Pop Culturalist Chats with Mean Girls’ Kerry Butler
Kerry Butler was born to be an actress. A native New Yorker, she’s been acting since she was a child, and all her hard work has garnered her tons of
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Pop Culturalist Chats With Andy Murray
Andy Murray is a force to be reckoned with in The Seafarer at the Irish Repertory Theatre. His performance as Sharky, in what is essentially an ensemble piece, is magnetic.
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To See or Not to See: Replay
Loss, forgiveness, and love are the centerpieces of the brilliantly-done one-woman play Replay. Written and performed by Nicola Wren and directed by George Chilcott, Replay‘s U.S. premiere is at the
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To See or Not to See: Escape to Margaritaville
Escape to Margaritaville was made purely for entertainment. It’s the kind of feel-good, fluffy piece that not only Jimmy Buffett fans will love, but also all those out-of-towners looking for
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To See or Not to See: Children of a Lesser God
There is a moment, in this revival, where one of the main characters describes deafness as a “silence filled with sound.” The struggle for a hearing person to understand that sentiment (and
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To See or Not to See: Mean Girls
The now cult-classic Tina Fey-written film, Mean Girls, has landed on Broadway…and it’s just as you’d expect a film-to-stage musical to be: funny, a little campy, high energy, and with
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To See or Not to See: The Seafarer
Playwright Conor McPherson’s absorbing tale, The Seafarer, takes center stage at the Irish Repertory Theatre. In The Seafarer, Christmas Eve day and night unfold in a Dublin living room of an
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Pop Culturalist Chats with Alexandra Silber
Gifted storyteller, brilliant thinker, accomplished actor: Alexandra Silber is a consummate artist with a luminous voice on stage and page. A veteran of Broadway and the West End, Silber has
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To See or Not to See: The Edge of Our Bodies
16 year-old Bernadette is many things: a child of a marriage on the rocks, a boarding school student, a wannabe writer, a wannabe actress, a dedicated girlfriend, and, sometimes, a
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To See or Not to See: Feeding the Dragon
Sharon Washington spent part of her childhood (from 1969 to 1973) living in a library. Her father, George, was charged with keeping the furnace of the St. Agnes branch of the
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