By Michele Markarian “American Utopia”, by David Byrne. Choreography and Musical Staging by Annie-B Parsons. Karl Mansfield and Mauro Rerosco, Music Director. Presented by Ambassador Theatre Group, Emerson Colonial Theatre, 106 Boylston Street, Boston through September 28. As the lights go up on the stage, a barefoot David Byrne is seated at a table, wearing…
Ripley, Stellar Cast Deliver Blockbuster Treatment of ‘Sunset Boulevard’
Review by Tony Annicone North Shore Music Theatre’s blockbuster musical of the fall season “Sunset Boulevard” is based on the Academy Award winning 1950 Billy Wilder, black and white movie which starred Gloria Swanson and William Holden. The musical version has music by Andrew Lloyd Webber with a book and lyrics by Don Black and…
Jomama Jones and ‘Black Light’ Shine Brightly at Oberon
by Mike Hoban Black Light – Original Songs by Jomama Jones. With Bobby Halvorson, Laura Jean Anderson, Dylan Meek, Josh Quat. Additional Music by Samora Pinderhughes, Tariq Al-Sabir; Costume Design by Oana Botez; OBERON Lighting Design by Justin Paice; OBERON Sound Design; Alex Giorgetti. Presented by theAmerican Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Oberon, 2 Arrow Street,…
In Speakeasy’s ‘Choir Boy’, Music and Mentors Change Lives
by Linda Chin Workman ‘Choir Boy’ – Play by Tarell Alvin McCraney. Directed by Maurice Emmanuel Parent. Music Direction, David Freeman Coleman. Choreography, Yewande Odetoyinbo and Ruka White. Presented by SpeakEasy Stage Company. At Roberts Studio Theatre, Calderwood Pavilion, Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont St., through October 19 Like his play, In Moonlight…
