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Review: Wicked; The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; The Real Inspector Hound

Spell casters
"It's a bit much," acknowledges the Wizard of Oz, emerging from under the neon-blue-eyed Lion King mask behind which he does his heavily amplified business in the Broadway blockbuster Wicked .

By: CAROLYN CLAY | September 07, 2010

Photos: Amanda Palmer rehearses Cabaret

Rehearsing the upcoming ART production of Cabaret
Rehearsing the upcoming ART production of Cabaret

By: DEREK KOUYOUMJIAN | August 23, 2010

Intriguing Love Song hums two tunes

Heart heist
The 2006 Love Song, to which Orfeo Group is giving a bristling Boston premiere (at Charlestown Working Theater through August 27), fields a catalytic intruder who is not what she seems.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | August 19, 2011

Review: An Ideal Husband

Wilde thing: this Gloucester Husband is not ideal
"Nothing succeeds like excess," Oscar Wilde famously opined.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | August 17, 2010

Spider man

Richard III weaves his web in Lenox
Dreams and portents loom large in Richard III . So it seems fitting that John Douglas Thompson's dynamic Dick Crookback should deliver the play's famed opening lines from a supine position on the floor, as if envisaging in slumber "the winter of our discontent/Made glorious summer by this sun of York."

By: CAROLYN CLAY | August 15, 2010

Play by Play: August 13, 2010

Theater listings, week of August 13, 2010
Opening this week: As Bees in Honey Drown , Hairspray , and More Words! More Play! .

By: MADDY MYERS | August 10, 2010

Moor power for free

CSC's Othello on Boston Common
The climax of Othello is less hot-blooded murder than ritual sacrifice, and the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company staging is built on that idea.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | August 08, 2010

Play by play: August 6, 2010

Theater listings, week of August 6, 2010
Curtains, Fever Fest '10, Hairspray, and more

By: MADDY MYERS | August 04, 2010

Phantoms and fantasy

Anne Carson and Rashaun Mitchell at the ICA; Cirque du Soleil's Ovo; David Parker in Concord
Poetry and dance have some common traits.

By: MARCIA B. SIEGEL | July 28, 2010

Get me remix

The Brothers Grimm generally managed to live up to their name.

By: CAROLYN CLAY | July 30, 2010

Play by Play: July 30, 2010

Theater listings, week of July 30, 2010
Opening this week: Bad Dates, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Rocky Horror Show, The Taster, and Violet.

By: MADDY MYERS | July 29, 2010

Play by Play: July 23, 2010

Theater listings, week of July 23, 2010
Candyland: A Recession Comedy, Quills, The Hound of the Baskervilles, and more.

By: MADDY MYERS | July 21, 2010

Gloucester Stage's 'Tender' is more mean than funny

Where turgid self-pity meets spiteful witlessness
"When am I going to stop feeling like such an asshole," asks Amanda, one of the three characters in Tender , which is getting its world premiere from Gloucester Stage (through July 25).

By: ED SIEGEL | July 13, 2010

Play by play: July 9, 2010

Theater listings, week of July 9, 2010
Opening this week: Burning The Barn, The Color Of Desire, Conni’s Avant Garde Restaurant, Fully Committed, and more

By: MADDY MYERS | July 06, 2010

Cool drink on a hot day

With Table Manners, Gloucester Stage gives Ayckbourn his due
Alan Ayckbourn has been often dismissed as the British Neil Simon. He's also been hailed as a playwright of such acute insight that, if you look beyond the laughs, he deserves to be mentioned in the same critical breath as Harold Pinter.

By: ED SIEGEL | July 05, 2010

Curse and worse

Johnny Baseball is stuck in the minors
The high point of Johnny Baseball , the new musical receiving its world premiere from the American Repertory Theater (at the Loeb Drama Center through June 27), comes two-thirds of the way through the second act.

By: STEVE VINEBERG | June 09, 2010