★★★☆☆ Like many Summer Williams productions, Josh Wilder’s Leftovers is a big-hearted play with big ideas that takes big risks. In this world premiere production, which will run at Dorchester’s Strand Theatre through Aug 18, those risks only pay off some of the time. But even when they don’t, they hint at something […]
NO, BITCH. BEWARE: COMPANY ONE WIGS OUT AT OBERON
★★☆☆☆ “Stonewall has come crumbling down and Paris is still burning,” say the swaggerific Greek-inspired fates at the top of Wig Out! “Here, where one night can leave you legendary. Here, where a daughter that once was a son can find family. So as delicately as we can, we bring you a story […]
BELIEVE THE HYPE: HYPE MAN AT COMPANY ONE THEATRE
★★★★★ It’s no big secret that white musicians have found a hell of a lot of success standing on the backs of the musical innovations of black artists. From ragtime and the blues through rock and hip-hop, there’s been an almost revolving array of superstars that achieved fame and fortune through appropriating black culture. […]
WHAT’S FAIR IS FOUL: ‘PEERLESS’ AT COMPANY ONE
Macbeth meets Heathers in Peerless
SCATTERED PICTURES: DIRECTOR SHAWN LACOUNT ON ‘REALLY’ AT COMPANY ONE
Company One co-founder Shawn LaCount directs, and here, he reflects on the play’s provocativeness, his collaboration with Matter & Light, and Really’s complicated themes.
A BELATED BOSTON’S BEST PRODUCTIONS OF 2016 (AND ONE IS STILL RUNNING)
Though style occasionally prevailed over substance in this exhilarating revival of Sean O’Casey’s 1926 play, this Sean Holmes-directed revival is one of the most well-conceived productions of this decade.
BOSTON’S BEST PERFORMANCES OF 2016
Organic, frank, funny, and devastating, Lopez laid bare all of the reasons why she is a priceless asset to the Boston theater community.
SUMMER L. WILLIAMS LEADS THE REVOLT
Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. at Company One
EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN: AN OCTOROON
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ An Octoroon arrives in Boston
TOP TEN THEATRE
The 10 Best Productions of 2015
