Theatrely's review of The Queen of Versailles starring Kristin Chenoweth now in performance at the Emerson Colonial Theatre written by Lindsey Ferrentino, Stephen Schwartz, and directed by Michael Arden.
Awards were presented last night in 37 categories including outstanding actors, directors, designers, choreographers, musicians, productions and 4 visiting productions by the Boston Theater Critics Association at the 41st Annual Elliot Norton Awards ceremony, held at the Huntington Theatre in Boston.
The ART's world-premiere musical Gatsby, an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s legendary novel announced it's full casting.
Christoper Mannelli joins the Huntington Theatre Company as the new Executive Director after seven years at Geva Theatre Center.
Call Fosse at the Minskoff, written and performed by Mimi Quillin, will play at Nantucket's White Heron Theatre Company.
A.R.T. has announced its 2023-204 season, which includes multiple world premiere productions.
Evita at A.R.T. will star Shereen Pimentel, Omar Lopez-Cepero, Gabriel Burrafato, Caesar Samayoa, and Naomi Serrano.
The Huntington and SpeakEasy Stage will present the Tony-winning musical later this year.
Theatrely's review of Sing Street at the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston. Directed by Rebecca Taichman and choreographed by Sonya Tayeh, the musical is written by Enda Walsh, Gary Clark, and John Carney.
The musical, based on the hit film of the same name, begins August 26 at the Huntington’s Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA.
We Just Can’t Get Enough! Sing Street is about to open at the Huntington’s Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA in Boston next month and we finally have the cast. Directed by Tony winner Rebecca Taichman and choreography by Tony winner Sonya Tayeh, Sing Street features a book from Enda Walsh, with music and lyrics by Gary Clark and Carney. It is set to run August 26 to October 2, 2022.
It is not everyday that Dolly Parton premieres a new musical here in Boston, so the buzz around Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol, now playing at the Emerson Colonial Theatre, has been the talk of the town.
The honors celebrated the best of theatre in Boston in the 2021-2022 season during a virtual ceremony.
The Boston-area theatre company will present the Olivier-winning play as part of its 2022-2023 season. Life of Pi adapted from Yann Martel’s best-selling novel.
The honors celebrate the best of theatre in Boston, with John Douglas Thompson named the recipient of the Elliot Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence. Winners will be revealed May 23 in a virtual ceremony.
A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical, has announced additional casting ahead of their Pre-Broadway run at Emerson Colonial Theatre in Boston.The musical will feature Broadway favorites Will Swenson, Mark Jacoby, Robyn Hurder, and Linda Powell.Swenson will star as the young Neil Diamond while Jacoby will play Diamond at present. The story will follow Diamond as he begins his music career and as he faces challenges throughout the years. Hurder will play Marcia, who married Diamond, and Powell will play Diamond’s therapist.
Tony nominee and Broadway heartthrob Will Swenson is set to play singer-songwriter Neil Diamond in the upcoming bio-musical A Beautiful Noise. The world premiere is set to begin previews June 21 at the Emerson Colonial Theatre in Boston.
It was announced today that Loretta Greco will join The Huntington as the theatre’s fourth artistic director beginning July 1, 2022. After 12 years of leading The Magic, Greco is ready to pack her bags and make the cross country trip to join the famed Boston institution where she will be the first woman in the role.
Sing Street, the new musical based on the 2016 indie film of the same title by John Carney features a book by Tony winner Enda Walsh and music & lyrics by Gary Clark and Carney is headed to the Huntington Theatre Company this August. Rebecca Taichman will direct with Sonya Tayeh set to choreograph. An impressive creative time includes scenic & costume design by Bob Crowley, lighting design by Natasha Katz, sound design by Peter Hylenski, video design by Luke Halls and Brad Peterson, music supervision by Martin Lowe and Peter Gordeno, orchestrations by Gary Clark and Martin Lowe.
Comedian Jacqueline Novak is headed out across America to fill in audiences on a subject very near and dear to her heart: Blow jobs. Her quirky one-woman show Get On Your Knees is currently taking up residence at the Calderwood Pavilion’s Robert’s Studio Theatre by way of ATG’s Emerson Colonial in Boston.
Fourteen theatre companies in the Greater Boston area have banded together to announce a collective commitment to public safety as live, indoor performances resume in the region amid concerns around the rise in COVID-19 cases in the US.
In-person performances will soon return to the Loeb Drama Center in the American Repertory Theater’s upcoming season which includes some performances from their previously announced 2019-2020 season.
After a long 18-month intermission, SpeakEasy Stage Company will proudly re-open its doors on Friday, September 24, 2021, for the start of its 31st Season.
“TJ Loves Sally 4 Ever” from SpeakEasy Stage Company in Boston is now running digitally through May 13, 2021.
Company One and American Repertory Theater’s virtual production of "Hype Man: a break beat play" similarly asks for the audience to live up to their responsibility and speak up amidst the long-intolerable face of racial injustice.
Producers Ken Davenport and Bob Gaudio announced today that the previously untitled Broadway-bound new musical that will tell the incredible life story of legendary singer-songwriter Neil Diamond, now has its name – A Beautiful Noise – and will have its world premiere at Boston’s Emerson Colonial Theatre next summer with performances for this strictly limited four-week engagement starting Tuesday, June 21, 2022 and playing through Sunday, July 17, 2022.
The Conjurors' Club is a new interactive experience from the American Repertory Theater which brings magicians right into your living room.
"The Pink Unicorn" at SpeakEasy Stage allows one to step out of their own worldview and learn the power that love and support can have on a child’s life.
