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GREAT KAHNCEPT! Jayden (Jerome Beck) doesn't have it easy. He and his mother Crystal (Brittney M. Caldwell) have recently transplanted themselves in a new town and school district. The move …
MORE LIKE POWER PLAY THAN SLAVE PLAY Boy, if you want audacious theater " even one with higgledy-piggledy results " than I've got one for you: Slave Play, which opened last week at the Mark …
DON'T MISS AT ANY COST… BANK ON IT Recently I saw a play which forced me to ask: with the amount of stellar entertainment available to us at home, why would anyone spend this much money to…
PAYING ATTENTION TO THE WOMEN Eleanor Burgess's new play Wife of a Salesman is a riff on Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. Burgess (The Niceties) has adapted the Miller original into an i…
YEMANDJA, ANGÉLIQUE KIDJO'S FIRST FORAY INTO THEATER After the world premiere at MASS MoCA this week, the co-commissioned Los Angeles premiere of Yemandja will take place at The Broad St…
ONCE UPON A TIME CALLED NOW The Joyce Theater brings a program to you that celebrates the joy of movement, music, and love in a world premiere from renowned tap artist Michela Marino Lerman.…
DECORATIVE CHINA Immediately upon entering The Shiva Theater within The Public Theater building, the audience for The Chinese Lady is greeted with an onstage shipping container that fills th…
THE 75th ANNUAL TONY AWARDS TO AIR LIVE COAST TO COAST ON CBS, SUNDAY, JUNE 12 AND STREAMING ON PARAMOUNT+ Celebrating 75 Years of the Best of Broadway, the Tony Awards Will Return Live from…
A ROOM OF THEIR OWN Actors Co-op is reviving Scott McPherson's extraordinary play Marvin's Room. While it has always been one of my favorite plays, it's a daunting choice for any company. Th…
BROADWAY'S HIT MUSICAL CHICAGO WELCOMES PAMELA ANDERSON The Tony Award-winning, record-breaking hit musical Chicago returned to the Broadway stage at the Ambassador Theatre (219 W. 49th S…
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The Broadway premiere of A STRANGE LOOP, Michael R. Jackson's Pulitzer-Prize winning musical, directed by Stephen Brackett and choreographed by Raja Feather Kelly is coming up…
"GOOD TIMES NEVER SEEMED SO GOOD" Producers Ken Davenport and Bob Gaudio, principals of A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical, announced today that Tony"nominee Will Swe…
New Trailer! 7 DAYS The Charming Rom-Com from Filmmaker and MD Roshan Sethi (Co-Creator of The Resident) starring GERALDINE VISWANATHAN (Bad Education) and KARAN SONI (Deadpo…
THERE IS NO OTHER HAND: ROGUE MACHINE HAS A WINNER Another one of Los Angeles's best theater groups got back on the boards last week, as Rogue Machine Theatre kicked off its first post-pande…
VIRGIN PLAY GETS TESTED AT IRISH REP Ciara NÃ Chuirc's new play Made By God, now being given its world premiere run by Irish Rep, is described in the show's promotional materials thusly: …
This Saturday, February 26 at 8, The Soraya's resident ballet company, Ballet BC, offers a program of unusual depth with two works: GARDEN (by the new Artistic Director Medhi Walerski)Â a…
THE KIDS AREN'T ALL RIGHT Ever heard of Godwin's Law? If you've spent a sizable amount of time on social media you've surely experienced it. An adage from the '90s, Godwin's Law states that …
Registration is officially open for the 2022 Hollywood Fringe Festival, LA's largest celebration of the performing arts. Organizers are seeking artists and producers in the performing arts t…
THIS IMPRESSIVE WORK IS STILL A BIT IN THE DARK George Schuyler's classic novel Black No More " written during the famous Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 30s " is a funny, absurdist, sea…
MAC'S MULTI-TALENTED TRIBE AND FABULOUS PHILOSOPHERS HANG AT HERE Taylor Mac is nothing if not creative. Perhaps oppressively so. Mac's latest on-stage extravaganza is titled The Hang and is…
CONRAD RICAMORA OFFERS A NEW SEYMOUR Audrey II is back and New York's got……Him? Her? It? Hard to tell, especially since this giant-alien-Venus Flytrap has an insatiable appetite for huma…
SERIOUS STOMPIN' IN CHICAGO One of the many things I enjoy about Porchlight Music Theatre here in Chicago is no one dusts off a little-known musical for a revamping better than this talented…
BRINGING BACK BYRNE Talking Heads superstar David Byrne re-opened his acclaimed rock spectacle American Utopia last September 17 at Broadway's St. James Theatre after the pandemic shutdow…
LIFE MAY SUCK, BUT THE PLAY SURE DOESN'T For those familiar with Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, it might seem an odd choice to modernize. But Aaron Posner's tight script, combined with Cygnet'…
