CELEBRATING SONDHEIM While we were all prepared to celebrate Stephen Sondheim's 90th birthday in 2020, and all of his accomplishments up until then, along comes COVID, which not only shut do…
Broadway's podcast, The Fabulous Invalid, has released a fabulous episode, a thoroughly entertaining tribute celebrating Broadway and dance legend, Ann Reinking in We Got Annie: Ann Reink…
SERVE. SET. MATCH. WINNER. Finally! A virtual theater production that actually feels like I'm in a theater. Not only that, but Writers' production of Anna Ziegler's The Last Match is intuiti…
GOODS AND READY Family. Waste. Refugees. Class. Climate Change. All these and more fly off today's headlines, but like a genie in a magic lamp, playwright Lauren Ferebee has fit them all " a…
SAN FRANCISCO'S HISTORIC CLUB FUGAZI TO REOPEN FALL 2021 THE 7 FINGERS, THE WORLD-RENOWNED CIRCUS AND ARTS COLLECTIVE, TO CREATE AN ONLY-IN-SAN-FRANCISCO INTIMATE AND IMMERSIVE THEATRICAL EX…
Chicago's amazing Court Theatre is presenting its next play digitally " the world can now see why this is such a remarkable company. Owen McCafferty's Titanic (Scenes from the British …
A 20th Anniversary reunion event for Northlight Theatre's world premiere of The Last Five Years " featuring performances and conversation with playwright Jason Robert Brown,…
TWO TO LOOK OUT FOR IN THE FALL Performance dates have been announced for Manhattan Theatre Club's two previously announced productions that will reopen MTC's Broadway and off-Broadway stage…
IT'S A TINY WORLD, AFTER ALL How I love this company! But being an L.A.-based theater fan, it's admittedly a tough drive. One of the very few bright sides to COVID is that great outfits can …
WHAT THE HULDUFÓLK? Playwright Steve Yockey is at it again. His latest play contains the same ingredients as his previous ones: The supernatural; a mystical eerie hotel; shapeshifters; a…
A STORY WELL TOLD BY CHANCE THEATER The Story of My Life is a warm, intimate and sweet two-character musical about Alvin Kelby and his childhood friend, Thomas Weaver. A flop in its New York…
WELCOME ALL SINNERS! Following Miami New Drama's acclaimed, sold-out run along Miami's famed Lincoln Road, Seven Deadly Sins comes to New York City's Meatpacking District for a strictl…
ZOOM AND DOOM AND GLOOM IN A ROOM Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot is not an easy play to write about, let alone produce, act, or even watch. It's challenging, opaque, and ambiguous. On…
TALK TO ME One of our greatest solo performers, Dan Hoyle returns to The Marsh for an intimate night of online theater, comedy, and community with an experimental workshop, Talk to You…
FROM STAR TREK TO NUTCRACKER, ORSON WELLES TO NOËL COWARD, ROBERT FLETCHER LEFT HIS WHIMSICAL MARK Robert Fletcher, the prolific costume designer for both stage and screen, died peaceful…
On April 10 and 11, 2021, REDCAT, CalArts' center for contemporary arts in downtown Los Angeles is presenting DRAGÓN (THE RETURN OF THE DRAGON), the newest work from internationally reno…
YOU'LL FALL IN LOVE WITH AMOUR "I wanted to write an opera-bouffe, an intimate evening with light, lyrical singing and delicate charm," wrote composer Michel Legrand. "Marcel Aymé's d…
The Actors Fund, Doyle Auctioneers & Appraisers and Christine Baranski are teaming up on an auction event without precedent: "Stage & Screen." Featuring a diverse array of …
THE SPIRIT OF THIS PIECE RESIDES IN PERFORMER VERO MAYNEZ What I left with from Feel the Spirit, which opened last night virtual-but-live from Shotgun Players, is the central performance of …
Arthur Kopit, the legendary dramatist, died yesterday morning at the age of 83. He is survived by his wife, Leslie Garis; his children Alex, Ben, Kat; his grandchildren Arthur, Beatrix, a…
NORTH COAST REP SUCCEEDS, BUT THE PLAY IS STILL TRYING The eagerness of youth; the decay of old age; cynicism in a world of injustice; literature; mortality; idealism; FDR; and timeless quot…
SHE'S TAPPING OUR TROUBLES AWAY Tap superstar Ayodele Casel returns to The Joyce in NYC for a world premiere digital engagement that explores the joys of everyday life and the art of tap dan…
HIS CAREER IS NO ACCIDENT John Cullum: An Accidental Star is an 80-minute intimate evening of stories and songs spanning Cullum's illustrious career is told and sung by the 91-year-old tw…
AS WITH A HIEROGLYPH, THIS PLAY IS DIFFICULT TO READ Erika Dickerson-Despenza's [hieroglyph], now streaming from San Francisco Playhouse and and Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, belongs to a genr…
I FOUND THE PERFECT COCK. NOW SEE IF YOU CAN TAKE IT. D.C.'s Studio Theatre production of Cock is a most successful outing in the world of pandemic theater " that which is filmed as a theate…