Browsing Category: Reviews

(l to r) Jenny Strassburg and Melissa Hurst in "A Strange Disappearance of Bees" at Oldcastle Theaetre Company.

Review: ‘A Strange Disappearance of Bees’ Has Critics Buzzing With Excitement

Back in the day, a critic got "two on the aisle" but they would dress up and arrive early. (Edward Hopper, 1927)

When everyone has an opinion, who needs critics anyway?

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New DVD Releases: Les Miz, Bob’s New Suit, Satan’s Angels, Hyde Park on Hudson

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Review: Oldcastle Offers Fun-Filled “Around the World in 80 Days” in Bennington

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Review: “Lucky Stiff” a Musical Farce from Class Act Productions in Troy, NY

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Charles Giuliano on Ai Weiwei: According to What?

Playing at the Sand Lake Center for the Arts, Of Mice and Men is the tale of migrant workers, and their friendships, during the Great Depression.

Burns and Murray on CircleTheatre Players “Of Mice and Men” at Sand Lake (NY) Arts Center

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Burns and Murray Review Five Guys Named Moe at Cohoes (NY) Music Hall

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Photo Memories of the Very Successful 2013 10×10 Upstreet Arts Festival

Turn of the Screw' at New York City Opera Photo: Richard Termine

Review: New York City Opera | The Turn of the Screw | Benjamin Britten

Peggy Pharr Wilson as Gertrude Stein in "There's No Here Here". . Photo by Scott Barrow.

Review: “You’ll Laugh, You’ll Cry” at the 10×10 Upstreet New Play Festival

The Liar at Shakespeare & Company. Photo: Kevin Sprague.

Review: Burns and Murray Take on “The Liar” at Shakespeare & Company

Miles (l) (Jason Dometsch) and Morgan (r) (Benjie White)

Hubbard Hall’s “The Drawer Boy” is Down to Earth Storytelling at its Best

Matt Damon

Matt Damon and “Promised Land” – One of the Year’s Finest Films

Laura Linney (l) and Bill Murray (r) in Hyde Park on Hudson.

Review: Hyde Park on Hudson – America’s Safety Net President as Sexual Predator

A great setting for music.

John Cage at the Gardner Museum’s New Concert Cube Space

The irony of Tim on the Cross as part of a Passion Play. The WIse Kids from Wolfe Video.

FIlm Review: The Emptiness of Growing up Christian in “The Wise Kids”

(L to R) Charlotte (IRIS APATOW), Sadie (MAUDE APATOW), Pete (PAUL RUDD) and Debbie (LESLIE MANN) in "This Is 40".

Film Review: Paul Rudd in “This is 40″ hits a new low for gross, stupefying entertainment

Jim Briggs enlightens as Vincent van Gogh and his brother Theo, now through December 30, 2012.

Review: Jim Briggs portrays “Vincent” (van Gogh) at Barrington Stage

Keira Knightley as Anna Karenina.

Review: Stagey Theatrical Trappings and aTerse Tom Stoppard Script Doom “Anna Karenina” on FIlm

Hugh Jackman

Musical “Les Miserables” Stumbles in the Transition to the Big Screen

Northern Boulevard at Oldcastle Theatre Company

Burns and Murray: Oldcastle’s New Theatre, New Musical “Northern Boulevard”

The Panto at Ghent, New York

Gail Burns on “Robin Hood: Fifty Shades of Green” – The Panto Loons 2012 Edition

A grudging truce.

Ang Lee’s Imaginative Film “Life of Pi” Will Sweep You Away

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“Skyfall” Rewards James Bond 007 Fans with Solid Performance, Lots of New Tricks

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Review: “PTown Diaries,” Documentary on the “Freest Place in America” says Norman Mailer

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Review: “Love Free or Die,” Documents N. H. Bishop Gene Robinson and Anglican Church Schism

Jennifer Leitham, playing a left-handed bass.

Review: “I Stand Corrected,” Jennifer Leitham’s Transgender Journey in the Transphobic World of Jazz

The cast of Hello Dolly at the Cohoes Music Hall November 2-11, 2012.

Review: “Hello Dolly” at Cohoes Music Hall – A Classic with Monica M. Wemitt

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Review: Searing Production of ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” from Theatre Institute at Sage

Review of La Boheme by the Hubbard Hall Opera Theatre

Review: An Enchanting “La Bohème” by Candlelight in Bennington, Vermont

Populism, Yea, Yea! -- Gus Curry (center, white shirt) and the cast of the SpeakEasy Stage Company production of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, running now thru Nov. 17 in Boston.

Review: Brilliant, Brilliant Andrew Jackson Opens at Speakeasy Stage, Boston

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