IT'S A LOT TO TAKE IN, BUT TAKE IT IN YOU MUST Fake Friends, which co-created the zany streaming event This American Wife (review), are very very bright and insightful, au courant about the …
OUR CELEBRATION This year marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of Thornton Wilder. As part of the Wilder125 celebration, about 150 productions of his plays are being staged worldwide, in…
HOW I LEARNED TO LOVE THEATER Some plays take time to come into their own but they're well worth a wait. Twenty-five years after its Off-Broadway debut, Paula Vogel's seminal wonder How I Le…
N-WORD, PLEASE! In six words, Samuel Beckett devours the human experience: "Birth was the death of him." This line permeates not just A Piece of Monologue (1979), but all of the master's wor…
DOES GOD MAKE A CASE? I liked Samuel D. Hunter's A Case for the Existence of God. I didn't love it, just liked it. Admittedly, I'm in the minority opinion on this one, as many people unabash…
THIS TIGER IS KING Tiger Style! at South Coast Rep is refreshing for many reasons. First, it's really funny. Playwright Mike Lew crafts his script like a super-smart teenager, mixing insight…
JOURNEY OUT OF DARKNESS Breathing new life into works by composers who suffered oppression Numi Opera Theatre is back live after the Covid shutdown and will present Journey Out of Darknes…
SHOW-SCORE & TODAYTIX TO PARTNER WITH THE ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY FUND ON 'PREDICT THE TONYS' The Entertainment Community Fund (formerly The Actors Fund), alongside Show-Score…
DID EVERYONE AT THE WALLIS NOT REALIZE THAT THE PLAY'S THE THING? One of the greatest travesties in L.A. theater history arrived at The Wallis last weekend, and I still have the emotional sc…
I NEVER MET A METAMORPHOSES I DIDN'T LIKE, BUT THIS ONE IS GREAT Critics often speak of "universal themes"Â " these are topics to which people in any place and at any time can relate. One…
Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater Youth Company Auditions Dancers 9 " 17 years old When? Saturday, May 21 @ 9:00-10:30 am ​Where: Northeastern Illinois University (J "…
THERE ARE NO WORDS It was one of those magical evenings in the theater that shall live with me forever. When Kulunka Teatro's André & Dorine appeared at the Los Angeles Theatre Cente…
Follow the Drama Desk Awards at Drama Desk and @DramaDeskAwards on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook for updates 2022 DRAMA DESK NOMINATIONS: (click links for Stage and Cinema reviews) Outsta…
LIKE A ROLLING STONE I imagine that some time back, the Theater Gods were sitting around talking. They had the idea to collaborate on a stupendous theatrical event. They thought to combine t…
IF A SHOW IS CALLED DANCIN', SHOULDN'T IT BE ALL ABOUT THE DANCING? With seemingly hundreds of thousands of Bob Fosse footsteps in Dancin' " now receiving a pre-Broadway updated revival at S…
CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER JUST GETS BETTERER AND BETTERER After two Covid-19 delays, Lookingglass Alice is once again high-flying and adored at the Lookingglass Theatre, whose glorious and …
YOU'LL WISH YOU WERE NIKKI Wish You Were Here begins in 1978 when protests are breaking out across Iran, encroaching on a suburb where a tight-knit circle of girlfriends is getting ready for…
ANY WAY IS THE BEST WAY: JUST FIND YOUR WAY TO WHICH WAY TO THE STAGE Lick this play, lick its playwright Ana Nogueira, its director Mike Donahue, its cast and designers, and while you're at…
PLENTY OF RAINBOW BUT LITTLE COLOR In feminist Ntozake Shange's 1976 "choreopoem" (a term coined by the late playwright), the experiences of Black women in America are transformed into poetr…
INTERCONNECTEDNESS: A WAY OF SURVIVAL Recently, at Theater for the New City on the lower eastside of Manhattan, Executive Artistic Director Crystal Field and AMERINDA (American Indian Artist…
75TH ANNUAL TONY AWARD NOMINATIONS This year's Tony nominees were announced this morning. I must say, it's difficult to argue with the majority of the noms. As usual, it seems that some of t…
NOT ONLY SHOULD THESE ACTORS BE SEEN ON BROADWAY, THEY CAN BE HEARD ON BROADWAY The faces of the actors featured in J.M. Synge's two one-act plays at the reputable Irish Repertory Theatre ar…
SKIN DEEP As I made my way through a gaggle of gay-listers to see "Los Angeles's steamiest show" at the Hudson Theatre in Los Angeles, that's when I saw it " yet missed it completely " right…
AS ¡AMERICANO! AS APPLE PIE The Merriam-Webster dictionary (remember dictionaries?) lists two definitions for the word dreamer. The first is simply "one that dreams." The second definitio…
MAKE ROOM FOR COMPANY As part of the series' fifth Broadway's Best lineup, Great Performances presents a new documentary exploring the legacy of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's mus…