Friday, January 25, 2019
As Sean Daniels peruses a shelf of books by and about Jack Kerouac on a recent weekday inside Pollard Memorial Library, the visage of the Mill City’s best-known author can be seen above, o…
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Boston-born Annie Baker will have three of her plays performed in the Shirley, VT Plays Festival, a collaboration between the Huntington Theatre Company, SpeakEasy Stage Company, and Company…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:58PMConstant motion and fine directing mark the American Repertory Theater's "Cabaret," which stars Amanda Palmer as the Emcee.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:58PMAfter “Monty Python's Spamalot,'' is there any way to present a straightforward production of “Camelot'' — knights in shining armor, demurely veiled maidens, all the other …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:58PM"We Have Always Lived in the Castle" is a smart and arresting musical adaptation of Shirley Jackson's creepy novel.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:58PMSomeone always seems to be mixing a drink in the Yale Repertory Theatre production of Edward Albee’s “A Delicate Balance.’’
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:58PMCollaborations, risk-taking fueled an innovative mix
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:58PMOne-man show at the ART explores the life and genius of R. Buckminster Fuller
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:58PMLindsay-Abaire creates another compelling drama
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:58PMWednesday, July 2, 2014
After originating at Barrington Stage Company, “Freud’s Last Session’’ became a long-running off-Broadway hit. It’s hard, though, to imagine performances more note-perfect than tho…
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Ethnic stereotyping is popular culture’s original sin, and it’s proving a hard one to shed.
Look no further than the uproar over last weekend’s production of “Thoroughly Modern Mi…
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During a break from rehearsal at an elementary school here, the songwriting brothers Willie and Robert Reale took a moment to ponder the underlying message of their musical “Johnny Basebal…
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SILENCE! THE MUSICAL. Seldom does good taste get in the way of this singing, dancing, deliciously deranged off-Broadway parody of “The Silence of the Lambs.’’ As for murder, well . . .
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:58AMSunday, November 25, 2012
If you worry about the vitality and visibility of live performance in an increasingly screen-centric culture, Michelle Obama deserves a prominent spot on your list of people to be thankful f…
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The millennials, so financially strapped that they’ve been dubbed “Generation Debt,’’ might well feel that they’re in no position to be regular patrons.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:41PMMonday, April 23, 2012
Founding artistic director of two of the leading regional theaters in the country, the Yale Repertory Theatre and the American Repertory Theater. Provocative and influential drama critic for…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:40AMThursday, April 12, 2012
The plodding pace, greatest-hits superficiality, and hagiographic tone of “Magic/Bird’’ feels jarringly dated, especially at a time when ESPN’s “30 for 30’…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:00AMWednesday, January 25, 2012
“American Idiot,’’ the stage adaptation of Green Day’s 2004 album, is a sustained cry of anger, disgust, and longing, dramatizing the frustrations and fears of a gene…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:08PMMonday, December 12, 2011
Lore has it that Queen Elizabeth became so enamored of Falstaff that she expressed a wish to see a comedy built entirely around him, and that Shakespeare complied by writing “The Merry…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 04:36PMThursday, November 3, 2011
There are few things more exhilarating than the work of a theatrical imagination operating at full throttle. That’s what is on display in “Mabou Mines DollHouse,’’ an…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:14PMMonday, October 3, 2011
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Robert Brustein has written a trilogy of plays with the Bard as his protagonist, the second of which, “Mortal Terror,’’ premieres at the Modern Theatre starting Sept. 15. &…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PMFriday, September 9, 2011
Under the sure-handed direction of Benjamin Evett, New Repertory Theatre’s “Rent’’ navigates that fine line between the heart-on-its-sleeve earnestness essential to t…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:09PMMonday, September 5, 2011
"Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’’ is wide but not deep, a pleasant enough but not especially memorable musical adaptation of Mark Twain’s novel.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 06:27PMThursday, September 1, 2011
CAMBRIDGE - In 1985, as James Levine was preparing to conduct the Metropolitan Opera’s first performance of “Porgy and Bess,’’ he told The New York Times: “It&#…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:15PMMonday, August 22, 2011
For all I know, Rachel York spends her time away from the theater adopting stray kittens or quietly needlepointing in a rocking chair. But onstage? There, York is not to be trifled with. No …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:26AMSunday, August 21, 2011
PITTSFIELD - For all I know, Rachel York spends her time away from the theater adopting stray kittens or quietly needlepointing in a rocking chair.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:49PMFriday, August 19, 2011
WILLIAMSTOWN - For both artistic and commercial reasons, it makes sense for theater companies to tackle works that connect with the universal human experience.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:27PMThursday, August 18, 2011
CAMBRIDGE - Somewhere amid the disjointed mess that is “Bad Daddy: The Musical’’’ lurks the germ of a half-decent idea.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:38PMMonday, August 15, 2011
WILLIAMSTOWN - Perhaps it’s odd, even heretical, to think of another songwriter’s words when you’re listening to the songs of Rodgers and Hart.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:35PMWELLFLEET - There comes a moment in Stephen Sachs’s “Bakersfield Mist’’ when a hitherto stuffy art expert works himself into a frenzy as he reenacts the convulsive pr…
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