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CHANGEÂ IS NOW We hear that that the only thing constant is change, yet we struggle against change, we fight against change, and some are even willing to succumb to the unyielding stress o…
Indra's Net Conceived, Directed, and Composed by Meredith Monk Meredith Monk's newest interdisciplinary, evening-length music theater piece is an experiential performance work affirming the …
THE THEATER IS RICHER DUE TO POOR CLARE Every once in a while, a bright shiny play comes along that absolutely restores my faith in theater as a place to be entertained, enthralled, and enli…
TURNING LYRICAL INTO A MIRACLE In emphasizing the "musical lyricism" of August Wilson's Seven Guitars, A Noise Within's promotional copy for its new production echoes the numerous commentari…
IS LESS MOOR? The Court Theatre artistic management is giving William Shakespeare's great tragedy Othello a startling makeover. The play has been condensed into a single 110-minute act. The …
MCC Theater (511 W 52nd St) opens its 2021-22 season with Nollywood Dreams, which reunites the entire cast from the 2020 MCC production that was postponed due to the theater shutdown. Wri…
THE RETURN OF THE SHOTGUN PLAYERS It is always a pleasure to come across a playwright with a love for (and a gift for) language and, better, an appreciation for the comic possibilities of wo…
THE PUBLIC THEATER ANNOUNCES CASTING FOR WORLD PREMIERE PLAY CULLUD WATTAH Written by Erika Dickerson-Despenza Directed by Candis C. Jones Above is the cast for the world premiere of CULLUD …
DOUBLE TROUBLE IN MINEOLA Paula Vogel, likely best known for her Pulitzer prize-winning How I Learned to Drive, isn't afraid to tackle tough themes. In The Mineola Twins, she does so by dren…
AMERICA'S BEST NOTES Beginning its first season since the COVID shutdown, Musical Theater West has, true to its name, celebrated musical theatre with A Grand Night for Singing, a heartfelt, …
YOU WILL LIKE IT In As You Like It, the new production at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, the company unites William Shakespeare's classic romantic comedy, with the Beatles songbook. And th…
TOGETHER IN SPIRIT MORE THAN LAUGHS After an 18-month hiatus inflicted on Chicagoland theater because of the virus pandemic, the Second City has finally opened its 109th revue, the upbeat-ti…
MAGIC IN THE MUSIC Sometimes jukebox bio-musicals get so caught up in the fame and fortune of the journey that they miss the creative passion that is the true force driving most artists forw…
ROUTE 66 WAS ONE MOTHER OF A ROAD In John Steinbeck's 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath, we follow along Route 66 the sad travels of Tom Joad and his family, who flee the desperation of Oklahom…
STILL THE FAIREST I'm rather certain one cannot visit enough productions of My Fair Lady. The 1956 musical, based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, tells the tale of Professor Hen…
THEY'RE FRIGGIN' BACK By now, the world knows about the musical Jersey Boys, the story of pop sensation Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons. It's a triumph, and the NY production leaves all…
THE ASCENSION OF L.A. THEATER The community of small theater groups in Los Angeles has taken so many debilitating blows over the past several years " before, during and since the COVID shutd…
Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT), CalArts' downtown center for contemporary arts, presents the 18th annual New Original Works (NOW) Festival, a celebration of Los Angeles' vib…
ZOMBIE JOE'S URBAN DEATH RISES FROM THE GRAVE After all the horrors of the last few years, it seemed only fitting that we should return to Urban Death, the signature production of Zombie Joe…
United Solo Theatre Festival 2021 The 12th Annual United Solo Theatre Festival, based at Theatre Row in New York City, is the world's largest solo theatre festival. Afte…
The Echo Theater Company's world premiere production of Poor Clare will open in October, 19 months after the originally scheduled March, 2020 opening that was shuttered by the…
SONGS FOR EVERYBODY In the spring of 2020 the Northlight Theatre was set to present Bethany Thomas in "Songs for Nobodies," a one-performer show that would celebrate five iconic female singe…
A popular country-infused musical reviewed by Stage and Cinema is being remounted October 9, 2021, after two previews October 7-8 at the Hudson Mainstage Theatre in Hollywood. The revival of…
Ascension is an interactive, sci-fi, futuristic cyber play Do you know about it? The Second Sun? It's real. It's going to take you home. The Echo Theater Company presents the world …
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater is opening Eduardo Machado's Celia and Fidel on October 8, 2021. It's 1980 and Cuba is dealing with a failing economy. As Fidel Castro pon…
