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]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…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:25PM[SHARE]A CAKEWALK THROUGH NEW YORK The delightfully poignant and gorgeously hilarious West End hit Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) by Jim Barne and Kit Buchan made its North Amer…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:05AM[SHARE]LEARNING HOW TO BE IN COMMUNITY Few productions manage to collapse the space between art and community like Learning How to Read by Moonlight. In this world premiere from Gaven D. Trinidad, …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AM[SHARE]HOW SWEET IT IS! From the opening scene of As Bees in Honey Drown, we know that young Evan Wyler (Michael Mazzone) is doomed, but we also know that we are going to be happily amused as he tu…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]SOME DARE CALL IT TREASON Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold can hardly be called founders of the United States. In fact, while both acted as military leaders in the American War for Independen…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:24PM[SHARE]BRAIDED LIVES Director Summer L. Williams brings a uplifting and inspiring production of up-and-coming playwright Jocelyn Bioh's Tony-nominated Jaja's African Hair Braiding to the SpeakEasy …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:00AM[SHARE]THREE MEN IN A BOAT Playwrights Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon provide a gratifying change from the too-frequent, obviously profit-driven movie-to-musical adaptations that litter so many stages t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:01AM[SHARE]PREDATORS IN PINK Tina Fey (book), Jeff Richmond (music), and Nell Benjamin (lyrics) hit all the standard Broadway musical marks with Mean Girls, now in Boston as part of a national tour. It…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:10AM[SHARE]SOMETHING TASTY AT UMBRELLA STAGE Leo Tolstoy said there were only two stories in the world"either someone goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. The Umbrella Stage Company's musical…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:15AM[SHARE]A BITTER TRUTH WRAPPED IN A SWEET TITLE Fresh Ink's absorbing production of Sugar, by playwright Tara Moses, is anything but saccharine. Under the sure direction of Audrey Seraphin, Sugar is…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:08PM[SHARE]HALCYON AND ON AND ON Director Maurice Emmanuel Parent's vibrant, pulsing production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream transforms the woods outside Athens into a 1990s dance floor. …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:20PM[SHARE]THE THINGS THEY CARRIED The fourth episode in Mfoniso Udofia's ambitious nine-episode Ufot Family Cycle, Her Portmanteau, takes us deeper into the fascinating story of a very specific Nigeri…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:51AM[SHARE]IT DON'T GET MUCH CORNIER" AND THAT'S THE POINT In Shucked, the jokes fly fast as exploding kernels of popcorn in this Tony-award winning musical comedy"part Brigadoon, part Music Man, and w…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:58PM[SHARE]A SPIRITED REVIVAL WITH DEPTH AND DISSONANCE Eighty years after Carousel had its final pre-Broadway preview at Boston's Colonial Theatre, Boston Lyric Opera revives Rodgers and Hammerstein's…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:02PM[SHARE]MURDER BY MANGO Ricardo Pérez González's Don't Eat the Mangos"a tragicomedy brimming with revelation, rage, and retribution"transforms the Calderwood stage into a site of reckoning. Dire…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:53AM[SHARE]THE TRIUMPH OF ALLISON ALTMAN There are many reasons to see The Triumph of Love, director Loretta Greco's gender-bending comedy that channels equal parts Shakespeare, Billy Wilder, and a das…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:49PM[SHARE]STILL WAITING FOR JUSTICE At its heart, Parade is a gripping exploration of prejudice, justice, and the power of perception. This Tony Award-winning revival, directed by Michael Arden, is ba…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:00AM[SHARE]UNTYING THE SPELL Tongva and Mescalero Apache actor GiGi Buddie delivers a spellbinding performance in Where We Belong, an autobiographical one-woman show by Madeline Sayet, who weaves a dee…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:30PM[SHARE]IT'S NOT SO MUCH HOW IRISH BECAME AMERICANS " IT'S HOW AMERICA BECAME IRISH Greater Boston Stage Company's lively production of Frank McCourt's The Irish and How They Got That Way ennobles o…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:58AM[SHARE]THE REDEEMING POWER OF ART Picture this. A white wall"or is it gray? or a blank canvas?"and a pale tile floor. Are we in an austere modern art museum or gallery? The lights go out and when t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:51AM[SHARE]OUT OF THE WOODS AND INTO THE GROVE The second in Mfoniso Udofia's ambitious nine-play Ufot Family Cycle, The Grove, directed by Awoye Timpo, picks up the story of the Ufot family over three…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:54PM[SHARE]BEAUTIFUL, BORED AND BENT ON DESTRUCTION For a taut psychological drama fraught with sexual tension, Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler remains unrivaled, and Parker Jennings delivers a mesmerizing…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:53PM[SHARE]A FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE ON A FAMILIAR JOURNEY Playwright Kate Hamill takes Homer's Odyssey and gives it a sharp, contemporary spin, transforming the tale of wily and deceitful Odysseus (Wayne…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:24AM[SHARE]TO BOLDLY GO WHERE NO WOMAN HAS GONE BEFORE After seeing SPACE at Central Square Theater, the line that haunted me came from Mae Jemison, the first Black woman to travel into space: "Rockets…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:16PM[SHARE]A SEARCH FOR MEANING BROUGHT TO GLORIOUS LIFE BY A PUPPET Based on the Booker-prize winning novel by Nobel-laureate South African J.M. Coetzee and adapted and directed by Lara Foot in collab…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:11PM[SHARE]A LESSON ON FAMILY LEGACY Actors' Shakespeare Project continues its exploration of August Wilson's Century Cycle with an absolutely superb production of the 1987 Pulitzer-winning masterpiece…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:01PM[SHARE]HOW THE COOKIE CRUMBLES From Intimate Apparel and Sweat to Clyde's, playwright Lynn Nottage is known for her ability to illuminate the lives of ordinary and working-class people, Black and w…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:51AM[SHARE]THE ELATION OF NEGATION Written by Jordan E. Cooper and directed by Dawn M. Simmons, the Boston premiere of this Tony-nominated series of provocative satirical sketches explores various face…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:12PM[SHARE]TAP INTO JOY AT A.R.T. I felt the first chills early in Diary of a Tap Dancer. It was during an ensemble number set in the Bronx and the birth of hip hop " I got that feeling in my solar ple…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:34PM[SHARE]FEAST ON THIS! For the second year, Front Porch Arts Collective offers its Holiday Feast of staged readings of scripts from the holiday episodes of Black sitcoms of the 1970s, '80s, and '90s…
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