YOU'D BE A FOOL TO MISS THIS FEAST OF FUN The long-playing Midwinter Revels (founded as Christmas Revels in 1971) is a unique mix of professional performance, volunteer talent, and audience …
THESE GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN Two young women, one from Korea, the other from the Philippines, encounter one another in a grocery story on Thanksgiving morning in a small midwestern Americ…
BLACK JOY RIDE This collaboration between Boston's Black theater company Front Porch Arts Collective and the Atlanta-based Alliance Theater Company, directed by Stevie Walker-Webb, takes its…
LIVES OF NOT-SO-QUIET DESPERATION The premise is simple: Each of nine people who have tried to kill or who actually have killed an American president is given a chance to persuade us of his …
ONE PLAGUE OR ANOTHER What happens when you put eight actors on a stage with a script that includes the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s, the Mormon Visitors Center, the Jewish mysticism of philos…
WELCOME TO THE WEST WING, WHERE THE WOMEN ARE FUCKED AND THE MAN IS FECKLESS Seven women propping up one man"that's the premise behind Selena Fillinger's POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbas…
HOW DO YOU SOLVE A PROBLEM LIKE KATRINA? What to do about The Taming of the Shrew, a play that seems to glorify the subjugation of women? Actors' Shakespeare Project offers an intriguing and…
A PRAYER FOR ALL OF US Should they stay or should they go? That is the question that haunts the characters of this brilliant play by Joshua Harmon (Bad Jews, Skintight). It is directed by…
A SHOWER OF CREATIVE INNOVATION The A.R.T. production of the stunningly staged and audaciously acted The Half-God of Rainfall is an act of creative destruction. It begins with the seven acto…
DOWN AND UP IN HARLEM Barrington Stage Company's riveting production of Pearl Cleage's Blues for an Alabama Sky, directed by Candis C. Jones, opens with a fast-paced scene in which Guy Jacob…
A FENCES THAT KEEPS US IN Actors "ranney" and Ella Joyce bring a fresh and warm humanity to Shakespeare and Company's excellent and very satisfying production of August Wilson's Fences, whic…
FASCINATING, FUN AND FEEL-GOOD RHYTHM With stellar performances on two baby grands, a few silly props, and creative use of audience participation, Kirsten Salpini (sometimes wearing a tie to…
A DUAL DUARTE DE PERÓN Understudy Isabella Lopez won a heartfelt standing ovation for her captivating portrayal of Eva Perón, the spiritual leader of Argentina last night in this A.R.…
AMAZING THEATER? BANK ON IT Steven Skybell (Henry Lehman), Joshua David Robinson (Emanuel Lehman), and Firdous Bamji (Mayer Lehman) absolutely stunned in the the first American-made producti…
AS WE LOVE IT Talk about chemistry! The amazing Genevieve Simon, who wowed us with a riveting performance in the title role of Coriolanus earlier this year, flirts and schemes into our heart…
THE MILLENNIUM HAS COME AND GONE, BUT THE THEMES REMAIN THE SAME Central Square Theater's collaboration with Bedlam of Tony Kushner's still-relevant masterpiece Angels in America: A Gay Fant…
FAITH, HOPE AND SCIENCE I found myself thinking of Henrik Ibsen and Lucille Ball as I watched this world premiere of acclaimed playwright and performance artist Taylor Mac. Ibsen and Ball ar…
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE WHITE SUPREMACIST MEETING If you're looking for great night of humor about white supremacy and anti-Semitism (and who isn't?), this is the show for y…
MAMA'S BOY, FOR BETTER OR WORSE When I think of Shakespeare's women, many names come to mind: Gertrude, Lady Macbeth, Ophelia, Beatrice, Portia, Helena, Titania, Rosalind, Juliet, Desdemona.…
A SATISFYING MEAL OF TASTY THEATER You might call Clyde's the other piece of bread in Lynn Nottage's sandwich about Reading, Pennsylvania, where the playwright spent two years conducting int…
NO FAIRY TALE ENDINGS Last night, Boston became the third stop in the 2023 National Tour of the 2022 Broadway Revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's much-Tony'd and much-loved mash-u…
A-M-A-Z-I-N-G Poet, screenwriter, and performer Lenelle Moïse (pronounced Len-EL Moy-EEZ) is a playwright for this co-production from The Front Porch Arts Collective and The Huntington, t…
WHAT DO WOMEN WANT? A ROLLICKING NIGHT OUT WITH THE WIFE OF WILLESDEN After a sold-out run at London's Kiln Theatre, The Wife of Willesden has arrived in North America. Let me begin by sayin…
A SLAM DUNK! The Great Leap opens with hearty humor and carries its audience along in an absorbing story until a profound poignancy begins to permeate the senses. Tyler Simahk plays Manford …
SEVEN CHEERS FOR SEVEN GUITARS The Actors Shakespeare Company's production of Seven Guitars deserves at least seven cheers for this powerful production of August Wilson's Pulitzer-nominated …