The first episode of "Tiger Style!" from the Huntington Theatre Company and Boston's GBH dropped this week, Juan A. Ramirez reviewed it for Theatrely.
American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University, under the leadership of Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director Diane Paulus and Executive Producer Diane Borger, announced that it will present The Conjurors’ Club, a live interactive multi-magician virtual experience created by Vinny DePonto and Geoff Kanick from March 13 - April 4, 2021.
The Huntington Theatre Company in partnership with GBH presents the audio version of the comedy Tiger Style! by Mike Lew and directed by Tony Award nominee Moritz von Stuelpnagel ("Hand to God" on Broadway).
Get your first look at production photos and a new music video from "Jack and the Beanstalk: A Musical Adventure" which is streaming on demand through January 4, 2021 from the A.R.T. in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
New Repertory Theatre in Watertown is finding new ways to showcase innovative productions during unprecedented times.
As much of the world abruptly came to a halt in March due to the ongoing pandemic, so did Franklin Performing Arts Company’s production of Legally Blonde the Musical.
The Arlekin Players Theatre’s interactive performance proves that digital, distanced theatre can be a compelling medium. In fact, it’s a medium with incredibly high stakes.
“The show must go on” is an often-repeated phrase in the world of show business, and this is the attitude many theatre programs at Boston-area universities are adopting going into the upcoming Fall 2020 semester.
After announcing an online virtual gala, Gloucester Stage Company received backlash on Facebook regarding their casting.
Early outside the State House this morning, here in Boston, a rally was held in support of the live events industry.
Need a new summer binge? Look no further than your local theatre community. Boston-area company Sparkhaven Theatre is premiering their new six-part live anthology, Tales from Camp Strangewood, this Sunday.
While this year’s Boston theatre season might have been cut short, the 38th Annual Elliot Norton Awards soldiered on with its entertaining virtual ceremony on May 11.
The 2020-2021 SpeakEasy Stage Company season will feature Matthew Lopez’s Olivier-winning The Inheritance.
At its core The Stone is a story about how we as human beings recount history and how history changes as it’s retold to protect people. It explores what happens when parts of history get buried and what happens when the truth comes to the surface.
Due to the social distancing practices precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the 38th annual Elliot Norton Awards will be presented virtually this year.
The Boston Theater Critics Association (BTCA) announced the nominees for the 38th Annual Elliot Norton Awards on Thursday morning.
Often, an efficacious story is one that is veiled in a series of satirical jokes. Such describes the brilliance behind Second City’s She The People at the Huntington Theatre Company.
“Never be too good, nor too bad. The world will punish you for both. Try to pace right with the rest of us in the unnoticeable hypocritical middle.”
“Why is this night different from all other nights?” It’s a question that you would most likely be asked by your English professor if you were writing a play that took place at night, but also one of the four questions that the youngest child at the Seder table must read aloud on Passover.
It has been three days since I attended Pass Over at SpeakEasy Stage Company, and the powerful images of this new drama are still stirring inside my head.
2019 has been a whirlwind of Boston theatre offerings from Pre-Broadway engagements to smaller fringe companies taking the spotlight.
We are all in the belly of the whale, er should I say the Loeb Drama Center here in Cambridge.
What would you do for immortality? Natalie Babbitt’s 1975 children’s novel is vividly brought to life in Umbrella Stage Company’s production of Tuck Everlasting, playing now through December 22.
I have said it time and time again, college theatre in Boston is continuing to create some of the most experimental and thought-provoking productions we have in the city.
Theatre Talk Boston (henceforth TTB) caught up with Christian Fary, who plays Dwight in The Office! A Musical Parody which opens tonight at the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA and plays until December 1.
Theatre Talk Boston (henceforth TTB) caught up with Cheaza Figueroa who currently stars as Rachel Marron in The Bodyguard at North Shore Music Theatre.
Theatre Talk Boston (henceforth TTB) chatted with Juan Luis Espinal from the National Tour of Rent.
Harmon, no stranger to Boston audiences–Bad Jews and Significant Other–has struck gold with his latest play, unpacking what exactly it means to be a white liberal in today’s society.
Theatre Talk Boston spoke with Broadway’s Clay Thomson, who choreographed Matilda playing at the Franklin Performing Arts Company this month.
Moonbox Productions has knocked it out of the park with The Rocky Horror Show now playing in Harvard Square until November 2nd.
I can’t remember the last time I had this much fun at an opera.
Before the curtain even rose on American Utopia playing at the historic Emerson Colonial Theatre, the sounds of birds and thunderstorms filled the space - I knew we were in for a unique night.
Evil is alive and well and living in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The Lyric Stage Company opened their 45th season with the cult-classic, Little Shop of Horrors, which continues to delight audiences of all ages.
SpeakEasy Stage Company opens their 29th season with Tarell Alvin McCraney’s coming-of-age drama Choir Boy.
Everything old is new again...that saying rings truer than ever in Cherry Docs now playing at The Rockwell.
As echoed in the opening number, SIX, now playing at the American Repertory Theater, is truly one of a kind.
Theatre Talk Boston (henceforce TTB) caught up with the stars of La Cage Aux Folles playing until August 18th at Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston.
Things are getting a little Freaky up in Beverly, MA. We are talking about Freaky Friday, a new musical now playing at North Shore Music Theatre until July 21st.
I do believe the tea has gone luke-warm; that being Tea At Five which opened last night at the Huntington Avenue Theatre here in Downtown Boston.
Written by Bess Wohl and beautifully directed by SpeakEasy regular M. Bevin O’Gara, Small Mouth Sounds brilliantly redefines silence not as a barrier, but rather a catalyst for introspective knowledge.