Julianne Boyd

Theater Review: “The Glass Menagerie” — Doing Justice to an American Classic

October 9, 2018
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This is a first-rate production of a true American classic.

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Theater Review: “West Side Story” — Still Brilliant After All These Years

August 12, 2018
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The Barrington Stage Company’s moving and fiercely energetic production brings West Side Story back to the stage with a bang.

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Theater Review: A Dated “Company”

August 16, 2017
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Director Julianne Boyd is faced with a difficult challenge — dramatizing an outdated psychological travelogue.

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Fuse Theater Review: BSC’s “His Girl Friday” — Fast Action on the Chicago Beat

August 17, 2015
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His Girl Friday is a stirring celebration of the power of journalism that not only amuses but manages to be troubling as well.

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Theater Review: The BSC’s “Man of La Mancha” — A Marvelously Robust Revival

June 15, 2015
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If you revel in witty lyrics and soaring melodies as I do, you will love this Man of La Mancha

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Theater Review: A Remarkable “Dancing Lessons” at Barrington Stage

August 14, 2014
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Mark St. Germain’s romantic comedy is never less than provocative, fresh, and unexpectedly moving.

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Fuse Theater Review: Barrington Stage Company Serves up a Lavish “Much Ado”

August 12, 2013
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From the first clearly projected lines to the last, it’s obvious that director Julianne Boyd set out to direct a production of Much Ado where language rules supreme.

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Theater Review: “All My Sons” — An American Antique

July 25, 2012
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If this sounds like a melodrama, that is because Arthur Miller wrote one. “All My Sons” was very much a product of the dramatist’s times and politics.

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Culture Vulture: A Timely “Streetcar”

August 11, 2009
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Blanche DuBois (Marin Mazzie) and Stanley Kowalski (Christopher Innvar) battle it out in the Barrington Stage Company production of “A Streetcar Named Desire,” which runs through August 29. by Helen Epstein Go here for information about a live-chat, scheduled for August 23rd, with Helen Epstein on “The Art of Narrative Writing.” “But isn’t he outdated?”…

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