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The musical's focus on truth in journalism resonates in our post-2016, "fake news," and Artificial Intelligence-saturated environment.
The time is overdue for a substantial discussion of what is happening (or not happening) in Boston-area theaters. Just don't expect to see anything in our sheepish mainstream media.
Theater critics, film reviewers, A&E editors, and arts columnists have been stripped from our dailies and weeklies. Why should you care? Oscar Wilde warned that an age without criticism …
This version of the script may be overreaching, but there is promise in M Sloth Levine's attempt to infuse gender and personal soul-searching into a spooky 'cartoon' mystery.
This is a rare script that focuses, equally, on emotional depth and scientific wonder.
This is one of the more engaging pieces of theatre I have experienced in some time.
In terms of the joy that theater can provide, this Speakeasy Stage production sets the bar high.
Set in New York in the mid-'50s, "Trouble in Mind" is a backstage dramedy that draws on the genre's interest in the ambiguities of role-playing to condemn racial bias.
Our theater critics salute the year's outstanding productions.
Providence-area professional theaters have fared better than most in terms of surviving and rebounding from the pandemic.
My advice: see this show in Boston before it settles into New York for what should be a long run.
As satisfying as this incomplete work is -- much like Schubert's "Unfinished Symphony," which the composer inexplicably abandoned six years before his death -- we can still regret not being …
Dramatist Lloyd Suh takes us on an inner journey by weaving silences into his script that encourage his characters (and us) to reflect and pause.
Murder mystery and farce can coexist in the same play… for a time, at least. Eventually, the two will pull apart, however, as they do in this production.
A Stephen Sondheim flop returns in triumph, while his final show tantalizes with what could have been.
This well-directed and performed production of a musical about the universal longing for connection delivers a stirringly heart felt experience.
By David Greenham This Rocky Horror Show for the Gen Z set contains (at least potentially) enough flash and zap to successfully put across a new take on a campy cult classic. The Rocky Horro…
The "new" version of the Blue Man Group is all mayhem, all the time.
The late Robert Brustein's shadow is long. But his legacy is problematic.
The journalistic value of blathering out weekend tips to the ears of the comfortable in a social media world awash with likes is dubious.
Even before the lights come up on the remarkable new production by Moonbox Productions, it is clear that this is a "Sweeney Todd" of a different order.
By Martin B. Copenhaver Assassins Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Book by John Weidman. Directed by Courtney O'Connor. Staged by the Lyric Stage Company of Boston at 140 Clarendon Stre…
In "Fat Ham," Black pain and repressed desire are transformed into a celebration of liberation and empowerment -- once the villain de jure, the violent, tyrannical patriarchy, has been dispa…
Dramatist Donald Margulies seems to be putting his hand on the heart of the heartland -- as well as taking the pulse of a pair of aging boomers.
"POTUS" supplies plenty of political amusement as it pits savvy, competent women against the blithering males running the American government.
