National Virtual Casting Call Announced For TREVOR, A NEW MUSICAL Submit Your Audition by July 26! Teenagers, here's a great opportunity to be in a musical in New York! Trevor: The Musical i…
IT'S SAFE TO SAY THERE'S MAGIC IN STORE You know, I was never bored watching the epic two-part Harry Potter and the Cursed Child; it truly was a magical experience, and the production team d…
THE PLAY'S THE THING It's no wonder that Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' brilliant adaption of Dion Boucicault's 1895 suspenseful melodrama The Octoroon is eight times better and more exciting than …
TO TELL THE RUTH Talk about becoming a hit. Playwright Mark St. Germain (Camping with Henry and Tom, Freud's Last Session) has done it again. He loves to take us into the lives of renowned t…
RETURNING TO UTOPIA Talking Heads superstar David Byrne has acquired a home for his acclaimed rock spectacle American Utopia " Broadway's St. James Theatre, beginning Friday, September 17, 2…
HOW BROWN WAS MY VALLEY? Following the successful streamed productions of A Weekend with Pablo Picasso and JQA, San Diego REP is offering a filmed version of Cris Franco's play 57 Chevy, dir…
The beloved East Village supper club Pangea, which came perilously close to closing during COVID, is announcing a mixture of ticketed and no-cover entertainment during the summer. The announ…
THE MUSIC CENTER WELCOMES BACK PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY Los Angeles's Music Center has a hit on its hands with its DANCE AT DUSKÂ outdoor performance series. First, we had amazing tap dan…
SILLY PROCOPIO LEFT ME IN OSTRITCHES Well, last Sunday night, courtesy of Pacific Opera Project's presentation of Don Procopio, I had my first foray to a live production since the pandemic p…
Awesome Broadway fave Lillias White releases her first Solo Studio Album: Get Yourself Some Happy! Here she is, boys! The great Lillias White is releasing her first solo studio album, Get Yo…
L.A. Theatre Works has commissioned a new audio theater adaptation of the classic Agatha Christie "whodunit" The Murder on the Links. The all-star cast includes Alfred Molina …
SUPERCALILINEUP Talk about coming back with a bang! Berkeley's Cal Performances has announced its 2021"22 season, and the Bay Area is getting the best line-up I have seen since well before t…
Talk about coming back with a bang! Berkeley's Cal Performances has announced its 2021"22 season, and the Bay Area is getting the best line-up I have seen since well before the pandemic shut…
REIGNITING THE RHYTHM STOMP, which I originally saw at New York's 299-seat Orpheum Theatre in 1994, has performers using their bodies and both industrial and household objects as percussive …
A.C.T. OFFERS ONLINE SCREENING OF ARMISTEAD MAUPIN'S TALES OF THE CITY, THE MUSICAL Filmed during its original 2011 run, this 10th Anniversary event will stream during San Francisco…
I just watched Manhattan Theatre Club's special new adaptation of The Niceties updated for the virtual stage by playwright Eleanor Burgess. In The Niceties an ambitious young …
KRON-OLOGY Who knew a trip to Auschwitz could be so much fun? Almost as fun as taking a roller coaster ride at Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio. These two locations have been tet…
THE ILLUSION OF AGENCY Beamed to us from the Chekhov Operating System (chekhovOS), a virtual panoply that contains the great Russian playwright's works and forlorn characters " who spout abo…
HIGH FIVE Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years is contextually brilliant: it is a two-character musical that starts at the end of a five year relationship for the woman, but at the be…
I WANT TO SEE MORE DEAD PEOPLE Who doesn't love a good ghost story? Jared Mezzocchi (Russian Troll Farm, my favorite theater stream of the COVID era) brings an Amityville Horror-esque, tr…
COME JOIN THE CIRCUS AS A METAPHOR FOR LIFE It's here! The world premiere of a new opera by Philip Glass which will take place on Malmö Opera's main stage with live music to a live audience…
AS AMERICAN AS LEMON CHICKEN PIE Girrrrrrrrrrrrrrrl! Wazzup? So, listen, I saw the craziest thing the other night. No, not THAT thing. That's old news. No, it's this kinda performance art me…
Streaming for free through June 30, 2021, is Artists Repertory Theatre's five-part, four-hour audio drama Magellanica on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Sticher, and where you find podcasts. Mag…
I've known about Brian Copland's work for years, but didn't get a chance to see the Bay Area performer until the virtual presentation of his solo show The Jewelry Box, easily one of the most…
CENTER THEATRE GROUP'S 54th SEASON AT THE AHMANSON THEATRE TO BEGIN NOVEMBER 30, 2021 Ahmanson Theatre Will Have Been Dark For 20 Months While it's a shame that Diane Paulus's new revision o…