THEATER REVIEW: AMERICAN IDIOT
The two-time Tony Award-winning Broadway smash AMERICAN IDIOT is not a groundbreaking musical-- unless you're 16. So bring your teenagers and leave grandma home-- she'll either be bored or blow out...
View ArticleTHEATER REVIEW: BILLY ELLIOT
LOVE LOVE LOVE this show!!! Last night, I saw BILLY ELLIOT the Tony Award-winning best musical at The Opera House and walked out utterly elated-- and surprised! I had seen BILLY ELLIOT when it opened...
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A NIGHT AT THE THEATER WITH JOYCE!
I'm raffling myself off at the Arsenal Center for the Arts!! You could be the lucky winner that joins me at a Broadway Across America show in Boston! We'll share a champagne toast at the...
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THEATER: WHAT I CAN’T WAIT TO SEE & ALL THAT JAZZ THIS FALL!
Christie Brinkley, Jack Kerouac, Andrew Jackson, and a beloved "war horse"-- all trod the boards this Fall! Here's what I'm looking forward to: WAR HORSE* I saw “the horse” in preview and I still...
View ArticleTHEATER REVIEW: WAR HORSE
There's a thrilling moment near the beginning of WAR HORSE, where a young colt disappears from the stage, and in its place, suddenly blazing into view, is a magnificent full-sized thoroughbred. I...
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THEATER REVIEW: BOOK OF MORMON/”M”
It was a bad week for missionaries and mad men in Boston. First, THE BOOK OF MORMON blew into town on the strength of its nine Tony Awards and buzz born of NY Times Ben Brantley's boast that the show...
View ArticleTHEATER REVIEW:”WICKED”
I'm feeling WICKED. I mean, really feeling it. I saw the Tony Award-winning musical again, at Boston's Opera House, and again, found myself caught up and trembling at this smart, moving,...
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THEATER ROUNDUP: MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET/THE OTHER PLACE/ROMEO &...
MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET--is worth maybe $100,000. Now onstage at the Colonial (the video above features a different cast) the show speculates on what actually happened the night of Dec. 4, 1956 when...
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THEATER: MOTOWN The Musical
Two nights ago at Boston’s Opera House MOTOWN The Musical moved everything– except me. Sets, settings, singers, dancers, plot lines: race, romance, business, music, internal politics– it’s all up...
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BROADWAY IN BOSTON 2015-2016 SEASON ONSTAGE!
THIS JUST IN: BEAUTIFUL, MATILDA THE MUSICAL, IF/THEN, PIPPIN and Rodgers + Hammerstein’s CINDERELLA headline the 2015-2016 Broadway In Boston Season! A new production of THE SOUND OF MUSIC, Disney’s...
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THEATER: NEWSIES
STOP THE PRESSES: NEWSIES is a smash! The voices! The dancing! The sets! If you’re looking for some rip-roaring entertainment to add to the fireworks this 4rth of July week, head to Boston’s Opera...
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THEATER: WAITRESS/KINKY BOOTS
Attention foot fetishists and dessert freaks! There are two shows on stage right now that you MUST see: KINKY BOOTS, the 2013 Tony-winning, high-kicking, cross-dressing Best Musical scored by Grammy...
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THEATER: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
I’ve got the music from this show stuck in my head–so my life is now a Disney musical! Such is the irresistible power of this Broadway in Boston production of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST once it gets going–...
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THEATER: PIPPIN
It’s fair to mention that PIPPIN is not my favorite musical. I also happened to be sick as a dog as I sat in the audience on opening night. BUT, that said, I enjoyed this production so much more than...
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THEATER: BROADWAY IN BOSTON’S 2016-17 SEASON!!
HAMILTON’s coming–in 2017-18!! DATES & ON-SALE TO BE ANNOUNCED LATER. BUT FIRST, here’s NEXT Season 2016-2017 Lexus Broadway In Boston Season Direct from Broadway: *The National Tour of...
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THEATER: MATILDA
I have a new favorite musical and it’s called MATILDA THE MUSICAL!!! This literate, darkly funny, empowering, and bizarrely inventive Tony award-winner just hit the Boston Opera House in its first...
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THEATER: IF/THEN
I know it’s a hard day to talk about a theatrical production that just opened at the Boston Opera House. My heart is filled with outrage, and sorrow, and the need to DO something about the killing of...
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35th ANNIVERSARY ELLIOT NORTON AWARDS 2017!
Joyce Kulhawik, Cherry Jones, Diane Paulus & Boston Theater Critics Association/Photo: Mikki Ansin If you are a theater lover/goer and were not at the HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY’s BU Theater on...
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THEATER: “42nd Street”/”Finding Neverland”
Two musicals have just descended on the Boston area: one old, one new–each with its ups and downs. Mara Cecilia as PEGGY SAWYER First,”Come and meet those dancing feet/On the avenue I’m taking you...
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TWO BEAUTIES ONSTAGE: WAITRESS /BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
WAITRESS–I saw this show hot out of the oven at its 2015 Broadway-bound world premiere at the A.R.T. Based on a charming, offbeat film and turned into a scrumptious slice of musical theater by Diane...
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