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JAGGED LITTLE PILL STILL SAYS TOO LITTLE ABOUT TOO MUCH

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted December 6, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

 

★★☆☆☆

 

“I recommend biting off more than you can chew” is one Alanis Morissette lyric that the team behind Jagged Little Pill appears to have taken far too literally.

 

When the musical—clobbered together from Morissette’s catalogue of hits—premiered ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Alanis Morisette, american repertory theater, broadway, Celia Rose Gooding, Derek Klena, Diablo Cody, Diane Paulus, Elizabeth Stanley, Kathryn Gallagher, Lauren Patten, Ricardo Hernandez, Sean Allan Krill, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui

A JOURNEY OF ENGAGEMENT: DAVID BYRNE READIES AMERICAN UTOPIA FOR BOSTON, THEN BROADWAY

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted September 18, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

 

How did it feel walking in the doors of the Colonial and seeing this incredible building for the first time?

It’s a very amazing looking place. As I was saying to some of the theater people, I bet there are people that come to see a show here just to be in this place.

 

When you think about ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: broadway, David Byrne, Emerson Colonial Theatre, Talking Heads

A GODDESS IN OUR MIDST: FAYE DUNAWAY IN TEA AT FIVE

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted July 3, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

 

★★★☆☆

 

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 ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: broadway, Faye Dunaway, John Tillinger, Katharine Hepburn, Matthew Lombardo, Theater Review

DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME, QUEENS: THE CHER SHOW OPENS ON BROADWAY

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted December 5, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Teal Wicks, Stephanie J. Block, and Micaela Diamond. Photo by Joan Marcus.

 

★★★★☆

 

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  ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: broadway, Cher, Jarrod Spector, Jason Moore, Micaela Diamond, Rick Elice, Sonny Bono, Stephanie J. Block, Teal Wicks

A VASTLY IMPROVED WAITRESS RETURNS TO BOSTON

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted March 1, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Charity Angel Dawson, Desi Oakley, & Lenne Klingaman in the National Tour of WAITRESS. Credit: Joan Marcus

 

★★★★☆

 

In my review of the 2015 world premiere of Waitress at the American Repertory Theater, I wrote that the show lacked depth and emotional texture and that there was nothing beyond the show’s light and airy meringue.

 

While I do promise to avoid bad pie ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Adrienne Shelly, american repertory theater, broadway, Bryan Fenkart, Charity Angel Dawson, Desi Oakley, Diane Paulus, Jessie Nelson, Lenne Klingaman, Nick Bailey, Sara Bareilles, Waitress

A PHANTASTIC RETURN: LOVE NEVER DIES AT THE BOSTON OPERA HOUSE

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted February 7, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Meghan Picerno ("Christine Daaé") and Gardar Thor Cortes ("The Phantom") star in Love Never Dies. Photo by Joan Marcus.

 

★★★★☆

 

“Why can’t the past just die?” pleads Christina Daaé near the end of The Phantom of the Opera, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s eternally unstoppable megahit. If only she knew how especially potent that plea would be 10 years later.

 

That’s where  ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Andrew Lloyd Webber, broadway, Bronson Norris Murphy, Jake Heston Miller, Karen Mason, Love Never Dies, Mary Michael Patterson, Meghan Picerno, Oscar Hammerstein, Sean Thompson, Simon Phillips, The Phantom of the Opera

FROM ‘UNADAPTABLE’ TO SPECTACULAR

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted October 18, 2017 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

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 ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: actor, broadway, director, Eliott Purcell, Lead, Mark Haddon, novel, play, SpeakEasy Stage, theater, Tony, tour

COME TO THE FUN HOME

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted October 11, 2017 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Fun Home Tour

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 ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Abby Corrigan, actor, Alison Bechdel, broadway, Lead, off broadway, play, theater, Tony, tour

WANG’S FAST FOOD, SOMERVILLE

Written by MARC HURWITZ Posted August 7, 2017 Filed Under: Eats, LIFESTYLE

Squeezed between a pizza joint and a bar, the place looks like your typical Chinese takeout spot from the outside.

Filed Under: Eats, LIFESTYLE Tagged With: broadway, chicken fingers, Chinese, Chinese food, crab rangoon, fried rice, Hidden Boston, Marc Hurwitz, Medford Street, SOMERVILLE, spare ribs, steak teriyaki, takeout

KRISTIN CHENOWETH: 10 QUESTIONS

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted April 19, 2017 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

On her crossover success, touring, the role that got away, and what Broadway classic she has her eye on.

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: broadway, Celebrity Series of Boston, Charlie Brown, Kristin Chenoweth, Symphony Hall, The Art of Elegance

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