Reviews

  • Sardines (a comedy about death) at The Huntington Gives Us a Tight 60 on the Ultimate Punchline 

    Chris Grace wrote and stars in this one-man piece, a tight 60-minute show really lands directed by his husband, Eric Michaud. He asks the audience to imagine a projector and then imagine the images flashing across it as he recounts the people he has lost throughout his life. The piece nudges us to grapple with

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  • High Kicks and Community Spirit: Can-Can at Sullivan Rep

    Sullivan Rep’s latest production, Can-Can, directed, choreographed, and costumed by Dan Sullivan, bubbles over with Cole Porter’s witty music and lyrics. The story centers on Pistache, the bold Montmartre café owner whose establishment is threatened by Aristide, a judge determined to shut down her scandalous can-can. But as the sparks of opposition fly, so too

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  • The Ordinary Made Extraordinary: Our Town at Lyric Stage

    Thornton Wilder’s Our Town is one of those plays that seems simple on its surface but cuts deep the more you sit with it. Set in the small town of Grover’s Corners at the turn of the 20th century, the play follows the ordinary lives of its citizens: births, marriages, and deaths reminding us of

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