Fiasco Theater has dared to tempt fate yet again with Merrily, staging a buoyant, light-on-its-feet reimagining that’s stripped the musical of its original clutter, aiming, instead, for the story’s thematic heart.
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While there are several guns conjured to the imagination in EM Lewis’s one-person play The Gun...
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Unless you are somehow immune to the infectious pleasures of a good drag show, I’m willing to...
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What is a juggalo? Let me think for a second…Oh! He gets butt-naked and then he walks through the...
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New York’s Irondale Project presents a scrupulously faithful production of Brecht’s The Life Of...
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If this sounds stark, that’s only because a simple paragraph of explanation cannot possibly do the script justice. Los Angeles based playwright Boni B. Alvarez is himself a son of Filipino immigrant parents and he has tapped into his roots to craft multi-dimensional characters that deliver surprising levels of humor in spite of the fact that they are essentially prisoners. The humor reveals the humanity and depth of these characters in ways that draw you close to them no matter how far removed you might feel from their situation.
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Using the tools of the circus, performance art, modern dance, and puppetry, the French director...
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Confession. I love ABBA. For years I kept my Abba-session private. No one needed to know nor did I...
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The weekend of February 21-24 provided the audiences of the Paramount Center (Boston) with a...
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In 2004, Gwen Stefani, lately of the band No Doubt, released a song called Rich Girl which sampled...
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Irondale’s innovative and triumphant “Galileo” is Bertolt Brecht at his most excellent, cradled by an ensemble of dynamic and invested performers and pitched inevitably toward its audience with a playful, conscious eye toward its own didactic mission.
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Beautiful and heart-wrenching and incredibly real, The Scarlet Ibis is a masterpiece of modern...
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Ayesha Jordan and Justin Hicks have been collaborators for many years. Their work transcends...
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Manual Cinema has returned to Boston’s ArtsEmerson with their latest work The End Of TV just a...
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Until the beginning of February, the New York MoMA is mounting an exhibition on Judson Dance...
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“City of No Illusions,” a political comedy that stages the modern refugee crisis inside a funeral home.
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I follow a strict protocol of attitudinal class warfare when I board airplanes. As I walk proudly...
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When he first created his Cinderella in 1997, Matthew Bourne couldn’t have predicted any...
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A couple of decades ago my then-colleague Jan Hagens introduced me to a genre categorization that...
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Sam Shepard’s True West has always been a magnet for celebrity hamming, particularly in the role...
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Touch Me In Duh Righteous: A Fubu “Slave Play” Review 17th January 2019 
Care To Dance Dramaturg? The Invention Of A New Craft 9th January 2019 
Make Rome Great Again. A Revival Of… 22nd June 2018 
China, Liberia, America: A Suite Of Women’s Stories 7th February 2019 
An Introduction To The National Disability Theatre:… 23rd December 2018 
Subtle and Striking, Irondale’s Timely… 22nd February 2019 
Rise And Shine: “AWAKE!” At The Barrow Group 20th January 2019 
“Five Easy Pieces”: Milo Rau’s… 15th May 2018 
On Teaching Directing: The Essential Five 5th March 2019 
Ecce Homo: “The Great Tamer,” By… 15th November 2018 
