SpeakEasy Stage Company & Front Porch Arts Collective present ‘A Strange Loop’. Book, Music and Lyrics by Michael R. Jackson. Directed by Maurice Emmanuel Parent. Music Direction by David Freeman Coleman. Choreographed by Taavon Gamble. Intimacy Direction by Greg Geffrard. Scenic Design by Jon Savage. Costume Design by Becca Jewett. Lighting Design by Brian J….
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Umbrella Stage’s ‘The Full Monty’ Delivers the Full Package
The Umbrella Stage Company presents THE FULL MONTY. Book by Terrence McNally. Music & Lyrics by David Yazbek. Leigh Barrett, Director. Luke Molloy, Music Director. Najee Brown, Choreographer. Jenna McFarland Lord, Scenic Designer. PJ Strachman, Lighting Designer. Rebecca Glick, Costume Designer. James Cannon, Sound Designer. Gabrielle Hatcher, Properties & Set Dressing. Kat Shanahan, Assistant Director/Wig…
“Strange Loop” Dazzlingly Bucks and Challenges Norms
‘A Strange Loop’ — Book, Music and Lyrics by Michael R. Jackson. Directed by Maurice Emmanuel Parent. Music Direction by David Freeman Coleman. Choreographed by Taavon Gamble. Co-produced by SpeakEasy Stage and Front Porch Arts Collective at the Calderwood Pavilion, 527 Tremont Street, through May 25. By Helen Ganley Some days, escaping from your inner…
Moonbox’ “The Mermaid Hour” is an Emotional Roller Coaster
By Michele Markarian “The Mermaid Hour” by David Valdes. Directed by Bridget Kathleen O’Leary. Presented by Moonbox Productions, One Arrow Street, Cambridge, through May 19. There’s a lot to unpack in David Valdes’s The Mermaid Hour, which deals with a trans child, her parents, her peers, and their parents, as well as marriage, the internet,…


