In July, I resumed reviewing live theater after a protracted pandemic-related hiatus. First came a string of outdoor performances in New England. Then Broadway reopened in August, and the 2021-22 ...

Area theater companies found ways to keep producing in 2021 by responding to the pandemic with realism, resilience and ingenuity. As live theater became possible again, touring shows and standup ...

This year’s theater played out in three phases: the pre-vaccine winter, when digital shows prevailed; the spring and summer, when shows operated under CDC and Equity limitations (outdoor, installation ...

1 A BEAUTIFUL NOISE Comes to the Overture Center This Month 2 I'M WITH HER Comes to the Overture Center in June Kelly is a professor in the Department of Theatre and Drama, and also holds a concurrent ...

The coronavirus pandemic in 2020 was devastating enough for Charlotte's small stable of community theaters, and for many of them, 2021 wasn't much better. Not only did the pandemic continue to limit ...

The audience watches the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's performance of "The Tempest." (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) Over the summer, optimism filled the air as theater lovers came together to watch ...

Summer movie season in a post-pandemic world isn’t exactly back to business as usual. But as July 2021 proved, audiences are beginning to venture out to theaters. Marvel Studios’ Black Widow became a ...

Spider-Man: No Way Home is the highly-anticipated sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming and Spider-Man: Far From Home. Starring Tom Holland as Peter Parker/Spider-Man and Zendaya as MJ, the sequel sees ...

Last year was a dress rehearsal for the future of movie theaters. This year will show if movies theaters are back for real. After a terrible 2020 that ravaged the movie theater industry, cineplexes ...

A year that begins with an insurrection isn’t off to an auspicious start. In retrospect, it should have been clear that 2021 was going to have a hard time living up to the expectation that it had to ...

It seems extra fitting that I just about began and ended the year reading books about Stephen Sondheim, the pioneering and legendary Broadway composer who died Nov. 26 at age 91. A new encyclopedic ...