As Sean Daniels peruses a shelf of books by and about Jack Kerouac on a recent weekday inside Pollard Memorial Library, the visage of the Mill City's best-known author can be seen above, on …
Collaborations, risk-taking fueled an innovative mix
Lindsay-Abaire creates another compelling drama
One-man show at the ART explores the life and genius of R. Buckminster Fuller
After “Monty Python's Spamalot,'' is there any way to present a straightforward production of “Camelot'' — knights in shining armor, demurely veiled maidens, all the other …
Boston-born Annie Baker will have three of her plays performed in the Shirley, VT Plays Festival, a collaboration between the Huntington Theatre Company, SpeakEasy Stage Company, and Company…
Constant motion and fine directing mark the American Repertory Theater's "Cabaret," which stars Amanda Palmer as the Emcee.
Someone always seems to be mixing a drink in the Yale Repertory Theatre production of Edward Albee’s “A Delicate Balance.’’
"We Have Always Lived in the Castle" is a smart and arresting musical adaptation of Shirley Jackson's creepy novel.
After originating at Barrington Stage Company, "Freud's Last Session'' became a long-running off-Broadway hit. It's hard, though, to imagine performances more note-perfect than those deliver…
Ethnic stereotyping is popular culture's original sin, and it's proving a hard one to shed. Look no further than the uproar over last weekend's production of "Thoroughly Modern Millie'' a…
During a break from rehearsal at an elementary school here, the songwriting brothers Willie and Robert Reale took a moment to ponder the underlying message of their musical "Johnny Baseball.…
SILENCE! THE MUSICAL. Seldom does good taste get in the way of this singing, dancing, deliciously deranged off-Broadway parody of "The Silence of the Lambs.'' As for murder, well . . .
If you worry about the vitality and visibility of live performance in an increasingly screen-centric culture, Michelle Obama deserves a prominent spot on your list of people to be thankful f…
The millennials, so financially strapped that they’ve been dubbed “Generation Debt,’’ might well feel that they’re in no position to be regular patrons.
Founding artistic director of two of the leading regional theaters in the country, the Yale Repertory Theatre and the American Repertory Theater. Provocative and influential drama critic for…
The plodding pace, greatest-hits superficiality, and hagiographic tone of “Magic/Bird’’ feels jarringly dated, especially at a time when ESPN’s “30 for 30’…
“American Idiot,’’ the stage adaptation of Green Day’s 2004 album, is a sustained cry of anger, disgust, and longing, dramatizing the frustrations and fears of a gene…
Lore has it that Queen Elizabeth became so enamored of Falstaff that she expressed a wish to see a comedy built entirely around him, and that Shakespeare complied by writing “The Merry…
There are few things more exhilarating than the work of a theatrical imagination operating at full throttle. That’s what is on display in “Mabou Mines DollHouse,’’ an…
On the stage, new versions of classics reveal fresh layers of meaning
Robert Brustein has written a trilogy of plays with the Bard as his protagonist, the second of which, “Mortal Terror,’’ premieres at the Modern Theatre starting Sept. 15. &…
Under the sure-handed direction of Benjamin Evett, New Repertory Theatre’s “Rent’’ navigates that fine line between the heart-on-its-sleeve earnestness essential to t…
"Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’’ is wide but not deep, a pleasant enough but not especially memorable musical adaptation of Mark Twain’s novel.
CAMBRIDGE - In 1985, as James Levine was preparing to conduct the Metropolitan Opera’s first performance of “Porgy and Bess,’’ he told The New York Times: “It&#…