Sentimental comedy about seniors at Stoneham Theatre
It doesn’t hurt that playwright/director Jack Neary’s sentimental comedy about senior citizens is set in a working-class eastern Massachusetts neighborhood and features five characters who, to those who grew up in this area, will be as familiar as their own neighbors. But “The Porch” is also a very funny [...]

Sisters of Swing at Stoneham Theatre through May 4
You don’t have to be a member of the Greatest Generation to enjoy Sisters of Swing, the tribute to the Andrews Sisters currently playing at Stoneham Theatre.
But considering that the Andrews Sisters sold over 90 million records, had more Top Ten hits than the Beatles or [...]

The Cutting, at Stoneham Theatre
Each act opens with the sounds of sea gulls, although their full significance will not be realized until much later. Currently at Stoneham Theatre, The Cutting is part mystery, part psychological study and part exploration of the honesty of silence - as it draws you into the mind of a [...]

Unique one-man show at Stoneham Theatre
Antoine Feval is a small play. That is to say, it’s short—-barely an hour and twenty minutes long, with no intermission. It also has a cast of one, which is about as small as it gets.
Currently on stage at Stoneham Theatre, Antoine Feval is a one-man show performed by Tom [...]

Classic Christmas tale at Stoneham Theatre
The historic Stoneham Theatre re-opened as a professional regional theater in December, 2000 with A Christmas Carol as its very first production. After bringing Dickens’ classic back for the next several seasons, in 2005 and 2006 Stoneham Theatre staged adaptations of a more modern classic, A Christmas Story.

Whatever the show, [...]

About 10 minutes into Marilyn: Forever Blonde I caught myself thinking that I was watching the real thing. That’s how convincingly actress Sunny Thompson channels Marilyn Monroe in her one-woman show, at Stoneham Theatre through November 11, 2007.
Thompson is no mere look-a-like or Marilyn impersonator, although in full makeup and costume she is a dead-ringer [...]

East Coast premier stars Sunny Thompson
“Who would want to be compared to Marilyn Monroe?”
That was actress Sunny Thompson’s initial reaction when her husband, Greg Thompson, asked her to read for the one-woman show he had written about one of Hollywood’s most iconic figures. “Marilyn: Forever Blonde” is set to make its East Coast premier this [...]

Starring Wakefield’s Leigh Barrett & Emily Sheeran
There are plenty of good reasons to see the current production of Gypsy at Stoneham Theatre, especially if you’re from Wakefield.
First, Gypsy is the quintessential American musical, an instant classic from the day the original production starring Ethel Merman opened on Broadway in 1959.
Second, in an effort to make [...]

1983 WHS grad takes on role of ‘Mama Rose’ in Stoneham
Leigh Barrett is arguably the First Lady of the Boston musical stage.
The Wakefield native and 1983 Wakefield High School graduate has risen to the top of her profession performing in theaters all over the Boston area. She won the 2004 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding [...]

It’s not often that the town of Wakefield figures prominently in a work of art or literature. But in Israel Horovitz’s The Widow’s Blind Date, the playwright gives his hometown a strong supporting role in this taut drama about the reunion of three Wakefield High School classmates who share an unsavory past.
My review of the [...]