On the Town at the Boston Pops Something very special was in the air last week as the Boston Pops continued its centennial celebration of Leonard Bernstein with an all-star, solid gold concert of On the Town, Bernstein’s 1944 masterwork about a trio of sailors with 24 hours to kill in New York […]
ROAD TO NOWHERE: ROAD SHOW AT THE LYRIC STAGE
★★☆☆☆ It’s not exactly a secret that Road Show isn’t a very good musical. The Stephen Sondheim-John Weidman musical has undergone reinvention after reinvention—and title change after title change—from its 1999 premiere as Wise Guys to its 2003 revision called Bounce. Road Show, in its final form (which runs at the Lyric Stage […]
GOOD THING GOING: A DEFINITIVE VERSION OF A SONDHEIM CLASSIC COMES TO BOSTON
This is also an opportunity, all around, to strengthen what is already considered by many to be a perfect production.
SO MANY POSSIBILITIES
At the Huntington, a new layer to Sunday
IN COMES COMPANY
The cast of COMPANY gets lyrical
IN THE PARLOR, IN THE BED: HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY OPENS SEASON WITH SONDHEIM MASTERPIECE
As far as musicals go, they don’t get much more elegant than this lavish and luscious exploration of mortality, morality, love, and—yes—sex
