By Michele Markarian “Detroit Red” by Will Power. Directed by Lee Sunday Evans. Presented by Arts Emerson, Emerson Paramount Center, 559 Washington Street, Boston, through February 16. A tense, noir-ish film clip of a man holding a gun in a downtown Boston jewelry store is superimposed across the stage. “It takes point two seconds for…
Author: Michele Markarian
The Iconic and Timely Message of ‘Gloria: A Life’
By Michele Markarian “Gloria: A Life” – Written by Emily Mann. Directed by Diane Paulus. Presented by American Repertory Theater, Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle Street, Cambridge, through March 1 “Social justice movements start with people siting in a circle,” Gloria Steinem (Patricia Kalember) informs the audience sitting in the round at American Repertory Theater…
Umbrella Stage Company Delights with a Mind-Blowing “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”
By Michele Markarian “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”. Text by John Cameron Mitchell. Music and Lyrics by Stephen Trask. Directed by Julia Deter. Presented by The Umbrella Stage Company, 40 Stow Street, Concord, through January 12. I had no idea what to expect from “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”, running four days this weekend at the newly revamped…
Dolly Parton Livens Up the Colonial with “Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol”
By Michele Markarian “Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol”. Adapted by David H. Bell, Paul T. Couch and Curt Wollan. Book by David H. Bell. Music and Lyrics by Dolly Parton. Directed by Curt Wollen. Presented by Red Tail Entertainment and Paul T. Couch, Emerson Colonial Theatre, 106 Boylston Street, Boston through December 29. “Dolly…
