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DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT SKIPPIN' PIPPIN Pippin offers musical theater lovers the complete package: brilliant performances, terrific directing, a stimulating book by Roger O. Hirson and a chee…
FAITH, FLIGHT, AND THE FIGHT TO ENDURE In our current state of political unrest " with government shutdowns and widespread uncertainty about how to make ends meet " stories about the power o…
RECONCILING WITH SHANLEY'S PAST In Italian American Reconciliation, playwright John Patrick Shanley, best known for Moonstruck and Doubt, returns to the Bronx of his youth where conversation…
THE HILARIOUS NOISES OFF IS ON AT SF PLAYOUSE " OFF YOU GO The huge interior of an imposing English country estate by Heather Kenyon greets visitors to the San Francisco Playhouse, scene of …
JUST HOW I LIKE MY THEATER " HOT, SWEET, AND SAUCY Now playing at New Conservatory Theatre Center, The Hot Wing King is a spicy tale of love, friendship, and a cooking contest gone gloriousl…
TWO LONG HOURS WITH THE FORMER MAN OF THE HOUR There is no question that Churchill was a hero who played a major role in saving the world from Hitler's fascism (though perhaps not as big a r…
A KNOCKOUT OF CONSCIENCE You always "step in," says Jacob " that's what you do when your mates are about to fight. Growing up in The Meadows, Nottingham, that lesson kept him safe (well, saf…
A SUGAR RUSH WITHOUT THE GOLDEN TICKET Palm Canyon Theatre kicks off its 39th season with David Greig's musical adaption of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, a production that'…
SWEET LIES, STICKY MEMORIES, BITTER GUILT; THE HONEY TRAP STINGS AT IRISH REP In Northern Ireland, The Troubles only ended some 25"30 years ago, though their tensions and legacies reach far …
GRAHAM100 DANCES THE CENTURY AWAKE Every analysis of 20th century American arts puts Martha Graham in a small class of visionaries who changed the world, with several calling her the "Pic…
A KILLER REVIVAL Drury Lane's Dial M for Murder may be set in 1950s London, but under Adam Immerwahr's taut direction, the suspense feels freshly sharpened. Playwright Jeffrey Hatcher's adap…
WHEN GRIEF MEETS THE ALGORITHM The terrible beauty of grief is that it makes us do irrational things with the most rational tools. In Lauren Gunderson's anthropology, now in its North Americ…
BRAIDS AND BELONGING Some plays don't announce themselves with spectacle. They invite you in through a metal grate, into a cramped Harlem salon where the air smells of braiding gel and the t…
SOMETHING WICKED GOOD THIS WAY COMES You've probably seen one or more productions of William Shakespeare's Macbeth before, but you've likely never seen one like this Christopher V. Edwards-d…
GHOSTS OF WAR, SHADOWS OF BROTHERHOOD Looking back fifty years, who doesn't wish they'd acted differently? Decisions made in a moment can have eternal consequences. Ever help your brother co…
READY FOR A SWIFT MOVE? Veronica Electrifies the Pacific Jazz Orchestra Gala The Pacific Jazz Orchestra opens its 2025"26 season with a night that promises both elegance and swing: an intima…
In today's entertainment industry, your online presence can make or break your career. Casting directors, agents, and producers aren't just looking at your headshots"they're checking your so…
A NEWFOUND(LAND) WAY OF LOOKING AT MUSICAL THEATER It's always a joy " and a rarity " to see a musical I've witnessed before reemerge as something fresher than the first time I saw it. Such …
STANDING UP FOR HUMANITY Here are my criteria for a good night of comedy: 1) It needs to be surprising. 2) It needs to make me think. 3) It needs to promote values that make us better human …
SINK YOUR TEETH INTO THIS BLOODY CUT OF MEAT At some time in the future, a band of rebels have staged a successful coup against the United States. The prevailing system of order has been vio…
SIRENS, BELLS AND WHISTLES Conductor Andris Nelsons led the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a richly anticipated program of Nocturnes by Claude Debussy and Gustav Mahler's Symphony No 4 in G. T…
SMALL IS EPIC In his exceptional how-to book Storyworthy, author and storyteller Matthew Dicks advises us to stop recounting tales that few can relate to " like the time you climbed Mt. Ever…
When creation becomes choreography in Frankenstein, the laboratory turns into a stage of desire Mary Shelley's creation continues to haunt not only literature but the stage, where movement a…
The Radiant Disorder of Tim Venable's Teenage Inferno [Contributing writer: Nick McCall] Rogue Machine is presenting Tim Venable's intense and disquieting new play Adolescent Salvation, whic…
INTO THE WORDS Entering The Other Space at the Actors Company Theatre Complex, I was immediately taken by Fritz Davis's well-crafted video projections cast on Joel Daavid's set of three wall…
