By Tom Boudrot ‘Tuck Everlasting’– Book by Claudia Shear and Tim Federle. Music by Chris Miller; Lyrics by Nathan Tysen; Based on the novel by Natalie Babbitt, Nancy Curran Willis, Director; Matthew Stern, Music Director; Lara Finn Banister, Choreography; Janie Howland, Scenic Designer; Brian Simons, Costume Designer; SeifAllah Sallotto-Cristobal, Lighting Designer; Elizabeth Havenor, Sound Designer….
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Appreciation: Holiday Pops at Symphony Hall, Boston
By Robert Israel Christmas celebrations are everywhere in Boston this month. There’s new life to downtown streets as shoppers flit in and out of stores. There are colorful lights on the Common, events for children, holiday parties at local eateries. And there are shows scheduled back-to-back at the Emerson Colonial (Dolly Parton), Irving Berlin’s White…
Arctic Playhouse Presents Three Short Holiday Plays
by Tony Annicone Arctic Playhouse’s holiday shows these year are three short Christmas plays. The first one is based on O. Henry’s story, “A Gift of the Magi”, which centers on a husband and wife who are very young, terribly in love and want to buy Christmas gifts for each other but both have little…
A Christmas Cactus – Newport Playhouse
Reviewed by Sue Nedar What do Charles Dickens, two escaped convicts, a mama’s boy, a red-headed detective, a smitten D.A., and a slightly dippy if not delightfully naive mama have in common? Well…you’ll just have to go and see A Christmas Cactus, by Eliot Byerrum, currently playing at The Newport Playhouse, to see for yourself.
