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PASS OVER

Written by FLAVIANA SANDOVAL Posted January 9, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Actors Kadahj Bennett and Hubens "Bobby" Cius play Moses and Kitch in Pass Over, a co-production by SpeakEasy Stage Company and The Front Porch Arts Collective. Photo by Nile Scott Studios.

A theatrical look at race in America

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Boston Center for the Arts, Front Porch Arts Collective, Pass Over, review, SpeakEasy Stage, theater

THE BEST PRODUCTIONS OF 2019

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted December 18, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

 

They had style, they had grace. Alice Ripley gave good face.

 

As we come to the close of another theatrical year, it’s time to not only name the best productions of the year, but to reflect on the year’s theatrical offerings as a whole. Some years there are trends; some years there aren’t. And sometimes when ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: american repertory theater, Arlekin Players, Bedlam, Broadway in Boston, Central Square Theatre, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Nora Theatre Company, North Shore Music Theatre, SpeakEasy Stage

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

BOYS TO MEN: AN ASTOUNDING ENSEMBLE GIVES LIFE TO CHOIR BOY

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted September 18, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

 

★★★★☆

 

A 2019 Tony Award nominee for Best Play, Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Choir Boy is receiving a spirited, well-acted New England premiere at Boston’s SpeakEasy Stage Company, ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: David Freeman Coleman, Isaiah Reynolds, J Jerome Rogers, Jaimar Brown, Malik Mitchell, Maurice Emmanual Parent, Ruka White, SpeakEasy Stage, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Yewande Odetoyinbo

SCHOOL GIRLS; OR, THE AFRICAN MEAN GIRLS PLAY AT SPEAKEASY STAGE

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted May 8, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Sabrina Victor, Crystin Gilmore, Shanelle Chloe Villegas, Geraldine Bogard, and Tenneh Sillah. Photo by Maggie Hall Photography.

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Ireon Roach, Jocelyn Bioh, Shanelle Chloe Villegas, SpeakEasy Stage, Summer L. Williams, Theater Review, Victoria Byrd

THE UNIMAGINABLE BEAUTY OF ONCE AT SPEAKEASY STAGE

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted March 5, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Kathy St. George, Mackenzie Lesser-Roy, Nile Scott Hawver, Once, SpeakEasy Stage, Theater Review

BEST OF BOSTON THEATER: 2018 EDITION

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted December 18, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

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.

 

 ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Apollinaire Theatre, Broadway in Boston, Central Square Theater, Colonial Theatre, Company One, Hamilton, huntington theatre company, moonbox productions, Moulin Rouge, SpeakEasy Stage, Underground Railway Theater, Zeitgeist Stage

A SOARING FUN HOME AT SPEAKEASY STAGE

Written by JILLIAN KRAVATZ Posted November 1, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

 

★★★★☆

 

Based on the 2006 best-selling graphic memoir of the same title by Alison Bechdel, Fun Home recreates Bechdel’s childhood and adolescent memories: how she ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Alison Bechdel, Fun Home, review, SpeakEasy Stage, theater

ALLEGIANCE FAILS TO COMMAND AT SPEAKEASY STAGE

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted May 8, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Grace Yoo and Gary Thomas Ng in SpeakEasy Stage's production of Allegiance. Photo by Nile Scott Studios.

 

★★☆☆☆

 

It’s hard not to at least try to root for Allegiance, the awfully bad but well-intentioned musical that is currently limping through its East Coast regional premiere at SpeakEasy Stage.

 

The musical, which opened on Broadway in 2015 after a 2012 world ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Allegiance, Gary Thomas Ng, Grace Yoo, Jay Kuo, Lorenzo Thione, Marc Acito, Matthew Stern, Melissa Geerlof, Michael Hisamoto, Paul Daigneault, Sam Tanabe, SpeakEasy Stage, Tyler Simahk

ALLEGIANCE AND NINJAS AND PORNSTARS, OH MY!

Written by DAN PECCI Posted May 3, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

George Takei - blue shirt red square

 

A candid take with George Takei

 

As an actor, director, author, and activist, George Takei has led more lives than the coolest of cool cats. While he is perhaps most well-known for playing USS Enterprise ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Allegiance, BCA, Boston Center for the Arts, George Takei, Interview, performing arts, Roberts Studio Theater, SpeakEasy Stage, theater

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