Boston Theater Reviews: Best Shows & Critic Recommendations Page 40

BWW REVIEW: 'ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS,' FEW LAUGHS
by Jan Nargi - September 12, 2013

Boston premiere of recent Broadway hit "One Man, Two Guvnors" at Lyric Stage Company is inconsistent when it comes to playing farce...

BWW Review: DRIVING MISS DAISY in a Deluxe Vehicle
by Nancy Grossman - September 11, 2013

DRIVING MISS DAISY is a fitting capstone to the Gloucester Stage Company 2013 season. Benny Sato Ambush provides thoughtful, intelligent direction for the sublime acting talents of Lindsay Crouse, Johnny Lee Davenport, and Robert Pemberton....

BWW Review: In Rockport Concert, Faith Prince Shows a Lot of Heart
by Nancy Grossman - August 27, 2013

Tony Award winner and Broadway star Faith Prince brought her cabaret-style act to Shalin Liu Performance Center in Rockport as part of Summer at Rockport 2013. With her Music Director Alex Rybeck on piano, they put on a dazzling program of classic show tunes, back stage stories, and Prince's "gracio...

BWW Reviews: Rocking Out with Bad Habits Productions' ROOMS: A ROCK ROMANCE
by Alex Lonati - August 26, 2013

The show is a new musical that follows two Scottish performers as they join together in music and try to make a name for themselves, all while exploring the destructive and alluring romance between them. The entire piece is told through story telling and constant rock music, as these two trace their...

BWW Reviews: Sparks fly in SCOTT AND HEM IN THE GARDEN OF ALLAH
by Larry Murray - August 22, 2013

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BWW Review: Sex and Drugs on the Upper West Side
by Nancy Grossman - August 17, 2013

Director Lewis D. Wheeler and the Gloucester Stage Company mount playwright Kenneth Lonergan's THIS IS OUR YOUTH with a trio of talented actors displaying high energy and raw emotion. Jimi Stanton, Alex Pollock, and Amanda Collins are three privileged kids on Manhattan's Upper West Side trying to fi...

BWW Reviews: Evil Lurks in THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE at ShakesCo in the Berkshires
by Larry Murray - August 17, 2013

Anything is sweeter than this mother and daughter story....

BWW Review: Elements Combine for Wonderful Cape Getaway
by Nancy Grossman - August 13, 2013

Elements Theatre Company in Orleans kicks off a year-long tribute to William Shakespeare with an accessible A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM performed by a resident ensemble at Paraclete House at Rock Harbor. Their professionalism and commitment to their craft are unmistakable in this very solid production...

BWW Reviews: Funny, Inventive MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING at Barrington Stage Co
by Larry Murray - August 12, 2013

With this production of Much Ado About Nothing, Barrington Stage enters the ranks of Berkshire theatre companies that have proven their expertise with the most successful, and challenging, of all playwrights....

BWW Reviews: Tears All Around Me in Reagle Music Theatre's LES MISERABLES
by Alex Lonati - August 12, 2013

Les Miserables is arguably the most popular musical in history and after the successful 2012 motion picture version, its fan base has only continued to expand. Les Mis is hardly a musical, but rather, a movement. Next to tackle this show of epic proportions is the Reagle Music Theatre in Waltham, MA...

BWW Reviews: A Journey of Epic Proportions in The Circuit Theatre's THE VALENTINE TRILOGY
by Alex Lonati - August 05, 2013

The Valentine Trilogy consists of three parts: Sal Valentino and the Melancholy Kid set in the wild, wild West, Curse of the Crying Heart in medieval Japan, and Valentine Victorious! in 1930s Boston. The stories all revolve around an epic hero, a masked vigilante with a heart of gold, and the tales ...

CABARET LIFE NYC: Boston's LYNDA D'AMOUR Deserves Move Love From the New York Cabaret Crowd
by Stephen Hanks - August 03, 2013

Given the insular and in-clubby world that is the New York cabaret scene (by nature, not by design), it can be a struggle for non-celebrity, out-of-town performers to generate an audience when they mount shows in Manhattan. One singer facing that dilemma is lovely, Boston-based Lynda D'Amour, a terr...

BWW Reviews: Olympia Dukakis Delivers Stunning MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN in Berkshires
by Larry Murray - August 03, 2013

In MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN, Olympia Dukakis delivers a searing performance in its title role. Dukakis is more than just a masterful actor, she delivers a Mother Courage who is strong, sassy and simply astonishing in her complexity. The entire ensemble of sixteen actors raises the reputation ...

