Entertainment
Oscar-winner Ben Affleck seems to like filming in Dorchester. The Cambridge native is in town for his sophomore writing and directing project “The Town,†based on Boston author Chuck Hogan’s award-winning bestseller “The Prince of Thieves.â€
The... Read more
You’ll have made a serious mistake if you didn’t catch “The Comedy of Errors,†now in its final week on Boston Common.
For the 14th summer, the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company (CSC), under the direction of Founding Artistic Director Steven Maler... Read more
In the 60’s and beyond, The Four Seasons ruled the charts, singing the praises of girls like Sherry, Dawn Ronnie, and Marianne. But, as the smash bio-musical “Jersey Boys,†which just opened at the Shubert, reveals, in real life Frankie, Bob,... Read more
Nowadays you’d have to keelhaul most young playgoers to get them to see an “operetta.†But since a Gilbert and Sullivan classic has been repackaged as a rollicking musical, audiences are going overboard in praising the Huntington Theatre Company’... Read more
Brian De Lorenzo: Photo by Mark Hunt.Brian De Lorenzo is one of the few cabaret artists who can lay claim to having performed at Eighty-Eight's, Don't Tell Mama, and Birdland in New York; Piaf's in San Francisco; cruise ships in Alaska and the... Read more
Hundreds of spectators are expected to visit Dorchester Park this Sunday evening for a free, outdoor classical concert that will feature the music of George Gershwin and Gospel favorites, a contest for most creative picnic and an official ceremony marking... Read more
"Johnny Lee and me: Two black people from Dorchester who love Shakespeare."
That's how recent Harvard College grad Faith Imafidon describes herself and well-known actor and teacher Johnny Lee Davenport. Both are currently appearing in the Commonwealth... Read more
Sean C. Fielder leads a rehearsal of the Boston Tap Company. Image courtesy BTC
Contrary to what some think, tap-dancing is no career for sissies. Just ask Fields Corner resident Sean C. Fielder about the grueling practice or check out the patches that... Read more
The year: 1988. The place: Richmond Street, Lower Mills. Three or four adolescent girls (these days, we'd have been called "tweens") discovered a phenomenon that would more or less define the next few years of our lives: a boy band known as the New Kids... Read more
In 2006, local filmmaker Dave McLaughlin took to the streets with his Boston-bred cast to begin filming "On Broadway," the story of a carpenter-turned-playwright in Irish-American Boston. Noted as "the next Good Will Hunting" in Boston Magazine,... Read more
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