by Deanna Dement Myers IRNE award winner and recipient of the 2018 Bob Jolly Award director Sarah Gazdowicz along with music director Bethany Aiken lead a cast of some of the area’s finest actors in ‘Peter and The Starcatcher’ by Rick Elice, music by Wayne Barker; based on the novel by Dave Barry and Ridley…
Category: Plays
Lyric’s ‘The Roommate’ an ‘Odd Couple’ with Bite
‘The Roommate’ – Written by Jen Silverman, Directed by Spiro Veloudos; Scenic Design, Jenna McFarland Lord; Costume Design, Tobi Rinaldi; Lighting Design, Chris Hudacs; Sound Design & Original Music, Dewey Dellay; Presented by The Lyric Stage Company of Boston, 140 Clarendon Street, Boston through November 18, 2018 If you’re thinking that the plot from The…
Newport Playhouse’s “A Doublewide Texas Christmas
by Sue Nedar Newport Playhouse’s holiday offering is, “A Doublewide Texas Christmas” by Jones, Hope, & Wooten. Somewhere in the Texas heartland, lies the brand new town of Doublewide – Population, 10. It’s Christmas time, and things are complicated. You see, Doublewide is being double crossed by the county, there’s a nativity competition to worry…
Measure for Measure, a Russian Investigation of Shakespeare’s Problem Play
By Deanna Dement Myers ArtsEmerson welcomes Cheek by Jowl (UK) and The Pushkin Theatre Moscow (Russia) with Measure for Measure. This production by the international award-winning Director Declan Donnellan and Designer Nick Ormerod asks vital and unsettling questions about how we are governed and, in the process, unmasks the true nature of authority, love and…
