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SpeakEasy's NEXT TO NORMAL Struggles with the Highs and Lows of Mental Illness
March 26, 2012
March 26, 2012
SpeakEasy Stage Company of Boston mounts a stirring, if not completely satisfying, production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical that explores an average family's attempts to deal with the shattering effects of mental illness
TIME STANDS STILL: Lives Out of Focus and Frozen by War
February 27, 2012
February 27, 2012
Lyric Stage in Boston sharpens the focus on Donald Margulies' meandering play about a photo journalist and foreign correspondent damaged by life and the ravages of the Iraq War
THE ADDAMS FAMILY: More Mediocre Than Macabre
February 11, 2012
February 11, 2012
National tour of revamped Broadway musical based on the darkly humorous comics of Charles Addams is more sweetly traditional than deliciously cutting edge
'SUPERIOR DONUTS' HAS TOUGH GLAZE, SOFT CENTER
February 2, 2012
February 2, 2012
Boston's Lyric Stage production of Tracy Letts' kinder, gentler follow-up to 'August: Osage County' boasts a superb cast of vivid characters grappling with a changing neighborhood and changing times
ART Mirrors Life
January 31, 2012
January 31, 2012
Tony Award-winning play by Yasmina Reza takes a penetrating look at the fragility of friendship in a thought-provoking production at the New Rep in Watertown
'GOD OF CARNAGE' IS HIT AND MISS
January 30, 2012
January 30, 2012
Boston premiere of 2010 Tony Award-winning play GOD OF CARNAGE at the Huntington Theatre is full of laughs but short on deeper satisfactions
AMERICAN IDIOT Jolts the Senses
January 27, 2012
January 27, 2012
National tour of 2010 Tony-nominated rock musical 'Green Day's American Idiot' electrifies Boston with hard-driving message of alienation and finding one's way back home
RED Paints the Artistry and Anguish of a Brilliant Mind
January 17, 2012
January 17, 2012
Thomas Derrah gives a tour de force performance as the noted but troubled artist Mark Rothko in a crackling SpeakEasy Stage Company production of John Logan's Tony Award-winning play
BWW Reviews: New LA CAGE AUX FOLLES Tour Is More Leather Than Lace
December 14, 2011
December 14, 2011
National tour of Tony Award-winning revival starring George Hamilton and Christopher Seiber is a naughty but nice Christmas present to Boston through December 18
BWW Reviews: HIGH Expectations, Disappointing Results
December 8, 2011
December 8, 2011
National tour of failed Broadway production of 'High,' Matthew Lombardo's muddled new play about addiction and the role of faith in recovery, opens in Boston with stars Kathleen Turner and Evan Jonigkeit reprising their roles
Photo Coverage: CHRISTMAS TIME Opens at Reagle Music Theatre Dec. 3
December 4, 2011
December 4, 2011
Broadway's Sarah Pfisterer and Rick Hilsabeck lead Reagle Music Theatre's CHRISTMAS TIME at the Robinson Theatre in Waltham, Mass., Dec. 3-11
Ogunquit's 'Miss Saigon' Pulses with Urgency of Life and Death
October 14, 2011
October 14, 2011
Riveting revival of 1990s pop opera 'Miss Saigon' feels fresh and new in a breathtaking production at Maine's Ogunquit Playhouse
BWW Reviews: Huntington's 'Candide' Is Quite Possibly the Best of All Possible
October 2, 2011
October 2, 2011
Director/adapter Mary Zimmerman brings Leonard Bernstein's gloriously satirical musical of blind faith and unblinking optimism to life with vivid clarity, joyful exuberance, and thrilling poignancy in a pitch-perfect production at Boston's Huntington Theatre
BWW Reviews - SOUTH PACIFIC Feels 'South Pathetic'
September 29, 2011
September 29, 2011
National tour of 2008 Broadway revival now in Boston is a lame facsimile of the Tony Award-winning Lincoln Center Theatre production lauded as 'some enchanted evening'
BWW Reviews: SpeakEasy Stages a Crisp NEXT FALL
September 27, 2011
September 27, 2011
Religion and homosexuality make strange bed fellows in SpeakEasy Stage's tender and taut production of Geoffrey Nauffts compelling 'Next Fall'
BWW Reviews: Norm Lewis and Audra McDonald Illuminate PORGY & BESS at A.R.T.
September 2, 2011
September 2, 2011
A.R.T.'s soaring pre-Broadway revision of 'The Gershwin's Porgy and Bess' offers many grace notes and an exquisite cast
Interview: 'The Game' Is Afoot Again for Julianne Boyd and the Barrington Stage
August 9, 2011
August 9, 2011
Barrington Stage Company's world premiere musical 'The Game,' a 'breathtakingly beautiful' adaptation of 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses,' returns to the Berkshires for a second chance at a longer life
Photo Coverage: REAGLE MUSIC THEATRE OF GREATER BOSTON CELEBRATES OPENING OF 'SOUND OF MUSIC'
August 8, 2011
August 8, 2011
The cast of Reagle Music Theatre's 'The Sound of Music' celebrated opening night at a post-show reception on August 5. An all-time audience favorite, the musical stars stage and screen idol Patrick Cassidy as Captain von Trapp and Broadway's Sarah Pfisterer as Maria.
Photo Flash: Patrick Cassidy Opens THE SOUND OF MUSIC at Reagle Music Theatre
August 4, 2011
August 4, 2011
Patrick Cassidy and Sarah Pfisterer star in THE SOUND OF MUSIC August 5-14 at Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston
BWW Reviews: Staging, Dance Give This MUSIC MAN Spark at Ogunquit
July 25, 2011
July 25, 2011
Director Ray Roderick, choreographer Jeffry Denman, and a delicious ensemble cast breathe exuberant life into Ogunquit Playhouse's fun-filled 'Music Man'
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