DIG 22.32 – 8/13/20
★★★★★
Here she is, boys! Here she is, world! Here’s Rose!
And in Lucy Kirkwood’s extraordinary play The Children, this Rose shows up out of the blue at the ramshackle seaside cottage ...
LOVE SPENT: THE TREASURER AT THE LYRIC STAGE
★★☆☆☆
In Max Posner’s The Treasurer, a middle-aged man who doesn’t love his mother—and seems to hate himself for it—finds himself in the position of having to take charge ...
ALL OF THE ROSE, NONE OF THE PRICK: CREAMS, BODY POLISH & MORE
Capturing the sophistication, craftsmanship, and sheer loveliness of Provence, the Rose Olivier line from Bastide is flawless in every sense of the word.
SHE SEES IT, SHE LIKES IT, SHE WANTS IT, SHE GETS IT: VANITY FAIR AT CENTRAL SQUARE THEATER
★★★★☆
There are two directors in Boston that I would wholeheartedly call fearless: One is Igor Golyak of Needham’s Arlekin Players, and the other is David R. Gammons, whose current mounting of Kate Hamill’s Vanity ...
THE WAY THEY WERE: BRIGHT HALF LIFE AT ACTORS’ SHAKESPEARE PROJECT
WHERE THERE IS CAKE, THERE IS HOPE: THE CAKE AT THE LYRIC STAGE
★★★★★
Inspired by the now infamous case of the Colorado baker who refused to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple, Bekah Brunstetter uses that basic conflict as a jumping off point for The Cake ...
THE MASK: WINTER DRY-SKIN SAVIORS, FROM VOLCANIC ASH TO ANTIOXIDANTS
LIFE TO THE EVERLASTING CAT: THE BOLD REVOLUTION—AND WELCOME RETURN—OF CATS
★★★★☆
Hi, my name is Chris, and I’m a Cats fan.
Ever since Cats premiered almost 40 years ago, it’s been the ...
THE BEST PRODUCTIONS OF 2019
They had style, they had grace. Alice Ripley gave good face.
As we come to the close of another theatrical year, it’s time to not only name the best productions of the year, but to reflect on the year’s theatrical offerings as a whole. Some years there are trends; some years there aren’t. And sometimes when ...
ALL THE MILLION HOURS: PARADE AT MOONBOX PRODUCTIONS
★★★★☆
Moonbox Productions continues its impressive run of presenting complicated, adult musicals with more polish, professionalism, and nuance than most other companies in the Boston area, even those with more cash and more clout.
Parade ...
