Monday, June 27, 2011

QUICK TAKES: WORLDS BETTER THAN 1066 By Beverly Creasey

›
Gloucester Stage now has performed two-thirds of Alan Ayckbourn’s glorious THE NORMAN CONQUESTS. I can hardly wait for Gloucester to mount p...
Thursday, June 23, 2011

QUICK TAKE REVIEW CELTIC PRIZE By Beverly Creasey

›
Everyone in Boston knows that Harry Frazee traded away Babe Ruth to finance the Broadway run of NO, NO NANETTE. But who knew that the Ice Ca...
Sunday, June 19, 2011

QUICK TAKE REVIEW Lovely LADY By Beverly Creasey

›
North Shore Music Theatre’s high spirited MY FAIR LADY is definitely enhanced by being performed in the round. When there isn’t room for la...
Saturday, June 4, 2011

The Little Musical with Teeth By Beverly Creasey

›
Where would we be without the raft of fantastic stories in (the now defunct) Weekly World News ? When you were stuck in the interminable che...
Friday, June 3, 2011

QUICK TAKE REVIEW Shameless Shenanigans By Beverly Creasey

›
Who doesn’t love the Marx Brothers with their bad jokes, lame clowning and their “shameless impropriety”? The Lyric Stage’s production of AN...
Monday, May 23, 2011

QUICK and NOT SO QUICK TAKES By Beverly Creasey

›
It’s a theaterphile’s dream: A weekend of back to back shows, and almost all of them divine. One Friday, two Saturday and two Sunday! Phew! ...

Dreamy DROWSY CHAPERONE By Beverly Creasey

›
I saw Turtle Lane Playhouse’s delightful version of THE DROWSY CHAPERONE this past weekend. Although they don’t have the fabulous Will McGa...