Private Lives at the Huntington Theater
I found it interesting that someone would try to stage a comedy like Private Lives at the Huntington Theater. In my mind, it’d be more fitting to play one of Coward’s comedies at a more intimate venue like the Lyric where one can see the nuances in the actors’ faces. Sure enough, Private Lives proved [...]
Hershey Felder Live In Studio
This past Saturday, Standing Room Only listeners across the country were treated to the sweet sounds of American musician Hershey Felder doing what he does best– sinking into someone else’s skin to educate an audience. Canadian-born Felder isn’t embarrassed to admit how enamored he is with his heroes and shares an infectious enthusiasm with his [...]
Thoughts on Theater: Three Months in the West End
Since I grew up in suburban Massachusetts, attending professional theatrical productions was a rare treat. I have always been jealous of kids who grew up in or around New York City – the ones who talked constantly of all the Broadway productions to which their parents had taken them. For me, a professional production would [...]
Thoughts on Theater: The “Fan” Impact on the Modern Musical
The fandom: it’s tentatively called this by millions of people from brace-faced middle-schoolers to middle-aged 9-to-5ers who need a name that sounds a little more mentally stable than “obsession”. It exists in all corners of the arts, from those frantically blogging Gossip Girl fans to message boards begging the eternal question of who is ruining [...]
Avenue Q Live In Studio
The touring cast of Tony-winning musical “Avenue Q” stopped by the WERS studio this afternoon on Standing Room Only for a live preview of some of the musical’s hit songs. The production just extended their run at the Lyric Stage Company of Boston before doors even opened last week. The cast’s palpable energy, bright smiles, [...]
Thoughts on Theater: Indian Street Theater
The other day in the train terminal, I struck up a conversation with an Indian doctor whose name I believe was Armarind, but I’ll never be completely sure. He was an Indian born doctor who was in town for a medical conference. I picked his brain on how interesting it must be to work in [...]
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
This weekend, April 20-22nd is your last chance to see Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, presented by the Milton Players in Milton, MA! Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a musical with music and lyrics by David Yazbek and book by Jeffrey Lane, based on the 1988 film of the same name. It tells the story of two con [...]
Thoughts on Theater: Theater Isn’t Made On Stage
Yes, you heard me correctly; Theatre isn’t made on the stage. True, theaters have stages within them, and patrons head to theaters to see theatre. But that doesn’t mean theatre is made on the stage; rather, it is there that theatre happens. By the time a show reaches a stage, the time for actors and [...]
Les Miserables
Andrew Varela plays the role of Javert in Les Miserables at the Boston Opera house. A week before the interview, I had the pleasure of seeing the show. Even in the opening scene of of the show, standing silent amongst a crew of rowing prisoners, Varela’s presence is captivating. As an actor, he has some [...]
Thoughts on Theater
Lately I’ve been thinking about what goes into making a show happen. There are certainly many components that comprise this “finished” product (I would argue that a successful show is always growing and changing, and is therefore never finished—but that’s for another article), like producers, directors, designers, stage managers, actors, rehearsals, studio space, theater space, [...]
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Serenata de Amor Brings Cape Verde to Emerson
Serenata de Amor, a musical theater project spearheaded by visual media arts associate professor Claire Andrade-Watkins, was brought to Emerson this past year. The project is a tribute to the morna of Cape Verde and Brava set in the 1940s. Andrade-Watkins worked with a team of faculty and staff members from Emerson to bring Serenata [...]
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June 21
Fleetwood Mac
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June 23
B-52s + Go-Go’s
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July 9
Paul McCartney
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July 10
She & Him
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July 20
Bob Dylan, Wilco, My Morning Jacket
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