That strange, spooky family familiar to most of us comes to Stoneham, Massachusetts, with their own style of family values. Stoneham Theatre’s The Addams Family, A New Musical brings a wonderful and energetic concoction of silly and memorable characters with family morals that just might not be so creepy after all. The Addams Family franchise […]
At our My Theatre Awards party back in April, there was an extremely loud table in the back corner, which the inhabitants called the “Single Safe Soup” table (a mashup of Single Thread, safeword, and Soup Can Theatre). In a theatrical landscape with limited resources from money to playing space to really great actors, one […]
There’s something special about seeing a local premiere. Whether the show has previously played out of town or not, seeing it for the first time here in Boston always feels special. Of course, the catch 22 is that it also sets a very high bar of the production, being the first for its audiences in […]
You should really crack a beer before reading this review. Or two. Here are the rules: – Take a drink every time I use a period. – Two drinks if I insert a footnote.* – Finish your drink if I manage to arbitrarily incorporate the name of a complex math problem into this review.*** How […]
I would be doing a disservice to the show if I only gave you an adult perspective of the new musical The Love Note. Perhaps I should co-author this review with myself at age 10. Theresa [28 years-old]: It is unheard of to attend a play at 10 am on a Sunday in New York […]
The Bakelite Masterpiece (Tarragon Theatre) This new one-act by Kate Cayley tells the thematically rich (and fictionally embellished) story of Han van Meegeren (Georgie Johnson) whose sale of a Vermeer painting to a Nazi in occupied Holland put him on trial for treason at the end of the war. His life-saving argument that it was […]
The folks at Company One don’t leave much to chance. When I arrived at the BCA Plaza Theatre, anticipating an interesting but wearisome six hours of theatre on a lovely fall Saturday afternoon, it quickly became apparent that any discomfort or confusion during the press viewing marathon would be minimized. I picked up a small […]
Our pop culture has had a recent wealth of new stories concerning the famous Bombshell actress, Marilyn Monroe. Boston Actors Theater brings one of the latest fictionalized accounts of Marilyn’s life in its Goodbye Marilyn: A Love Letter (A Staged Reading), written by Michael Phillips. This play explores the last night of Marilyn Monroe’s life, […]