Reviews

  • Chumming the Waters: A Killer Start to NSMT’s 70th Season: The Shark is Broken

    The Shark is Broken kicked off North Shore Music Theatre’s 2025 MainStage season with bite—an especially notable opener as the beloved Beverly-in-the-round venue celebrates its 70th year since first opening in 1955. Directed by Guy Masterson, this intimate three-person play dives behind the scenes of Jaws, centering on the turbulent, tension-filled downtime between filming and

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  • Cosmic Curtain Call: A Stage Among the Stars: Utopian Hotline

    Utopian Hotline is not your average night at the theater—it’s a performance set under the stars, quite literally. Co-presented by ArtsEmerson and the Museum of Science, this one-of-a-kind experience unfolds inside the Charles Hayden Planetarium, transforming a space usually reserved for constellations and space documentaries into a dreamy dome of theatrical experimentation.   Instead of the

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  • A Cozy Slice of Small-Town Healing: The Spitfire Grill at Umbrella Arts Center

    The Spitfire Grill, now onstage at Umbrella Arts Center under the direction of Ilyse Robbins, serves up a hearty helping of small-town storytelling, based on the 1996 film by Lee David Zlotoff. With music and book by James Valcq and lyrics and book by Fred Alley, this musical tells the story of Percy Talbott, a

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