Reviewed by Tony Annicone Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston’s first musical of their historic 50th season is “A Chorus Line”, the 1976 winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical, Best Book and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It is a musical based on the lives and experiences of Broadway dancers. Original director/choreographer…
Love is a Battlefield in Les Liaisons Dangereuses
By Michele Markarian Les Liaisons Dangereuses, written by Christopher Hampton, from the novel by Pierre Choderins de Laclos. Directed by Lee Mikeska Gardner. Presented by The Nora Theatre Company, Central Square Theater, 450 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge through July 1. Lee Mikeska Gardner’s opening staging of Les Liaisons Dangereuses is intriguing. Ten…
North Shore Music Theatre Delivers a Rousing, Touching ‘Mame’
Reviewed by Tony Annicone The opening musical of North Shore Music Theatre’s 63rd season is “Mame”, originally titled “My Best Girl”, it is based on the 1955 fictional novel Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis and a 1956 play starring Rosalind Russell. The musical version by Jerry Herman opened on Broadway on May 24, 1966,…
Wellesley Repertory Theater Offers up A ‘Piece of My Heart’
Review by James Wilkinson A Piece of My Heart – Written by Shirley Lauro. Directed by Nora Hussey. Set Design by Janie Howland. Costume Design by Chelsea Kurl. Lighting Design by Matt Whiton. Projection Design by Johnathan Carr. Sound Design by George Cooke. Dramaturgy by Laura Zawarski. Presented by Wellesley Repertory Theatre,…
