“1776″ boasts a cast of female, nonbinary and trans actors. Around half are people of color, including leads Crystal Lucas-Perry as John Adams and Patrena Murray as Benjamin Franklin.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:26PM“Les Miserables” perfected the Broadway blockbuster. Yes, massive productions preceded it, but nothing matched the epic sweep of the French-via-London operetta when it debuted on the Gre…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 01:22AMThe show promotes itself as “Jersey Boys” meets “West Side Story.” Stir in a classic gangster movie, triangulate the three, and you get pretty close to the feel of a “A Bronx Tale.…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 01:43AMMuch of the modern theater industry aspires to create lucrative spectacles. Artistic merit might be an happy, accidental byproduct, but Disney fare such as “Beauty & the Beast” and t…
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 01:24AMFrom "Romeo and Juliet" to gender-bending fashion, the arts scene is in top form.
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 01:54AMAt last, a production has interpreted Shaw’s work as the egalitarian manifesto the British playwright intended it to be.
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 01:16AMCritics at newspapers are dying off even faster than print journalism. Theatre critics, film reviewers, A&E editors, and arts writers of every kind have been stripped from dailies and weekli…
SOURCE: www.cjr.org at 04:20AMOh, what a life. Four lives actually: Frankie Valli’s, Bob Gaudio’s, Tommy DeVito’s and Nick Massi’s.
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 05:58PMChristie Brinkley has finally mastered all that jazz. The world's greatest supermodel (sorry, Gisele, it's true)...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 09:54PM'Tis the season for Occupy-themed theater. This fall productions will take on French aristocrats, Chinese government...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 09:12PM"Car Talk: The Musical!!!" (yes, the title has three exclamation points) is an absurd idea. But it's less absurd...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 10:44PMWe love the heck out of Samuel Beckett, but "Waiting for Godot" is a winter thing. Summer is when we forget...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 11:11AMSo you think you can't dance? The Alvin Ailey company says you can. The iconic African-American dance theater...
SOURCE: Boston Herald at 10:53AMIf all that warm weather had you thinking Shakespeare in the park, back up. It's cold again, and jumping straight...
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