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.
For this rare revival, Lyric chose a Laurent Pelly production that uses maps for scenery and sets the work in World War I.
Thanks to its cast of joyous, nimble clowns"who are also the show's smart writers""Places" delights while also provoking, just enough.
The title character of the President of the United States never appears in "POTUS," a riotous political farce with an all-women cast. The comedy does, however, begin with a crisis he created.
"If you're not talking about something real and something substantive, the vast majority of comics are really not saying anything, because they don't have anything to say."
This new production of "Twelfth Night," directed by first-generation Jamaican American director Tyrone Phillips with a mostly Black cast and reggae music, captures the spirit, the language, …
Sondheim's first truly Sondheim-esque musical, Bobbie is turning thirty-five and single in a world of couples. The pressure is on from her married friends to make the plunge.
"Nyra's Dreams" is the story of Nyra, a naïve and effervescent young woman who leaps into different lives across time in a quest to achieve enlightenment so that her spirit may return to …
The monster in "The Night of the Hunter" is not a vampire, or a werewolf, or any kind of supernatural, European fiend. He is a true American type and scarier than any Halloween monster, beca…
London-based choreographer Akram Khan brings his eponymous company to the Harris Theater for the first time, with a near-future version of Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book" set in a rewild…
Visually scintillating, musically varied and appealing, animated by the shamanic, shape-shifting energy of its griot/narrator, "AmericanMYTH: Crossroads" has a hell of a lot going for it: a …
A lot of musical fun and a little bit of darkness fill November stages.