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Evelyn Rosenthal

Theater Review: “Beautiful”—A Joyous Musical Bio of Carole King

What comes through clearly in Beautiful is the joy Carole King and the other writers took in putting together the songs that captured our hearts.

By: Evelyn Rosenthal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Barry Mann, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Broadway in Boston, Carole King, Cynthia Weil, Douglas McGrath. Gerry Goffin

Theater Review: “A Little Night Music” — Staged Beautifully, and with Heart

The Huntington Theatre Company’s magnificent production of Stephen Sondheim’s masterpiece A Little Night Music is as good as it gets.

By: Evelyn Rosenthal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: A Little Night Music, Huntington-Theatre-Company, Peter-DuBois, Stephen-Sondheim

Concert Review: Kurt Elling with Anat Cohen at Sanders Theatre

I’ve never seen Kurt Elling when he wasn’t in fine voice, and this show was no exception.

By: Evelyn Rosenthal Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Anat Cohen, Celebrity-Series-of-Boston, Kurt Elling

Theater Review: Lyric Stage’s “City of Angels” — A Witty, Jazzy Delight

The Lyric Stage Company’s entertaining production of this Tony-winner for best musical, book, and score hits most of the right noirish notes.

By: Evelyn Rosenthal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Catherine Stornetta, City of Angels, Ed Hoopman, Larry Gelbart, Leigh Barrett, Lyric Stage Company, Phil Tayler, Spiro Veloudos

Fuse Theater Review: Singers Shine in New Rep’s “Closer Than Ever”

Leigh Barrett and her collaborators sing and act beautifully, and they are obviously having a great deal of fun performing Richard Maltby Jr. and David Shire’s heartfelt songs about the trials and transitions of middle age.

By: Evelyn Rosenthal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Brian Richard Robinson, David Foley, David Shire, Jim Rice, John Stykluna, Kathy St. George, Leigh Barrett, New Rep Theatre, Richard Maltby Jr.

Theater Review: Cut and Slash Done With Panache — Lyric Stage Delivers a High-Caliber “Sweeney Todd”

To darken a story that already hinges on rape, murder, and cannibalism takes some doing, but the edgy Lyric Stage production pulls it off.

By: Evelyn Rosenthal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Amelia Broome, Christopher Chew, Spiros Veloudos, Stephen-Sondheim, sweeney-Todd, The Lyric Stage Company of Boston

CD Review: Sérgio Mendes Pours on the “Magic”

“Magic” reflects the Mendes touch—more than 50 years of expert piano, arranging, and production chops, and a genius for choosing the right collaborators.

By: Evelyn Rosenthal Filed Under: Featured, Fuse News, Jazz, Music, Popular Music, Review, World Music Tagged: bossa nova, Magic, Mika Mutti, samba, Sérgio Mendes

Theatre Review: These “Woods” Are Lovely, Dark, and Deep

The Lyric Stage Company’s thoroughly enjoyable production more than does “Into the Woods,” Stephen Sondheim’s un-Disneyfied version of fairy tales, justice.

By: Evelyn Rosenthal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Into the Woods, James Lapine, Lyric stage company of boston, Spiro Veloudos, Stephen-Sondheim

Music Preview: A Natural Transition for Singer Mili Bermejo

Mili Bermejo and Dan Greenspan

“Music just comes, you know? You’re harvesting potatoes, and something happens and you have to put it immediately on paper.”

By: Evelyn Rosenthal Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Preview, World Music Tagged: Berklee College of Music, Dan Greenspan, Mili Bermejo, Sofia Rei

Theater Review: SpeakEasy Stage Company’s Vibrant “Color Purple”

The singing in the SpeakEasy Stage Company production is strong throughout; it’s easy to get caught up in the sheer pleasure of such a variety of voices.

By: Evelyn Rosenthal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Paul Daigneault, SpeakEasy Stage Company, The Color Purple

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