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A new work to kick off the new year.
Coping strategies for a violent, unjust and ever-accelerating world are at the forefront of cultural conversation these days. Enter Joanna Read and Same Planet Performance Project. Read's da…
In its initial Broadway run in 2006, the show broke box-office records. It has been a seasonal phenomenon ever since.
If you're a grinch like me and cringe upon hearing the same holiday tunes year after year, then you'll appreciate this show that breathes new life into an old classic.
Laura Hall's returned to Chicago to assemble a troupe of actors called Phony Award Winning, who have an ambitious challenge: to learn classic Broadway musicals inside and out, and then impro…
The theme of budget-busting inflation is all too relevant right now in the United States. That said, it's no easy task updating and transposing Fo's almost fifty-year-old tale of the inside-…
No one compares to Jasmine Amy Rogers, who is Betty Boop, from the voice to the mannerisms to the can-do spirit tempered by vulnerability. And can she dance and sing? Yes.Â
A clever and fun musical comedy poking fun of all things orphan.
It's a sweet story, beautifully performed, about a friendship between two teenage girls. One of them is a mermaid or selkie who takes care of whales.
In 1960, jazz greats Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington infused Tchaikovsky's most recognizable composition with American rhythms and twentieth-century chords. The Ellington/Strayhorn "Nutcr…
The Broadway-bound fiftieth-anniversary revival of "The Wiz" gets to the heart of what made "The Wiz" so special: song and dance.
The setting of "Christmas with C. S. Lewis" is a group of American historians visiting England at Christmastime. "Because Lewis was a professor of medieval and Renaissance literature, they'v…
Here's five shows with nary a, um, Shrek of Christmas in them. If you want a holiday show, you know where to find it.
This story has remained popular for 180 years because Scrooge is all of us, hurt by the world, trying hard to be tougher than we really are. Sometimes, we need to lower our defenses and reme…
It's the season for Nutcrackers and other holiday delights.
Mike Toomey grew up loving television, and his favorite shows each year were the special Christmas episodes of sitcoms and the wide array of Christmas specials starring celebrities. But the …
The Buffalo Theatre Ensemble kicks off its 2023-2024 season with "Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley," a sequel to Jane Austen's beloved novel "Pride and Prejudice."
This is Aaron Posner's very loose adaptation of Chekov's "The Seagull."
Drury Lane Theatre's sparkling production of "Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella" arrives just in time for the holiday season. Warm and inviting, this dreamy show is the perfect wintertime t…
Based on the true story of a battle between essayist John D'Agata and fact checker Jim Fingal, "Lifespan" bemoans the realities of journalism that few in the general public truly understand.
"The training is what helps me to sustain and maintain the instrument," says Betts, referring to her foundation as an operatic soprano. "…I will be maintaining what I've learned training-w…
This is only the third time that "Jenufa" has been performed at Lyric Opera, but a number of things made Sunday afternoon's opening an historic occasion.
The moment Rebecca Spence steps on the Court Theatre stage as Eleanor of Aquitaine, the atmosphere changes. Here's something special.
A carnival of famous American assassins who got their day in history or missed their mark, Stephen Sondheim uses them as thematic devices. Are they misunderstood outsiders? Misguided patriot…
Take away all the heart and soul of the property and fill the evening with overblown songs that stop the action rather than advance it and you have "Beetlejuice" the musical.
