CUMMING OR GOING, YOU'LL WANT TO SEE THIS ONE Man of many parts, Alan Cumming discusses life's big issues: death, love, and, yes, the size of his scrotum in Alan Cumming Is Not Acting His Ag…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:00PM[SHARE]FINDING NEW ABILITIES Cost of Living is full of surprises, and I don't mean inflation or unexpected banking fees. Speakeasy Stage Company brings the Pulitzer-winning play from playwright Mar…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:11PM[SHARE]KING HEDLEY II: A CROWNING PRODUCTION The Actors' Shakespeare Project production of King Hedley II follows ASP's acclaimed Seven Guitars of last season, once again bringing a work by August …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:54PM[SHARE]HER MOTHER, HERSELF It's a truism that many women fear "becoming their mother," and that's certainly the implied starting point of Karin Trachtenberg's one-woman show, My Mother Had Two Face…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:09PM[SHARE]Indigo Girls, Jinkx Monsoon, Bianca Del Rio, Marilyn Maye, HBO's Gilded Age Stars Denée Benton and Claybourne Elder Will Play Provincetown Town Hall This Summer and Broadway Stars …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:08PM[SHARE]CAN THIS MARRIAGE BE SAVED? The creative and absorbing world premiere of P. Carl's Becoming a Man at A.R.T. brings the joys and challenges of gender transition for one person and those who l…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:34AM[SHARE]GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE POWER Kimberly Belflower's riveting John Proctor is the Villain, which had its world-premiere at Studio Theatre in D.C. in 2022, opened last night at The Huntington. It…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]SOLIDARITY FOREVER The workshop reading of Food Tank's Little Peasants at The Burren Backroom, a venue known more for Irish, Bluegrass, Appalachian, Roots, Jazz, and Blues than theater, is a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:00AM[SHARE]FROM NOTORIOUS TO VICTORIOUS Michelle Azar vividly invokes the spirit of famed jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Rupert Holmes's one-woman show All Things Equal. As implied in the play's subtitl…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:14PM[SHARE]PURE PLEASURE Acclaimed vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant brought nothing but pleasure to Sanders Theater in Cambridge last night, courtesy of Celebrity Series of Boston. From the moment she …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:01AM[SHARE]A MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING Â "When the curtain is down, and it's three minutes before the show, what're you wishing for?" playwright John Kolvenbach wondered as he wrote Stand Up If You're…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:04PM[SHARE]A CASE FOR SEEING THIS PLAY Toward the end of A Case for the Existence of God (named Best Play of the 21"22 Season by the New York Drama Critics' Circle), I tried to recall what I had learne…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:40AM[SHARE]GOOD TROUBLE Â Trouble in Mind, the first full-length play written and directed by Alice Childress premiered off-Broadway in 1955, yet nearly everyone who encounters this play is astonishe…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:02AM[SHARE]YOU'D BE A FOOL TO MISS THIS FEAST OF FUN The long-playing Midwinter Revels (founded as Christmas Revels in 1971) is a unique mix of professional performance, volunteer talent, and audience …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:58AM[SHARE]THESE GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN Two young women, one from Korea, the other from the Philippines, encounter one another in a grocery story on Thanksgiving morning in a small midwestern Americ…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:51AM[SHARE]BLACK JOY RIDE This collaboration between Boston's Black theater company Front Porch Arts Collective and the Atlanta-based Alliance Theater Company, directed by Stevie Walker-Webb, takes its…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:52AM[SHARE]LIVES OF NOT-SO-QUIET DESPERATION The premise is simple: Each of nine people who have tried to kill or who actually have killed an American president is given a chance to persuade us of his …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:13AM[SHARE]ONE PLAGUE OR ANOTHER What happens when you put eight actors on a stage with a script that includes the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s, the Mormon Visitors Center, the Jewish mysticism of philos…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:30PM[SHARE]WELCOME TO THE WEST WING, WHERE THE WOMEN ARE FUCKED AND THE MAN IS FECKLESS Seven women propping up one man"that's the premise behind Selena Fillinger's POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbas…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]HOW DO YOU SOLVE A PROBLEM LIKE KATRINA? What to do about The Taming of the Shrew, a play that seems to glorify the subjugation of women? Actors' Shakespeare Project offers an intriguing and…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:58AM[SHARE]A PRAYER FOR ALL OF US Should they stay or should they go? That is the question that haunts the characters of this brilliant play by Joshua Harmon (Bad Jews, Skintight). It is directed by…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:45PM[SHARE]A SHOWER OF CREATIVE INNOVATION The A.R.T. production of the stunningly staged and audaciously acted The Half-God of Rainfall is an act of creative destruction. It begins with the seven acto…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:31AM[SHARE]DOWN AND UP IN HARLEM Barrington Stage Company's riveting production of Pearl Cleage's Blues for an Alabama Sky, directed by Candis C. Jones, opens with a fast-paced scene in which Guy Jacob…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:00AM[SHARE]A FENCES THAT KEEPS US IN Actors "ranney" and Ella Joyce bring a fresh and warm humanity to Shakespeare and Company's excellent and very satisfying production of August Wilson's Fences, whic…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:13AM[SHARE]FASCINATING, FUN AND FEEL-GOOD RHYTHM With stellar performances on two baby grands, a few silly props, and creative use of audience participation, Kirsten Salpini (sometimes wearing a tie to…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:27PM[SHARE]A DUAL DUARTE DE PERÓN Understudy Isabella Lopez won a heartfelt standing ovation for her captivating portrayal of Eva Perón, the spiritual leader of Argentina last night in this A.R.…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]AMAZING THEATER? BANK ON IT Steven Skybell (Henry Lehman), Joshua David Robinson (Emanuel Lehman), and Firdous Bamji (Mayer Lehman) absolutely stunned in the the first American-made producti…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]AS WE LOVE IT Talk about chemistry! The amazing Genevieve Simon, who wowed us with a riveting performance in the title role of Coriolanus earlier this year, flirts and schemes into our heart…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:47PM[SHARE]THE MILLENNIUM HAS COME AND GONE, BUT THE THEMES REMAIN THE SAME Central Square Theater's collaboration with Bedlam of Tony Kushner's still-relevant masterpiece Angels in America: A Gay Fant…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:59PM[SHARE]FAITH, HOPE AND SCIENCE I found myself thinking of Henrik Ibsen and Lucille Ball as I watched this world premiere of acclaimed playwright and performance artist Taylor Mac. Ibsen and Ball ar…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:49PM[SHARE]A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE WHITE SUPREMACIST MEETING If you're looking for great night of humor about white supremacy and anti-Semitism (and who isn't?), this is the show for y…
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