By Michele Markarian The Last Act. Written by Joshua Sobol. Directed by Guy Ben-Aharon. Presented by Israeli Stage Company, Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont Street, Boston, through June 1. The Last Act, a world premiere by reknowned Israeli playwright Joshua Sobol, couldn’t get produced in Israel’s…
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“Allegiance” a Piece of America’s Dark History
By Michele Markarian ‘Allegiance’ – Book by Marc Acito, Jay Kuo, and Lorenzo Thione, Music and Lyrics by Jay Kuo. Directed by Paul Daigneault. Presented by SpeakEasy Stage Company, Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, through June 2. “Every Pearl Harbor Day, they trot me out to prove that…
LUCKY STIFF (Walpole Footlighters)
Reviewed by Tony Annicone Walpole Footlighters last show of their 94th season is “Lucky Stiff” by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty which is based on “The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo” by Michael Butterworth. This musical is a zany, offbeat and funny, murder mystery farce about an unassuming English shoe salesman…
SpeakEasy Stage’s ‘ALLEGIANCE’ A Musical Look at WWII Japanese Internment
By Sheila Barth During World War II, inhumanities and atrocities weren’t limited to Nazi Germany. After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the US created its own black mark in history by rounding up more than 120,000 loyal Japanese-American citizens and placing them in internment camps.
