Organization

Home > Organization Directory > Organization Detail

• Tweet
• Email
• Feedback

• Tell-a-friend
• Official Website
• Add to My Favorites

Publick Theatre Boston

Comment on Facebook

Since 1971, Publick Theatre Boston has invited audiences of all backgrounds to "experience the power of the spoken word", renowned for its outdoor production of classical and contemporary works at its amphitheater venue on the banks of the Charles River in Christian Herter Park. Since 2008, The Publick has produced year-round as a Resident Theatre Company at the Boston Center for the Arts. garnering critical acclaim as Boston's only professional theatre dedicated to both indoor and outdoor presentations.

• At-a-
  Glance

  • Contact Info

    Publick Theatre Boston

    233 Needham Street. Suite 300
    Newton Upper Falls, MA 02464

    Phone: 617-454-1444   |   Fax: 617-454-1001   |   Email   |   Official Website

  • Current Events

    There are no current events available for this organization at this time.

  • Upcoming Events

    There are no upcoming events available for this organization at this time.

• Current &
  Upcoming Events

  • Current Events

    There are no current events available for this organization at this time.

  • Upcoming Events

    There are no upcoming events available for this organization at this time.

• Past
  Events

  • Past Events

    03/17/11- 04/09/11	9 Circles by Bill Cain
    09/02/10- 09/25/10	The Real Inspector Hound BCA Plaza Theatre
    03/11/10- 04/03/10	Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr. Sloane BCA Plaza Theatre
    10/01/09- 10/24/09	Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf BCA Plaza Theatre
    04/09/09- 05/02/09	Humble Boy BCA Plaza Theatre

• Media
  Reviews

  • Media Reviews

    • Event Name: Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr. Sloane
      Article: Entertaining Mr. Sloane
      Patriot Ledger - Mar 17, 2010
      By Iris Fanger

      Director Eric Engel is supported by a cast of four British-born actors who are spot-on in timing a line for laughs and equally adroit in plumbing the depths of the lonely souls they portray. Expand

      Director Eric Engel is supported by a cast of four British-born actors who are spot-on in timing a line for laughs and equally adroit in plumbing the depths of the lonely souls they portray. Collapse

    • Event Name: Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr. Sloane
      Article: 'Mr Sloane' is truly entertaining
      Boston Herald - Mar 17, 2010
      By Jenna Scherer

      "Lucky for director Eric C. Engel, four UK expats were available to take on Publick Theatre's production of Entertaining Mr. Sloane. Luckier still that this quartet has acting chops of pure gold." Expand

      "Lucky for director Eric C. Engel, four UK expats were available to take on Publick Theatre's production of Entertaining Mr. Sloane. Luckier still that this quartet has acting chops of pure gold." Collapse

    • Event Name: Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr. Sloane
      Article: ‘Mr. Sloane’ runs dark and light, sad and silly
      Boston Globe - Mar 15, 2010
      By Louise Kennedy

      "...all four are working here in a quick, deceptively effortless rhythm that exquisitely balances the farcical comedy and the creepier undercurrents of Orton’s silly-sad tale." Expand

      "...all four are working here in a quick, deceptively effortless rhythm that exquisitely balances the farcical comedy and the creepier undercurrents of Orton’s silly-sad tale." Collapse

    • Event Name: Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr. Sloane
      Article: Entertaining Mr. Sloane
      EdgeBoston - Mar 15, 2010
      By Kilian Melloy

      The Publick Theatre brings Joe Orton’s comedy Entertaining Mr. Sloane to riotous life at the Boston Center for the Arts through April 3. Expand

      The Publick Theatre brings Joe Orton’s comedy Entertaining Mr. Sloane to riotous life at the Boston Center for the Arts through April 3. Collapse

    • Event Name: Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf
      Article: Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
      EDGE Boston - Oct 10, 2009
      By Kay Bourne

      Diego Arciniegas’s clarity of direction unleashes high voltage performances from a cast of four led by Tina Packer, whose Martha (to borrow from Dylan) makes love - and havoc - like a woman but breaks like a little girl. Fortuitously, Arciniegas als… Expand

