[Performing Arts] 
In an election year, it's all too easy to get caught up in the American monolith. 'Tis the season to bust out the billowing flag and use the butt
[Performing Arts] 
World-renowned belly dancer visits Boston
For the past 10 years, Layaleena has denoted an evening of dining, music and dancing for Boston's Arabic community and beyond.
[Performing Arts] 
The machine with no off switch
Don't go the Gurnet Theatre Project's production of Essential Self-Defense if you want to see a play. Go if you want to be in a play.
[Performing Arts] 
What to see while the big companies are sleeping
The season of sun sees the students pile out of town (thank god), but unfortunately it also has theaters across the city emptying out
[Performing Arts] 
Pissing on the Wizard
Margaret Hamilton, Idina Menzel, Mabel King, Miss Piggy—they've all smeared the green stuff
[Performing Arts] 
Tempest-tost salad
Of all Shakespeare's plays, few are more fun to produce than his dream stories. I'm thinking A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest here specifically; you know, the ones where a couple of wacky mortals
[Performing Arts] 
Learn to teaze without the sleaze
Contemporary burlesque strives to emulate what is referred to as "The Golden Age of Burlesque." In truth, this is an era that never really existed at all. Like so many ideal times, it's a combination of myths and facts told and retold until they are a considerable distortion of what really happened. And we wouldn't want our fantasies any other way than a more grandiose and glamourous version of the reality, The Golden Age is the sampling and piecing together of Burlesque from the 1930s through the 50s.
[Performing Arts] 
Come for the filicide; stay for the beer
There's been plenty of nudity going around on the stages of Boston these days, but nobody, and I mean nobody, does full frontal like Ryan Landry.
I'll leave that tidbit and move on to the numerous other reasons why the Gold Dust Orphans' Medea is an unmissable performance from 'Landry's band of merry trannies''.
[Performing Arts] 
Like water for molasses
Every playwright needs to work his muscles now and again, but that doesn't mean we should have to pay to watch his calisthenics. With A Body of Water, now onstage at the Charlestown Working Theater, Lee Blessing seems to have let a writing exercise unwittingly stumble into a full production.
[Performing Arts] 
Watertown theater company valiantly takes on the po-mo king
Staging a Harold Pinter play is a little like choreographing a very intricate waltz without a dance floor—in fact, without any floor at all. Postmodern British playwrights can't be bothered with laying down the bland linoleum tiles of, you know, plot.
