super awesome venue! i saw "eureka day" here and had a great time. all the staff were very kind and…read morechill. i got an audio headset for accessibility and it was a very easy process, took less than 5 minutes combined pickup and return. i've only sat in orchestra but i had a great view and comfortable aisle seat!

Lovely local theater in Boston! The theater was recently renovated and it looks beautiful. Seats…read moreare comfortable. There doesn't seem to be a bad seat in the house. The shows are an eclectic mix, but well done. I was wowed by the stories, actors, set design.

STOP........You all need to see this Bombastic Production of :…read more"MOULIN ROUGE" The Musical! From the moment we sat down and the Music was playing you will experience the VERY BEST IN MUSICAL PRODUCTION! I have seen countless Broadway Productions all around from New York to Atlanta to Chicago and more BUT THIS MOULIN ROUGE, Truly and Honestly the Very Best I have ever sat through Ever!!! It Dazzled all of us ! The Songs, The Costumes, The Stage, The Choreography, The Synchronized Dancing, The Characters, The Enthusiasm was The Best in every which way! I can tell you that each Character played their part perfectly! I focused on how the voices which were strong and powerful. The pace of this amazing Production truly kept your attention and grabbed it through out the show! You could not blink for you might miss its stunning visual performance! I can tell you I LOVED IT AND CRAVED FOR MORE AND MORE WHEN IT ENDED! The Audience went wild with claps and shouting praise! It was a wonderful spectacle to witness! The Cast Gabriela Carrillo/ Satine was Brilliant and Powerful Actress and her Voice truly a gift for all to hear! Luke Monday/Christian Commanded your attention by his incredible voice! I have never experienced such range and perfection he demonstrated, Robert Petkoff/ Harold Zidler a character of great talent and style, Alex Nicholson/ Toulouse-Lautrec a beloved character and style with amazing talent, Aaron C. Finley/ The Duke of Monroth played his character so well that I believed in his bad behavior but brilliantly played! So many actors and singers to mention but they all performed the best on any stage. 35 talented cast for sure! Thank you for sharing your talent with the audience! I know I will not forget you all! this Production shows the real Spirit of the Moulin Rouge The Stage is set in 1899 inside the Moulin Rouge and parts of Paris! this theatrical imagination will transport us all back October 6, 1889 when the Moulin Rouge opens in Paris ! The Moulin Rouge in Paris is so Famous all around the World and is Celebrating its 135 Anniversary! I was lucky to be in Paris and experience this Landmark of the World!

Wow is the only word I can think of as well. It doesn't even matter which show you choose, this…read morevenue is stunning! And I've been to a lot of theaters in Chicago, NYC and LA. It's also very big, so if you're choosing seats, keep that in mind. We were mezzanine but already felt so far away from the stage.

Art deco details everywhere, lavish designs across the two level atrium and into the theater where…read morethey have shows. I think this would be a lovely architecture tour if we didn't have the event lights and noise of a DJ at the site. We visited an event here (not the theater part) where they had a Music America exhibit downstairs, and servers and music up in the main lobby. Very loud space and could use some more seating for the event, but was a fun gathering for ISDA hosted by LSEG. Cool venue, contains both the Wang and Shubert Theatres. An extraordinary gift in 1983 from Dr. An Wang, founder of Wang Laboratories, ushered in the era of The Wang Center for the Performing Arts and lead to a total of around $10mm in donations to help restore the theater in the 1980s.

When I think of the Wang, I generally think of theatrical productions, so I was surprised to hear…read moremy one of my favorite bands was performing at the Wang. Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit could perform in a bathroom and it would be stellar, but both of their shows this past Friday and Saturday night were phenomenal! The Wang turned out to be a great venue. It is a beautiful historic theatre, but entry (including security) was easy and stress free. The band sounded amazing! We expected a "seated" audience, but as soon as the band took the stage, the entire audience remained on their feet swaying and enjoying the music and vibes. While I enjoyed this environment, I can see that elderly attendees, shorter patrons, or those with difficulty standing for 2+ hours might have been disappointed. No awful parking issues like Gillette or the Xfinity Center, better views than TD Garden...I'd love to see more rock concerts at the Wang!

The actors were incredible. They were so funny and kept us rethinking who did it all night. The…read morefood was great and wait staff were so nice! It was such a fun girls night out.

