COVID has changed our world in so many ways and I will continue to shout from the rooftop that the arts heal and we can all use a little extra healing. Despite the fact that A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical, lost 10 preview shows due to COVID, opening …
The word super-fan does not really do justice to how much I admire and appreciate Cirque du Soleil. Anyone who has been to a Cirque du Soleil performance is and will be forever transformed. Their genius, athletics and artistry is groundbreaking, disruptive, innovative and for the most part unparalleled. When …
Riverdance opened in Dublin, Ireland in 1995. It began as a celebration of Irish Dance and music and is now a celebration of so much more. Riverdance actually originated as an interval performance at the famed Eurovision Song Contest with a score composed by Bill Whelan and it was instantly …
The Olympics Games are a distant memory and the last of New England’s snow and ice has melted. It is starting to get hot out here and it is going to be hot in Agganis Arena when the Stars on Ice champions and Olympians step into the rink. This Saturday, …
The first thing you see is always the set and the Huntington Theatre’s set design continues to awe me with each new work. You get a sense of place right away and then the anticipation of the story about to take place kicks in. To put it crudely (I watched …
Burgerz is described as a cooking, show, a trans reclamation story, a piece of (brilliant) theatre, and a deeply personal work that confronts society’s complicity (in oh so many things). Those descriptions of Burgerz while accurate don’t tell the whole truth. It is a bit like setting out a spread …
I don’t know about you, but the pandemic has made time warp for me. I think some things took place a couple months ago that actually were two years ago, and other things that happened pre-pandemic feel recent. The plus side of all this is that everything old feels new …
We are slowly shedding layers: layers of a life altered due to a worldwide pandemic, layers of clothes as the earth warms up for Spring, layers of stress and anxiety due to the constant unknowns, as we wake up from a two year daze. Boston Ballet’s latest performance helps us …
free-style /frē,stil/ denoting a contest or version of a sport in which there are few restrictions on the moves or techniques that competitors employ. Oxford Language In this case the sport is a performance that includes the artists on stage and the audience. There are definitely few restrictions, and the …
The Huntington’s latest performance turns the ornate Emerson Cutler Majestic theatre into a small town VFW hall. This essentially one woman show takes the audience on a unique journey through the country, the country’s history and back to the present in a roundabout but very entertaining way. What The Constitution …
