Theater has always been about immersion. Actors on stage, lights shifting, the audience leaning forward"yet the limits were clear: a stage, a set, and the walls of the theater itself. Virtua…
SONGS FOR A SUMMER EVENING Palm Springs during summer becomes " well " a desert. All of the theatres close for the summer, and a large percentage of the winter population heads back to their…
WHO NEEDS A HEALTHY CORTEX WHEN YOU'VE GOT THIRTY-TWO SHOWSTOPPERS? The urge to create has served as a muse for countless forms of art: literature, opera, film, and theatre are littered with…
When I hear the name Pericles, I naturally think of the great Athenian statesman who helped shape democracy in the 5th century BC, a true hero of history. It is amusing that Shakespeare and …
FUN & DRAMATIC: A MATTER OF LAUGH AND BETH With her fans bursting into fond applause as she entered, sang, joked, or mentioned in passing a couple of shows on The Great White Way in whic…
ACHILLES' HEEL IN ARCADIA There is a misunderstanding of critics among some circles, a sense that they are all cast in the mold of Ellsworth Toohey, the sniveling, Machiavellian art critic f…
CANDACE JOHNSON IS AN ADHDIVA! ATTENTION MUST BE PAID (EVEN IF IT WANDERS) Now playing at The Marsh Berkeley is Scat-ter Brain: The Music of ADHD, written and performed by Candace Johnson. T…
Theater has always thrived on tension. A single pause, a shift in tone, or an unexpected twist can change the entire mood of the room. It is this delicate dance between performance and audie…
WHEN CIVILIZATION CRASHES IN QUIET MODE Cellunova Productions' latest outing, Destination Undefined ventures into the future with a provocative premise that might make you reconsider your st…
The circus is in town! The entrance to the Cambria Hotel on West Randolph Street in Chicago is so nondescript as to be almost invisible. Barely wider than its revolving door, you could walk …
A stark and haunting Parade marches into the Kennedy Center, the final stop of this Broadway tour, confronting history with stripped-down staging and searing urgency The national tour of …
From seat-hunting hacks to AI rehearsal partners, these digital gems are transforming how we do theatre. Theatre in 2025 isn't just about what's on stage, it's about what's on your phone. Wh…
OPERA'S FUTURE UNVEILED: A DAZZLING GRAND FINALE The San Francisco Opera capped its summer season with the annual Merola Grand Finale, a glittering showcase of the next generation of opera s…
YOU WILL ABSOLUTELY WHAT YOU WILL While we are still grappling with questions of gender, identity, and societal roles like troglodytes, we need to remember that Shakespeare was exploring the…
A FIELD OF PUNS IN FULL BLOOM Corn puns are like tequila shots. A few will make you smile and loosen you up, but by the time you are ten or twelve deep you start to wonder how you got here a…
MUFFLE THIS MUFFED; IT'S COMEDY LOST IN THE NOISE The films of Christopher Guest are sui generis. From hundreds of hours of improvisation, his talented troupe of actors create memorable char…
REWIND FIVE DECADES AND STIR THE MEMORIES On an August night at a nightclub in Manhattan, in a concert focused on musicals from 1975, Robert Cuccioli revealed that "the seed was planted" in …
Redtwist's Smashing New Play Rattles the Status Quo with Laughter and Wisdom Are there limits to happiness? Can any one of us remotely comprehend the countless forms it can take? Those two q…
JOIN THIS TOP BANANA FOR THE RIDE OF THE SUMMER If you're heading to the Nederlander Theatre expecting Jeff Ross to come out swinging with savage roasts about Charlie Sheen's liver or Elon M…
POLLUTION ISN'T THE ONLY PROBLEM IN SULFUR BOTTOM Playwright Rishi Varma sets out with noble intentions in Sulfur Bottom"to shine a light on environmental racism and the communities whose li…
In the 1940s, Hollywood seemed awash in films that can be grouped as psychological thrillers. There were variations on the plot, but essentially the films all portrayed a sheltered and sensi…
SHAKESPEARE, INTERRUPTED About five minutes into & Juliet, Juliet belts "…Baby One More Time" with such raw confusion you half-believe Britney's lyrics might hold the secrets of the un…
THE LEFT BEHIND Frankly, I was in theater hell this Saturday afternoon. Two women on one side of me were whispering to one another throughout the first 10 minutes of the show; a man on the o…
A BEWITCHING WIZ Director Schele Williams's touring adaptation of The Wiz touches down in Boston like a technicolor cyclone and lifts its audience up with a storm of funk, gospel, and unapol…
CORN-FED HUMOR LEAVES A SWEET TASTE I entered the Civic Theatre braced for a two-hour version of Hee Haw (not a compliment) and wondered if I'd be checking my watch by halfway through Act I …