Theater Critic
Don Aucoin is the Globe’s theater critic. He reviews and reports on theater in the Boston area, and periodically writes about television.
Aucoin covered city and state government and several political campaigns for the Globe, wrote for the Boston Globe Magazine, was a TV critic for several years, and worked as a feature writer for the paper’s Living section, specializing in profiles and trend pieces. He is a coauthor of “Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy’’ (Simon & Schuster). His story on race relations in Boston was included in “Best Newspaper Writing 2006-2007.’’ He is a former Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.
Latest stories
Stage Review
At the Opera House, ‘Miss Saigon’ shows its age
By Don Aucoin , Globe Staff
Despite generally fine performances by the large cast, there’s a hollowness at the center of the 1991 musical.
STAGE REVIEW
You’re doing fine, ‘Oklahoma!’
By Don Aucoin , Globe Staff
A first-rate North Shore Music Theatre production reveals the classic musical’s inherent strengths, and some of its darkness, too.
THEATER
For Faye Dunaway, a return to Boston — and her roots on the stage
By Don Aucoin , Globe Staff
The celebrated actress will portray Katharine Hepburn in a pre-Broadway engagement of “Tea at Five’’ at the Huntington Avenue Theatre.
Stage review
A tragic collision of expectations in the Huntington’s ‘Yerma’
By Don Aucoin , Globe Staff
Melinda Lopez has adapted the 1934 play by Federico García Lorca about a woman whose desperation to have a child leads to misery.