizers say.
Lorraine Bracco in "The Graduate."
When Jason Robert Brown, creator of "The Last Five Years," a musical that chronicles the rise and fall of a marriage, would sit anonymously in the theater and watch the show, he got conflict…
