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Wednesday, July 1, 2026

WHY A BOX OFFICE HIT CAN STILL LOSE MONEY by Leslie Rosenberg

A packed cinema still has a particular magic. The lights drop, the audience quiets, and for two hours a film becomes a shared event rather than a file on a screen. That communal charge is on…

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Sunday, November 23, 2025

Theater Review: BLOOD BROTHERS (Theater UnCorked, Boston Center for the Arts) by Leslie Rosenberg

A TRAGEDY FORETOLD " AND STILL SHOCKING Blood Brothers exposes the cruel divide of class and destiny I walked into the BCA Plaza Theatre in the South End neighborhood of Boston " and left sh…

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Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Theater Review: THE MOONWALKERS: A JOURNEY WITH TOM HANKS (The Saunders Castle at the Boston Park Plaza) by Leslie Rosenberg

FLY ME TO THE MOON… AND INTO HISTORY A song, a wish, a dream, a childhood astronaut fantasy in a family kiddie pool"Tom Hanks taps into all of it in The Moonwalkers, an amazing, enlighteni…

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Thursday, May 16, 2024

Theater Review: ROMEO AND JULIET (Actors' Shakespeare Project at Calderwood Pavilion in Boston) by Leslie Rosenberg

GET THEE TO SEE ASP'S R&J "Romeo. Romeo, where for art thou Romeo?" Did you know this means, "Why are you Romeo?" Language becomes the thing as Shakespearean dialogue positively blossoms…

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Sunday, May 12, 2024

Cabaret Theater Review: LEGAYLLY BLONDE: THE DRAGSICAL (Moonshine Room at Club Café) by Leslie Rosenberg

A SHOW SO FUN, IT SHOULD BE ILLEGAYL Welcome to Legally Blonde, wrapped in a rainbow flag. Yep, LeGAYlly Blonde: The Dragsical is the story of Elle Woods with a gay twist, and at last night'…

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Saturday, April 27, 2024

Opera Review: DON GIOVANNI (Boston Baroque) by Leslie Rosenberg

MY OPERA EXPERIENCE WAS DARKEST BEFORE THIS DON Don Giovanni seduced me " in a manner of speaking " when I attended last night's opening of Mozart's Don Giovanni by Boston Baroque. I've cove…

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Sunday, April 21, 2024

Theater Review: THE SECRET COMEDY OF WOMEN (National Tour at the Regent Theatre in Arlington, MA) by Leslie Rosenberg

SECRET COMEDY IS NO SECRET ANYMORE In The Secret Comedy of Women, directors, writers and stars Barbra Gehring and Linda Klein are two women who you would swear were besties from childhood. T…

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Tuesday, April 9, 2024

Theater Review: BURN THIS (Hub Theatre Company of Boston) by Leslie Rosenberg

FLAMES CAN BURN IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE Last weekend, Hub Theatre Company of Boston began its own smoldering revival of Lanford Wilson's Burn This, a show filled with intertwined emotion, unan…

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