Fun Home
It’s a brisk New England autumn night, and the audience pulls on coats as they exit the theater. An elegant, white-haired gentleman is still weeping (decorously, this is Boston) in […]
Randall, Duckart. Photo credit Marc J. Franklin.
Choi, Chang. Photo by Dahlia Katz.
Kim’s Convenience
An Enduring Delight Kim’s Convenience by Ins Choi was a hit in Canadian fringe theater (Choi playing the troubled son, Jung), then a five-year Netflix series and now (with Choi as […]
Grace. Photo by Annielly Camargo.
Sardines
45 minutes of stand-up comedy about death? The concept might be uncomfortable-to-appalling for some, but Sardines isn’t traditional stand-up and is less about death than about being the one left alive. Chris […]
Masters, Mulready, Carey, Kolbenheyer. Photo by Lisa Voll.
The Hills of California
The Hills of California, with their L.A. showbiz cachet, vaguely define the fierce dream of Veronica Webb (Allison Jean White), a Gypsyish mother in 1955 Blackpool, England, for her four daughters. […]
Kamanapata, Ware, Mngomezulu. Photo by Annielly Camargo.
Kufre N’Quay
Kufre N’ Quay is the 5th in Mfoniso Udofia’s 9-event Ufot Family Cycle, a 2-year dramatic project celebrating three generations of a Nigerian immigrant family to the U.S. In this, perhaps the least carefully-structured […]
Martinez, Skinner. Photo by Julieta Cervantes.
The Set Alone is Worth a Trip to Boston. Maybe a Red-Eye.
If Boston Huntington’s opening of The Light in the Piazza is predictive, this latest incarnation of the almost-classic American musical sung and spoken largely in Italian is a hit! The audience, noticeably […]