Review by James Wilkinson The Tour – Written by Alice Abracen. Directed by Lelaina Vogel. Scenic Design: Duncan Kennedy. Lighting Design: Kat Zhou. Fight Choreography: Matt Dray. Costume Design: Evelyn Quinn. Sound Design: Brittany Lawrence. Dialect Coaching: Daniel Thomas Blackwell. The Tour is presented by The Underlings’ Theatre Co. at Chelsea Theater Works…
Boch Center’s Sound of Music Charms Audiences – While Providing a Cautionary Tale
The Sound of Music – Music by Richard Rodgers; Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II; Book by Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse; Suggested by “The Trapp Family Singers” by Maria Augusta Trapp. Staged by Networks Presentations at the Boch Center, Wang Theatre, 270 Tremont St., Boston, MA, through May 13. One of the most beloved movie…
The Fabulous, Furious World of “Wig Out”
By Michele Markarian Wig Out – Written by Tarell Alvin McCraney. Directed by Summer L. Williams. Presented by Company One Theatre, in collaboration with American Repertory Theater as part of the Oberon Presents Series, at Oberon, 2 Arrow St. Cambridge, MA through May 13. There’s nothing worse than the feeling of world-weary, convinced…
LUCKY STIFF (Walpole Footlighters)
Reviewed by Tony Annicone Walpole Footlighters last show of their 94th season is “Lucky Stiff” by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty which is based on “The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo” by Michael Butterworth. This musical is a zany, offbeat and funny, murder mystery farce about an unassuming English shoe salesman…