120 stories by "Paulanne Simmons"
NOT BAD, CINDERELLA These days Prince Charmings are not in style. Nor are Fairy Godmothers. So it's pretty hard to expect adults to take stories like Cinderella very seriously. Nevertheless,…
WOMAN BECOMES A HIT Betty Smith is best known for her 1946 bestselling novel, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. But her first love was theater. When she was a child growing up in Brooklyn, she would…
WANDERING WRITING The Wanderers, the new play by Anna Ziegler (Boy, A Delicate Ship, The Last Match, Another Way Home) now making its New York premiere with The Roundabout Theatre Company, c…
THE ATHENAEUM THEATRE IS BACK THIS SUMMER WITH A WIDE VARIETY OF ENTERTAINMENT ON ITS HISTORIC STAGES Athenaeum Theatre, Chicago's oldest continuously operating Off-Loop theatre is back, wit…
Anyone who's ever been in a school office will immediately recognize the verisimilitude of the set created for The Mad Ones
If you're finding these dim days of December are a little dimmer than usual, give your heart cheer and your soul comfort with the pure goodness of a show that celebrates people who love, com…
This double bill at TNFA is an amusing study in contrasts
Avant-garde and absurdist playwright Eugene Ionesco was born in Slatina, Romania to a Romanian father and a French-Romanian mother, and he wrote mostly in French. Not surprisingly, one does …
This wonderful revival by National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene is at the Museum of Jewish Heritage through early August. . .
Anna Reeder does her best to make Courtney Baron's play as as much a pleasure to watch as she is. .
these William Inge plays in rep do give us a picture of middle America back in the 1950s when jobs were still plentiful and boredom was the chief demon of those living in rural America, not …
John Augustin Daly's once popular melodrama given a new life at the tiny Metropolitan Playhouse. .
a wonderful opportunity to see the play that inspired Paula Vogel's Broadway bound Indecent.
Super titles mean you don't have to speak Yiddish to enjoy this operetta. And you don't have to be Jewish. All you need is an open heart, a sense of humor and a love of life
Arthur Miller's drama has come to be seen as a penetrating indictment of the American Dream but New Yiddish Rep's Yiddish translation opens up whole new vistas of interpretation
often familiar, but well told 2-character musical about aging .
The warmth and wit that emanates from Churchill the man and Churchill the politician come in great part from the writing, but is also due to Ronald Keaton's very believable portrayal and Kur…
Encores! brings back the telephone switchboard. . .
The characters in the drama that surround Lizzie Borden are not much different from the rest of humanity, but minus the hatchet
Having played throughout the United States andaround the world, this sport-y revue returns to the city of its birth
Time marches on, and plays, even substantial ones like this one by Vaclav Havel don't always keep in step . . .
Having played throughout the United States andaround the world, this sport-y revue returns to the city of its birth
a one-woman show that takes a heartfelt look at a woman who captured the heart of many people whom she touched both personally and professionally
The title of Craig Wright's new comedy refers to a play a small-time producer is desperate to get on stage, but it's clear.that the mistakes in question exist on many levels. . .
If you think puppet entertainment is limited to children's shows don't miss . Wakka Wakka's story of a dying universe reborn.. . .
