2023-2024 Touring Season Apr 11
2023, 02:15:40 PM
The Boch Center in Boston has announced its own mini-series of touring shows. Unlike Broadway in Boston’s usual two-week runs (at a minimum) for subscription shows, these are a week or less:
Nov 24-26: Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer
Mar 15-17: The Cher Show
Apr 23-28: Hadestown
Surprised to see Hadestown back in the city so soon, especially because Worcester just finished its own run of it.
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1776 Broadway revival cast for 2021 May 20
2022, 04:13:49 PM
“ just picked up a couple of the $25 seats - A 4&5 - for next Sunday's matinee, and they're listed as partial view. There are seats in front of that selling for full price. I've sat just about everywhere a person can sit in the Loeb Drama Center (including the stage and literally the floor) and never had a bad seat, so I'm curious what makes these partial view. I'd love to hear from anyone who's seen the show or is otherwise familiar with this production
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The Band’s Visit National Tour 2021-22 Nov 18
2021, 06:16:52 PM
MattieIce2018 said: "Just got an email - the stop in Worcester this week was cancelled due to "unforseen circumstances" and pushed back to next June. It's so last minute (it would have started performances on Thursday) that I can't help but wonder if something happened. Has anyone heard anything?"
For some reason, I can’t drop a link here, but if you go to the theater’s website, the latest blog entry talks about this. Basically, it
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When did "dressing up" to go to the theater stop? Oct 25
2021, 03:57:10 PM
I remember reading an article back in the 90s that said that Tommy’s audiences were noticeably more informally dressed than other audiences at the time. It seems to line up with what was said above since that show opened in 1993. No idea if that opened the casual floodgates.
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What’s next for THE INHERITANCE? Sep 28
2021, 02:14:21 PM
For what it’s worth, Boston is getting a regional production in the spring:
https://www.speakeasystage.com/shows/2022/04/the-inheritance/
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Plaza Suite Boston Peformances Thread Feb 16
2020, 07:26:50 AM
I noticed in the Playbill that the first character listed in the second act is Second Bellhop. That character didn’t appear at our performance. From start to finish, the show ran 2:35 (as opposed to the 2:45 listed at the theater or the 2:40 mentioned in an earlier reply). I’m curious if a sequence was cut from the beginning of the second act at our performance. Does anybody who went to an earlier performance remember a second bellhop in the second act?
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Best touring production you have ever seen? Oct 30
2019, 12:01:31 PM
Mike: Angels in America toured back in 1994 with two parts. I don’t know how extensive or successful the tour was, but it started in Chicago and did include Boston.
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AMERICAN UTOPIA comes to Broadway Sep 27
2019, 11:38:42 PM
The critic reviews have been coming out in Boston the last day or two and they've been just gushing over this show.
Saw it tonight and can't add much to what's already been written in this thread. It's a thorough joy from beginning to end. Not much of a narrative arc, but there's a thematic arc that we're guided through by Byrne's narration.
I'd be curious if it has the same appeal to people unfamiliar with (or not enamored with) Byrne
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Playwright Matthew Lombardo talks Dunaway and Jun 29
2019, 03:10:52 PM
Saw this review just posted: https://www.theatretalkboston.com/post/review-tea-at-five-huntington-avenue-theatre-pre-broadway-engagement
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ART Boston seating May 24
2019, 08:30:24 AM
Mike: for me, the ART’s Loeb Drama Center has the most comfortable seating in the Boston area. Most shows there are set up like the current We Live in Cairo (you can take a look at seating charts for that show) with eight rows in front, a break, and then the rest of the seating.
I prefer to be behind the break because those are “permanent” seats; the ones in front of the break are on platforms that tend to spread vibration more - I’ve had restless neighbors in that area that have cause
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2019-2020 Touring Season Mar 11
2019, 03:20:50 PM
Mike: off-topic, but if you’re interested in seeing Once in Boston and aren’t aware, there’s an excellent production of it currently running at the Calderwood, put on by SpeakEasy... it’s there through April 7
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