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A woman in science's male domain

Geniuses have it rough.
Beautiful minds
By EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | February 17, 2012

Mad Horse’s Becky Shaw peers behind the love curtain

Three months after her father's death, the two people closest to thirty-something Suzanna (Elizabeth Chambers) don't have a lot of patience for her grief, which has her reduced to a weeping mess watching bad TV under a blanket.
The one who knew too much
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | February 10, 2012

Interview: Katie Leung follows Harry Potter with ART's Wild Swans

Fans of J.K Rowling's wizarding empire (read: every man, woman, and child) all remember the moment we were introduced to Cho Chang, the lucky Ravenclaw who gets to paint the town (and do a bit of snogging) with Mr. Potter himself.
On track
By CASSANDRA LANDRY | February 03, 2012

A knee-slapping Lend Me a Tenor at PC

As hilarious as the race for the Republican presidential nomination is, even that is no competition for Ken Ludwig's Lend Me a Tenor.
Hilarious high notes
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | February 03, 2012

Green Eyes at the Ames; Robbie McCauley's Sugar

Forget the Hotel California; welcome to the Hotel Tennessee.
Suite stuff
By CAROLYN CLAY | January 27, 2012

2nd Story’s Take Me Out

Ironic, isn't it? To your ordinary man in the street or workplace, masculinity usually isn't an issue. Yet macho scale rankings readily come up in professional sports, where prowess should be enough evidence of testosterone levels.
A dramatic grand slam
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | January 27, 2012

Thespian games at the Theater Project

Five people lie supine on the floor, feet outward, like a star.
Play acting
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | January 27, 2012

Huntington pays tribute to God of Carnage

If Lord of the Flies wanted an upscale-urban bookend, it could do worse than God of Carnage (presented by the Huntington Theatre Company at the BU Theatre through February 5).
Parent flap
By CAROLYN CLAY | January 20, 2012

Review: Pina

Who could have predicted that it would take the surviving leading lights of the New German Cinema to put 3D to good use?
Putting 3D to good use
By ANN LEWINSON | January 20, 2012

Midsummer gets a twist, in midwinter

When I learned that Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream was to be staged in frigid early winter, I wondered if the production's angle might be unabashed irony.
Steamy dreaming
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | January 20, 2012

Review: The Divide

Many a teleplay for The Twilight Zone threatened atomic Armageddon, and though Frontier(s) director Xavier Gens nukes New York in the opening shots of his latest thriller, he finds more inspiration in the horrors of human nature as seen in the old T
The horrors of human nature
By BRETT MICHEL | January 13, 2012

Interview: Michael Mayor, director of the Broadway tour of American Idiot

Michael Mayer has a history of being all over the map in the choices of plays he has directed. From Chekhov's Uncle Vanya to the smash rock musical Spring Awakening , he's consistently ventured out of the comfort zone.
Green Day's rock opera comes to Boston
By MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | January 13, 2012

Lyric Stage's superior Superior Donuts

No one, to my knowledge, has accused Superior Donuts of being superior Tracy Letts.
Boston beats NY
By ED SIEGEL | January 13, 2012

Red explores Rothko's emotional palette

Mark Rothko sees red in Red — and not just when staring hard at his iconic Seagram murals.
Scarlet fever
By CAROLYN CLAY | January 13, 2012

Carolyn Gage interprets Lizzie Borden's case

Lizzie Borden, who allegedly murdered her father and step-mother in 1892, remains an iconic figure in American cultural memory.
Reclaiming history
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | January 13, 2012

Wilbury’s darkly humorous Exit the King

Playwright Eugene Ionesco, a progenitor of Theater of the Absurd along with Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter, put a lot of himself into Exit the King instead of keeping his usual ironic or satiric distance.
The reign man
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | January 13, 2012

David Wheeler, 1925–2012

Why did news of David Wheeler's death last week come as such a shock?
In memoriam
By CAROLYN CLAY | January 13, 2012

Shrek the Musical charms at PPAC

Talk about your franchises.
'Toon time
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | January 06, 2012

Apollinaire's progressive Uncle Vanya

Guns go off in Uncle Vanya. And in Apollinaire Theatre Company's production (at Chelsea Theatre Works through January 22), the title character is one of them.
Moveable feast
By CAROLYN CLAY | January 06, 2012

Warming up with the Boston theater scene's winter offerings

Although the whirlwind of Scrooges and Rockettes will soon be exiting stage left, the storm of winter theater continues unabated.
Cold remedies
By MADDY MYERS | December 30, 2011

Dueling stages

It's been the visitors versus the home teams this year.
When it came to home teams vs. visitors, audiences were the winners
By CAROLYN CLAY | December 23, 2011

The highlights of 2011’s theatrics

Some of the most exhilarating moments in theater this year happened in the Apohadion, as a pale and schizoid Michael Dix Thomas shrieked the opening strains of "The Ballad of Mack the Knife," summoning to stage the lurid, ghoulish menagerie of Bertolt Br
From madness to mealtime
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | December 23, 2011

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