By AARON KRAUSE This particular monster may lack CPR certification, but he’s a lifesaver if The Wick Theatre’s creepy and humorous production of the Mel Brooks musical, Young Frankenstei…
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) The Entergy Broadway Across New Orleans season welcomed back one of its most successful road shows this past week when Disney’…
By LOU HARRY On a four-day visit to the Stratford Festival in July, I was able to witness all but one of the simultaneously running productions, only missing Othello and a trio of plays not …
By AARON KRAUSE What happens when appearances matter more than reality? Rachel Bublitz’s riveting and relevant play, Burst, thoughtfully explores that question. New City Players’ (NCP) e…
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) When director Kelly Fouchi decided to revisit one of her first successes as an artistic director at Rivertown Theaters for the P…
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) Scott Sauber has proven to be an accomplished and impressive performer in recent years. Already a successful director and lighti…
By LOU HARRY I laughed a lot during Iceboy, the new musical getting what producers hope is a pre-Broadway run at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. The new musical concerns a wealthy actress’…
By LOU HARRY From 1970 to 1973, composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim and director Harold Prince masterminded a trio of landmark musicals that focused largely on marriages – their complexitie…
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) In Shakespeare’s Richard II at the beginning of Act II, there is a famous phrase that is uttered in reference to England. On…
By AARON KRAUSE In a current engaging co-production of Cabaret, the audience enters the Kit Kat Klub before the first scene. Once we’re inside the small space, cast members invite us to da…
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out”) When John Kander and Fred Ebb first premiered Chicago, they must have thought they had bad timing. That’s because with Gwen Ve…
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) There are so many things to consider about Once that make it a truly special musical experience like few others. The superb dire…
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) When the 79th Tony Awards became a part of Broadway history, the show with the biggest heart and smallest carried themselves acr…
By AARON KRAUSE I recently witnessed the non-Equity, national touring production of The Book of Mormon at the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami from June 9-14. Here are some observations: This …
By GINNY MARIE Monty Python’s Spamalot galloped onto the Saenger Theater stage this week, the final show of the Broadway across New Orleans 2025-26 season. With lyrics and a book by Eric I…
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) The first clue I had that this production was going to be something special was when I got to my row and discovered to my shock …
By LOU HARRY I had the honor of representing the U.S. as a delegate to the International Association of Theatre Critics congress in Craiova, Romania in late May. The fringe benefit of that w…
By MEGHAN LOVELACE The Book of Mormon is a familiar buddy comedy with satirical flair. The jumpy choreography and dopamine disco lighting had me sitting back in my seat thinking I was going …
By AARON KRAUSE There's a moment in the much-loved musical Les Misérables during which the theater feels more like a hushed house of worship than a conventional performance space. It comes …
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") The national tour of Back to the Future: The Musical materialized onto the stage of the Saenger Theater this week and left wakes of la…
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") The national tour of Back to the Future:The Musical materialized onto the stage of the Saenger Theater this week and left wakes of lau…
By LOU HARRY Based on a documentary, The Queen of Versailles, the new Stephen Schwartz and Lindsey Ferrentino musical on Broadway at the St. James Theatre concerns an amoral, in-it-for-herse…
By LOU HARRY Musicals tend not to be humble. With rare exceptions, they announce themselves whether with well-known performers, high-profile source material, energetic dance, or visual spect…
By LOU HARRY Thanks to its notorious David Merrick-produced/Patti LuPone-starring died-on-the-road 1976 tryout, the Steven Schwartz/Joseph Stein musical "The Baker's Wife" landed a reputatio…
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") At the beginning of Bess Wohi's play Liberation, the character of Lizzie breaks the fourth wall to greet the expectant audience. She m…