1,382 stories by "Tony Frankel"
A JEWEL OF A PLAY Forgive me dear reader for the terse review, but I discovered something yesterday that turned out to be the holiday present you never expected but later realized it was som…
STORAGE RUN = VIRTUAL FUN Pee-Wee's Playhouse meets Choose Your Own Adventure meets classic holiday fare in this new, interactive holiday experience from Rogue Artists Ensemble, one of the c…
THIS STREETCAR ROLLS AND HUMS WITH AUTHENTICITY Since struggle for power among the classes is one of the main themes in Tennessee Williams' still-shocking A Streetcar Named Desire, it makes …
THE BIG SLEEP No crime is as duplicitous as The Geffen's latest zoom-as-theater project Citizen Detective. This is the point that I say "spoiler alert" but a) nothing I do can spoil this int…
A FEAST FOR THE IMAGINATION I have seen three shows from the Chicago-based performance collective Manual Cinema, and the theatricality is truly awesome. You wouldn't expect this from a simpl…
CALLING ALL HUMAN TRASHCANS!! (THAT'S YOU, BY THE WAY) Chicago's amazing avant-garde company Trap Door Theatre is presenting a series of eight episodes adapted from Matei ViÅŸniec's Decomp…
THE SPIN IS A SPECTACULAR SPARKLING SPUNKY EXPLOIT Satisfying, enriching, entertaining and proof that Chicago contains some of this country's greatest actors and theater, The Spin is writer/…
TRENCHANT TROLLS TRIUMPH BY TRANSMOGRIFYING TRUTH Somewhere in the bowels of Saint Petersburg, Russia, there is an agency made up of both Americans and Russians that trolls the internet, cre…
WHO'S ON FIRST, LADIES? The program states: "Rather than presenting a purely biographical story, this project uses the "honorary" office of First Lady as a lens to examine the roles that wom…
TWO DO-NOT-MISS READINGS FROM ATLANTIC THEATER Atlantic Theater Company in New York is presenting a free virtual reading series of plays that had their World Premieres at Atlantic Theater…
STILL. WAITING FOR THEATER No one has articulated the black American experience in such a way that I, as a white man, "get it," as has James Baldwin. His cool, unflappable, authoritative del…
WIESENTHAL ENTHRALLS Writer/performer Tom Dugan's solo show Wiesenthal capitalizes on the strengths of the famous Nazi hunter " his resilience, tenacity and humor. Dugan has crafted a show i…
A CROSSWORD, CODE-BREAKING COLLABORATION WITH KWONG One of my happiest achievements was getting my husband hooked on solving Crossword Puzzles. Here's your opportunity to find out why puzzli…
CHICAGO SHAKES UP ITS SEASON Chicago Shakes' 35th Anniversary Season offers an amazing array of options, both in‑person performances and virtual streaming. Look for plays written a…
BEST LEADS THE BEST Los Angeles-based Echo Theater Company, dedicated to creating new work for the theater, has named Ahmed Best (best known as Jar Jar Binks in Star Wars The Phanto…
IRISH REP ANNOUNCES NEW FALL SEASON When it comes to online theater, which basically began with the COVID-19 shutdown, no other company in the States has offered more compelling evidence for…
When I first saw Herbert Siguenza's solo show A Weekend with Pablo Picasso, I knew this tour-de-force triumph would live among the greatest one-person shows I could ever see, including Ja…
ROMANTICS ANONYMOUS MAKES U.S. DIGITAL PREMIERE LIVE One of the saddest cancellations due to COVID-19 was The Wallis Annenberg Center's U.S. premiere of writer/director Emma Rice's productio…
PETULA CLARK, PAMELA MYERS, BETH MALONE AND MORE SING THEIR HEARTS OUT AT KRITZERLAND'S TENTH ANNIVERSARY SHOW Petula Clark. For the 109th Kritzerland show, roll out the ribbons and toss the…
NICK CORDERO MEMORIAL TRIBUTE TO STREAM ON BROADWAY ON DEMAND One of the last performances I saw before the COVID-19 shutdown was Rock of Ages here in Los Angeles. I had always had issues wi…
ORIGINAL CAST OF THE BALLAD OF EMMETT TILL REUNITES FOR ONLINE READING ON 65TH ANNIVERSARY OF TILL'S MURDERÂ The original director and cast of the Fountain Theatre's 2010 brilliant, movin…
LOVE, NOËL: THE SONGS AND LETTERS OF NOËL COWARD A PERFORMANCE ON SCREEN Written and Devised by Barry Day Directed by Charlotte Moore Filmed at The Players Starring Steve…
LITTLE-KNOWN CHICAGO DISASTER BECOMES TOWERING MUSICAL; THE BRILLIANT LOOKINGGLASS THEATRE PRODUCTION STREAMS ONE NIGHT ONLY FOR FREE In 2012, Chicago's Lookingglass Theatre Company presente…
LAWFUL ENTRY Tonight, the cast of LA Law will join hosts Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley on Stars in the House LIVE at 8pm ET on the Stars in the House YouTube channel. Former staffe…
WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MAKES Tonight through August 8, the extraordinary 2020 company members of The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals will begin their weeklong intensive with their very own edit…
