There’s magic to this ‘A Christmas Carol’: Delivering delight despite its familiarity
There’s a wonderful kinetic quality to this “Christmas Carol” – it’s always moving, and always has a rhythm for you to jump in step to. You feel like you can reach out and get ahold of it, in part because little attempt is made to hide the theatrical “magic” in the story.
Electric ‘Rocky Horror Show’ production brings corpse of Harvard Square new life
Recent developments in Harvard Square have been pretty depressing, but from now until Nov. 2 the square has its mojo back thanks to Moonbox Productions’ electrifying, dynamic and sexy staging of “The Rocky Horror Show.”
‘Rocky Horror’ gets the red carpet treatment, sweet tributes to show’s Harvard Square run
The pop-up theatrical production of “The Rocky Horror Show” coming to Harvard Square’s former Hidden Sweets space is a bigger deal than the average musical comedy revival, starting with a public party Friday.
Harvard gets a ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ for Halloween, filling former Hidden Sweets
The “Rocky Horror Picture Show” is coming back to Harvard Square – once a weekend cinema staple, it’s now a theater production arriving in time for Halloween, with the benefit of activating one of the square’s long empty and most prominent retail spaces.
After six decades of Gilbert & Sullivan canon, Harvard players prepare to tweak a tradition
A 63-year-old tradition is getting the slightest of shakeups next year, as the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert & Sullivan Players prepare to step outside the 14-operetta canon of their namesakes to try staging … well, something else.
Nora Theatre, Bedlam let loose ‘The Crucible,’ great, mad scenes from disintegrating society
We’re so often told – usually by our teachers back in high school – what a great play Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” is. With this production, we get to see for ourselves.
Bridge Rep isn’t coming back to Cambridge; director will lead a new venue in Worcester
Bridge Rep leader Olivia D’Ambrosio says her theater company isn’t coming back to Cambridge, the results of a dispute with the Multicultural Arts Center in East Cambridge and her welcoming by a theater company in Worcester.
With A.R.T.’s electric historical comedy ‘Six,’ musicals continue march into 21st century
The A.R.T. is getting a jump on the 2019-20 season with Broadway-bound British import “Six” – an unadulterated blast of fun, despite the extreme misogynistic abuse suffered by our protagonists at the hands of husband Henry the VIII.
‘Nature Plays’ bring Mount Auburn Cemetery to life in a spectacular plein air tour de force
Mount Auburn Cemetery and its rich, natural environment is a heaven-made set for playwright Patrick Gabridge’s spectacular first set of five site-specific one-acts, “The Nature Plays.”
‘Black Odyssey Boston’ is near perfection
Besides a basic framework, “Black Odyssey Boston” shares little with its predecessor. But populated by lovingly crafted characters, guided by loving hands, it is a complete success.
