SpeakEasy Stage Company and the Huntington Theatre Company join forces for a thoroughly engaging production of the musical, says theater critic Jacquinn Sinclair.
The undertow of melancholy pervading “The Band’s Visit,” now at the Huntington Theatre, reveals a musical that knows all about human sadness. But it also knows about the quite real possibilities for human connection.
(Self-released, CD, digital) Percussionist Gabe Halberg and multi-instrumentalist Mac Ritchey first met in 2000, bonding over their love of Middle Eastern, Indian and North African.