Elizabeth Cole

Experience the Emotional Journey of LAST OUT: ELEGY OF A GREEN BERET at Skylight Music Theatre

Discover the powerful and emotional tribute to veterans in 'Last Out: Elegy of a Green Beret' at Skylight Music Theatre. Don't miss this unforgettable production!

BWW Review: Zeitgeist Stage Company Cements Its Imprint With World Premiere of TRIGGER WARNING

The world may end with a whimper, but Zeitgeist Stage Company goes out with a bang, presenting the world premiere of Jacques Lamarre's TRIGGER WARNING. David J. Miller and company bring down the curtain after eighteen seasons on the Boston theater scene, leaving a void that will not be soon or easily filled.

BWW Review: Zeitgeist Stage Opens Curtain on Final Season With N.E. Premiere of VICUÑA

In news recently reported, the 2018-2019 season will be Zeitgeist Stage Company's last, after seventeen years of notable productions as an acclaimed stalwart of the Boston fringe theater scene. Artistic Director David J. Miller has never shied away from plays that deal with controversial or highly charged political subject matter, and he is not about to change now. For his penultimate production, Miller directs the New England premiere of Jon Robin Baitz's VICUÑA, a searing takedown of the current administration and its take-no-prisoners march from the nomination to the election.

Oxygen Media Explores THE DISAPPEARANCE OF CRYSTAL ROGERS

Oxygen Media Explores THE DISAPPEARANCE OF CRYSTAL ROGERS

BWW Review: LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION! Captures the Zeitgeist

LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION! by Terrence McNally won the 1995 Tony Award for Best Play and, although much has changed in the ensuing twenty-four years since it opened at the Manhattan Theatre Club, as a slice of gay life, it withstands the test of time. On each of the three major summer weekends, eight gay male friends gather at one's sprawling lakeside country house in Dutchess County to dish, dine, and dance. President Bill Clinton was in his first term, the AIDS epidemic infiltrated every aspect of the gay community, and the fragility of life weighed on the hearts and minds of these close friends.

Apollinaire Presents FIRST LOVE IS THE REVOLUTION

Apollinaire Theatre Company presents the US Premiere of this viciously funny and unforgettable play about first love, teenage lust, and nature vs nurture.

BWW Review: STEVE at Zeitgeist Stage Company

STEVE is a character-driven play in which not much happens, but it is a humorous treatise on the lives of a couple of middle-aged gay couples who are exploring ways to enliven their 'post-passion' relationships. Right about now, we can all use a shot of humor, and whether one is gay or straight, there's much to recognize and connect with in the quotidian routines of these characters. In his first play, Mark Gerrard puts the spotlight on four good friends who face the challenges of kids, in-laws, boredom, infidelity, and mortality with various strategies and mixed results.

BWW Review: Powerful, Thought-provoking FACELESS at Zeitgeist Stage Company

Zeitgeist Stage Company begins its 17th season with the East Coast premiere of Selina Fillinger's FACELESS, a play with a storyline that sits smack in the middle of the national zeitgeist. It pits a sheltered 18-year old white girl against a Harvard Law School graduate and practicing Muslim in a taut courtroom drama that is about much more than the charges being litigated. Terrorism and ISIS are on trial, but the face of a young American woman is symbolic of how the enemy is expanding its reach into our homeland via social media, and the attorney in the hijab is the unlikely government crusader chosen to fight back.

BWW Review: DESIRE: Tennessee Williams in Others' Words

Zeitgeist Stage Company introduces new faces that meld into an impressive ensemble to convey the unusual and flawed characters from the mind of Williams and the pens of half a dozen eclectic playwrights in DESIRE: AN EVENING OF PLAYS BASED ON SIX SHORT STORIES BY TENNESSEE WILLIAMS. A self-admitted aficionado of Williams, Director David J. Miller mixes and matches his cast to meet the challenge of portraying diverse personalities.

BWW Review: N.E. Premiere of Ike Holter's EXIT STRATEGY: This is Not a Drill

Zeitgeist Stage Company joins the ranks of prescient Boston theater companies with Ike Holter's EXIT STRATEGY, a play about the impending closing of a failing inner-city Chicago school, how it impacts the faculty and students, and the measures they take to fight back.

HENRY V Marks Roxy Regional Theatre's 32nd Annual Shakespearean Production

This fall, the Roxy Regional Theatre delves into these questions with the company's 32nd annual foray into the works attributed to William Shakespeare.  An exploration into the nature of leadership and its relationship to morality, HENRY V opens Friday, November 4, at 8:00pm, for a limited run.

