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New Repertory Theatre

PEAK ARTISTIC EXPERIENCE: BOSTON’S LARGER STAGES DON’T NEED TO BE MORE LIKE THE MOVIES. THEY NEED TO BE MORE LIKE THE SMALL STAGES.

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted November 25, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Boston’s larger stages don’t need to be more like the movies. They need to be more like the small stages.

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: american repertory theater, Anthem Theatre, Apollinaire Theatre, Arlekin Players, arts emerson, Boston Playwrights' Theatre, Boston Theater Critics Association, Ed Siegel, Emerson Colonial Theatre, Gold Dust Orphans, huntington theatre company, Lindsay Beamish, Lyric Stage Company, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, New Repertory Theatre, Praxis Stage, SpeakEasy Stage, theater, wbur

A PROVOCATIVE BUT PATCHY STRAIGHT WHITE MEN AT NEW REP

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted September 19, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Michael Kaye, Ken Cheeseman, Shelley Bolman, and Dennis Trainor Jr. Photo by Andrew Brilliant.

 

★★★☆☆

 

New Repertory Theatre has kicked off its new season with a play that is a welcome but surprising choice for the sleepy Watertown theater company. Straight White Men, a provocative ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Dennis Trainor Jr, Elaine Vaan Hogue, Ken Cheeseman, Michael Kaye, New Repertory Theatre, Shelley Bolman, Watertown, Young Jean Lee

A BEAUTIFULLY ACTED LONELY PLANET AT NEW REP

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted February 21, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Michael Kaye and Tim Spears. Photo by Andrew Brilliant / Brilliant Pictures.

 

★★★★☆

 

New Repertory Theatre continues its compelling Statements of Survival series with a 25th anniversary production of Steven Dietz’s 1993 AIDS drama Lonely Planet, which will run through March 4 in New Rep’s intimate black box theater.

 

Co-produced ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Boston Center for American Performance, boston university, Jeffrey Petersen, Jim Petosa, Lonely Planet, Matthew Guminski, Michael Kaye, New Rep, New Repertory Theatre, Statements of Survival, Steven Dietz, theater, Theater Review, Tim Spears, Watertown

BACK TO ANATEVKA

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted November 23, 2016 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Austin Pendleton made his Broadway debut in 1964 when he created the role of Motel in the original production of Fiddler on the Roof. His performance as the nervous, loveable, determined tailor is immortalized on the classic cast album and has served as the gold-standard blueprint to anyone who has played Motel since.

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Austin Pendleton, Boston, broadway, Fiddler on the Roof, New Repertory Theatre, performing arts, theater

SIZING UP THE SEASON

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted March 30, 2016 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Big plans ahead for local theaters

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: ACTORS’ SHAKESPEARE PROJECT, Barbeque, Company, Edward II, Fiddler on the Roof, Hamlet, Hand to God, huntington theatre company, New Repertory Theatre, SpeakEasyStage, Sunday in the Park with George, The Bridge of Madison County, The Little Foxes, The Lyric Stage, The Scottsboro Boys, Topdog/Underdog

OPEN NIGHTS: LAYING OUT THE PERFORMANCE AND VISUAL ART OPENINGS AHEAD FOR FALL

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted September 22, 2015 Filed Under: A+E, Calendar, Performing Arts, Visual Arts

It's going to be a good season.

Filed Under: A+E, Calendar, Performing Arts, Visual Arts Tagged With: A Confederacy of Dunces, A.R.T., An Audience with Meow Meow, arts emerson, BCA, Billy Elliot the Musical, Boston Symphony Orchestra, BSO, Calderwood Pavilion, Casa Valentina, Company One, Copenhagen, courtney love, Dry Land, Einstein’s Dreams, Ernest Shackleton Loves Me, fall arts, Handel and Haydn Society, ICA, In the Penal Colony, kansas city choir boy, La Boheme, MFA, Mozart, Mr. Joy, New Repertory Theatre, Nick Offerman, Oberon, Othello, Philip Glass, Pinchas Zukerman, preview, Puccini, requiem, RISE, ron swanson, Saturday Night/Sunday Morning, Sister Act, SpeakEasy Stage, the strand theatre, todd almond, West Side Story

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