Performing Arts'A Strange Loop' is a portrait made of many reflections“A Strange Loop” is about a Black, queer man who is writing a musical about a Black queer man, writing a musical about a Black queer man. At its core,...Arts & CultureMay 6, 2024Broadway in Boston's 'Clue' is a superbly acted whodunitIn the play, through May 5 at the Emerson Colonial Theatre, six well-heeled individuals with a lot to lose show up for a fancy dinner party on a stormy night...Arts & CultureMay 2, 2024Get a peek inside Cambridge’s new community theater spaceAmid construction delays, Arrow Street Arts launches with big hopes for the future.Arts & CultureApr 12, 2024'Company' is about the connections we keepCritic Jacquinn Sinclair writes “Company” boasts a lot of great music and stresses that it’s the true connections—where one can laugh on the stoop with a friend, spill the relationship...Arts & CultureApr 5, 2024Edgar Allan Poe's final woes revived in a forgotten opera The horror writer was born in Boston in 1809, then died 40 years later — destitute and delirious — in Baltimore. Poe’s final days are being conjured by the Boston...ResumeArts & Culture04:59Apr 5, 2024AdvertisementAt the BCA, #HellaBlack returns and is bigger than everThe annual event centering Black artistry is now at the Cyclorama, doubling its capacity since last year. Arts & CultureApr 4, 2024At ArtsEmerson, 'Mrs. Krishnan's Party' is hard to resistNew Zealand's Indian Ink Theatre Company puts on a revelry-centered show that begs audiences to forget their troubles at the door and uses storytelling and cooking to entice. Theater critic...Arts & CultureMar 29, 2024Central Square Theater's 'Beyond Words' captures the bond between a researcher and parrotWritten by Laura Maria Censabella, the play is inspired by Irene Pepperberg, who taught an African grey parrot named Alex to communicate and solve problems for more than 30 years....Arts & CultureMar 26, 2024An artist invites audiences to 'Come On In' to his psychePlaying at the Strand Theatre March 28-30, the autobiographical one-man play follows writer-actor Daniel Callahan as he navigates mental health and religion as a Black man. Arts & CultureMar 26, 2024For great musicals, New York's Public Theater is the room where it happensCritic at large Ed Siegel's four favorite musicals of the 21st century were all incubated by artistic director Oskar Eustis and his predecessor, George C. Wolfe.Arts & CultureMar 21, 2024'Girl from the North Country' pulses with Dylan's songs, but lacks a tight connection to the heartPlaywright Conor McPherson uses Bob Dylan's songs to tell a tale of people trapped in Depression-era Duluth, Minnesota. Theater critic Jacquinn Sinclair likes the music, the story not so much.Arts & CultureMar 15, 202412 theater productions to see this springFrom a fresh take on a Sondheim musical to a true story of survival, theaters are offering up productions that celebrate different cultures and tell familiar stories in new ways....Arts & CultureMar 15, 202410 dance performances to attend this springThis season, you’ll be able to see Boston Ballet’s fiery “Carmen” light up the stage, as well as the return of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater to the city. WBUR...Arts & CultureMar 14, 2024An affecting 'King Hedley II' straddles hope and despairKing Hedley II, the title character in August Wilson’s eighth play in his American Century Cycle, is keenly aware the odds are stacked against him. Still, he holds tightly to...Arts & CultureMar 13, 2024Caring and courage propel SpeakEasy's tender 'Cost of Living'Martyna Majok's play, which won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for drama, delves into the lives of two pairs of lonely people seeking connection in a vulnerable time in their lives,...Arts & CultureMar 13, 2024A comprehensive guide to spring's classical music performancesFrom an evening with cellist Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Kathryn Stott to a spate of concerts from the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the season is brimming with an impressive variety of...Arts & CultureMar 12, 2024A reading of 'The Minutes' leads to hilarity — and horror — at Umbrella Arts CenterA fine ensemble lifts Tracy Letts' play in a staging at Concord's Umbrella Arts Center. Theater critic Jacquinn Sinclair reviews.Arts & CultureMar 6, 2024BLO's 'Eurydice' takes a trip to the underworldFor the debut of this newly commissioned performance in Boston, composer Matthew Aucoin has recreated a score that feels lush and musically rich, though more intimate.Arts & CultureMar 1, 2024Life imitates art for actor Petey Gibson in A.R.T.’s ‘Becoming A Man’Gibson got his start in Cambridge’s underground theater scene. Now he returns as the main character in P. Carl’s play about his mid-life gender transition.ResumeArts & Culture02:28Mar 1, 2024South Asian immigration stories take center stageThe event organizers were inspired by shows like The Moth and wanted to make their own.Arts & CultureFeb 29, 2024Next Page
