BOOK-SIGNINGS AND POST-SHOW DISCUSSIONS TO OCCUR AT SELECT PERFORMANCES OF JACK KEROUAC’S ‘BEAT GENERATION‘ Continue reading
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01
Sep
26
“Immaterial Girl” as an Old-Fashioned Haunted House (Episode 1 of Blood Rose Rising)
Photo Credit: Honest Ghost Productions LLC
Episode 1 of Blood Rose Rising
presented by Honest Ghost Productions
Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, starting September 14 – November 18
NAGA Nightclub, Central Square
450 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
Blood Rose Rising Facebook Page
Review by Gillian Daniels
(Cambridge) A real gothic story isn’t about tragic romance, torture, or death, but houses. Houses with long histories and dark secrets. In the contemporary setting of Cambridge, Immaterial Girl offers the beginning to an old-fashioned gothic serial centered on the haunted Blackwood Manor. Continue reading
Sep
25
9/30 Huntington’s Humanities Forum Features Globe Reporter Billy Baker
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Huntington Theatre co.’s GOOD PEOPLE Humanities Forum
September 30 FEATURES Boston Globe REPORTER AND
SOUTH BOSTON NATIVE BILLY BAKER
WHAT: Huntington Theatre Company’s Good People Humanities Forum to feature Billy Baker of The Boston Globe.
WHEN: Sunday, September 30, 2012 at approximately 4pm. Immediately following the 2pm performance of Good People
WHERE: The Huntington’s main stage on the Avenue of the Arts / Boston University Theatre, 264 Huntington Avenue, Boston
TICKETS: FREE and open to the public. Tickets to Good People are sold separately at huntingtontheatre.org/
Sep
24
Redemption in the Motherf**cker with the Hat
Photo Credit: SpeakEasy Stage Company
by Stephen Adly Guirgis
Directed by David R. Gammons
presented by Speakeasy Stage Company
539 Tremont Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02116
SpeakEasy Stage Company Facebook Page
September 14 – October 13, 2012
Review by Gillian Daniels
(Boston) Speakeasy Stage’s The Motherf**ker with the Hat is a dark comedy that never quite tips over into bleak. Its main characters are addicts, recovering and otherwise, but they either have a sense of humor about it or have learned to accept their shortcomings. Fresh out of jail, Jackie (Jaime Carrillo) tries to break the tight circuit of repeating behaviors that has him locked into a pattern of loving, drinking, and messing up. Continue reading
Sep
24
Half-Baked Silliness: LUMBERJACKS IN LOVE
Photo Credit: Carla Donaghey.
BOOK AND LYRICS BY: Fred Alley
MUSIC BY: James Kaplan
STORY BY: Fred Alley & James Kaplan
presented by Stoneham Theatre
Stoneham, MA
September 13th – 30th, 2012
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Review by Craig Idlebrook
(Stoneham) There is nowhere to hide with a new musical. Unlike a fresh drama, where an audience can be tricked into going along if there’s enough shouting, as soon as an actor opens her mouth to start singing, the audience can tell whether the song enhances or detracts from the plot, usually with disastrous results. Continue reading
Sep
22
Theater meets Chaos Theory: Jay Scheib’s “World of Wires”
Photo Credit: Jay Scheib’s “World of Wires”, Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
presented by The Institute of Contemporary Art/ Boston
The Institute of Art/Boston Website
Jay Scheib’s World of Wires Facebook Page
Friday + Saturday, September 21 + 22, 2012 , 7:30 pm
100 Northern Avenue
Boston, MA 02210 – directions
Review by Kitty Drexel
(Boston) Jay Scheib’s World of Wires is a live-cinema presentation that utilizes the mediums of television, live theater, the internet, music and all manners of spectating. It is an exhibition that posits that human experience on the internet is both defined by and created through actual and simulated human interaction. The result is a chaotic melodrama birthed by an obsessive zeitgeist. Continue reading
Sep
21
A Tale of Class and Morality in Southie
Photo Credit: T. Charles Erickson
by David Lindsay-Abaire
Directed by Kate Whoriskey
presented by Huntington Theatre Company Website
Huntington Theatre Company Facebook Page
Avenue of the Arts / BU Theatre, 264 Huntington Avenue, Boston
September 14 – October 14, 2012
Review by Kitty Drexel
(Boston) David Lindsay-Abaire’s Good People is a modern comedy of errors that takes place in South Boston. This production toes the line between comedy and drama. It features a star-studded cast which embodies the beloved Boston stereotypes made famous by movies like The Town and Mystic River. Amidst a healthy peppering of Boston in-jokes, it explores class divisions while characters attempt to define what it is to be a “good person.”
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Sep
20
Improv Boston Presents: GOREFEST X: 28 Days Latte
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GoreFest X: 28 Days Latte — ImprovBoston’s 10th Annual Halloween Horrorshow — is a brand new musical comedy from writer/lyricist Don Schuerman and composer Steve Gilbane. The Zombie Apocalypse is upon us, and a bunch of hipsters and two senior citizens are trapped inside a coffee place as they fight back the rampaging hordes. The show is dripping with tasteless dialog, juvenile humor, memorable music. Like every GoreFest, this year’s show features copious amounts of fake blood, gore and other bodily fluids, not all of which ends up on the actors. Continue reading
Sep
20
A ROAD FORGOTTEN: HOMESTEAD CROSSING
Homestead Crossing
Presented Merrimack Repertory Theatre
by William Donnelly
Directed by Kyle Fabel
Photo Credit: Meghan Moore
Merrimack Repertory Theatre Website Merrimack Repertory Theatre Facebook Page
50 E. Merrimack St.
Lowell, MA
Sep 6 – Sep 30, 2012
Review by Kate Lonberg-Lew
(Lowell, MA) It’s so easy to get lost in the minutia of daily life – the food shopping and bill-paying – that you forget that you make your own destiny. That, in fact, your destiny is created in those very everyday decisions. And it takes an unexpected event, be it a stranger knocking at your window or an unexpected call from an old friend, to remind us. Homestead Crossing, currently playing at the Merrimack Repertory Theatre, is the story of just such a couple.
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Sep
18
Project: Project’s WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?
This is our FIRST fundraiser for our FIRST production. A $500 pittance to assist with space rental and miscellaneous props that can’t be found in our closets.
Our current show, What are You Doing Here?, has been in the works since we first came together in November 2011. After one year of devising, improvising, writing and rewriting it is coming to fruition. Now we need your help to see it through! It’s part improvised, part scripted, and all site-specific at the Democracy Center in Cambridge, MA. Continue reading