★★★★☆ Moonbox Productions continues its impressive run of presenting complicated, adult musicals with more polish, professionalism, and nuance than most other companies in the Boston area, even those with more cash and more clout. Parade tells the story of the arrest, conviction, and lynching of an innocent man, Leo Frank, for the […]
THRILL ME, CHILL ME, FULFILL ME: MOONBOX’S ROCKY HORROR ROCKS
★★★★☆ Putting aside for a moment the merits of David Lucey’s sinful production of The Rocky Horror Show—of which there are many—I’d first like to point out that no other theater company in Boston (let alone a small theater company) is doing what Moonbox Productions is doing. Founded by Sharman Altshuler in […]
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 […]
BEST OF BOSTON THEATER: 2018 EDITION
This 2018 edition of the best of Boston theater is the fourth time I’ve sat down to compile such a list but the first time I haven’t struggled to fill it. Last year, I capped the list at seven because the thought of shoving things in just to get to 10 hurt my soul. […]
LAND HO, SO-SO: TWELFTH NIGHT AND SHIPWRECKED! IN REP AT MOONBOX PRODUCTIONS
★★☆☆☆ If Duke Orsino in Shakespeare’s beloved comedy Twelfth Night has picked up his (sometimes misbegotten) ideas of love from hearing enchanting strains of music, Louis de Rougemont, the self-proclaimed narrator/protagonist/hero/villain of Donald Margulies’ Shipwrecked! An Entertainment has gotten his ideas about adventure from books. The Odyssey, Robinson Caruso, Ten Thousand Leagues Under […]
YOUNG AT HEART: HALF-BAKED FAMILY MELODRAMA ABOUNDS IN “KIMBERLY AKIMBO”
“Akimbo” succeeds the most in scenes where the players are all together, portraying the functional dysfunction of family life.