BWW Reviews: Feast On THE BIG MEAL At Zeitgeist Stage Company

THE BIG MEAL, the Boston area premiere of Dan LeFranc's play about the interactions of five generations of an extended family, is the kind of show that Zeitgeist Stage Company and Artistic Director David J. Miller feast upon - a character-driven ensemble piece that showcases the range of the actors, as well as Miller's ability to transfer the playwright's vision from page to stage.

Photo Flash: Inside Lyric Opera of Chicago's Diamond Ball & Concert with Jane Lynch, Jenn Gambatese & More

Lyric Opera of Chicago celebrated its glorious history and future Saturday, November 1, with a star-studded 60th Anniversary Concert at the Civic Opera House beginning at 6:30pm - sixty years to the day after the company officially launched its very first season.

BWW Recap: CURTAIN: POIROT'S LAST CASE Packs a Punch

The final, 70th episode in the dramatization of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot stories, CURTAIN, starring David Suchet in his definitive portrayal of the Belgian detective, is now being streamed by AcornTV. This long-awaited episode, a career-capping achievement for Suchet, does not disappoint; it is among the best of the more recent Poirot episodes, and is relatively faithful to Christie's novel, written in the 1940's and published in 1975. While multiple suspicious characters and blind alleyways abound in this 90 minute adaptation, the plot does not rely as heavily on familiar Christie parlor tricks such as unbelievable double identities. Instead, it explores a much more psychological landscape, particularly in terms of Poirot himself, his longtime friend Hastings (Hugh Fraser), and a diabolical psychopath who revels in provocation rather than personal bloodletting.

Photo Flash: First Look at Australian Theatre Company's LA Premiere of HOLDING THE MAN

Writer, actor and activist Timothy Conigrave's best-selling memoir (winner of the United Nations Human Rights Award for Non-Fiction and listed as one of the '100 Favorite Australian Books' by the Australian Society of Authors) is one of Australia's great love stories. The stage version by Tommy Murphy captures all its special magic. Producers Nick Hardcastle and Nate Jones launch their newly formed Australian Theatre Company with the Los Angeles premiere of Holding the Man, featuring an all-Australian cast and directed by veteran Hollywood acting coach Larry Moss. Opening night is May 10 at the Matrix Theatre. Scroll down to see some photos from the production!

ATC to Present HOLDING THE MAN at Matrix Theatre, 5/10-6/29

Writer, actor and activist Timothy Conigrave's best-selling memoir (winner of the United Nations Human Rights Award for Non-Fiction and listed as one of the '100 Favorite Australian Books' by the Australian Society of Authors) is one of Australia's great love stories. The stage version by Tommy Murphy captures all its special magic. Producers Nick Hardcastle and Nate Jones launch their newly formed Australian Theatre Company with the Los Angeles premiere of Holding the Man, featuring an all-Australian cast and directed by veteran Hollywood acting coach Larry Moss. Opening night is May 10 at the Matrix Theatre.

Dark Comedy IT'S MY PARTY (AND I'LL DIE IF I WANT TO) to Play Athenaeum Theatre, 7/5-6

Helpmann Award winner Henri Szeps (Mother and Son) arrives in Melbourne to perform the hilariously dark comedy It's My Party (And I'll Die If I Want To) alongside Green Room Award winner Robyn Arthur (The Boy from Oz) and a fantastic ensemble cast. The show plays 5-6 July, 8pm at Athenaeum Theatre.

DATELINE Presents A FATHER'S MISSION 6/27

NBC News' Chief Foreign Correspondent and award-winning chronicler of America's War on Terror, Richard Engel reports from Afghanistan and around the country on one of the deadliest battles in the Afghan War - the Battle of Wanat - and the impact it had on a fallen soldier's father in a special edition of 'Dateline: A Father's Mission' on June 27 (7:00-8:00 PM/ET).

DATELINE Presents A FATHER'S MISSION 6/27

NBC News' Chief Foreign Correspondent and award-winning chronicler of America's War on Terror, Richard Engel reports from Afghanistan and around the country on one of the deadliest battles in the Afghan War - the Battle of Wanat - and the impact it had on a fallen soldier's father in a special edition of 'Dateline: A Father's Mission' on June 27 (7:00-8:00 PM/ET).

Claudia Dey's Trout Stanley Heads Off-Broadway in May

Claudia Dey's award-winning Canadian play Trout Stanley will have its American premiere off-Broadway from May 19th through June 11th