Robert Nesti

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National Managing Editor at Edge Media Network

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Review: Jimmy Choo-less Cynthia Erivo Opens Keith Lockhart's 30th Pops Season in Spectacular Fashion

1 week ago | edgemedianetwork.com | Robert Nesti

4 hours agoReview: Jimmy Choo-less Cynthia Erivo Opens Keith Lockhart's 30th Pops Season in Spectacular Fashion It's fair to say that the Zeitgeist gods were smiling down on Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops with their choice for the opening night guest for the start of his 30th year as the orchestra's conductor. Could there be a more in-the-moment star than Cynthia Erivo?
Theater Review: Lean 'Mean Girls' Wears Out Its Welcome

1 week ago | edgemedianetwork.com | Robert Nesti

May 5Theater Review: Lean 'Mean Girls' Wears Out Its Welcome "Mean Girls, The Musical" doesn't need a rave review to succeed; what the current non-Equity company needs to fill a theater are as many likes on social media as it can get. They would likely encourage the musical's built-in audience – Gen Z women and gay men – to attend.
Boston's Week-Long Big Queer Food Fest Celebrates the Community

2 weeks ago | edgemedianetwork.com | Robert Nesti

4 hours agoBoston's Week-Long Big Queer Food Fest Celebrates the Community Nothing succeeds like an idea whose time has come. Such is the case of the Boston's Big Queer Food Fest which has grown from a modest one-day event a year ago to a week-long celebration of queerness and cuisine, two things that go together in so many ways. The idea of such a festival began in 2023 with pop-up dinners and culinary events in Los Angeles, New York City, San Diego, and Nashville.
Choreographer Matthew Rushing Pays Tribute to Alvin Ailey with 'Sacred Songs'

3 weeks ago | edgemedianetwork.com | Robert Nesti

5 hours agoChoreographer Matthew Rushing Pays Tribute to Alvin Ailey with 'Sacred Songs' When Matthew Rushing was around 12 or 13 years old, he recalls getting a ticket to see The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in Los Angeles where he grew up.
Review: A Superb 'Carousel' Speaks to Our Divided Times | EDGE United States

1 month ago | edgemedianetwork.com | Robert Nesti

6 hours agoReview: A Superb 'Carousel' Speaks to Our Divided Times Of all Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II's musicals, it makes sense that the Boston Lyric Opera would want to produce "Carousel." With its integrated musical interludes and free-flowing clusters of songs, it is the team's work that comes closest to opera, especially since it requires trained opera singers accompanied by a large orchestra to be fully authentic.
Opera's Vocal Chameleon Edward Nelson Takes on Billy Bigelow in BLO's 'Carousel'

1 month ago | edgemedianetwork.com | Robert Nesti

Apr 3Opera's Vocal Chameleon Edward Nelson Takes on Billy Bigelow in BLO's 'Carousel' In the Metropolitan Opera's 2023 production of Terence Blanchard's blazing opera "Champion," baritone Edward Nelson made his Met debut in what some might think was a risky turn. Dressed in a denim vest and jeans, and with long blond hair, he's every inch a queer hunk from the early 1970s who would be found in the NYC gay bar where this sequence takes place.
Michael J. Bobbitt Explores Family & Football (Briefly) at the 'Queer Voices Festival'

1 month ago | edgemedianetwork.com | Robert Nesti

Mar 20Michael J. Bobbitt Explores Family & Football (Briefly) at the 'Queer Voices Festival' This weekend queer voices will be heard loud and clear as the Boston Theater Company brings their second annual "Queer Voices Festival" to the Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) Plaza Theatre. "We're so excited to bring back Queer Voices for the second year," says Lyndsay Allyn Cox, "Queer Voices" Producing Director (she/they).
Review: The Time Has Come for this Thrilling 'Parade' | EDGE United States

2 months ago | edgemedianetwork.com | Robert Nesti

Mar 18Review: The Time Has Come for this Thrilling 'Parade' When it arrived on Broadway in 1998, "Parade" was respected, but not loved. Though it won Tony Awards for its book (by Alfred Uhry) and score (by Jason Robert Brown), it had a relatively short run, in part to issues with its production company (that went bankrupt) and by a lukewarm critical response.
Review: What Makes the Iconic RuPaul Tick? | EDGE United States

2 months ago | edgemedianetwork.com | Robert Nesti

Mar 11Review: What Makes the Iconic RuPaul Tick? What becomes a drag legend most? In the case of RuPaul, easily the most famous drag queen in herstory, it is to take off those towering wigs and couture gowns and just be themselves, as they did when they took the stage of Boston's Orpheum Theatre this past Friday night.
Standup's David Nihill Zones in On What the Irish Do Best – Storytelling | EDGE United States

2 months ago | edgemedianetwork.com | Robert Nesti

6 hours agoStandup's David Nihill Zones in On What the Irish Do Best – Storytelling When Dublin-born David Nihill first traveled out of Ireland at the age of 22, he was infected with the travel virus. Since then he has worked in twelve countries and visited some 70 or so. Then somewhere along the way, he realized he was funny and good at the Irish national pastime – storytelling, which he has turned into a successful stand-up act, as well as a productive career as a public speaking coach.