Women Gone Wild: ‘Beasts’ at BPT
Review from The New England Theatre Geek BOSTON — There is nothing more hardcore than birthing a baby (sorry BASE jumpers). It’s not “the most beautiful thing I’ve ever experienced” as my own father put it. Babies are metal AF. Just like many other XXXtreme tasks, delivering and rearing a baby doesn’t come naturally to […]
Hidey-Ho Rangerinos: ‘Rx Machina’
Review from The New England Theatre Geek BOSTON — Rx Machina by Caity-Shea Violette is one of two plays about addiction currently running in Boston. It’s no coincidence. COVID-19 has decimated our mental health. The modern human, when faced with a medical crisis and no affordable solutions, will turn to legal and illegal self-medicating. The […]
On set: ‘Rx Machina’
Sneak peek at Alyssa Jewell’s set for Rx Machina by Caity-Shea Violette, onstage starting next week!
The WASPs are Not OK: ‘Incels and Other Myths’
Review from The New England Theatre Geek BOSTON — Incels and Other Myths invites the audience into the world of massive multiplayer online gaming and the Lord of the Flies corners of the internet, where misogyny has even less consequences than in the physical world. Elaine (Allison Blaize), a mythology teacher at an all-girls high […]
On set: ‘Incels and Other Myths’
Sneak peek at Steven Velasquez’s set for Incels and Other Myths by Ally Sass, which you can see onstage starting next week!
Fear in Having ‘Gone Nowhere’ at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre
Review from New England Theater Mirror Boston Playwrights’ Theatre’s Gone Nowhere passes through the mind so quickly that you’re going to have to remind yourself it was ever there. Even now I’m having difficulty conjuring up scenes to write about. It’s a whisp of an experience made all the more disappointing because, I actually went […]
On set: ‘Gone Nowhere’
A peek at Adam Hawkins’s set for Gone Nowhere, which has its first performances next week.
It Was the 90s: ‘Lorena: A Tabloid Epic’
Review from The New England Theatre Geek BOSTON — Lorena: A Tabloid Epic by Eliana Pipes re-examines the public spectacle that was the 1993 Bobbitt trial. Lorena (Bobbitt) Gallo’s voice wasn’t heard then. It takes center stage now. The 90s were a mess. One of the biggest messes was the Bobbitt trial. Lorena Bobbitt was […]
On set: ‘LORENA’
Rehearsals for our 2021-22 season opener, Eliana Pipes’s LORENA: a Tabloid Epic, begin tonight and the set is already well underway! These photos are from earlier this week.