★★☆☆☆ Huntington Stage Co., Boston, MA. French stage comedy, particularly the classical variety, has always been a tough sell to Americans. Raised on a century’s

★★★★★ Emerson Colonial, Boston, MA. Can a musical be thoughtful, emotionally gutting, and wildly entertaining all at once? Parade is all those things and more.

★★★★☆ SpeakEasy Stage, Boston, MA. For his swan song after 33 years at SpeakEasy Stage, founder Paul Daigneault has chosen a honey of a musical,

★★☆☆☆ Theatre UnCorked at BCA Plaza Theatre, Boston, MA. Handsome but inert staging of James Goldman’s problematic play about the original family feud of 1183

★★★☆☆ Lil Chuck at the Charles Playhouse, Boston, MA. Part improv show, part frat/sorority rave, and part genuine attempt at classical acting, this long-running (since

★★★★☆ Chuang Stage, Boston, MA. The title of Zoë Kim’s world-premiere memories of a Dickensian upbringing, Korean-style, is the catchall phrase by which her mother

★★☆☆☆ Greater Boston Stage Company, Stoneham, MA. A typical New Year’s Eve in Europe doesn’t feature Ryan Seacrest, Anderson Cooper or even Guy Lombardo. Our

★★★★☆ North Shore Music Theater, Beverly, MA. Esteem for Peter Stone and Maury Yeston’s impressionistic treatment of the legendary 1912 disaster has only grown since

★★★★☆ SpeakEasy Stage, Boston, MA. Playwright Steven Drukman has a gift for writing people of different classes – the intelligentsia, and everyday working folk –