Attended at the Wakefield location. Actors were great, in fact I was sitting next to one and did…read morenot even realize, he had skit towards the end of the show. Played his role well blending in with attendees before his his part in . All seemed dedicated to performance and created laughter amongst the crowd. Salad and appetizers were plentiful and well done with presentable appeal. Main course, not so much, dried chicken marsala, minimal taste. Chicken obviously microwaved served with a big clump of spaghetti, I would have added the marsala over that enormous serving of pasta. Along with a small, really small serving of vegetables. The entire plate was eyeballing unappealing. Others seemed to like. Desert served with the attempt of apple crumble with canned apples? Minus the food rated at 2, my rating refers to the show. As far as ambiance, classic small banquet rom.

Yes, yes, and yes ... If you have kids and they are interested in theater, you need to bring them…read morehere. They are lovely here and I have not had a bad experience even when we had a bad situation arise with my daughter's first production. I love that they are instilling the love of theater into these kids. They also discuss the process of a production and the characterthe child is portraying even when it is a small, non-speaking roll, They utilize all of the children that try out and it works wonderfully. We have thus far only been able to do the musicals but one day the stars will align in our schedules and we will get to do a black box production. My favorite production so far has been "The Pirates of Penzance".

Got kids? This is a great program. Spectacularly-run and lots of fun for serious actors, plus they…read morerun vacation camps with arts themes for those of us who can't just stay home all day with our kids because we, you know, have jobs... Wonderful counselors. Really beautiful facilities in the New Repertory Theatre building. Even if you don't have kids, check out a show sometime and support the arts!

I've been meaning to check out the free "Your Terrible Ex!" show at The Riot Theater for a few…read moremonths now. But it takes place at 10pm on a Friday night, and I tend to have to wake up early the next day. So what finally brought me out to this area of JP? A free ComedySportz Improv show courtesy of CSZ Boston and the Yelp Elite Culture Club. With ComedySportz at 8pm - 9:30pm (free for me that night only, otherwise $15 plus $1.50 fee) and Your Terrible Ex! from 10pm - 11:30pm (free all the time, whether for you or for me), I decided, yes, it was time. I would show up for the first, and just simply stay put for the 2nd. Being a girl arriving by myself, I drove by maybe 6-8 times before a driver magically appeared to get into the car situated right on the corner by The Riot Theater. I didn't want to park too long a walk away, although there were some spots maybe 3 blocks off on South Street. According to their website, The Riot Theater, is housed in A Far Cry Chamber Orchestra's storefront rehearsal space, and seeks to bring quality comedy to a part of Boston that has a wealth of support for the arts but little in the way of a regular comedy scene. ComedySportz was fun and entertaining, and entirely family friendly - but I knew this already from a past experience. Ideas were requested of the audience, so it was interactive and what I imagine improv to be - thinking on your feet with information that you have no control over. A myriad of games were played, each with its own name and rules, such as Pile Up, Dirty Hand Randy, Five Things, I Can Do Better, Four Corners, Twinsies (with actual physical audience participation) and 185. I found out that night for the first time that ComedySportz is not just a Boston Institution, but is located in 23 cities across the country, and even in Manchester, UK and Berlin, Germany! That was pretty cool. After the ComedySportz crowd (aka tonight's loyal fans) exited to high fives from our show's cast, a new group took over the space, removed the score screen, set up some folding chairs along the stage, and adjusted the audience's seating a bit. We were told that Your Terrible Ex! would start 5 min late as always. A single private bathroom was available for use, and concessions were available at a table by the entrance. As often happens at events, the headlining show was preceded by a pre-show. And this evening, the guest comedy troupe was The Gorge, a four person group. Perhaps I missed something, but I didn't remember any audience participation. They just flung themselves into acting out a number of situations that confused me and seemed to confuse their improv partners as well. After The Gorge were done, Naffy Improv took over the stage for Your Terrible Ex!, interviewing one eager audience volunteer about his ex with whom he and his current girlfriend (who had introduced them) were no longer friends with. Taking from the interview the fact that he'd gone to museums on dates with this art student ex, the cast ran with it and came up with a skit that took place in a museum. Swears and certain intimate body parts were tossed nilly willy. The scene from Ghost was reinacted to a degree. Children died. Wine was bought; then promptly broken over someone's head. Oregano was requested. Naffy did a bit better on the improv front. Professionally, both groups were a bit lacking, as they would react to each other's bits when as actors they should not have. But hey, it was a free show that runs on donations. Based on this one visit, my order of preference by sheer entertainment value would be: ComedySportz, Naffy, guest group. Background music beat through the wall from Jeanie Johnston Pub & Grill next door, where it was suggested that we could grab a quick shot since The Riot Theater didn't have anything alcoholic.

