★★★★☆ “What if I told you it’s going to be all right? What if I told you not yet?” It’s this kind of wisdom—sometimes reassuring, sometimes unnerving, but always ominous—that pulses through Black Light, Daniel Alexander Jones’ one-woman mystical cabaret-style show that will run at American Repertory Theater’s OBERON through Sept 29. […]
A FEARLESS, BOLD VISION IN ARLEKIN’S THE STONE
★★★★☆ One house in Dresden becomes ground zero for a multigenerational exploration of guilt, complicity, survival, and truth in Marius von Mayenburg’s The Stone, which plays at Needham’s Arlekin Players Theatre through Sept 29. The play is a complicated one, made even more difficult by the fact that that it jumps back […]
BOYS TO MEN: AN ASTOUNDING ENSEMBLE GIVES LIFE TO CHOIR BOY
★★★★☆ A 2019 Tony Award nominee for Best Play, Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Choir Boy is receiving a spirited, well-acted New England premiere at Boston’s SpeakEasy Stage Company, where it will run through Oct 12. McCraney, best known as the Oscar-winning co-writer of Moonlight, mines similar territory here—young black men coming of age while […]
A JOURNEY OF ENGAGEMENT: DAVID BYRNE READIES AMERICAN UTOPIA FOR BOSTON, THEN BROADWAY
How did it feel walking in the doors of the Colonial and seeing this incredible building for the first time? It’s a very amazing looking place. As I was saying to some of the theater people, I bet there are people that come to see a show here just to be in this place. […]
NOPE-DA-DOO: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS LIMPS AT LYRIC STAGE
★★★☆☆ If ever there was a musical that embodied the notion of “the little musical that could,” it would be Little Shop of Horrors, the kooky 1982 Off-Broadway musical that rightfully earned its place among musical theater’s most beloved comedies, thanks mostly to the terrific 1986 Frank Oz film that allowed the story […]
THE STRAW THAT STIRS THE DRINK: A CHAT WITH SONJA MORGAN
For nearly 10 years, Sonja Morgan has been the heart, soul, and comic relief of The Real Housewives of New York City, which just wrapped up its 11th season on Bravo. For two nights this weekend (one in Beverly, one in Barnstable) she’ll be joined by Teresa Giudice and Margaret Josephs of The Real […]
NOT STRONG ENOUGH TO BE BELIEVED: CYMBELINE SPUTTERS ON THE BOSTON COMMON
★★☆☆☆ Confusing. Haphazard. Far-Fetched. Convoluted. For centuries, such words have been used repeatedly to describe Cymbeline, Shakespeare’s rarely staged late tragicomedy that is being performed on the Boston Common by Commonwealth Shakespeare Company through Aug 4. George Bernard Shaw even famously called it “stagy trash.” Trash, I’m not sure, but it […]
TWO ONE-OF-A-KIND BOYS, TWO EXCEPTIONAL PERFORMANCES
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME AT APOLLINAIRE THEATRE COMPANY ★★★★☆ Apollinaire Theatre’s free waterfront productions have become one of the best things about summertime in Boston, and it’s not hard to see why: The performance is free, the parking is free, it’s easily accessible by public transit, […]
KISS AND TELL: IT’S NEVER THE WRONG TIME OF YEAR TO PROTECT, MOISTURIZE (AND USE!) YOUR LIPS
Don’t wait for the chill to start supplying your smackers with proper nourishment: Salt, sun, and rosé can be just as unforgiving on the lips, plus they’ll thank you when things get frigid. Here are my top products right now…
A GODDESS IN OUR MIDST: FAYE DUNAWAY IN TEA AT FIVE
★★★☆☆ In the spirit of total transparency, it must be said that I would pay money to sit and watch Faye Dunaway do just about anything. Or, for that matter, absolutely nothing. My love for her runs deep. So it was very much with that same sense of adoration and awe that I […]
