Category Archive: Reviews

The ‘Pirates’ have a great time, and so will you

CAMBRIDGE — I have a feeling the boys would approve. No one has ever turned inspired silliness into high art better than the duo of W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, who turned cleverer-than-clever… Read More

Speakeasy’s ‘In The Heights’ raises the roof

   BOSTON — If you were able to harness all the energy in the theater, it would light the city of Boston for a week. As it is, the roof in the Roberts… Read More

There’s a spring in the step of ‘On The Town’

BOSTON — Artistic Director Spiro Veloudos has always found a way to fit large-scale musicals such as “1776,” “Sunday in the Park with George” and “Follies” into his intimate theater atop the YWCA… Read More

URT’s ‘Distracted’ entertains as it informs

  CAMBRIDGE — It’s not funny, but the way it is presented is. The medical condition Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) — or, as it is now more commonly known now, Attention Hyperactive Deficit… Read More

Longwood’s ‘Chess’ makes all the right moves

CAMBRIDGE — The Cold War seems almost a quaint time in history, given what we have been through as a country since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the dissolution… Read More

Blood in the water in MRT’s ‘Glengarry’

LOWELL — There will be blood shed — maybe not literally but figuratively — when jobs and a Cadillac are the prizes in a cruel competition among 1984 Chicago real estate salesmen in… Read More

Pinch-hitter hits home run in ‘Amadeus’

  WATERTOWN — Theater is a lot like baseball. If you give a great actor a pitch in his wheelhouse, you expect him to hit it out of the park. Even if that… Read More

‘Millie’ tap dances her way into your heart

STONEHAM — Director/choreographer Ilyse Robbins has been on quite a roll lately. Her recent direction of “Marry Me a Little” at the New Repertory Theatre was warmly received, and she is currently choreographing… Read More

War, science collide in ‘Operation Epsilon’

  CAMBRIDGE — The race to build an atomic bomb against the backdrop of World War II wasn’t just a matter of life and death, but the survival of countries and peoples. From… Read More

‘M’: Ryan Landry Lite is still entertaining

  BOSTON — It turns out Ryan Landry Lite is still pretty entertaining. Landry is the actor, writer, director and all-around creative genius behind the Gold Dust Orphans theater troupe, which performs in… Read More

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