BRAIDS AND BELONGING Some plays don't announce themselves with spectacle. They invite you in through a metal grate, into a cramped Harlem salon where the air smells of braiding gel and the t…
SOMETHING WICKED GOOD THIS WAY COMES You've probably seen one or more productions of William Shakespeare's Macbeth before, but you've likely never seen one like this Christopher V. Edwards-d…
GHOSTS OF WAR, SHADOWS OF BROTHERHOOD Looking back fifty years, who doesn't wish they'd acted differently? Decisions made in a moment can have eternal consequences. Ever help your brother co…
READY FOR A SWIFT MOVE? Veronica Electrifies the Pacific Jazz Orchestra Gala The Pacific Jazz Orchestra opens its 2025"26 season with a night that promises both elegance and swing: an intima…
In today's entertainment industry, your online presence can make or break your career. Casting directors, agents, and producers aren't just looking at your headshots"they're checking your so…
A NEWFOUND(LAND) WAY OF LOOKING AT MUSICAL THEATER It's always a joy " and a rarity " to see a musical I've witnessed before reemerge as something fresher than the first time I saw it. Such …
STANDING UP FOR HUMANITY Here are my criteria for a good night of comedy: 1) It needs to be surprising. 2) It needs to make me think. 3) It needs to promote values that make us better human …
SINK YOUR TEETH INTO THIS BLOODY CUT OF MEAT At some time in the future, a band of rebels have staged a successful coup against the United States. The prevailing system of order has been vio…
SIRENS, BELLS AND WHISTLES Conductor Andris Nelsons led the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a richly anticipated program of Nocturnes by Claude Debussy and Gustav Mahler's Symphony No 4 in G. T…
SMALL IS EPIC In his exceptional how-to book Storyworthy, author and storyteller Matthew Dicks advises us to stop recounting tales that few can relate to " like the time you climbed Mt. Ever…
When creation becomes choreography in Frankenstein, the laboratory turns into a stage of desire Mary Shelley's creation continues to haunt not only literature but the stage, where movement a…
The Radiant Disorder of Tim Venable's Teenage Inferno [Contributing writer: Nick McCall] Rogue Machine is presenting Tim Venable's intense and disquieting new play Adolescent Salvation, whic…
INTO THE WORDS Entering The Other Space at the Actors Company Theatre Complex, I was immediately taken by Fritz Davis's well-crafted video projections cast on Joel Daavid's set of three wall…
A GREAT MUSICAL, SUFFS REMINDS US THAT DEMOCRACY ONLY MOVES FORWARD WHEN WOMEN DO While much of what we love in musicals is pure fiction, history has had an undeniable flair for the dramatic…
A GREAT MUSICAL, SUFFS REMINDS US THAT DEMOCRACY ONLY MOVES FORWARD WHEN WOMEN DO While much of what we love in musicals is pure fiction, history has had an undeniable flair for the dramatic…
Justice without mercy becomes punishment, and mercy without justice becomes apathy. But how do we strike the balance when the system and the society behind it seem to have forgotten both? In…
DRAGONS, DOOMSDAY, AND DAZZLE The Road Theatre Company launches its 34th season with N.T. Vandecar's Otherkin, a bold, visually stunning new work staged by Christina Carlisi in her directori…
CARB-LOADERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! "For the gods know I speak this in hunger for bread…" Alright, so that's not from Julius Caesar but Coriolanus, that other Shakespeare play about a politi…
A STRONG BREW OF CHARACTER AND STORY The Counter is the latest in a series of plays in greater Boston featuring a character who pours drinks. In recent months we've had Primary Trust, Two St…
WEATHER FORECAST: FUNNY AND SUNNY WITH A CHANCE OF ARMAGEDDON In recent years, I have watched a wave of productions by Millennial and Gen Z artists who are, quite understandably, petrified b…
A thing of beauty is a joy forever. " John Keats Sleep-deprived and fortified with four cups of coffee, I hauled my cranky, cynical self on a Sunday morning to the Chicago Children's Theatre…
NOW STOCKING LAUGHTER AND FAMILY FUEDS ON AISLE ONE Like a lot of people, I first met the Kim family through Netflix. During the pandemic, I streamed more than a few episodes of the hit sitc…
A SONDHEIM SPECTACLE Sonoma County's Spreckels Performing Arts Center has launched a tremendous production of Into the Woods, the perpetually popular and nearly forty-year-old musical spoof …
HUZZAH AND HO-HUM The curtain speech at Huzzah! " which opened Thursday at The Old Globe " comes with bassoon and tambourine: silence thy phones, feed not ye actors. This bit of business tel…
TWO CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR An aging, reclusive movie star strikes up a relationship with a struggling writer. It may sound familiar but this isn't Sunset Boulevard, more's the pit…