Christopher Wallenberg

5 days ago | bostonglobe.com | Christopher Wallenberg

Inside the buzzy confines of the Lyric Stage, the cast and creative team for the theater’s revival of the musical-comedy classic “Hello, Dolly!” are busy rehearsing several dance numbers, including for the soaring anthem “Put On Your Sunday Clothes.” As the performers sashay down the aisles and shape themselves into a train car full of passengers, choreographer Ilyse Robbins adjusts the movements, gives notes, and lets out enthusiastic squeals of approval while director Maurice Emmanuel...

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Christopher Wallenberg

Inside a Huntington rehearsal hall, young love is in full bloom. The cast and creative team for the Tony Award-winning musical “The Light in the Piazza,” which The Huntington is presenting from May 8-June 15, is working through a scene in which a radiant southern woman named Margaret Johnson, traveling through Italy in 1953, discovers just how deep into the throes of passion her daughter, Clara, has fallen.

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Christopher Wallenberg

For many people, thinking back on their awkward, tumultuous teenage years can prompt winces of horror and distress. Why would you want to relive them? But for Broadway star Carolee Carmello, who’s playing a big-hearted teenager in the acclaimed yet unconventional musical “Kimberly Akimbo,” reconnecting with the confusing thoughts and heightened emotions of adolescence every night has a surprising upside.

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Christopher Wallenberg

Jocelyn Bioh believes she was always “destined” to write “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding.” Her high-spirited stage comedy paints a portrait of immigrant women working at a Harlem hair braiding shop where the sharp-tongued commentary, riotous laughter, and juicy gossip flows as freely and fiercely as the compassion and community.

1 month ago | tvinsider.com | Christopher Wallenberg

This post contains discussions of sexual assault. Fans have waited a painfully long two-and-a-half years for the return of celebrated dystopian drama The Handmaid’s Tale, but now Season 6 — the final stretch of the decorated Hulu drama, to be followed by The Testaments — is almost here.