892 stories from Boston Herald
For a show about the wild and raucous days of the Harlem Renaissance, "Ain't Misbehavin'" is disappointingly well-behaved....
At the center of Com-pany One's program for "The Brother/Sister Plays," there's a handy family tree to help you...
We like our bad guys to come dressed in black, not shades of gray. But drama - and history - have proven that things...
NEW YORK - There are terrible moments of silence in Theresa Rebeck's new Broadway play.
No, not to worry: None...
CODY, Wyo. - His movies starred the likes of John Wayne and Charles Bronson, and his own stint as an actor led...
There's a lot of expository reading you could do before seeing "In the Red and Brown Water," the first of Tarell...
It's hard to watch a satire that's nearly as long as the object of parody itself. But Eugene Ionesco isn't content...
PITTSFIELD - James Taylor is out to prove he can do more than write a catchy tune.
The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter...
Staging "Peter Pan" is always a balancing act - and not just counterweights and flying ropes. There has to be an...
Playwright Tom Stoppard has always been known as a master of wordplay. In "Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth," an...
When "A Doll's House" was first performed in 1879, it shocked 19th century values. Henrik Ibsen's play, which famously...
NEW YORK - James Levine has canceled conducting the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Wagner's "Goetterdaemmerung"...
The first thing you should know about "Buddy Cop 2" is that there is no "Buddy Cop 1." The second thing you should...
On a rainy Sunday afternoon, there are few things that can raise my spirits out of the drizzle better than pure,...
Only hard-core Shakespeareophiles need apply to "Women of Will." In Tina Packer's Bard-a-thon, the three hours'...
NEW YORK - Hugh Jackman is doing what he does best - selling tickets.
The Broadway League says the Tony Award-winning...
NEW YORK - Beau Bridges is about to learn what it takes to succeed on Broadway.
Producers said Monday that the...
"You Better Sit Down: Tales from My Parents' Divorce" seemingly takes place in a permanent state of limbo. Emotions...
Not content with simply breaking the fourth wall, ImprovBoston hurls blood and guts over it. Literally. After a...
Restoration-era playwrights were so wacky! If you take Liz Duffy Adams' "Or," at its word, life in 17th century...
HARTFORD, Conn. - A recently discovered manuscript by Eugene O'Neill that is based on a suicide attempt by the...
Not all that much happens in the cozy, book-strewn Manhattan living room that serves as the setting of New Repertory...
Tony Kushner carved out a permanent place in American drama with his seminal two-part epic "Angels in America."...
Nowhere in Shakespeare is love a slipperier concept than in "Twelfth Night," the Bard's mid-career comedy of bisecting...
Live musical theater has the power to transport an audience as few other mediums can. That's easy to forget with...
