Review: Greater Boston Stage Company's DINNER FOR ONE Serves Up the Laughs
by R. Scott Reedy - November 15, 2024
A distant cousin of America’s New Year’s Eve Times Square ball-dropping tradition, “Dinner for One” is an iconic comedy sketch broadcast every New Year’s Eve in countries including Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, and Estonia, and on other days of the year in Norway, Australia, and South Afri...
Review: GALILEO’S DAUGHTER at WAM Theatre
by Marc Savitt - November 05, 2024
GALILEO’S DAUGHTER is a strong representation of WAM theater’s mission and values that include “producing theatrical events for everyone, with a focus on women theatre artists and / or stories of women and girls”....
Review: THE WEIR at Berkshire Theatre Group
by Marc Savitt - October 01, 2024
THE WEIR promises an exploration of human connection, the echoes of personal haunting, and the mystical allure of Ireland's folklore, captivating audiences with its hauntingly evocative storytelling. The experience made all the more relevant as we change the calendar to October. THE WEIR continues a...
Review: The Huntington's LEOPOLDSTADT is Heart-Rending Epic
by R. Scott Reedy - September 27, 2024
Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard, 87, was the child of non-observant Jews whose family fled Czechoslovakia during World War II, just prior to Nazi occupation. Stoppard then spent much of his young life in India, and then Nottingham and Yorkshire in England, becoming the ve...
Review: PRIMARY TRUST at Barrington Stage Company
by Marc Savitt - September 24, 2024
PRIMARY TRUST is a refreshingly intimate production. The production provides a space in which audiences are encouraged to examine our relationship to loneliness, grief, and our desire for connection. I encourage seeing charming, delightful, relevant, powerful production of PRIMARY TRUST at Barringto...