Month: June 2026

BOEING BOEING: Thank You For Flying Overly Friendly Skies!

French playwright Marc Camoletti’s Boeing Boeing has landed at Attleboro Community Theatre with all the speed, chaos, and comic turbulence audiences could hope for! This 1960s classic farce features Parisian philanderer Bernard, who has Italian, German, and American fiancées, each a beautiful air hostess with frequent “layovers.” He keeps “one up, one down, and one […]

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GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY: “Pure Benediction and Warmth.” — Bob Dylan

At Wilbury Theatre Group, Girl from the North Country settles in Depression-era Duluth, Minnesota, hauntingly restless and unexpectedly tender. It’s 1934. A group of wayward travelers’ gritty lives intersect in a rundown guesthouse filled with music, misery, life’s trials, and hope. Disparate transients gather here, each bearing the baggage of their own personal burdens. Financial […]

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LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS: Believe It, Baby, It Talks!

Theatre By The Sea has unleashed the hysterically campy cult classic Little Shop of Horrors on the unsuspecting public. This deviously delicious sci-fi smash musical, with book and lyrics by Howard Ashman and music by Alan Menken, has devoured the hearts of theatre goers for decades. Set in the rundown flower shop of Mushnik’s Skid Row Florists, […]

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Obituary: Julian Forgue

The founder of the long-standing hipster-ish West Side restaurant Julians hadn’t been involved directly with the restaurant in quite some time. But his legacy persisted. A larger-than-life personality, you never knew at what event Julian might show up, his square jaw ready-to-fire sarcasm preceding him by a few paces. He pioneered the “this wait staff […]

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Obituary: Lisa Gourley

Renowned supporter of local music and arts Lisa Gourley (Sometimes Lisa Gourleyx) passed away on June 15. Reading reactions on social media, you can’t help but notice how often the words “nice,” “kind,” and “photography” come up. Lisa won Motif’s Favorite Photographer award a few times, most recently in 2023. Here’s how our reporter Bobby […]

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