★★☆☆☆ When it was announced in 2015 that Nickelodeon would be bringing a SpongeBob musical to Broadway, you can imagine how many people reacted with a giant eye roll, particularly those of us who had PTSD from the Broadway production of The Little Mermaid, which had sea creatures “swimming” around the stage on […]
FOTOBOM: MASSIVE ATTACK @ THE WANG THEATRE
Looking backwards over two decades can be a belly-gazing exercise in self-indulgence, but the Mezzanine XXI tour succeeded on nearly every level. The pioneering trip-hop record from Massive Attack was gussied up for tours of Europe and North America, with this stop being rescheduled when the entire tour was postponed in March. Not content to […]
JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL LOOKS BACK ON WHERE HE IS FROM
The Hedwig and the Angry Inch co-creator and original star brings his Origin of Love tour to Boston I’m sure that you’re asked all the time to sing these songs. How much of that do you field on a regular basis? Well, you know, not that much. The thing is, I’ll always […]
MIDDLE CLASS DREAD: THE HUMANS AT THE SHUBERT
★★★★★ Before there’s any spoken dialogue in The Humans, Stephen Karam’s 2015 Tony Award-winning Best Play, there are those eerie sounds. Those ominous, startling sounds will persist long after the dialogue stops, too. But what’s clear from the start is that this will be a story about anxieties, the kind that regularly […]
PIECE OF HER HEART: A NIGHT WITH JANIS JOPLIN ON TOUR
★★★☆☆ Something tells me that the hordes of baby boomers piling in to A Night with Janis Joplin aren’t there for the writing. Nor is it very likely that, on the drive home that night, they’re going to be discussing the merits of the piece as a theatrical work of art. If […]
BEST OF BOSTON THEATER: 2017 EDITION
A year to remember, from ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’ to ‘Merrily We Roll Along’ to ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’
THE BEST YOU’VE EVER SEEN: EUAN MORTON BRINGS HEDWIG TO BOSTON
There are a few places I can think of that really needed a safe space. I feel like the work is important, I feel like it’s not just some march through the towns dressed as Hedwig demanding equality.
RESILIENCE & RECOVERY: THE WORLD PREMIERE OF ‘FINISH LINE’ AT THE SHUBERT THEATRE
Spaulding was gripped by the article, which mentioned Frangieh and Rafferty’s intentions to omit the bombers and focus instead on the resilience, recovery, and love.
