★★★☆☆ According to Julian Marsh, 42nd Street’s director extraordinaire, the most glorious words in the English language are “musical theater.” While I’m the last person to disagree with that, I’d like to offer up a few more for your consideration: “65 minutes, no intermission.” Not to suggest that the brevity of Bright […]
THEATER REVIEW: CAROLINE, OR CHANGE AT MOONBOX PRODUCTIONS
★★★☆☆ It’s been 15 years since Caroline, or Change first premiered at New York’s Public Theater, and in that decade and a half, few new musicals have come close to matching its ambition or complexity. (An exception could be Fun Home which, like Caroline, also features a score by Jeanine Tesori). If ambition […]
A WEED GROWS IN PHILLY: LEFTOVERS AT COMPANY ONE
★★★☆☆ 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 […]