      Diego Arciniegas’s clarity of direction unleashes high voltage performances from a cast of four led by Tina Packer, whose Martha (to borrow from Dylan) makes love - and havoc - like a woman but breaks like a little girl. Fortuitously, Arciniegas also assuredly reins in these same actors enough so they stay on track to deliver Edward Albee’s play with all its fierce intelligence and jabbing wit. Collapse

    • Event Name: Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf
      Article: This 'Woolf' has bite
      The Patriot Ledger - Oct 09, 2009
      By Iris Fanger

      No less lethal now than at its earlier incarnations, including the Broadway premiere in 1962, starring Uta Hagen and Arthur Hill, and the 1966 film with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton as sparring partners, the Publick Theatre production at the B… Expand

      No less lethal now than at its earlier incarnations, including the Broadway premiere in 1962, starring Uta Hagen and Arthur Hill, and the 1966 film with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton as sparring partners, the Publick Theatre production at the Boston Center for the Arts is a reminder that the play is now a classic because of its ability to plow deeply beneath a viewer’s skin. Collapse

    • Event Name: Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf
      Article: The Publick's 'Virginia Woolf' is a mesmerizing thrill ride
      Boston Theater Examiner - Oct 09, 2009
      By Donn Saylor

      Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is running a limited engagement through October 24. And the best advice I can give you is this: Go see it. After it dismantles you, it will move you in the most unexpected ways. This is theater at its best. Expand

      Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is running a limited engagement through October 24. And the best advice I can give you is this: Go see it. After it dismantles you, it will move you in the most unexpected ways. This is theater at its best. Collapse

    • Event Name: Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf
      Article: Tina Packer Headlines 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'
      Broadwayworld.com - Oct 08, 2009
      By Nancy Grossman

      After all the drama of whether or not the show would go on, go on it did… and in grand style. Faced with last-minute licensing issues, the Publick Theatre Boston production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? received permission to open on schedule wi… Expand

      After all the drama of whether or not the show would go on, go on it did… and in grand style. Faced with last-minute licensing issues, the Publick Theatre Boston production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? received permission to open on schedule with the proviso that a program insert state that it was not approved by the playwright Edward Albee. However, within moments of the actors taking the stage, the caliber of their performances and the intensity of the play under the direction of Diego Arciniegas swept away The Remains of the nasty business beyond the fourth wall. Collapse

    • Event Name: Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf
      Article: The games people play
      The Phoenix - Oct 07, 2009
      By Carolyn Clay

      "...Gore is a relaxed yet forceful George, nailing both his acerb and his bitterly reflective arias. Angie Jepson’s Honey is hilariously insolent when emboldened by brandy, yet piquantly pained when her secrets are betrayed. And square-shouldere… Expand

      "...Gore is a relaxed yet forceful George, nailing both his acerb and his bitterly reflective arias. Angie Jepson’s Honey is hilariously insolent when emboldened by brandy, yet piquantly pained when her secrets are betrayed. And square-shouldered, thick-haired Kevin Kaine is a near-perfect Nick Collapse

    • Event Name: Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf
      Article: 'Caretaker, 'Who's Afraid' master art of dark humor
      Boston Herald - Oct 06, 2009
      By Jenna Scherer

      What Diego Arciniegas’ production lacks in Elizabeth Taylor sexiness it more than makes up for in brains and bloodletting. Tina Packer and Nigel Gore are an absolutely explosive Martha and George, tearing into each other like hungry hounds. Kevin Kai… Expand

      What Diego Arciniegas’ production lacks in Elizabeth Taylor sexiness it more than makes up for in brains and bloodletting. Tina Packer and Nigel Gore are an absolutely explosive Martha and George, tearing into each other like hungry hounds. Kevin Kaine and Angie Jepson make a worthy pair of foils as the couple’s unwitting audience. Collapse

    • Event Name: Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf
      Article: An Unnerving and edgy 'Virginia Woolf'
      The Boston Globe - Oct 06, 2009
      By Terry Byrne

      In Albee’s ode to dysfunction and codependence, director Diego Arciniegas never lets the audience off the hook. Arciniegas’s choices, and the layered performances he draws from his actors, give the Publick Theatre’s first-rate production, playing at… Expand

      In Albee’s ode to dysfunction and codependence, director Diego Arciniegas never lets the audience off the hook. Arciniegas’s choices, and the layered performances he draws from his actors, give the Publick Theatre’s first-rate production, playing at the Boston Center for the Arts’ Plaza Theatre, a refreshingly unnerving tone. Collapse

• Member
  Reviews

  • Member Reviews

    • Event Name: 9 Circles by Bill Cain
      "Nudity!"
      Review posted by: Enjoyedtheview from Boston, MA USA, Apr 15, 2011
      

      Great show - might be worth knowing that there is full-frontal male nudity (not complaining!), in case you were thinking of taking your sweet old grandma!

