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ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT
ROLAND IN THE DEEP: FRONT PORCH ARTS COLLECTIVE DEBUTS AT THE LYRIC STAGE
★★★★★ The Front Porch Arts Collective raised a few eyebrows this past spring when its name was found in the season announcements of three prominent Boston theater companies: Central Square Theater, Greater Boston Stage Company, and the Lyric Stage, Boston’s oldest professional theater. What was this Front Porch Arts Collective and why did […]
A FRENETIC BARBER SHOP CHRONICLES AT A.R.T.
★★★☆☆ Nigerian playwright Inua Ellams’ Barber Shop Chronicles—a smash in the UK—has been on an American tour since October and has just settled into a month-long run at Cambridge’s American Repertory Theater, where it will run through Jan 5. Directed by Bijan Sheibani, Barber Shop Chronicles is set in six different barber […]
IT’S A SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL
Winter People at the Boston Playwrights’ Theater ★★☆☆☆ It’s a particularly East Coast feeling—the eeriness of a summer resort in winter, when February winds blow through the dormant wooden roller coaster at the amusement park or an empty plastic bag blows across the frozen, barren beaches of New Jersey. Laura Neill’s new […]
WHAT’S FOR BREAKFAST? BACON
DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME, QUEENS: THE CHER SHOW OPENS ON BROADWAY
★★★★☆ By now, we should all know to never underestimate Cher. The same can easily be said for The Cher Show, the relentlessly entertaining and blindingly infectious new musical that opened Monday evening at The Neil Simon Theatre. But while The Cher Show charts the ups and downs…and ups and downs…and […]
HUNTINGTON’S MAN IN THE RING A TOTAL KNOCKOUT
★★★★★ A gentle Caribbean breeze gets caught in a storm of violent masculinity in Man in the Ring, Michael Cristofer’s play about the life of boxer Emile Griffith. In a first-rate production directed by Michael Greif (Dear Evan Hansen; Rent), the legendary prizefighter’s past, present, and future battle it out in an unforgiving […]
WILL SOMEONE SHUT THAT MAN UP?: A 1776 FOR 2018 AT THE NEW REP
★★★★☆ A few Tuesdays ago, on November 6, these United States put a record 125 women in office. Nearly 42 of them were women of color. In the next congress, 125 women will serve, occupying more than 10 additional seats than in the current congress of 535, house and senate. In the […]
LAND HO, SO-SO: TWELFTH NIGHT AND SHIPWRECKED! IN REP AT MOONBOX PRODUCTIONS
★★☆☆☆ If Duke Orsino in Shakespeare’s beloved comedy Twelfth Night has picked up his (sometimes misbegotten) ideas of love from hearing enchanting strains of music, Louis de Rougemont, the self-proclaimed narrator/protagonist/hero/villain of Donald Margulies’ Shipwrecked! An Entertainment has gotten his ideas about adventure from books. The Odyssey, Robinson Caruso, Ten Thousand Leagues Under […]
STEP ASIDE, NUTCRACKER: 10th ANNIVERSARY OF “WHAT THE DICKENS” BY THE CAMBRIDGE YOUTH DANCE COMPANY
“I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me,” Charles Dickens’ famous Ebenezer Scrooge declares at the end of A Christmas Carol, giving up his miserly ways for a new life of generosity. It’s this line that Deborah Mason’s Cambridge Youth Dance Company […]
