You know you’re watching a kids show when the one climactic kissing scene elicits an audible ‘eww!’ from the audience. Still, The Light Princess, a new musical from the Harvard A.R.T. Institute (written by Lila Rose Kaplan and Mike Pettry and directe …Read more

80 years ago, on February 2, 1935, the great Norwegian soprano Kirsten Flagstad (1895-1962) made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Sieglinde in Wagner’s Die Walküre. This performance was heard nationwide as part of the extremely popular Metropolitan op …Read more

  What happens if after two kids and fifteen years of marriage, you hit a wall in your relationship that you just can’t break through? Well, if you are anything like Marco, you sign up on a gay website, confess to your wife and embark on a wild …Read more

There are two world depicted in Jennifer Haley’s new play The Nether. There is our world, which is depicted as a dark and drab interrogation room, and there is “The Hideaway”, a startlingly bright and beautiful world where one goes to escape the drud …Read more

Can you imagine coming face to face with your idol? How would you act? Could you even form the words to speak? In Margot Connolly’s production of Keys, one lucky young lady has that very experience when she becomes immersed in the world of her hero, …Read more

A woman’s life is defined by her relationships with two men in John & Jen the “twist” being that they are not relationships of a romantic nature, but instead with her brother, and son. When we first meet Jen (Kate Baldwin) in 1952 she is twelve y …Read more

With so many plays in the theatrical canon, it is a sad inevitability that some well-written and worthy plays will get pushed to the sidelines by others. The Peccadillo Theater Company is dedicated to producing American plays that the public has perh …Read more

Six gimmick laden shorts make for one tedious evening. Lives of the Saints, the zany brainchild of theater maven David Ives, attests that clever-for-clever’s-sake theater can undo even the most skilled of storytellers. Ingeniously directed by John Ra …Read more

Chiara Atik, the playwright of Ensemble Studio Theatre’s newest comedy Five Times in One Night, sat down with us to discuss her writing process, her comedy influences, and the best (and worst) relationship advice she’s ever heard.  Her new play is a …Read more

Tanya Barfield’s Bright Half Life at Women’s Project Theater is an ode to the sacrifices we make for love. The play shows us distilled flashes of one couple’s long term relationship, from their initial butterflies to eventual child rearing, divorce, …Read more