★★☆☆☆ It’s easy to see what the set of The Salonnières is trying to do. It’s an opulent room filled with ornate couches and chairs—Renaissance paintings hung on the walls. But the most striking aspect of this set, designed by Katy Monthei, is its boundaries. The room is set on a raised stage […]
ALL THINGS TO ALL MEN: EQUIVOCATION BY THE ACTORS’ SHAKESPEARE PROJECT
★★★★☆ Beneath the cavernous gothic arches of a church nave, two men sit hunched over a wooden table. “Your works will last,” Prime Minister Robert Cecil tells Master Shagspeare in the opening scene of Equivocation. “I believe your plays will still be being done … 50 years from now,” he guesses, to the […]
MICHAEL GREIF, IN THE RING
The A-list director readies Man in the Ring at Huntington Theatre Company For Michael Greif, it’s all about context. The four-time Tony Award-nominated director behind shows like Rent and Dear Evan Hansen is no stranger to creating works that define generations, both onstage and off. In town working on Man in the Ring […]
A SOARING FUN HOME AT SPEAKEASY STAGE
★★★★☆ 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 loved drawing and despised dresses, how she came out in college, and how, a few months after revealing her sexuality to her parents, her father killed himself by […]
QUEERING CLASSIC HORROR: MILKY WAY COFFEE ROASTER’S NOSFERATU, THE VAMPYR
A few months ago, Sloth Levine and Katie Grindeland, co-production designers of the upcoming Milky Way Coffee Roasters’ production, “Nosferatu, the Vampyr,” had no idea they would be doing a show this month. They didn’t even have a full script. When, almost jokingly, one of Grindeland’s co-workers offered her the chance to use the black […]
AT NEW REP, WE WILL NOT BE SILENT CAN’T BE HEARD ABOVE ITS OWN NOISE
★★☆☆☆ When We Will Not Be Silent opens on an interrogation room, it’s not too far of a stretch to assume that, at the same time the characters ask questions of each other, the play will ask questions of the audience. But when We Will Not Be Silent spends just as much time […]
THE UNRAVELLING OF AN AMERICAN FAMILY: ALL MY SONS AT PRAXIS STAGE
★★★☆☆ Before the lights go up on Praxis Stage’s season opener—a production of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons— theatergoers shuffling to their seats are subjected to a few jazz standards from the ’30s and ’40s. “If it’s a crime then I’m guilty, guilty of loving you,” a warbling voice admits from a speaker […]
THIS PLACE/DISPLACED: A SPOTLIGHT ON DISPLACEMENT, GENTRIFICATION, AND HOUSING INEQUALITY IN BOSTON
In preparation for this run, ATB producers went to City Life meetings to partner with those who were interested in sharing stories of displacement. In doing so, they were shocked by the number of people who wanted to participate.
‘THE JUGGLE IS REAL’
Actress-singer Renée Elise Goldsberry prepares to work-work with the Pops One might think that the woman who originated the role of Angelica Schuyler in the pop cultural phenomenon Hamilton (for which she received both a Tony and Grammy Award), played the titular role opposite Oprah Winfrey in HBO’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, […]
TWO CLASSIC MUSICALS IN CONCERT, ONE WEEKEND
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 […]
