Tuesday, January 28, 2014

QUICK TAKE REVIEW By Beverly Creasey HAIRSPRAY HOLDS

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Every hair is in place for Wheelock Family Theatre’s raucous, outrageous HAIRSPRAY (playing through Feb. 23 rd ). I must admit, I wondere...

QUICK TAKE REVIEW By Beverly Creasey LET MY PEOPLE GO

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We all know that slave owners fathered children by their slaves. We know that a good number of our Founding Fathers founded families by th...
Sunday, January 19, 2014

QUICK TAKE REVIEW By Beverly Creasey THE NEXT MUSICAL NOW @ NEXT DOOR

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If cleanliness is next to godliness, then dysfunctional families must be next to normal. They’re front and center in Next Door’s smart an...
Saturday, January 18, 2014

QUICK TAKE REVIEW By Beverly Creasey Destiny Rides Again

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I don’t think I’ve seen a Walt McGough play I didn’t like. Add THE HABERDASHER! to the list. McHough’s cheeky THE HABERDASHER! A Tale of ...
Tuesday, January 14, 2014

QUICK TAKE REVIEW By Margaret Ann Brady Wellesley Summer Theatre’s THE CLEARING (Playing through February 2nd)

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The German philosopher/political theorist Hannah Arendt famously coined the phrase “the banality of evil” in her book Eichmann in Jerusal...

QUICK TAKE REVIEW By Beverly Creasey LOOSELY UNIFIED MATTER

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I’ve seen a lot of plays about the famous and infamous. Rosanna Alfaro’s MARTHA MITCHELL comes to mind. Peter Shaffer successfully turned...
Monday, January 13, 2014

QUICK TAKE REVIEW By Beverly Creasey RIOTOUS BEASTIES RAISE THE RAFTERS

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When Imaginary Beasts presents a new show, I come running. I know it will be hilarious. I know it will be wildly imaginative and their PA...