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SCROOGED After a year or two since Covid shutdowns made in-person theater nearly unheard of, a new adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol has made its way from London to Broadway t…
J2 Spotlight Musical Theater Company announces the exciting three-musical lineup for its second season. The 2022 season, running February 10 " March 20, 2022 at Theatre Row (410 West 42nd St…
www.EstellaScrooge.com Celebrate the holidays with Estella Scrooge: A Christmas Carol With A Twist a modern-day take on Charles Dickens' beloved 1843 novella. Estella Scrooge …
A SOLITUDE OF ICICLES Where to begin. Wintertime, which brings live theater back to Berkeley Rep, was written by Charles Mee, who has a devoted following among the theatrical cognoscenti, du…
SLOW TO DIE, OR FAST TO LIVE? The setting is the story in The Children, Fountain Theatre's L.A. premiere. Set designer Andrew Hammer depicts a hand-me-down yet tidy seaside cottage …
A BEAT OFF You may have never heard of the musical Head Over Heels, but this screwy mash-up of Sir Philip Sidney's sixteenth-century poem Arcadia and the songs of the iconic 1980s' female ro…
PARADISE, INDEED The eyes of the theater world, both in Chicago and New York City, are likely now focused on the James M. Nederlander Theatre where Paradise Square is performing before its t…
THIS BUGABOO WILL FOLLOW YOU HOME The Steppenwolf Theatre's extraordinary production of Tracy Letts's Bug was winding down its highly praised production in March 2020 when the drama was forc…
[Editor's Note: This week, Steppenwolf raises the curtain once again on its blistering and extraordinary revival of Bug. This time, audiences will return not to the same building they …
MY FAILED LADY Let's make one thing clear. When a national touring company of a Broadway success comes to your city, proclaiming it is a duplicate of the original production, what is meant b…
Dallas Black Dance Academy (DBD Academy) presents its fourth annual Espresso Nutcracker, with a new twist on a holiday tradition. The performance is jazz-influenced by the music of …
Sister Act at the Mercury Theater is the 2011 Broadway adaptation of a 1992 movie that became a surprise box office hit, largely elevated by a star performance from Whoopi Goldberg. The show…
MILLER THEATRE IS BACK Miller Theatre at Columbia University is the leading presenter of new music in New York City; now, one of the most vital forces nationwide for innovative programming i…
JESUS TRADES SOUL FOR A MAN BUN While the the 50th anniversary tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Jesus Christ Superstar is still finding its footing in this truncated version (90 in…
A LITTLE LITE MUSIC Any theater company that decides to produce the entire body of work created by a single artist, like, say, aiming to produce every play Shakespeare ever wrote, deserves a…
AN ANIMATED FLUTE FANTASIA This new-to-Chicago production of Mozart's Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte) is the most unique production this writer has seen in eight years of reviewing Lyric Oper…
EVERYBODY'S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE'S OPENING Casting has been announced and tickets are now on sale for Friends Ticket Presale & American Express® Presale and, Nov. 17, the general publi…
A Red Orchid Theatre's 29th Season kicks off the with the Chicago Premiere of The Moors by Jen Silverman, directed by Kirsten Fitzgerald (Jan 6-Feb 27, 2022) and followed by the world premie…
THANKFULLY, WE'RE STILL SEARCHING Is there life after Lily Tomlin? The Shed, the cool new space for theater and art in Hudson Yards, is about to prove that question with a resounding "yes". …
TERRIFIC LINE-UP JUST ADDED AT AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE '1971: 50th Anniversary' Series Sat. November 6, 2021 " Sun. November 28, 2021 Los Feliz 3 Theatre Celebrate the 50th anniver…
COME IN TO GET OUT In an immensely satisfying Halloween entertainment, Jordan Peele's splendid thriller, Get Out, was accompanied by the LA Opera Orchestra playing the score live under the b…
Useful Tips for Starting Your Own Theater Company Live theater in the USAÂ is finally awakening after an extended lull of approximately 18 months. In order to keep the arts alive, it is im…
SEEING THIS REVUE MAY BE THE BEST DECISION YOU'VE EVER MADE I entered the Second City e.t.c. on opening night with a sense of unease. Two weeks earlier the Second City mainstage company, the…
STREAM-N-SCREAM Fright seekers are spending their weekend with Oiwa, Japan's most terrifying female ghost. GHOST LIGHT: THE HAUNTING is a streaming theatre experience based on Yotsuya Ghost …
WHAT A GREAT SHOW CAN MEAN TO YOU What the Constitution Means to Me is back at the Broadway Playhouse after a two year pandemic hiatus. Again, it is delivering an entertaining, thoughtful, h…
