Thursday, January 8, 2026
THIS SHOW IS ALIVE … WITH THE SOUND OF MUSIC A classic musical celebrates the power of music to promote authenticity How do you solve a problem like"presenting a musical that is so familia…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 7, 2026
SISTERHOOD, INTERRUPTED Ragtime, Liberation, and the unfinished work of women's equality Even when we know better, most of us seem to think that history proceeds in a linear manner. Life in …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:25PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 27, 2025
WONDER OF WONDERS! A musical that refuses pity and earns its hope American Repertory Theater's world premiere of the musical adaptation of R. J. Palacio's best-selling Wonder and the eponymo…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:53PM[SHARE]Monday, December 22, 2025
GO TELL IT! There are many ways to celebrate the holiday season on Boston-area stages, ranging from dance interpretations of The Nutcracker to performances and revisions of Dickens, to the e…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:50AM[SHARE]Monday, December 15, 2025
AN OMINOUS AND DISORIENTING THRILLER A meticulously staged interrogation that tightens its grip minute by minute In theater and in life, some risks are worth taking. Others may not be worth …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:08PM[SHARE]Monday, December 8, 2025
DICKENS IN AN IRISH PUB ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ The New England premiere of An Irish Carol by playwright Matthew Keenan offers a fresh take on C…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:55PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 6, 2025
TRIED AND TRUE ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ Annie is an excellent choice for Boston University Wheelock Family Theatre's holiday offering this year. …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:02PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 30, 2025
MORE NAUGHTY THAN NICE, WITH PLENTY OF SPICE ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ As they have for the past thirty years, Ryan Landry's Gold Dust Orphans hon…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:42PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 23, 2025
THE KEYS OF KNOWLEDGE What can I say about a show that offers one moment of delight after another while holding the anguish of parental narcissism, the joy of discovering one's own identity,…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 22, 2025
A BRIDGE TO UNDERSTANDING There may have been, at some point in human history, an evolutionary advantage to sorting other people into "us" and "them." But with modern weapons technology, wha…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 18, 2025
A HOLIDAY CAROL THAT HITS ALL THE RIGHT NOTES If you're looking for a holiday treat, look no further than the delightful production of A Sherlock Carol at the Lyric Stage. Brilliantly direct…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:35AM[SHARE]SPECTACULARLY CONFUSING You don't need me to tell you that J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series has tapped into something deeply elemental for many people. Her stories about a young wizard an…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:55AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 15, 2025
WOMEN ON THE VERGE Central Square Theater's lovely production of playwright David Auburn's (Proof) Summer, 1976 offers a story of two women who find an unexpected friendship at a tipping poi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:58AM[SHARE]Monday, November 10, 2025
GUNNING FOR PUERTO RICO Stephen Sondheim chose an unlikely topic for his 1990 Assassins, a musical that portrays assassinating or attempting to assassinate a president is as American as popu…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:34PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 4, 2025
THINGS THAT GO BOOM AND JUST RIGHT It's impossible to see a production of Jonathan Larson's Tick, Tick … Boom! without seeing it as a precursor to his Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Rent. …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:08AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 2, 2025
GREEN SCALES AND SHAM I generally count on SpeakEasy Stage for stellar productions of innovative and ground-breaking plays and musicals. But that history, along with fine performances and ch…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 26, 2025
CLOTHES MIGHT MAKE THE MAN, BUT NOT THIS SHOW Costumes were essential to the success of superstar Cher. She and her singing partner and husband Sonny Bono first burst on the music scene in t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:58AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 23, 2025
LOVE IN UNEXPECTED PLACES Two women, from quite different backgrounds, meet in Boston in 1968, a time and a place where ancient grudges and present-day conflicts seem sure to keep them apart…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:55AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 19, 2025
MISERY LOVES COMPANY… AND A GOOD PLOT Karen MacDonald and Tom Coiner do a wonderful job of animating William Goldman's stage adaptation of Stephen King's intriguing, twisty novel by the sa…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 15, 2025
OH HAPPY DAY! BRINGS A HAPPY DAY Playwright and actor Jordan E. Cooper's heart-breaking but joyously gospel-inflected New York premiere of Oh Happy Day! is an earned emotional treat. The sho…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:41PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 9, 2025
TWO LONG HOURS WITH THE FORMER MAN OF THE HOUR There is no question that Churchill was a hero who played a major role in saving the world from Hitler's fascism (though perhaps not as big a r…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 8, 2025
SOMETHING WICKED GOOD THIS WAY COMES You've probably seen one or more productions of William Shakespeare's Macbeth before, but you've likely never seen one like this Christopher V. Edwards-d…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:53AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 5, 2025
STANDING UP FOR HUMANITY Here are my criteria for a good night of comedy: 1) It needs to be surprising. 2) It needs to make me think. 3) It needs to promote values that make us better human …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 4, 2025
SIRENS, BELLS AND WHISTLES Conductor Andris Nelsons led the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a richly anticipated program of Nocturnes by Claude Debussy and Gustav Mahler's Symphony No 4 in G. T…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 1, 2025
A STRONG BREW OF CHARACTER AND STORY The Counter is the latest in a series of plays in greater Boston featuring a character who pours drinks. In recent months we've had Primary Trust, Two St…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:17PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 27, 2025
LEGACY MEETS MORTALITY IN THE MOUNTAINTOP This superb production of Katori Hall's The Mountaintop, a surprise-filled two-hander depicting King's last night before his assassination, is not j…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:37PM[SHARE]Friday, September 26, 2025
STILL SCRAPPY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS It has been more than ten years since Hamilton's Off-Broadway premiere. Alexander Hamilton may have declared himself"like his country""young, scrappy, and…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AM[SHARE]Monday, September 22, 2025
MULTILINGUAL PRE-WEDDING JITTERS The sixth play in Mfoniso Udofia's nine-play Ufot Family Cycle brings us the adorable couple Ekong Ufot (Kadahj Bennett) and Lumanti Shrestha (Mahima Saigal)…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:18PM[SHARE]SLEUTHING FOR LAUGHS? YOU'LL FIND THEM HERE It's elementary! A clever script, thanks to the prolific and popular playwright Kate Hamill, and superb physical and verbal comedy, thanks to a gr…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:58AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 20, 2025
STAR STRUCK Awe-inspiring lighting design (Eduardo M. Ramirez) and beautiful sound effects and music (Kai Bohlman with Violet Wang) elevate Lauren Gunderson's fictionalized biography of astr…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 16, 2025
THAT'S WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR Not every life-altering relationship is romantic. Sometimes it's a friend who helps us endure, who shapes us in ways that can last long after the friendship has e…
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