Diabolical comedy, stunning terror, razor-sharp wit and extraordinary, soaring music. A Noise Within presents Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, the dark, brooding, …
David Dean Bottrell returns to Rogue Machine on January 10, 2024 with his latest critically acclaimed, recently off-Broadway solo show, David Dean Bottrell: The Death of Me Yet. An uplifting…
Running invisible endurance feats, the characters of Anton Chekhov expose what Henry David Thoreau called "lives of quiet desperation." When the good doctor's creations, compassionately but …
For one night only on February 18, 2024, Manhattan Concert Productions (MCP) will present the next installment of its Broadway Series: The beloved musical Children of Eden. Broadway veterans…
A FEATHER IN ARYE GROSS'S CAP Playwright Anna Ouyang Moench uses the setting of a wooded area " beautifully designed at Odyssey Theatre by Mark Guirguis " as the backdrop of this beaut…
A FULFILLING FOLLIES One night? I mean, ONE night? Then again, the reunion in Follies we witness takes place on one night as well. And for those at said reunion and those of us lucky enough …
AN AMAZINGÂ INCIDENT Meet Christopher Francis Boone, a wannabe bloodhound who has significant social, behavioral and communication challenges; we assume the unnamed disorder is on the auti…
San Francisco Playhouse has begun its 2023-24 Season with the West Coast Premiere of the romantic comedy Nollywood Dreams, directed by Bay Area theatre veteran Margo Hall. Written by Ghan…
#METOO FOR MEASURE I can't imagine the work that writer/director Jessica Kubzansky put into the world premiere of her immersive, hybrid-theater, play-within-a-play Measure STILL for Measure.…
Sony Masterworks Broadway has released the Original Cast Recording to The Time Traveller's Wife: The Musical, available everywhere now. The musical is now in previews and opens on Novembe…
THE CUBAN THEATRICAL PHENOMENON OF THE LAST DECADE ARRIVES IN NYC One of my favorite places to see plays in NYC is also NYC's most prominent Latino theatre companies: Repertorio Español. …
LIBERTY FOR WOLVES IS DEATH TO THE LAMBS Gabby Momah makes a star turn as Ash, a conflicted non-binary adoptive parent and up-and-coming boxer in Hansol Jung's Wolf Play, a fascinating, thri…
In 2010, I witnessed the work of playwright Terrell Alvin McCraney for the first time. I knew immediately that his would prove to be an important voice in the theater. Since that fateful day…
GREAT STUFF IS COOKING IN THIS KITCHEN The world premiere of new coming-of-age musical, HELL'S KITCHEN, with music and lyrics by New York's own 15-time Grammy Award winner Alicia Keys and pl…
OUR DEAR DEAD PLAYWRIGHTING In Our Dear Dead Drug Lord, which opened last Sunday at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, feral feminism from sociopathic fledglings starts out fantastic but goes off the…
THE GOSPEL AT GETTY Created by Lee Breuer and Bob Telson, The Gospel at Colonus " a Greek tragedy turned Pentecostal revival " had its original 1983 production at the fBrooklyn Academy of Mu…
AN UNSTOPPABLE TRAJECTORY Ruskin Group Theatre's season-opener, a landmark drama from 1955, exploded into relevance last Friday night. A rarity worth a return, Arthur Miller's drama of an in…
CABARET JUST GETS BETTER WITH AGE Cabaret was and remains one of the boldest and most innovative experiments in the history of musical theater, a ravishing work that has neither lost its pow…
GREAT (F.) SCOTT! If you love literature, have fond memories of being read to or of reading to others, and feel, as so many do, that F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby " the story of Jay…
A composite play by four playwrights, Mecca Is Burning " which closes Sunday at the Harlem School of the Arts " confronts social and racial themes through the use of protest poetry, dialogue…
DON'T MIZ IT Unlike most of the characters in the blockbuster sung-through musical Les Misérables, the show itself will never die. Consistently presented either on Broadway, national tou…
A PIPELINE TO THE TROUBLED SOUL One of our era's greatest dramatists, Dominique Morisseau (Skeleton Crew, Ain't Too Proud) sheds light on the complicated realities of urban African-Americ…
CRAB'S LAST TAPE Ah, Theatre of the Absurd. a place where characters can grapple with existentialism, that which is the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent det…
PERFECTLY MARVELOUS You better tell Momma and everybody else to come see Wildsong's production of Cabaret, which opened last weekend in Ocean Beach. When you take into consideration that thi…
GOOD NEWS: PIPPIN'S A PIP Some shows stay young by never growing up: With a book by Roger O. Hirson, this 1972 hit show originally directed by Bob Fosse is the perfect example of a musical t…