“It’ll Be Good To Laugh”
Those were the oddly cryptic words my girlfriend said to me as we sat in anticipation for improvisational comedians Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood to take the stage on Saturday at the Wilbur Theatre. Aside from sounding incredibly gloomy and making me feel as if I had just suffered a great loss, she was right. [...]
Whose answers are these anyway?
To many our age, Whose Line is It Anyway? comes to mind when one mentions improvisational comedy. Drew Carey and his cast of comedians entered American homes and ushered in a new era of popularity for the genre. While Whose Line hasn’t aired since 2007, many still have fond memories of watching the show and [...]
A farewell to The MUSE
Well, this is it. Last call. All the memories from the splitting migraine on my first day of classes freshman year (blinding pain had never felt so collegiate before) to my final testimonial in these pages that have given me a platform for my half-crazed and inane ramblings about the state and status of the [...]
Paradise Lost Finds Modern Meaning
The showcase of “Paradise Lost” by Clifford Odets is a timely performance by the American Repertory Theater, exposing the impotency and weakness of Uncle Sam in a time when American citizens are scrambling for an outreached hand.
Boston Lyric Opera debuts at the Castle
Boston Lyric Opera’s new Opera Annex Production, Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, is a unique and terrifying production staged at the historic Park Plaza Castle, a distance from the BLO’s traditional Shubert stage. Since opening in 1891, the Castle has never before hosted an opera.
