On a rehearsal break from "Les Miserables," which opens at the North Shore Music Theatre on Tuesday, Jacquelyn Piro Donovan and Fred Inkley compare notes on their experiences with the musica…
When the Old Trout Puppet Workshop performs its "Famous Puppet Death Scenes" this week at the Institute of Contemporary Art, audience members will be forgiven if they can't recall any actual…
Modernist designers honor tradition at New College Theatre
Judy Kaye leads a necessarily versatile cast in 'Sweeney Todd'
A Dutch playwright inspired by 'Vagina Monologues' looks at sexuality
Walter Mosley dedicates his latest novel, "Blonde Faith," to August Wilson, yet all of Mosley's Easy Rawlins mysteries have unfolded as a kind of nod to the works of the late Pulitzer Prize-…
She's good enough to get cast in professional roles. But Boston Conservatory musical-theater major Stephanie Umoh still has a lot to learn.
Fitting an epic play into a tiny theater
John Barrowman might already be familiar to fans of the British sci-fi series "Dr. Who" as the dashing Captain Jack, a 51st-century American trapped in 2007.
Director Devine strips things down to stress the laughs
Net downloads let anyone access the best versions of a classic score
The play has many amusing moments, even more clever ones, and a few truly inventive instances of imaginative stagecraft. But somehow all these pleasures do not combine to transport us onto t…
BOSTONIANS seem resigned to seeing the Wilbur Theatre disappear as a performing-arts space. With few shows left to tour the country besides those brought in to the Colonial Theatre and the O…
The Criterion Collection is releasing in a highly informative two-disc collection Brecht's first feature-length film as a writer, an adaptation of his "Threepenny Opera." It prompts the ques…
Creator Tim Acito aims to tweak audience expectations in his giddy off-Broadway hit 'Zanna, Don't!'
Oh, dear Lord, where to begin?
Musical player plans to bring cast out to Nahant
CAMBRIDGE - The revolution continues at the American Repertory Theatre.