Friday, August 2, 2024
ALL HAIL THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES! The pre-Broadway production of The Queen of Versailles, studded with Broadway royalty, understandably had Boston abuzz at the opening last night. Despite th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:13PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 21, 2024
AS USUAL, THE WOMEN DEAL WITH THE MESS Hub Theatre Company's pay-what-you-will production of 46 Plays for America's First Ladies offers a series of playlets as varied as the women portrayed.…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:10AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 15, 2024
IT REALLY IS AN ENCHATED EVENING I had never seen South Pacific, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's famed and highly successful musical (winner 1950 Pulitzer and numerous Tony awards in…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 13, 2024
GREAT F. SCOTT! F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby recently entered the public domain, and as we approach the centenary of this American classic published in 1925, there is a plethora of…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:28PM[SHARE]Monday, June 10, 2024
YOU'LL LEAVE THIS ASTONISHING PRODUCTION POSSESSED It's not often I would feel compelled to begin a review with mention of the creative team, but director Igor Golyak " co-adapting with …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:45AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 6, 2024
MAKING FACES You've heard of a play-within-a-play? Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang offers us a play-within-a-play-within-a-play in the semi-autobiographical Yellow Face. Lyric Sta…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:27PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 21, 2024
PLAIN ENGLISH The New York production of English, written by Iranian-American Sanaz Toossi, won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2023. Directed by Diyan Zara, English is making its European pre…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:04AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 18, 2024
The Buddha of Suburbia, a lively and joyous coming-of-age story set in late 1970s suburban London is a delightful exploration of love in numerous forms, some painful, most unconventional, bu…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:01AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 30, 2024
A THEATRICAL LOOP-DE-LOOP Playwright Michael R. Jackson's acclaimed A Strange Loop (winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 2022 Tony Award for Best Musical) is a shocking work of genius, beau…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:55AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 27, 2024
THE HOUR HAS COME Playwright David Valdes offers a touching insight into the complexities of family life for a transitioning teen in Mermaid Hour. The New England premiere of this 2016 Final…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:29PM[SHARE]Monday, April 22, 2024
THE MOUNT EVEREST OF PLAYS It's hard to say what is the most breathtaking aspect of the Apollinaire Theatre Company's masterful production of Touching the Void: Is it David Greig's deeply sa…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 17, 2024
THAT'S WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR Up-and-coming storyteller Gabe Mollica has brought his "sweet not sappy" 90-minute Solo: A Show About Friendship to Boston after 80 Off-Broadway performances and …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:20AM[SHARE]Monday, April 8, 2024
FOUR WEDDINGS AND A MUSICAL Adore Broadway musicals? Hate Broadway musicals? Either way, you will love Lyric Stage's flip and frothy production of The Drowsy Chaperone. Director and choreogr…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 4, 2024
A NIGHT OF HIGH NOTES The beloved and versatile award-winning musical theater star Patti LuPone delighted those who packed Boston's Symphony Hall last evening with a series of high notes, lo…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:13AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 16, 2024
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]Friday, March 15, 2024
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]Monday, March 11, 2024
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]Monday, March 4, 2024
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]Thursday, February 29, 2024
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]Friday, February 23, 2024
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]Sunday, February 18, 2024
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]Friday, February 9, 2024
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]Sunday, February 4, 2024
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]Saturday, February 3, 2024
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]Monday, January 29, 2024
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]Monday, January 22, 2024
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]Tuesday, December 19, 2023
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]Thursday, December 7, 2023
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]Monday, October 2, 2023
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]Wednesday, September 27, 2023
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 …
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