Theater
You’ll have a gay old time at ‘One Long Earring’
“One Long Earring,” a play about a lesbian band from the 1990s looking to reunite after almost 30 years, has been called the lesbian “Spinal Tap.” It’s coming to the Crystal Ballroom at the Somerville Theatre this Sunday. Read more A tale of two liquor laws The cheeky comedy began as the pandemic brainchild of […]
Immersive play at City Hall revives 1976 recombination debate
Coming to a city hall near us: the theater of today’s politics is pausing for the theater of the past. The new play “No Recombination Without Representation” will bring to life the 1976 public hearing that debated the safety of DNA recombination research at Harvard University. Throughout June, six performances will take place in Sullivan […]
Norton Award winner Ken Urban on bringing tough topics to the stage
Cambridge theater companies Central Square Theater and Moonbox Productions were recognized by the Boston Theater Critics Association (BTCA) at the 43rd Elliot Norton Awards June 1. Moonbox received the award for Outstanding Music Direction for “Crowns,” a musical celebrating the women of the traditional Black church, and Central Square Theater’s “The Moderate” received awards for […]
The undead can be funny, new production proves
Central Square Theater resuscitates queer playwright Charles Ludlam’s most produced play, his 1984 “The Mystery of Irma Vep: A Penny Dreadful,” bringing it back to life in a hilarious production directed by David R. Gammons. Like the many “undead” characters that haunt it, the play refuses to stay buried. Read more Massachusetts’s slow adoption of […]
Kurosawa, Kurt & Jodie, Chaplin, and doppelgangers
Even among the rich, eerie world of Japanese horror cinema, Kiyoshi Kurosawa stands alone. His films mix traditional Japanese forces and spirits with the more mundane horrors of the modern world (Kurosawa’s most recent feature, last year’s “Cloud,” is a morality tale about a crooked eBay reseller). In celebration of the release of Kurosawa’s new […]