Best of Boston

Best Theater, Fringe

2000 Best Theater

Colonial Theatre

Boston
History repeating: After 100 years of trap doors, fake blood, and on-stage livestock, the Colonial Theatre is still luring Broadway hits to Beantown. Armed with [...] read more»
1999 Best Theater, Artistic Director

Spiro Veloudos, Lyric Stage Copmany of Boston

His first full year at the helm of the Lyric Stage blasted the veteran theater out of the Edwardian era of drawing-room drama into the [...] read more»
1999 Best Theater, Commercial Producer/Impresario

Jon B. Platt, Colonial Theatre

For bringing in Ragtime, an epic piece of song-and-dance liberal Americana. read more»
1995 Best Theater, Director

Kevin Fennessy

From Grapes of Wrath to Emil and the Detectives with nary a bump, Fennessy is quietly making his mark as one of the finest stage [...] read more»
1995 Best Theater, Unmitigated Disaster

<em>Demons</em>

American Repertory Theatre director Robert Brustein's Demons. In a word: hellish. read more»
1989 Best Theater, Little

New Repertory Theatre

For three MBTA tokens to Newton Highlands, you might as well have been whisked away to England (Quartermaine's Terms), South Africa (A Lesson from Aloes), [...] read more»
1988 Best Theater, Comeback

<em>Twelfth Night</em>

Without props, costumes, or sets, the Actors of the London Stage conjured up a Twelfth Night that Elizabethans would have understood and applauded. read more»
1988 Best Theater, Sound and Fury

<em>Macbeth</em>, Colonial

The backstage bickering during Christopher Plummer and Glenda Jackson's disappointing Macbeth (Colonial). read more»
1988 Best Theater, Escapist

<em>Quartet</em>, ART

Some playgoers escaped art Robert Wilson's Quartet (ART), his sopoforic rendering of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, by nodding off into dreamland; others escaped through the side [...] read more»
1986 Best Theater, Uncomfortable Moment

When an actor appearing in Molière's School for Wives at the Merrimack Repertory Theater called for his lines five times in one scene . . [...] read more»