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IT’S TURKEY LURKEY TIME: LYRIC STAGE SCORES WITH THE THANKSGIVING PLAY

Written by Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

 

★★★★☆

 

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 ...  read more

ON STAGE NOW: THE FANGS THAT BIND, A CHURCH DIVIDED, AND ONE OF THE WORST PLAYS I HAVE EVER SEEN

Written by Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Bare Stage, The Christians, and The Little Foxes

 

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, ...  read more

EH-PRIL THEATER ROUND-UP: HUB THEATRE’S TRUE WEST SHINES AMONG THE PAINFULLY DULL

Written by Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Christie Prades as Gloria Estefan and Company, ON YOUR FEET! Photo by Matthew Murphy

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 ...  read more