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Melissa Etheridge is a bona-fide superstar. So, why is this artist, used to appearing in huge venues, "slumming" in a Broadway theater with a capacity of less than 800? Let's not look th…
Director Garry Hynes (a co-founder of the Druid) heightens the portent of this bellicose rhetoric, as well as O'Casey's mockery of it, by having a fractious collection of barroom denizens st…
"The Lights Are On," written by Owen Panettieri and directed by Sarah Norris, is a psychodrama that plays with two ideas: are we really who we think we are, and what are the reasons we do wh…
nicHi douglas' vision is one of evocative beauty, one that gives us stage pictures to treasure for some time. The seated women fanning themselves with beautiful white fans as they watch one …
Does it matter how autobiographical Amy Crossman's "The Great Divide" at the HERE Arts Center is? A production of the Boomerang Theatre Company, "Divide" is Crossman's one-person play ab…
"The Picher Project" is a bluegrass and folk-infused musical conceived and directed by Quentin Madia, with music, book, and lyrics by Madia and Lauren Pelaia. This show is based on real-life…
The immediate impression of "Gira" was of the semi-circle of lights designed by Gabriel Pederneiras and Paulo Pederneiras (the Grupo Corpo artistic director) and their somber illumination of…
Both Garelik and Samuel's performances as teens are fully formed and not stereotyped; their portrayals as young adults at their ten-year high school reunion are just as authentic. Direction …
"Jaja" is quite different from Bioh's other plays in that it is also very revealing about life in NYC for African immigrants. Directed by Whitney White who has piloted several major new Blac…
"The Making of a Great Moment" by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb and directed by James Barry is a play about a pair of actors who are the principal players and only members of a bicycle theatrical tou…
Elinor T Vanderburg's "Bloodspot" is a fascinating attempt to create a film noir play for the stage. The visuals do not live up to the script's promise, but it remains entertaining and engro…
The Houston Ballet, Julie Kent and Stanton Welch, directors, opened the program with Welch's genteel "Clear" to music by J.S. Bach. Originally staged on American Ballet Theatre, the Hous…
LaBanca's performance in his own play defies superlatives. Including us in his choir at the beginning of the show says it all. We are relieved that he still finds joy in teaching. As he puts…
"Saw The Musical: The Unauthorized Parody of Saw" begins with a picture perfect recreation of the disgusting bathroom from the first movie in the iconic horror franchise. Then the puppet (Bi…
It takes considerable skill for competent actors to play at being bad actors, and many of the cast members succeed. It is not a bad play, but the overarching problem with the show is that it…
In 1961, Ossie Davis channeled the hurt of growing up in segregated Georgia into "Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through The Cotton Patch," humorously attacking the cause of his s…
The 1968 musical 'Golden Rainbow" (the show that gave us the song sensation "I've Gotta Be Me") was so identified with its stars Steve Lawrence and Edie Gormé that it has not been seen in 5…
Krymov's production is a rapturous love letter to the making of theater. He unearths how we really tell our stories by our emotions, what we hide, as much as what we reveal. He uses his stag…
Ballet BC, the Canadian-based modern ballet company, began the program with 'The Statement," Crystal Pite's witty take on a boardroom meeting, a corporate boardroom meeting full of intrigue …
David Dean Bottrell is both a craftsman and an artist, as evidenced in his delightful and exquisitely entertaining show "Dear Mr. Bottrell, I Cannot Possibly Accept This." From his Prologue …
An alternate title for Albert M. Tapper's Clifford Odets-esque "Bettinger's Luggage" might be "The Flood." In Tapper's period piece, a flood destroyed the eponymous shop, an event around whi…
"The Jester's Wife," written and directed by T.J. Elliott, is a fanciful attempt at reconstructing the source of the myth of Dymphna, a legendary medieval Irish saint who is considered the p…
Sweitzer inhabits over a dozen characters in this play entitled "20 Seconds: A Play with Music," albeit two of them are him when young and him telling us the story now…two people he knows …
Each generation gets its own version of Bram Stoker's Dracula, the classic vampire horror story, that possibly reflects its needs of it own time. The latest version now called "Dracula: …
Gilman's triteness and predictability combine to poorly serve a talented acting quartet, all of whom originated their roles in a 2022 production of "Swing State" at the Goodman Theatre under…