BWW Review: Laugh 'til it Hurts at WHY TORTURE IS WRONG...
by Nancy Grossman - July 30, 2013

Titanic Theatre Company's production of Tony Award-winner Christopher Durang's WHY TORTURE IS WRONG, AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM takes you on a wild ride into a post 9/11 world populated by a suspected terrorist, a minister who produces porno movies, and loony agents of a shadow government. It's b...

BWW Reviews: Nostalgic SAME TIME, NEXT YEAR at Berkshire Theatre Group
by Larry Murray - July 28, 2013

One of America's most popular plays for summer theatres, SAME TIME, NEXT YEAR offers a light alternative in this summer in the Berkshires which is better known for serious classics, new musicals and cutting edge new plays....

BWW Reviews: Heartfelt Transgender Musical SOUTHERN COMFORT at Barrington Stage
by Larry Murray - July 25, 2013

In one of the most unusual musical stories since Sweeney Todd, we enter into the world of transgendered people living in the rural south and the lives they lead in a hostile environment. With country and bluegrass music the difficulties and challenges of becoming who you are is explored with both br...

BWW Review: Prize Catch: NORTH SHORE FISH at Gloucester Stage Company
by Nancy Grossman - July 24, 2013

Nearly thirty years after its world premiere at Gloucester Stage Company, Israel Horovitz's Pulitzer Prize-nominated play NORTH SHORE FISH presents a stark take on the local fish industry and remains relevant. Director Robert Walsh and the fine ensemble cast of seven women and two men inhabit the wo...

BWW Review: PAPER CITY PHOENIX Gets Lost in (Cyber) Space
by Nancy Grossman - July 22, 2013

PAPER CITY PHOENIX aspires to show the world rising from the ashes of the explosion of an Internet overload in a future where law enforcement officials investigate misuse of information and disconnected people seek the security of community in a cult-like sect. Playwright Walt McGough tries to take ...

BWW Reviews: THE CHOSEN Captivates at Barrington Stage
by Larry Murray - July 22, 2013

The book was a hit when published years ago, and THE CHOSEN on stage is no less wonderful in this adaptation written and directed by Aaron Posner. With a first rate cast at Barrington Stage, this tale of two fathers and their sons is both gripping theatre and food for thought....

BWW Reviews: Throwback Time in Company One's HOW WE GOT ON
by Alex Lonati - July 22, 2013

Following fifteen-year-old Hank, the show addresses the growth of rap and hip hop in the 1980s, particularly in a suburban environment where it had not yet been accepted. Hank and his friends, Julian and Luann, struggle with stage fright, competition, unsupportive parental figures, friendship, accep...

BWW Reviews: Dramatic, Musical Tchaikovsky in NONE BUT THE LONELY HEART
by Larry Murray - July 21, 2013

At Shakespeare & Company the fusion of a classical concert with a dramatic story explores the relationship between Tchaikovsky and Mrs. von Meck. Much -though not all- is revealed in this story about the composer vis his letters, his music and the intertwining of theatre, music and dance....

BWW Reviews: Laughing My B.U.M.P Off at Improv Boston's BOSTON'S UNSCRIPTED MUSICAL PROJECT
by Alex Lonati - July 21, 2013

I attended a show at Improv Boston, a company that provides a variety of comedy shows, including improv, sketches, and stand-up. Currently, they have a very special project in the works: B.U.M.P, or Boston's Unscripted Musical Project, a musical show completely composed on the spot....

BWW Review: It's Time to Open Up Your Closet
by Nancy Grossman - July 20, 2013

Hub Theatre Company of Boston presents the Boston premiere of LOVE, LOSS AND WHAT I WORE under the direction of Paula Plum. Music is evocative, but it turns out that clothing serves the same function for many women. Writers and sisters Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron convey the important connection bet...

BWW Reviews: Surprising Trio of Plays at BERKSHIRE FRINGE FESTIVAL
by Larry Murray - July 20, 2013

Those who love theatre that is fresh and new are finding their surprises at the nine year old Berkshrie Fringe....

BWW Reviews: Fast-paced PYGMALION at Williamstown Theatre Festival
by Larry Murray - July 19, 2013

Heather Lind as Eliza and Robert Sean Leonard as Professor Higgins shine in this five act play that is George Bernard Shaw's most popular....