Hayes Theatre, June 21 7.5/10 Were Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow alive today they’d just be two more narcissists taking selfies. Even Clyde’s obsession with high-powered firearms wouldn’t delineate him, especially in his home state of Texas. The conundrum that faced the creators of this 2009 musical (as it did…
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Ensemble Theatre, June 15 7/10 Edvard Munch’s most famous painting, The Scream, could be a depiction of Nora. She never actually emits that scream in fellow Norwegian Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House (dating from 1879, 14 years earlier), but she’s screaming inside for most of its duration, and finally gives…
Capitol Theatre, June 4 8.5/10 You don’t just go to see Moulin Rouge!, you enter its world. Within kiss-blowing distance of the stage, the Capitol Theatre is festooned with red swags, silver chandeliers, golden lights, an elephant and the windmill after which the famed Parisian cabaret was named. Even the…