by Michele Markarian “Last Night at Bowl-Mor Lanes” – Written by Weylin Symes. Directed by Bryn Boice. Presented by Greater Boston Stage Co., 395 Main Street, Stoneham, through September 29. Full disclosure – this reviewer will get tickets to see Nancy E. Carroll, whose excellent acting never disappoints, in anything. Throw in the buoyant Paula…
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American Repertory Theater Scores a Perfect Ten with “Six”
By Michele Markarian “Six” by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss. Directed by Lucy Moss and Jamie Armitage. Presented by American Repertory Theater, 64 Brattle Street, Cambridge, through September 29. Last May, in London and desperate for some theater on a Sunday afternoon, I blindly bought what was the last ticket to a show in the…
Short Take: ‘The Lightning Thief” at Huntington a Fierce and Funny Entertainment
by Michele Markarian ‘The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical’ – Book by Joe Tracz. Music and Lyrics by Rob Rokicki. Adapted from the book “The Lightning Thief” by Rick Riordan. Directed by Stephen Brackett. At the Huntington Theatre Company, 264 Huntington Avenue, Boston, through July 28th. When my son was in middle school, every…
Strong Acting Marks Nora Theatre’s “Cloud Nine”
by Michele Markarian “Cloud Nine”, by Caryl Churchill. Directed by Lee Mikeska Gardner. Presented by The Nora Theatre Company, 450 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, through June 30. Given our current climate of the contraction/expansion of sexuality and all of its permutations, the decision of The Nora Theatre Company to produce Caryl Churchill’s “Cloud Nine” is an…
