By Michele Markarian “Blood on the Snow” – Written by Patrick Gabridge. Directed by Courtney O’Connor. Presented by The Bostonian Society at the Old State House, 206 Washington Street, Boston, through August 20. Through a side entrance in the Old State House, you make your way up a winding, wooden staircase to be ushered into…
Author: Michele Markarian
Delicious Storytelling Dished Up in “I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti”
By Michele Markarian “I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti.” Adapted by Jacques LaMarre from the memoir by Giulia Melucci. Directed by Ilyse Robbins . Presented by Stoneham Theatre, 395 Main Street, Stoneham, through June 25. “I can count on my breasts the number of times I’ve missed a meal”, Giulia (Kerri Jill Garbis) tells…
Drama Abounds in “Days of Atonement”
By Michele Markarian Days of Atonement. Written by Hanna Azoulay-Hasfari, translated by Shir Freibach. Directed by Guy Ben-Aharon. Presented by Review,, 527 Tremont Street, Boston through June 25. It is the eve of Yom Kippur. Amira (Dana Stern), a student filmmaker, calls her three estranged sisters to their mother’s apartment in Netivot, to try and…
Jennifer Ellis is A Revelation in Speakeasy’s “The Bridges of Madison County”
by Michele Markarian ‘The Bridges of Madison County’ – Book by Marsha Norman. Music and Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown. Based on the novel by Robert James Waller. Directed by M. Bevan O’Gara. Music Direction by Matthew Stern. Presented by Speakeasy Stage Company, Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont Street,…