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A GREAT MUSICAL, SUFFS REMINDS US THAT DEMOCRACY ONLY MOVES FORWARD WHEN WOMEN DO While much of what we love in musicals is pure fiction, history has had an undeniable flair for the dramatic…
A GREAT MUSICAL, SUFFS REMINDS US THAT DEMOCRACY ONLY MOVES FORWARD WHEN WOMEN DO While much of what we love in musicals is pure fiction, history has had an undeniable flair for the dramatic…
Justice without mercy becomes punishment, and mercy without justice becomes apathy. But how do we strike the balance when the system and the society behind it seem to have forgotten both? In…
DRAGONS, DOOMSDAY, AND DAZZLE The Road Theatre Company launches its 34th season with N.T. Vandecar's Otherkin, a bold, visually stunning new work staged by Christina Carlisi in her directori…
CARB-LOADERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! "For the gods know I speak this in hunger for bread…" Alright, so that's not from Julius Caesar but Coriolanus, that other Shakespeare play about a politi…
A STRONG BREW OF CHARACTER AND STORY The Counter is the latest in a series of plays in greater Boston featuring a character who pours drinks. In recent months we've had Primary Trust, Two St…
WEATHER FORECAST: FUNNY AND SUNNY WITH A CHANCE OF ARMAGEDDON In recent years, I have watched a wave of productions by Millennial and Gen Z artists who are, quite understandably, petrified b…
A thing of beauty is a joy forever. " John Keats Sleep-deprived and fortified with four cups of coffee, I hauled my cranky, cynical self on a Sunday morning to the Chicago Children's Theatre…
NOW STOCKING LAUGHTER AND FAMILY FUEDS ON AISLE ONE Like a lot of people, I first met the Kim family through Netflix. During the pandemic, I streamed more than a few episodes of the hit sitc…
A SONDHEIM SPECTACLE Sonoma County's Spreckels Performing Arts Center has launched a tremendous production of Into the Woods, the perpetually popular and nearly forty-year-old musical spoof …
HUZZAH AND HO-HUM The curtain speech at Huzzah! " which opened Thursday at The Old Globe " comes with bassoon and tambourine: silence thy phones, feed not ye actors. This bit of business tel…
TWO CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR An aging, reclusive movie star strikes up a relationship with a struggling writer. It may sound familiar but this isn't Sunset Boulevard, more's the pit…
OH, WHAT A NIGHT Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana (1961) may be viewed as the finish of a journey the playwright began twenty years earlier with The Glass Menagerie (1944). The on…
LEGACY MEETS MORTALITY IN THE MOUNTAINTOP This superb production of Katori Hall's The Mountaintop, a surprise-filled two-hander depicting King's last night before his assassination, is not j…
JOHN LEGUIZAMO'S THE OTHER AMERICANS IS RIFE WITH POTENTIAL THAT'S NOT ALWAYS REALIZED " MUCH LIKE THE AMERICAN DREAM ITSELF There are many kinds of Americans. Some were born here. Some emig…
STILL SCRAPPY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS It has been more than ten years since Hamilton's Off-Broadway premiere. Alexander Hamilton may have declared himself"like his country""young, scrappy, and…
REVELLING IN RAVEL AND A RAPTUROUS CARMEN The Chicago Symphony Orchestra opened its late-September program tonight with a shimmering palette of sound while offering many chances for the play…
A Town, a Tragedy, and the Triumph of Kindness The musical Come From Away " with book, music and lyrics by married couple Irene Sankoff and David Hein " tells the remarkable true st…
DAMN YANKEES SWINGS BACK IN STYLE: ARENA'S REVIVAL IS MORE THAN A MUSICAL " IT'S A MILESTONE When Damn Yankees first opened on Broadway in 1955, it was the ultimate baseball fantasy: a middl…
THREE WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL In 1978, five women gather in an upper-middle-class home in Karaj, Iran, to primp and prepare themselves; one of them is getting married and being that they are …
OUR TOWN, AND YOURS Thorton Wilder's 1938 Pulitzer Prize winning play Our Town is a masterpiece, drawing on inspiration from the likes of Bertholt Brecht and traditional Chinese theatre. Wit…
MURDER NEVER SOUNDED SO SWEET The gentleman killer returns to Southern California with a smile that could polish the silver. In a joint run between Laguna Playhouse and North Coast Repertory…
STUNNING AND UNSETTLING, MR. WOLF IS AT THE DOOR Steppenwolf Theatre's Chicago premiere of Mr. Wolf is a searing examination of parental sacrifice, loss, and the elusive nature of home. Unde…
MULTILINGUAL PRE-WEDDING JITTERS The sixth play in Mfoniso Udofia's nine-play Ufot Family Cycle brings us the adorable couple Ekong Ufot (Kadahj Bennett) and Lumanti Shrestha (Mahima Saigal)…
SLEUTHING FOR LAUGHS? YOU'LL FIND THEM HERE It's elementary! A clever script, thanks to the prolific and popular playwright Kate Hamill, and superb physical and verbal comedy, thanks to a gr…
