by Tony Annicone Trinity Repertory Company’s closing show of their 2021/22 season is “Fairview”, a Pulitzer Prize winning show by Jackie Sibblies Drury. It is about an upper middle class African American family that starts off as a sitcom a la “Good Times”, but then becomes confrontational. The play also turns interactive with a riveting…
Shall We Cancel A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder? It Appears To Be the Only Civilized Thing to Do.
by Michael Cox Times have changed. The theatre, especially, has changed in the past few years. Every theatre company in this city has declared as much. This musical comedy, the culminating play of Lyric Stage Company’s season, is filled from beginning to end with the most vile and offensive sentiments. Exploitative and entitled characters espouse…
Short Take: “Ain’t Misbehavin’” Sets the Joint Jumpin’
by Michele Markarian “Ain’t Misbehavin’” – The Fats Waller Musical. Conceived by Richard Maltby Jr. and Murray Horowitz, Musical Adaptations, Orchestrations and Arrangements by Luther Henderson. Directed and Choreographed by Maurice Emmanuel Parent. Co-produced by The Nora@Central Square Theater, The Front Porch Arts Collective, and Greater Boston Stage Company, 450 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, through May…
SpeakEasy’s ‘The Inheritance’ is a Beautifully Realized Production of an Ambitious and Imperfect Play
by Julie-Anne Whitney ‘The Inheritance’ – Written by Matthew López; directed by Paul Daigneault; movement and intimacy direction by Yo-El Cassell; scenic design by Cristina Todesco; costume design by Charles Schoonmaker; lighting design by Karen Perlow; sound design by Dewey Dellay; stage-managed by Thomas M. Kauffman. Produced by SpeakEasy Stage Company at the BCA/Calderwood Pavilion…
