By Robert Israel Christmas celebrations are everywhere in Boston this month. There’s new life to downtown streets as shoppers flit in and out of stores. There are colorful lights on the Common, events for children, holiday parties at local eateries. And there are shows scheduled back-to-back at the Emerson Colonial (Dolly Parton), Irving Berlin’s White…
Dolly Parton Livens Up the Colonial with “Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol”
By Michele Markarian “Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol”. Adapted by David H. Bell, Paul T. Couch and Curt Wollan. Book by David H. Bell. Music and Lyrics by Dolly Parton. Directed by Curt Wollen. Presented by Red Tail Entertainment and Paul T. Couch, Emerson Colonial Theatre, 106 Boylston Street, Boston through December 29. “Dolly…
Arctic Playhouse Presents Three Short Holiday Plays
by Tony Annicone Arctic Playhouse’s holiday shows these year are three short Christmas plays. The first one is based on O. Henry’s story, “A Gift of the Magi”, which centers on a husband and wife who are very young, terribly in love and want to buy Christmas gifts for each other but both have little…
A Christmas Cactus – Newport Playhouse
Reviewed by Sue Nedar What do Charles Dickens, two escaped convicts, a mama’s boy, a red-headed detective, a smitten D.A., and a slightly dippy if not delightfully naive mama have in common? Well…you’ll just have to go and see A Christmas Cactus, by Eliot Byerrum, currently playing at The Newport Playhouse, to see for yourself.
