Jacquinn Sinclair

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Articles

Actors' Shakespeare Project and The Huntington win multiple Elliot Norton Awards

3 days ago | wbur.org | Jacquinn Sinclair

At the 42nd Elliot Norton Awards on Monday night, actor Ivan Cecil Walks, who starred in The Huntington’s 2023 production of “K-I-S-S-I-N-G,” encouraged the audience to “feed the garden that is Boston theater.”It’s a real community, he said. The Boston Theater Critics Association celebrated that community by distributing more than 30 awards and citations at the ceremony to honor the actors and narratives on Greater Boston’s stages this past season.
A.R.T.'s 'Two Strangers' is a fun, musical rom-com

1 week ago | wbur.org | Jacquinn Sinclair

Rom-com lovers will rejoice over American Repertory Theater’s production of “Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)” (through July 13). The musical by Jim Barne and Kit Buchan focuses on a happy-go-lucky Brit named Dougal and a New Yorker named Robin who are forced to bond due to circumstances that have thrown them together. Their meet-cute happens in the airport. Dougal, an affable Sam Tutty, arrives for his father’s wedding (his father is marrying Robin’s sister).
‘How to Read by Moonlight’ has a lot of light to go with the darkness - The Boston Globe

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Jacquinn Sinclair

The colorful and clattering imagination of a six-year-old Filipino boy named Eddie is at the center of Gaven D. Trinidad’s first full length play, “Learning How to Read by Moonlight.” In the show, Eddie relies on his rich interior life, complete with an imaginary friend for company, as he and his mom navigate their new lives in America.
An art exhibit honors the historical Black community of Walden Woods

2 weeks ago | wbur.org | Jacquinn Sinclair

Before celebrated writer and poet Henry David Thoreau made Concord’s Walden Pond and the surrounding woods famous, many formerly enslaved Black people called the same area home after settling in the area after the American Revolution. One of the residents, Brister Freeman, enlisted to fight on both sides of the war. After, Freeman and others were set free as part of “the largest emancipation in world history at that time,” according to the Bill of Rights Institute.
'Kimberly Akimbo' delivers hilarious and heartwarming coming-of-age story

4 weeks ago | wbur.org | Jacquinn Sinclair

The musical “Kimberly Akimbo,” about a teenager aging much faster than most, somehow manages to be simultaneously hilarious, heartwarming and thought-provoking. At the start of the show, Kimberly Levaco and her family are settling into a new town in Bergen County, New Jersey.
‘The Shark Is Broken’ revisits the fraught filming of ‘Jaws’ - The Boston Globe

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Jacquinn Sinclair

It’s been fifty years since the movie “Jaws” played on the big screen for the first time, captivating audiences. The 1975 cult classic film, in which a deadly shark terrorizes a small coastal town, was a blockbuster hit that pulled in millions and helped catapult the career of its young director, Steven Spielberg. For New Englanders, “Jaws” is particularly special because it was shot in Martha’s Vineyard.
Dialing up a brighter future in ‘Utopian Hotline’

1 month ago | wbur.org | Jacquinn Sinclair

Easing into the reclining seats at the Museum of Science’s Charles Hayden Planetarium for Theater Mitu’s “Utopian Hotline” (now through May 18), feels like a warm hug after a long, hard day. The show — a co-production with the museum and ArtsEmerson — is a lovely theatrical meditation that asks viewers to imagine a brighter future as they listen to an audio montage of other people’s desires for the world through large, black headsets offered at the door.
At Lyric Stage, a gender-reveal party gets political

1 month ago | wbur.org | Jacquinn Sinclair

In “The Great Reveal,” a gender-reveal party and its cake become a political statement that sharpens the lines of friendship. The world premiere of the David Valdes play at the Lyric Stage Company of Boston runs through April 27. At the play’s start, Lexi, a conservative, married mom-to-be, is stressed out. It’s 2020, and she’s been planning a gender reveal party for her and her husband Christopher’s soon-to-come bundle of joy, despite social distancing and masking rules.
At ArtsEmerson, a new show offers satire with a mission

2 months ago | wbur.org | Jacquinn Sinclair

The set for FlawBored’s sharp offering “It’s a Motherf**king Pleasure,” looked like a talk show at The Jackie Liebergott Black Box Theatre at the Emerson Paramount Center Thursday night. There were two chairs and a small wood table set beneath a large screen, and a rug lined with black and yellow caution tape.
Dark comedy 'Don't Eat the Mangos' warns of the weight of secrets

2 months ago | wbur.org | Jacquinn Sinclair

Secrets are like cancer, spreading and swallowing what is healthy and good. Still, we keep them, thinking we are protecting ourselves and others by vowing to lock up what is dangerous or hurtful deep within. But what is done in darkness will always come to light eventually. Such is the case for a family of five in The Huntington Theatre’s powerful production of “Don’t Eat the Mangos” by Ricardo Pérez González.