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A man leaves his wife to start a relationship with another man. Together, the two men"Marvin and his new partner, Whizzer"try to co-parent Marvin's twelve-year-old son, Jason, alongside Marv…
ANOTHER FAMOUS BALCONY SCENE Romeo and Juliet isn't the only play with a famous balcony scene. The London revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Evita has attracted attention for the …
CAST TRAVELS LIGHT-YEARS, SCORE FINDS A NEW UNIVERSE, THE BOOK GETS LOST IN SPACE. CAN THE WRINKLES IN THIS NEW MUSICAL BE IRONED OUT? Round about a lifetime ago, in the shadow of the Iron C…
A DARKLY HILARIOUS REVIVAL The 1989 cult classic film, Heathers (if you haven't seen it, it's a friggin' must) preceeded the film Mean Girls (2004) by fifteen years. Later, it was adapted in…
BYRD SONG IN SHADOW: CONCERT IN CANDLELIGHT, THEATRE OF DEFIANCE Hark! Attend, ye lovers of sacred sound and clandestine devotion, for the international tour of Secret Byrd"an evanescent gli…
Sondheim, Slightly Inappropriate Stories, and Spiritual Whiplash: Claybourne Elder Unplugged Best known for roles in Company, Torch Song, and HBO's The Gilded Age, Broadway and television pe…
SEND IN THE CLOWNS Farce is not a style of performance one sees too often these days and that's probably because it is extraordinarily difficult to pull off, requiring complete commitment fr…
A NEW MUSICAL HAS ARRIVED TO PUMP UP PATRONS FOR DECADES TO COME Allen Moyle's 1990 film Pump Up the Volume starred Christian Slater as Mark, a graceless, socially awkward high school studen…
DINANA KRALL BRINGS OLD-HOLLYWOOD ELEGANCE TO WOLF TRAP On the warm evening of July 3, the Filene Center at Wolf  Trap filled nearly to capacity, its 7,028 seats glowing under th…
A WESTERN WORTH REVISITING The Onomatopoeia Theatre Company, in collaboration with the Gene Frankel Theatre, brings back The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance in a compelling and timely revival. …
THE DEVIL'S IN THE FINGERS: TRIFONOV TAKES FLIGHT AT A THUNDEROUS TANGLEWOOD OPENING Conductor Andris Nelson led the Boston Symphony Orchestra at last night's opening of its 2025 TanglewoodÃ…
JOYFUL, JERKY, AND JUST WHAT OFF-BROADWAY NEEDS There are two powerful reasons to see Bear Grease. First: The deeply felt curtain speech by Henry Cloud Andrade, co-writer/co-creator"with Cry…
PIPPIN GOES HOLLYWOOD Pippin, with music and lyrics supplied by Stephen Schwartz, and book penned by Roger O. Hirson (who was best known for writing the script to the war flick The B…
A GREAT 70s TRIBUTE HAS VINYL-LY ARRIVED Normally, calling a show predictable isn't a compliment. But when I heard that director Kerry Meads and musical director Vanda Eggington were once ag…
STILL PLENTY TO DESIRE A Streetcar Named Desire was one of the greatest hits for playwright Tennessee Williams. Born in 1911, he didn't have any major successes until The Glass Menagerie pre…
A MONODRAMA OF SHADOWS AND SHATTERED SANITY As part of an international procession"a dread march of artistry across borders"Mr. Stephen Smith did, for a grievously brief engagement, alight a…
ELLA STILLER'S DILARIA: A DEBUT IN EXTREMIS Three striking Off-Broadway debuts anchor Dilaria, a sharp, volatile new play by Julia Randall at the DR2"the Daryl Roth Theater's 99-seat space j…
BROADWAY WELL-REPRESENTED IN A NIGHT OF MUSIC AND COMARADERIE From the first gleaming brass notes of Bernstein's Candide Overture, music director Jon Kalbfleisch deftly led theÂ…
A Celebration of Legacy: Larry Fuller in Conversation Larry Fuller's career has spanned some of the most influential and transformative moments in musical theater history. As a choreographer…
CHICAGO-BORN AND HEAVEN-SENT, THIS IS NOT A REVIVAL. IT'S A RECKONING. Angels in America is one of the greatest plays in the American theatre canon. Period. Tony Kushner created a two-part e…
SHAKEN AND STIRRED "Shake it up" is exactly what this cabaret-style production does"blending rock 'n' roll and R&B classics with lines from Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. The focus is …
COLOR ME DISAPPOINTED I came to see the Goodman Theatre's current production of The Color Purple with a complicated history. I devoured Alice Walker's novel three times as a callow teenager …
DEFYING GRAVITY… AND CONVENTION Since its founding in 1971, Pilobolus has made a name for itself by celebrating the expressive potential of the human body"its weight, balance, connectivity…
FLY ME TO THE MOON… AND INTO HISTORY A song, a wish, a dream, a childhood astronaut fantasy in a family kiddie pool"Tom Hanks taps into all of it in The Moonwalkers, an amazing, enlighteni…
EVERY DOG HAS HIS DAY (AND A DREAM) If you have time off this month and are feeling wanderlust for foreign travel"but your summer budget doesn't allow for an actual trip around the world"I w…
