Martin Scorsese’s newest film, which opens Friday in theaters nationwide, has deep Greater Boston roots. The movie is based on the 2004 novel of same name by local writer Dennis Lehane, and much of the film was shot in Eastern Massachusetts. WBUR’s critic-at-large reviewed the thriller.

BOSTON — Virtually all of the non-profit theaters in the Boston area have opened new productions in the new year. WBUR critic-at-large Ed Siegel offers his take on some of the highlights.

The 1960’s cult TV series “The Prisoner” has been remade and premieres this month on the AMC cable channel. Jim Caviezel stars as No. 6 and Ian McKellen as 2. Meanwhile, the 17-episode original series starring Patrick McGoohan as No. 6 has been re-released on DVD and is airing on the Independent Film Channel.

BOSTON — Levine and the Boston Symphony Orchestra open the Tanglewood season this weekend with Igor Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” among others, but Morning Edition critic-at-large Ed Siegel has beaten them out to the Berkshires.

BOSTON — Two new musicals in Boston highlight some familiar subjects. “The Jerry Springer Show” is the slugfest of a syndicated TV program. “Grey Gardens” is an HBO movie drawn from a documentary about riches-to-rags relatives of Jacqueline Onassis. But WBUR’s theater critic Ed Siegel says these latest incarnations come with a twist.

BOSTON — The musical, “Spring Awakening,” which captured eight Tony Awards in 2007, is now on stage at Boston’s Colonial Theatre. At the same time, the original script on which it’s based, a German play from 1891, is at the Boston Center for the Arts. WBUR’s critic-at-large Ed Siegel reviews them both.

BOSTON — Morning Edition critic-at-large Ed Siegel examines two area theater productions that have a different take on contemporary issues.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The ART is mounting productions of Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame” and David Harrower’s “Blackbird.” Ed Siegel reviews both.

BOSTON — In a new, uncensored production of “Cat in a Hot Tin Roof” at Boston’s Lyric Stage Company, Georgia Lyman and her father, Will, have been attracting quite a bit of attention. Theater critic Ed Siegel explains.

BOSTON — The Oscar-nominated film “Frost/Nixon” began life as a play in England before making it to Broadway. The movie can be seen around Boston — and now, so can the play, which opened this week at the Colonial Theatre. Ed Siegel has a review.

BOSTON — Director Nicholas Martin is back in Boston at the Huntington Theatre Company, as artist emeritus, with one of his favorite stars, Kate Burton, in “The Corn Is Green,” which opens Friday night.

BOSTON — Violinist Eugene Drucker, of the Emerson String Quartet, turns his hand to fiction, in a book about a violinist forced to play for prisoners during the Holocaust.

BOSTON, Mass. — After a wave of success on Broadway, “The Seafarer” sails to the stage in Boston. We’ll have a review.

BOSTON — The Huntington Theatre Company presents British playwright Tom Stoppard’s latest work, “Rock ‘n’ Roll,” which deals in large part with the Czechoslovakian uprising of 1968. Critic Ed Siegel offers this review.

BOSTON — WBUR theater critic Ed Siegel reviews two productions about families: Carrrie Fisher’s one-woman show, “Wishful Drinking,” Jose Rivera’s “Boleros for the Disenchanted.”

BOSTON, Mass. — To Shakespeare scholars, “Cardenio” is the stuff of legend. To WBUR critic Ed Siegel, the ART production of the Bard’s revamped script is the stuff of some laughter.

BOSTON, Mass. — “The History Boys” has graduated from London to New York and now Boston. Our reviewer puts the play in a class of its own.

BOSTON, Mass. — WBUR critic Ed Siegel reviews the new documentary, “The Night James Brown Saved Boston.” It airs 40 years and a day after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

BOSTON, MA — Conor McPherson’s eerie 2004 play, “Shining City” is set in Ireland. Now it’s just opened in Boston at the Huntington Theatre Company.

BOSTON, Mass. — “Avenue Q” is on the road at the Colonial Theater in Boston. Our critic-at-large stops by to review the Tony Award-winning production.