A QUESTION OF COMEUPPANCE? With their latest offering in an ambitiously political season, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company (CSC) tackles the modern classic Death and the Maiden by Chilean playwright Ariel Dorfman. Set in an unnamed country still reeling from the aftermath of a totalitarian dictatorship, this riveting psychological thriller pits a former political […]
TRYING TO BE ORDINARY
Melinda Lopez readies Mala for its Boston return Last fall, ArtsEmerson presented the world premiere of Mala, Huntington playwright-in-residence Melinda Lopez’s gorgeous, deeply personal, and unforgettable one-woman play about loss, family, and what it means to be human. In the midst of trying to see her mother through the final months of […]
SHE’S BEAUTIFUL AND SHE’S HERE
The Color Purple is giving Boston a lot to be thankful for The acclaimed, Tony-winning revival of The Color Purple has finally made its way to Boston. Talk about something to be grateful for this holiday season. This musical version of Alice Walker’s gorgeous 1982 masterwork first debuted in 2005 with Oprah Winfrey […]
FROM ‘UNADAPTABLE’ TO SPECTACULAR
Eliott Purcell readies The Curious Incident for SpeakEasy Stage The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time isn’t just one of the biggest nonmusical Broadway hits in recent memory, but rather of the last decade. Running for almost 800 performances and winning five Tony Awards, The Curious Incident is the longest-running Broadway play […]
COME TO THE FUN HOME
Fun Home’s incredible journey & a change of major for actress Abby Corrigan By the time that Fun Home opened on Broadway in 2015, the Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron musical had been—in some form or another—in gestation and steadily picking up steam for over six years. Longer, of course, if you take into […]
THE ART OF THE POSSIBLE
From “American Idol” to Evita, the fascinating career of Constantine Maroulis It is not uncommon to see one of the scores of “American Idol” alums trying their hand at the theater. Since the show premiered in 2002, Broadway musicals in particular have frequently drawn from the pool of talent featured on “Idol” to try […]
EVITA SO WHITE
Constantine Maroulis (Che) and the cast of “Evita” at North Shore Music Theatre thru October 8, 2017. Photos©Paul Lyden Amid accusations of whitewashing and brownface, North Shore Music Theatre opens Evita With the announcement of North Shore Music Theatre’s cast for Evita earlier this month came nearly instantaneous backlash over the decision to cast […]
INTERVIEW: TJ MILLER ON SILICON VALLEY, PODCASTS, AND MR. MUCUS
It’s not really a night out in Boston unless you see at least one fistfight over the weekend, right?
