As recently as this time last year, the Mercury Theater looked to be closed for good. In June 2020, Walter Stearns and Eugene Dizon, the venue’s owners and programmers since 2010, announced they’d be shutting the doors permanently due to loss of revenue from the pandemic.
It was heartening, then, to observe a small but raucous crowd gathered there on a slushy February weeknight, cheering on an extremely talented cast of performers in the musical revue “Women of Soul.”
