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 […]
THE EBONIC WOMAN AT GOLD DUST ORPHANS
★★★★☆ We’ve got trouble, my friends, right here in Massachusetts. Hennessy Brown (Qya Marie) was a black-market baby who, as a little girl, watched her adoptive fathers get gunned down by an illegal immigrant dressed as a nun on the streets of Lynn. Twenty years later, she’s a brilliant young scientist who […]
SCHOOL GIRLS; OR, THE AFRICAN MEAN GIRLS PLAY AT SPEAKEASY STAGE
★★★★★ Putting a new twist on the age-old trope of the mean but secretly insecure queen bee and her gaggle of devoted followers, Jocelyn Bioh’s School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play is currently receiving its New England premiere in a SpeakEasy Stage production directed by Summer L. Williams. This production, […]
THEATER REVIEW: CAROLINE, OR CHANGE AT MOONBOX PRODUCTIONS
★★★☆☆ It’s been 15 years since Caroline, or Change first premiered at New York’s Public Theater, and in that decade and a half, few new musicals have come close to matching its ambition or complexity. (An exception could be Fun Home which, like Caroline, also features a score by Jeanine Tesori). If ambition […]
THEATER REVIEW: VIETGONE AT COMPANY ONE THEATRE
★★★★☆ One of the many things I’ve learned while reviewing theater in Boston over the last several years is that if a production is bold, exciting, and makes me feel alive, chances are it’s a Company One production. Even the imperfect productions—and there are almost as many at C1 as there are […]
THEATER REVIEW: THE RETURN AT ISRAELI STAGE
★★★★☆ There has not been a more taut, better-acted production this spring than Israeli Stage’s swan song, The Return. Written by Hanna Eady and Edward Mask, and directed with staggering intensity by Guy Ben-Aharon, the play stars Nael Nacer and Philana Mia as two former lovers who have been pulverized by both each […]
