Articles from Artscope’s Theatre coverage.
The SpeakEasy Stage Company’s presentation of Justin Huertas’ musical“Lizard Boy” at the Roberts Studio Theatre in the Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts through November 22, […]
Ask anyone, and they’ll assert that this writer is usually even handed, even to a fault, in his praise and blame of a stage production’s every virtue, every fault. But […]
Eran Kolirin’s “The Band’s Visit,” onstage through December 17 at Boston’s Huntington Theatre, which is co-producing the play with SpeakEasy Stage, is a very polished, very melodious presentation of what […]
Paula Vogel’s “How I Learned to Drive” is the powerfully gripping theater of a young woman arising out of an impoverished family and region of America to become abused by […]
“The Taming of the Shrew” is infamously difficult to adapt due to its violent misogyny, but director Christopher V. Edwards flips the script with Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s gender-bending production. The […]
Authored by Hansol Jung, and directed by SeonJae Kim, “Wild Goose Dreams,” currently playing in the Roberts Studio Theatre of the Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, […]
It’s a very intelligent play, is “Jado Jehad.” And it certainly shows — especially in the character of the Pakistani grandmother, Manzoor — how powerful culture is in both protecting […]
On the evening of November 3, at the Citizen’s Bank Opera House in downtown Boston’s Washington Street, I sat to three different modern ballets of William Forsythe: “Artifact” and “Approximate […]
It must have been coming on six o’clock, after a short Green Line ride from Comm. Ave. I alighted at the corner of our Public Garden still beautiful with greenery, […]
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre was closing a very short run here in Boston, only four performances at the Boch Center Wang Theater from April 28-May 1 when my […]
With characters that seem to echo every facet of Shakespeare’s era — boisterous, sensual, quicksilver passionate, vengeful, generous, jealous, the Lyric Stage Company’s presentation of Lauren Gunderson’s “The Book of […]
So, wife Madeleine and I, both rabid dance enthusiasts and also eager to participate in the opening up of the arts to all manner of under-represented genders, in this case, […]