BEYOND THE SEA AND STRAIGHT INTO YOUR HEART Well, ring-a-ding-ding, folks " Broadway's got itself a bona fide, velvet-voiced heartthrob lighting up Circle in the Square, and his name's Jonat…
A JAZZY JUMBALAYA OF JOY The current revival of The Pirates of Penzance at the Todd Haimes Theatre isn't just a revival " it's a reincarnation. Yes, rechristened, reimagined, and thoroughly …
MUSICAL ROM-COM PROM IS DA BOMB! Oh, the high school prom! Has any event, short of one's wedding perhaps, ever been given more stress-inducing over-attention? Who to bring, what to wear, how…
BRAIDED LIVES Director Summer L. Williams brings a uplifting and inspiring production of up-and-coming playwright Jocelyn Bioh's Tony-nominated Jaja's African Hair Braiding to the SpeakEasy …
The theatre lights dim, the audience hushes, and the magic of the stage begins to unfold"a timeless ritual that has captivated hearts for centuries. From the grand auditoriums of Broadway to…
FROM SWEATSHOP FLOORS TO BROADWAY DOORS: REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES SEAMS TOGETHER A RUNWAY HIT The empowering new musical Real Women Have Curves, which opened Sunday night at the James Earl Jon…
"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known." ~ Oscar Wilde The Louvre, Uffizi, and Hermitage may dazzle you with their emphasis on fine arts, the British Museum …
THE TRUTH IS RARELY PURE, AND NEVER SAFE, IN TASTY LITTLE RABBIT There is a tender brutality in the way Robert Mammana shatters a glass plate negative under his heel in Moving Arts' ac…
THREE MEN IN A BOAT Playwrights Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon provide a gratifying change from the too-frequent, obviously profit-driven movie-to-musical adaptations that litter so many stages t…
First produced by the Negro Ensemble Company in 1969, Lonne Elder III's Ceremonies in Dark Old Men became an immediate critical success and a defining work of its era. For decades, it stood …
The pleasure lies not in the cookies, but in the pattern the crumbs make when the cookies crumble. ~ Michael Korda Playwright Lynn Nottage is a national treasure"a two-time Pulitzer Prize wi…
New Conservatory Theatre is premiering Eric Reyes Loo's family dramedy about life, breakups and soul searching: Simple Mexican Pleasures. The show opens with Eric (Alex Rodriguez) reeling fr…
PREDATORS IN PINK Tina Fey (book), Jeff Richmond (music), and Nell Benjamin (lyrics) hit all the standard Broadway musical marks with Mean Girls, now in Boston as part of a national tour. It…
Upon entering the Ark Theater, one is immediately transported to a grungy, offbeat club where Hedwig and her band, The Angry Inch, are about to take the stage. Richie Ouellette's set design …
Red Theater's Kairos Makes Us Look at Time and Life from an Unexpected Perspective Chance encounters rarely end this interestingly. In Lisa Sanaye Dring's new play Kairos"premiering now at T…
A TALE OF TWO CITIES Theater is all about storytelling, and stories don't come any better crafted than Jon Robin Baitz's Pulitzer Prize-nominated Other Desert Cities. The SF Bay Area is enjo…
More than 140 nominations in over two dozen categories of outstanding actors, directors, designers, choreographers, musicians, and productions and 5 awards for visiting productions were anno…
SPECTACULAR. COMPLICATED. FUN. OVERLONG. DESTINIED TO BE A CULT CLASSIC. STRANGER THINGS HAVE HAPPENED. Having never seen the enormously popular Netflix series Stranger Things, I no doubt mi…
A FUN, LIVELY KANDER & EBB MUSICAL AND THE TICKET PRICE ISN'T EX-ZORBA-TANT Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: If a character in musical theatre is going to make a declaration …
HOORAY FOR THIS BANQUET OF BLISS" ALL THOSE SENSATIONAL SONGS AND ENERGY" BEING ALIVE ON STAGE Words seem woefully inadequate to praise the wonderful, song-stuffed, dazzling and polished pro…
REASONABLE DOUBT? NOT ABOUT LEGALLY BLONDE'S PINK POWER Let's get one thing straight. Legally Blonde: The Musical is not highbrow theater. It is not Sweeney Todd with meat pies and too-close…
BAD BOOKS IS GOOD NEWS Nothing beats the thrill of watching great performers bring a playscript to life, moment to moment, right before your eyes, sharing their space as they breathe the sam…
SEEING THE UNSEEN: JULIA BELL BARRY'S HAUNTING NEW PLAY Part memoir, part The Sixth Sense, Julia Barry Bell's new play, which opened tonight at Theatre Row, asks a haunting question: how do …
PILLOW FIGHTS, PLOT TWISTS AND PARENTAL PANIC If you like your family comedies with a hearty dose of mayhem, secrets, slapstick humor, and the occasional gymnastic leap off a sofa, Foster…
SOMETHING TASTY AT UMBRELLA STAGE Leo Tolstoy said there were only two stories in the world"either someone goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. The Umbrella Stage Company's musical…