A JAZZY 60TH FOR CHRIS WALDEN Pacific Jazz Orchestra gathers some formidable |friends for its founder’s milestone birthday I’ve seen jazz pianist Emmet Cohen in New York at least half a …
FIVE REASONS TO KEEP YOUR DANCING SHOES HANDY A season with remarkably little overlap If you like your dance seasons varied, The Music Center is making it difficult to pick a favorite for 20…
THE MONSTERS HAVE NOTES Two kaiju flatten a city, then stick around to argue Godzilla generally has better things to do after destroying a city than discuss the cultural implications. KAIJU,…
BROADWAY GETS FANTASTICK The world’s longest-running musical takes its first Broadway bow in a beautifully reconsidered form It took The Fantasticks 66 years to get to Broadway. Then again…
YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION Ted Sperling and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra find new life in the music of a year that changed everything The summer of 1969 gave us Woodstock, the Harlem Cult…
IF THIS TREE COULD TALK Anne Gee Byrd listens for a voice from the past in Mike Kenny’s lyrical world premiere Trees talk to each other. Really. Scientists have discovered that beneath our…
GO WEST, MUSE/IQUE From the open range to Hollywood, MUSE/IQUE explores the music that made the West a legend Just what made the cowboy one of America’s most enduring exports? The hat? The…
Now in its nineteenth year, Cinema Diverse returns to Palm Springs with another terrific lineup of queer cinema, offering an impressive selection of features and shorts from established and …
HANG ON TO YOUR SEATS Gallows humor meets murder and mystery in Martin McDonagh’s wicked comedy I saw this play on Broadway and it rocked my world! Fun, intrigue, mystery and some jolts th…
KNOCK, KNOCK. WHO’S THERE? TOC TOC. Six strangers, one missing psychiatrist, and a waiting room full of compulsions Six patients walk into a psychiatrist’s waiting room. No, that’s not…
EVERY BREATH WAS BREATHTAKING Cécile McLorin Salvant, Sullivan Fortner and The Knights turn a night of ballads into the greatest concert I have ever seen I thought I knew Cécile McLorin Sa…
AGING GRACELESSLY A superb cast can’t keep David Lindsay-Abaire’s dark comedy from showing its age in a production that never finds its pulse There’s a very good reason Kimberly Akimbo…
FIVE WEEKS, FIVE WAYS TO KEEP THE BEAT From Rollins and Coltrane to Powell and Monk, Steve Smith turns a Birdland residency into a tour through jazz history Drummer Steve Smith is settling i…
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY SOUNDS Audible Theater’s immersive headphone horror transforms the oldest ghost story trick into a chilling theatrical experience Imagine listening to an audioboo…
THE STORY GOES ON—AND IT SHOULD The American Songbook Association celebrates Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire while reaffirming why America’s great songwriting tradition deserves to e…
A WORLD OF DANCE IN TEN DAYS Eleven premieres and an extraordinary range of artists make New York City Center’s annual festival one of the season’s most rewarding events. For more than t…
DIAL M FOR META Emma Rice’s inventive adaptation is an enjoyable ride; just don’t expect to be transported The movies lie to us in ways the stage cannot. Alfred Hitchcock’s North by No…
THE PROOF IS IN THE FAMILY Ed Begley Jr. and daughter Hayden Begley bring David Auburn’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama to the stage for a four-performance benefit supporting Parkinson’s r…
ONE MAN, MANY TRUTHS An extraordinary performer turns theatrical self-examination into something unexpectedly profound Stefan Marks is a spellbinding storyteller, and My One Woman Show (The …
A DAY WITH TRACY LETTS Animus Theatre Company presents a marathon reading festival with an all-star cast to support Circle in the Square Theatre School For theater lovers, the chance to expe…
KEERAH’S WAYWARD WANDERINGS: DON’T LOOK BACK—OR DO An ambitious meta-theatrical drama of love and loss boasts terrific performances but struggles to find its focus with too many detour…
Evaluating virtual drama academies reveals how elements of live theater criticism can enhance e-learning engagement. You’ll find that interactive storytelling and real-time audience partic…
CRAZY FOR PATSY A warm-hearted tribute lets Patsy Cline’s music do most of the talking American Blues Theater closes out its 40th season with a rather left-field choice: the 1988 revue Alw…
PUNK, PRAYER, AND PURE CHAOS The Conspirators’ neo-commedia take on Molière finds fresh mischief in a timeless satire What could be better than a saucy, irreverent, seventeenth-century Fr…
WHEN BALLET BECAME AMERICAN American Contemporary Ballet celebrates the choreographer who traded princes and swans for jazz, swagger, and pure fun Before George Balanchine arrived in America…