★★★★☆ Turkeys aren’t the only creatures on the chopping block in The Thanksgiving Play, an irresistible satire by Larissa FastHorse currently in its final week at the Lyric Stage Company. No, there’s another pitiable creature—far more common in these deep blue parts—taking the brunt of abuse. It isn’t a trashing, mind you, […]
ON STAGE NOW: THE FANGS THAT BIND, A CHURCH DIVIDED, AND ONE OF THE WORST PLAYS I HAVE EVER SEEN
BARE STAGE AT FESTIVAL THEATRE COMPANY no stars If I do nothing else this year but spare you from suffering through Michael Walker’s bare stage, then 2019 will have been a very successful year for me. Undeniably the most miserable, misguided, and self-indulgent play I have ever seen, bare stage […]
EH-PRIL THEATER ROUND-UP: HUB THEATRE’S TRUE WEST SHINES AMONG THE PAINFULLY DULL
In The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot wrote that April is the cruellest month. And while he most certainly wasn’t talking about Boston theater, the same sentiment could be applied to the unusually shallow offerings popping up around town. Aside from Moonbox’s unmissable Cabaret (playing through April 28) and Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s joyous Much […]
SUMMER SMOCK: HARVEY FIERSTEIN’S CASA VALENTINA
SpeakEasy presents the Boston premiere of Harvey Fierstein’s newest play
ABSO-BLOOMIN-LUTELY: MY FAIR LADY GETS A FRESH FACE FOR FALL
“…it’s a wonderful moment to revisit what some people have called the most perfect musical ever written.”
