Those brash upstarts, Mozart and Barnum, are stars of Moonbox’s next theater season
It turns out composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and hoaxer P.T. Barnum have a fair amount in common, starting with being the basis for the Moonbox Productions theater company’s 2016-17 season.
‘Spider Cult: The Musical’ is bloody, sexy, sci-fi apocalypse you’ve been waiting for
Poet and author Jade Sylvan talks about “Spider Cult: The Musical” – the “apocalyptic lesbian sci-fi horror burlesque musical” now in its final weeks before taking the stage for four performances at Harvard Square’s Oberon.
It’s the smaller things that count at A.R.T. amid a season without Paulus as director
The past five years have seen Harvard’s A.R.T. do a reliable business sending plays from Cambridge to Broadway, but that may not be the case for the upcoming season.
Small ASP casts will ‘tear the veil off’ season featuring Shakespeare classics, a Marlowe
The heavy hitters are coming in the four-play season announced last week by the Somerville-based Actors’ Shakespeare Project, including “Hamlet,” “The Tempest” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “Edward II” by Christopher Marlowe. It starts in October.
Scenes from ‘The Convert’ and actor Q&A make connection with Black Lives Matter
The connection between colonialism and the Black Lives Matter movement gets made explicit at a free event Tuesday at the Central Square Theater, with scenes from the play “The Convert” followed by a moderated discussion between the actors and audience.
Poisonous politics of Bard’s ‘Richard II’ lands in Cambridge at a telling moment
Just as the country becomes fully engrossed by the questions of who succeeds Barack Obama in the White House, the Actors’ Shakespeare Project brings the succession drama “Richard II” to Central Square for a three-week run.
‘Decadence, Debauchery and Divas’ cabaret gives Monday Broadway score, good cause
Before getting to its season of staged productions – Neil Simon’s “Barefoot in the Park” and the sexy jazz musical “The Wild Party” – the Harvard Square nonprofit theater company Moonbox Productions is starting with its second annual fundraiser cabaret.
John Waters announced for ‘Slutcracker’ opening night, sexy satire’s ultimate guest
There have been celebrity guests at “Slutcracker” before, but the local holiday tradition has an opening night guest this year that may never be topped.
No drama behind changes in leadership coming to Actors’ Shakespeare Project
Wrapping up its 11th season, the Somerville-based Actors’ Shakespeare Project is also swapping out an executive producer and board president, renewing its focus on education and looking for its first director of marketing in nearly four years.
Neil Simon’s Jake says he loves women, but this ‘Jake’s Women’ production really does
It’s worth asking why the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club chose “Jake’s Women,” playing through this weekend at the university’s Agassiz Theater. But the answer is actually pretty good.
