NEWS & REVIEWS

Wayne's world

Improvisational comedian, singer and actor Wayne Brady had the audience doubling over with laughter at the Wilbur Theatre Saturday night. Best known for his work on "Whose Line is it Anyway?" Brady has been performing improv comedy for decades. More »

'My Wonderful Day' underscores invisible class, racial angst

Sir Alan Ayckbourn has two sons, but "My Wonderful Day" represents the first of the British author's now 73 plays (and counting) written from the perspective of a child. The 2009 comedy also stands as his first work to feature roles written specifically for black actors. Zeitgeist Stage Company gave this welcome departure from Ayckbourn's usual fare an exuberant New England premiere as auspicious as its title. More »

Franklin Park's history

Franklin Park's history is filled with remarkable stories - about people, landscape features and park activities. During World War II, there was a camp for Italian prisoners of war in the park who tended large Victory Gardens. In the 1960s Duke Ellington opened the Elma Lewis Playhouse in the Park on July 4th weekends. The Minute Men from Dorchester stopped at what is now called the Resting Ground (also the Shattuck Picnic Grove) on their way home from the battle at Lexington. Ellicott Dale was home to lawn tennis courts. The old photos show ladies playing in their long skirts. More »

Beckett's humor, darkness shines through in 'Fragments'

Two wizened, white-bearded men spend 20 minutes taunting, tricking, befriending and attacking each other on an otherwise empty stage. One is a blind fiddler. The other, missing a leg, uses a pole to navigate himself around on a wheeled crate. At one point, he tells the blind man, "If you ask me, we're made for each other." More »