      All reviews/comments and complete event details

      Great show - might be worth knowing that there is full-frontal male nudity (not complaining!), in case you were thinking of taking your sweet old grandma!

      All reviews/comments and complete event details

    • Event Name: 9 Circles by Bill Cain
      "Theater at its most creative"
      Review posted by: Bill in Boston from Boston, MA USA, Apr 15, 2011
      

      Acting, stage design, script: All at world-class levels.

      All reviews/comments and complete event details

      Acting, stage design, script: All at world-class levels.

      All reviews/comments and complete event details

    • Event Name: The Real Inspector Hound
      "Great spoof of a Christie-style whodunit"
      Review posted by: Danielle1976 from Boston, MA, Sep 10, 2010
      

      Stoppard's writing is always brilliant and that's definitely the case here as he sends up the genre of Agatha Christie-style murder mysteries. Sheriden Thomas really stands out in her hilarious role... Expand

      All reviews/comments and complete event details

      Stoppard's writing is always brilliant and that's definitely the case here as he sends up the genre of Agatha Christie-style murder mysteries. Sheriden Thomas really stands out in her hilarious role as the cockney housemaid. There was a lot of laughter in the audience the night I attended. Lots of restaurants nearby & you can have a fun night out in the South End. Collapse

      All reviews/comments and complete event details

    • Event Name: Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr. Sloane
      "Entertaining Mr. Sloane"
      Review posted by: Mardy Wheeler from Natick, MA, Mar 30, 2010
      

      Truthfully, I would go anywhere (and have) to experience Sandra Shipley. She is a marvel in this show which I found to be feisty and frightening at the same time. The entire small (4) cast was... Expand

      All reviews/comments and complete event details

      Truthfully, I would go anywhere (and have) to experience Sandra Shipley. She is a marvel in this show which I found to be feisty and frightening at the same time. The entire small (4) cast was splended but as usual Shipley is almost beyond belief. I was already familiar with the play and its author, whose story is even more chilling as it becomes entwined in this production. I have personally called and told many friends, "this must not be missed!" Collapse

      All reviews/comments and complete event details

    • Event Name: Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr. Sloane
      "Let Mr. Sloane entertain you!"
      Review posted by: Mr. Lawrence from Watertown, MA, Mar 17, 2010
      

      Just when you think you know what Mr. Sloane is up to, you find out that he may not realize what he's up *against*! This is a madly entertaining little drama with an excellent all-British cast, who... Expand

      All reviews/comments and complete event details

      Just when you think you know what Mr. Sloane is up to, you find out that he may not realize what he's up *against*! This is a madly entertaining little drama with an excellent all-British cast, who bring out all the crazy nuances of dark British comedy. You'll laugh and be appalled by turns, but it never gets so dark that you wish you were elsewhere. Everyone involved is just too strange and lovable/hateable to desert--you have to know where they all end up. There's never a dull moment as the characters parry and thrust, take wounds and give them, win skirmishes and lose them. By the end, young Mr. Sloane's head is spinning, and yours will be too--but in a pleasurable way. Don't miss this one! Collapse

      All reviews/comments and complete event details

    • Event Name: Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf
      "Kevin Smith fan?"
      Review posted by: DethWench from Boston, Oct 23, 2009
      

      I am a big Kevin Smith fan, and therefore, I really loved this production. Martha's soliloquies and George's rants, especially with that machine-fire dialogue exchange, was so emotionally raw at... Expand

