The Effect: Review of new play at The Gamm Theater
Humans know precious little about brain function, something that doesn’t change – and might actually worsen – in viewing “The Effect.” British playwright Lucy Prebble’s work, on stage at The […]
Events:
A Shared Journey
September 13, 2025 - March 5, 2026This Is a Thing, Recent Gifts to Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, 2020–2025
September 14, 2025 - March 1, 2026The Court: Art in Play
September 24, 2025 - April 26, 2026The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical: An interview with a young Diamond
All it took was one glance at the audience for Nick Fradiani to settle into his character the first time he stepped onstage for the Broadway production, A Beautiful Noise: […]
La Cage aux Folles
Five days into Pride Month and Trinity Repertory Company launched a larger-than-a-teased-beehive celebration of love that leaves its audience crowing with laughter and welling with emotion. Trinity’s 60th season ends […]
PPAC’s Cool Summer Nights
Beach tunes, island music, yacht rock — whatever you call it, there’s a unique sound to summertime music. This summer, there’s no need to leave the city to catch the […]
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf: On stage at The Gamm Theatre through February 25
It’s only when Jeanine Kane sprawls, spent, downstage, having wrung out every ounce of emotion, voice barely above a whisper, that the audience exhales, realizing the three-hour psychological pummeling of […]
Hangmen
What is England’s second-best hangman to do when the punishment is abolished and questions of innocence clouding his last execution leave him reluctant to chat with reporters? In Harry Wade’s […]
Catch a Wave to PPAC for the Beach Boys
God only knows how many puns Mike Love can conjure to describe his 60+ year reign fronting the Beach Boys, but wouldn’t it be nice to see him try? Fresh […]
The Good John Proctor: Sep 28 – Nov 12 at Trinity Repertory
‘Tis the season to ponder spirits and sorcery, and Trinity Repertory plays into that Halloween feel by opening its 60th season with a reimagining of the Salem witch trials. While […]
TopDog/Underdog: Brotherly love and rivalry at the Gamm
Photo: Cat Laine It’s a slow fuse that burns throughout the first act of Topdog/Underdog, but once the flame hits the dynamite in act two, the entire theatre explodes. That’s […]
Fall Theater Preview
Photo: mortal/women, OutLoud Theatre. Recast the back-to-school anticipatory excitement of your youth into enthusiasm for the start of the 2023-2024 theater season. From drama to comedy to the opening of […]