How many musical productions can say they feature a real helicopter hovering over the stage? Broadway in Boston’s “Miss Saigon” can. The thrilling staging, playing at Citizens Bank Opera House through June 30, is part of the show’s national tour, stemming from runs in...
The operatic rendition of Margaret Atwood's “The Handmaid’s Tale” religiously adheres to the original text, going as far as staging the show in a basketball gymnasium where the handmaids in the novel slept.
It is this meticulous narrative strategy that makes the opera...
“Don’t. Lose. Your. Halo.”
Lyrics from “GIRL,” the titular song of Maren Morris’ second studio album, flashed across a screen spanning the entire stage. On cue, spotlights provided an ethereal halo for Morris as she rose from below the stage, clad in neon pink...
“Pet Sematary” begins as most horror movie remakes do, full of respect to the original source material but featuring obvious refinement to set pieces and plot holes. However, despite improvement across the board in terms of acting and writing, the film fails to deliver a...
Ali Dusinberre, deputy lifestyle editor
• April 10, 2019
Students filed into Matthews Arena Saturday night to see 2 Chainz, King Princess and MisterWives perform live at Northeastern’s annual Springfest concert, hosted by the Council for University Programs, or CUP.
From MisterWives’ cheerful melodies to King Princess’ raw,...
Two years after Walker Hayes’ last performance in Boston, his high-spirited Dream On It tour marked a sweet stage of career metamorphosis.
At House of Blues on March 23, the pop-country artist recalled the last time he stood on that stage as the opening act for Dan + Shay’s...
Rather than a night filled with tear-jerking plot twists and a tragic ending, "Coppélia" provides comic relief for dancers and theatregoers including character hissy fits, humorous love triangles and a happily ever after.
On the Boston Ballet’s website, the dance company...
How does a Needham-raised playwright, actor and director manage to create a show that not only spoofs the mega-hit “Hamilton” but also the entire Broadway industry itself?
The answer is simple. Gerard Alessandrini’s musical, “Spamilton: An American Parody,” combines...
Lucy Hoffman, news correspondent
• February 13, 2019
Anyone entering the Central Square Theater to see Bedlam’s “Pygmalion” with expectations of Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison singing and walking off into the sunshine together is in for a surprise.
“Pygmalion” is the original play by George Bernard Shaw that was adapted...
What is democracy?
Filmmaker, writer and activist Astra Taylor asks this fundamental question in her documentary observing Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s “The Allegory of Good and Bad Government” in Siena, Italy. In the 1338 fresco, which depicts a tyrannical government, there...