      All reviews/comments and complete event details

      I am a big Kevin Smith fan, and therefore, I really loved this production. Martha's soliloquies and George's rants, especially with that machine-fire dialogue exchange, was so emotionally raw at times, one forgets the meaning of the actual words coming out. That being said, Kevin Smith only has to fill 1.5 hours in his movies, and it is a challenge to keep this story from dragging during non-chaotic scenes. Neither here nor there, one gets sucked into the story, cringing unexpectedly quite regularly. I overall enjoyed the experience of being sucked into such a dysfunctional world and spit out 3 hours later. I was left remembering that a dinner-party-turned-drunk-night-that-never-ends *is* a classic setting, and wondering how George and Martha get along on a day to day basis with all this drama in their lives. Collapse

      All reviews/comments and complete event details

    • Event Name: Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf
      ""
      Review posted by: Mary Curtin from Charlestown, MA USA, Oct 20, 2009
      

      In this production, you do indeed get George and Martha at their feisty best, but you also become completely absorbed in their fragile moments, which are superbly revealed by this terrific cast. In... Expand

      All reviews/comments and complete event details

      In this production, you do indeed get George and Martha at their feisty best, but you also become completely absorbed in their fragile moments, which are superbly revealed by this terrific cast. In lesser hands, those moments could drag -- but not in this show! In the Publick's version, there is never a dull moment. Bravo! Collapse

      All reviews/comments and complete event details

    • Event Name: Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf
      "Lands with a thud instead of a crash"
      Review posted by: Andrew Broussard from Chestnut Hill, MA, USA, Oct 20, 2009
      

      This was by no means a bad production of Virginia Woolf, but it wasn't a good one either. Tina Packer was a poor Martha, screeching with no real focus. Nigel Gore was an interesting George, with a... Expand

      All reviews/comments and complete event details

      This was by no means a bad production of Virginia Woolf, but it wasn't a good one either. Tina Packer was a poor Martha, screeching with no real focus. Nigel Gore was an interesting George, with a lot more energy and intensity than he's usually played with. It created an interesting dynamic but severely undercut the ending of the play, which lacked the punch to the gut and instead left me feeling.... well, anxious to get out and get home and get on with my life. This could have been so much better had the George and Martha couple been less about moments and more about the years they've spent together. Collapse

      All reviews/comments and complete event details

    • Event Name: Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf
      "Problematic, but skillfully acted"
      Review posted by: Lindsay Eagle from Boston, MA, Oct 17, 2009
      

      The Publick Theatre's production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? has several problems. The staging, intended to simulate movement in a real livingroom as opposed to onstage, cuts the audience out... Expand

      All reviews/comments and complete event details

      The Publick Theatre's production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? has several problems. The staging, intended to simulate movement in a real livingroom as opposed to onstage, cuts the audience out of the play's immediacy, zapping energy and momentum. Some of the directing choices are strange (Packer's use of her native British accent; awkward lighting cues; strange motivations behind some lines), but overall Diego Arciniegas crafts a unique vision of Albee's immortal play. The acting is what makes this production worth seeing. The quartet puts on an explosive show that is emotionally exhausting in the best way possible. Truly a showcase for powerful, passionate acting. For a more detailed review, check out my blog, TheatriGal Boston: http://theatrigalboston.wordpress.com Collapse

      All reviews/comments and complete event details

    • Event Name: Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf
      "Who's afraid of Liz Taylor?"
      Review posted by: Hapi Phace from Cambridge, MA, Oct 16, 2009
      

      The roles of George & Martha may be 2 of the most difficult roles -for multiple reasons- including the provenance of the great actors(LT & RB)who have performed them in Albee-sanctioned performances.... Expand

      All reviews/comments and complete event details

      The roles of George & Martha may be 2 of the most difficult roles -for multiple reasons- including the provenance of the great actors(LT & RB)who have performed them in Albee-sanctioned performances. This was an able cast & I especially enjoyed Nigel Gore's portrayal of George. His understated performance brought out the subtle tones of wit & broad humor of Albee's script. Perhaps the best performance was given by the actress playing the smallest role; Angie Jepson’s Honey was sublime. With powerhouse actors such as the pair that played Martha and Nick, it can be easy for Honey to fade a bit, but this actress attenuated her stage presence quietly keeping shoulder with the two brasher more colorful performers. I'll have to go back & look at the stage directions, but I don't remember Nick and Martha actually playing 'hump the hostess.' I wanted to like both of these actors more in these roles. Staging/blocking got in the way at times, but all in all it was a solid production. Collapse

      All reviews/comments and complete event details