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…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:49AM[SHARE]Monday, September 15, 2025
COMEDY IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS So much could have gone wrong in this production of playwright David Templeton's delightfully original and utterly unique Featherbaby, but in the able hands…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:58AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 13, 2025
TAKE MY HUSBAND, PLEASE Marriage has long been fodder for male stand-up comics, but it has generally been women who have been the butt of the jokes. Actress, comic, and TV personality Joy Be…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:21PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 4, 2025
ON THE RIGHT TRACK The 7 Fingers (Les 7 Doigts), a Montréal-based circus arts company, brings 90 spellbinding minutes of exhibitions of strength, flexibility, coordination, balance, courage…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:15AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 16, 2025
THE LEFT BEHIND Frankly, I was in theater hell this Saturday afternoon. Two women on one side of me were whispering to one another throughout the first 10 minutes of the show; a man on the o…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 15, 2025
A BEWITCHING WIZ Director Schele Williams's touring adaptation of The Wiz touches down in Boston like a technicolor cyclone and lifts its audience up with a storm of funk, gospel, and unapol…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 27, 2025
REPAIR AND REPARATIONS Company One's world premiere of The Meeting Tree powerfully evokes the debate and the struggle over reparations and restitution through the lives of six women, some Bl…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:10PM[SHARE]Friday, July 25, 2025
WIN OR LOSE, IT'S ABOUT LOVE Wow! Whoever wrote Love's Labour's Lost was a comic genius. The wordplay, the multi-lingual puns, and the send-ups of characters stumbling over their own foolish…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:58AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 16, 2025
A WINNING ROLL OF THE DICE The musical theater classic Guys and Dolls has been produced so many times and in so many ways you might think it couldn't get much better, but don't bet on it. Th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:11AM[SHARE]Monday, July 14, 2025
A TRASH-TALKING ODD COUPLE The Garbologists opens with a few seconds of complete darkness and the clang and grind of machinery before two bright headlights move straight toward the audience.…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 12, 2025
ANOTHER FAMOUS BALCONY SCENE Romeo and Juliet isn't the only play with a famous balcony scene. The London revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Evita has attracted attention for the …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:31PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 6, 2025
THE DEVIL'S IN THE FINGERS: TRIFONOV TAKES FLIGHT AT A THUNDEROUS TANGLEWOOD OPENING Conductor Andris Nelson led the Boston Symphony Orchestra at last night's opening of its 2025 Tanglewood…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:47AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 2, 2025
SHAKEN AND STIRRED "Shake it up" is exactly what this cabaret-style production does"blending rock 'n' roll and R&B classics with lines from Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. The focus is …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:01AM[SHARE]Friday, June 27, 2025
BULLISH ON WOMEN'S EDUCATION With sharp, witty, and informative dialogue, Bryna Turner's Bull in a China Shop offers a fascinating glimpse into the life and accomplishments of Mary Wooley (L…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:23PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 15, 2025
A BEAUTIFUL TAPESTRY OF SONGS AND STORY Reagle Music Theatre kicks off the summer with a vibrant, lovingly crafted staging of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, directed with finesse and fl…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 10, 2025
REVENUE AND RESPECTABILITY George Bernard Shaw (1856"1950) knew about cancel culture long before the term came into vogue. The first New York production (1905) of Mrs. Warren's Profession wa…
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