'A Strange Loop' is a portrait made of many reflections“A Strange Loop” is about a Black, queer man who is writing a musical about a Black queer man, writing a musical about a Black queer man. At its core,...Arts & CultureMay 6, 2024
Broadway in Boston's 'Clue' is a superbly acted whodunitIn the play, through May 5 at the Emerson Colonial Theatre, six well-heeled individuals with a lot to lose show up for a fancy dinner party on a stormy night...Arts & CultureMay 2, 2024
Get a peek inside Cambridge’s new community theater spaceAmid construction delays, Arrow Street Arts launches with big hopes for the future.Arts & CultureApr 12, 2024
'Company' is about the connections we keepCritic Jacquinn Sinclair writes “Company” boasts a lot of great music and stresses that it’s the true connections—where one can laugh on the stoop with a friend, spill the relationship...Arts & CultureApr 5, 2024
Edgar Allan Poe's final woes revived in a forgotten opera The horror writer was born in Boston in 1809, then died 40 years later — destitute and delirious — in Baltimore. Poe’s final days are being conjured by the Boston...ResumeArts & Culture04:59Apr 5, 2024
At the BCA, #HellaBlack returns and is bigger than everThe annual event centering Black artistry is now at the Cyclorama, doubling its capacity since last year. Arts & CultureApr 4, 2024
At ArtsEmerson, 'Mrs. Krishnan's Party' is hard to resistNew Zealand's Indian Ink Theatre Company puts on a revelry-centered show that begs audiences to forget their troubles at the door and uses storytelling and cooking to entice. Theater critic...Arts & CultureMar 29, 2024
Central Square Theater's 'Beyond Words' captures the bond between a researcher and parrotWritten by Laura Maria Censabella, the play is inspired by Irene Pepperberg, who taught an African grey parrot named Alex to communicate and solve problems for more than 30 years....Arts & CultureMar 26, 2024
An artist invites audiences to 'Come On In' to his psychePlaying at the Strand Theatre March 28-30, the autobiographical one-man play follows writer-actor Daniel Callahan as he navigates mental health and religion as a Black man. Arts & CultureMar 26, 2024
For great musicals, New York's Public Theater is the room where it happensCritic at large Ed Siegel's four favorite musicals of the 21st century were all incubated by artistic director Oskar Eustis and his predecessor, George C. Wolfe.Arts & CultureMar 21, 2024
'Girl from the North Country' pulses with Dylan's songs, but lacks a tight connection to the heartPlaywright Conor McPherson uses Bob Dylan's songs to tell a tale of people trapped in Depression-era Duluth, Minnesota. Theater critic Jacquinn Sinclair likes the music, the story not so much.Arts & CultureMar 15, 2024
12 theater productions to see this springFrom a fresh take on a Sondheim musical to a true story of survival, theaters are offering up productions that celebrate different cultures and tell familiar stories in new ways....Arts & CultureMar 15, 2024
10 dance performances to attend this springThis season, you’ll be able to see Boston Ballet’s fiery “Carmen” light up the stage, as well as the return of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater to the city. WBUR...Arts & CultureMar 14, 2024
An affecting 'King Hedley II' straddles hope and despairKing Hedley II, the title character in August Wilson’s eighth play in his American Century Cycle, is keenly aware the odds are stacked against him. Still, he holds tightly to...Arts & CultureMar 13, 2024
Caring and courage propel SpeakEasy's tender 'Cost of Living'Martyna Majok's play, which won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for drama, delves into the lives of two pairs of lonely people seeking connection in a vulnerable time in their lives,...Arts & CultureMar 13, 2024
A comprehensive guide to spring's classical music performancesFrom an evening with cellist Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Kathryn Stott to a spate of concerts from the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the season is brimming with an impressive variety of...Arts & CultureMar 12, 2024
A reading of 'The Minutes' leads to hilarity — and horror — at Umbrella Arts CenterA fine ensemble lifts Tracy Letts' play in a staging at Concord's Umbrella Arts Center. Theater critic Jacquinn Sinclair reviews.Arts & CultureMar 6, 2024
BLO's 'Eurydice' takes a trip to the underworldFor the debut of this newly commissioned performance in Boston, composer Matthew Aucoin has recreated a score that feels lush and musically rich, though more intimate.Arts & CultureMar 1, 2024
Life imitates art for actor Petey Gibson in A.R.T.’s ‘Becoming A Man’Gibson got his start in Cambridge’s underground theater scene. Now he returns as the main character in P. Carl’s play about his mid-life gender transition.ResumeArts & Culture02:28Mar 1, 2024
South Asian immigration stories take center stageThe event organizers were inspired by shows like The Moth and wanted to make their own.Arts & CultureFeb 29, 2024