This review is for Riot Stand Up Comedy at the Riot Theater in Roslindale, Saturday night at 10pm…read more I would not recommend this comedy venue for anyone over the age of about 30. On this evening, the audience was made up of comics and friends and partners of comics, and then there was our group. It's a very small space, so we immediately stuck out. Initially we didn't find the host or the first couple of comics very funny, and we politely chuckled and smiled. As the night wore on, the comics seemed to take offense that we were not laughing, and took it as a personal challenge to "break" us down, until toward the end of the evening the entire focus was on us. The jokes also got more vulgar with one pointing to our group to see if we might want to try a couples swap. The last straw was the next comic who worked himself up to saying he wanted to blank us and we just walked out. I can understand that this is a venue for budding comics to try develop a craft, but this group of 20- and 30-somethings couldn't connect outside their own generation. Some jokes were mildly funny, but too many had obscure references and missing punch lines. Even more, most of them didn't grasp the basic concept of comedy--present your material and if it doesn't get a laugh, you move on rather than take offense and single out or bully people not laughing.

Well, I saw the Blue Man Group in December of 1999 as part of a company holiday celebration in…read moreBoston's Theatre District. Sorry it took me so long to Yelp them! I think they started in Las Vegas and then opened branches/troupes in various cities, Boston being one of them. Performance artists who did some crazy tricks, played unconventional PVC tube type instruments to rhythmic tribal beats, and had the uncanny habit of making audience members be a part of the show and feel nervous. The band was above the stage, oddly, on a platform above where the tricks and performance artists were. The music was OK, but after hearing two or three songs you realize the music all sounds pretty much the same. The band was a music-only/non-vocal four piece band: Chapman Stick, Bass, Keyboards, and Drums. The show was OK. The company bought us the ticket, after we had lunch in Central Square, Cambridge, and we all met up at Park Street Station and walked over to some theater. I never would have gone on my own accord, but it was a company event. If you've seen it once there is no reason to see it twice, good but not that captivating. Thing is, that really struck me as odd and trashy... the tickets were not cheap, in fact back then it was $55.00. But as we all exited, two of the band members were at the exit doors with these big buckets looking for donations/tips. I've never seen that before.

Blue Man Group has been performing at the Charles Playhouse since 1995!…read more This is the second time I've had the pleasure of seeing Blue Man Group. The first time was over 20 years ago. They still had a lot of the same acts that still stand and bring lots of laughs as well as new and hilarious ones. This time I was sitting in the fourth row, pancho section which was perfectly close enough to the stage, but not too close where I was cranking my neck. I don't wanna spoil any thing from the show, but here are some helpful tips: - if you can, get middle section poncho seats - if you're in the poncho section, dress light! it gets hot under there - the music is amazing and loud! (They provide ear protection by request). - they also provide masks - boosters available for the littles - have a special occasion? You can contact them 48 hours before the show to have a special LED message displayed. - post show meet & greet for additional $$ - bathrooms are super clean as well as the waiting area - merch available - Bar with small snacks and lots of seating in the waiting area Bring the whole family it's very kid friendly and they will have an awesome time ! Street Parking not that great and be careful of parking on Tremont as there is tour bus parking after 6 PM and they will tow! Lots of lots available, where you can also pre-pay

I had the opportunity to check out Shakespeare on the Common w/a friend this past weekend, and it…read morewas wonderful! Lots of space/options to choose where to sit and view the play. Coincidentally, I was fortunate to see this year's show, Much Ado About Nothing, at Central Park's Delacorte Theater a few years ago and--it was a treat to see Boston's rendition this year. It was a perfect Boston summer evening (aka not totally roasting w/100% humidity, haha) & one of those nights when you think to yourself--I love this city. Moving forward, I'll be sure to try and check out the summer show each year--it's spectacular.

After a stint of lazy three years, finally I got to witness the beautiful Shakespeare play -…read moreCymbeline. It's a great thing to offer the play for free. I will definitely watch them again next year. Amazing actors!!