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Marital Mayhem and Matrimonial Mishaps: My First Ex-Husband's Second Cast Delivers Divorce Tales with Bite "Do you take this man " To have and to hold " from this day forward " for better, f…
CABS, COKE AND COMING OUT: PEARL ONG'S JOYRIDE THROUGH SF At The Marsh Theater, Pearl Ong"who describes herself as a "former Hong Kong Princess, pot-smoking and coke-snorting lesbian"is perf…
GANESHA GRANTS GRACE IN A GLORIOUSLY GRITTY JOURNEY The Hindu religion has multiple gods. Ganesha, also called Ganesh, is revered as the god of wisdom, luck, and beginnings. His beloved spir…
TICK, TICK… ENCORE! LARSON'S TRUNK SONGS SHINE If you're a fan of potent post-Golden Age theatre music, you should check out a show that just officially opened downtown last night. There's…
CHICAGO: IT'S A RAZZLE DAZZLE HELLUVA SHOW How did Throckmorton Theatre in downtown Mill Valley get such a stunning production of Chicago? This isn't Broadway, or is it? With the flash of a …
A PROMISING AND AMBITIOUS THE CAMP Los Angeles has had a flurry of new operas within the past few years. Among the most promising and ambitious I've seen is The Camp, by Lionelle Hamanaka (l…
PUSH/PULL PACKS A PUNCH Berkeley's Central Works is known for offering local Bay Area writers workshops and the opportunity for new playwrights to debut their works on stage with an audience…
WHEN CHILDREN'S THEATER IS A BEAUTIFUL THING Two "P" words""professional" and "pleasant""describe the stage production in Greenwich Village with two "B" words in its title: Beauty and the Be…
GHOSTS WILL POSSESS YOU The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people. "Peter Straub, The Throat Outstanding performances from a first-rate cast and Jack O'Brien's expert di…
TOOT-TOOT-TOOTSIE, HELLO! I was worried about attending a local production of Tootsie. I had seen the national tour and enjoyed it immensely. I worried that I might be so spoiled that I coul…
A HOUSE DIVIDED, A MUSICAL UNITED La Jolla Playhouse has struck gold with 3 Summers of Lincoln, a bold world premiere musical that dives into the three critical summers"1862, 1863, and 1864"…
JOFFREY ADDS SURPRISE TO A PROGRAM ALREADY BRIMMING WITH EXCELLENT DANCE Joffrey Ballet certainly must be conscious of its earth shifting habits. More likely, its propensity for greatly b…
Danny Brown's two-hander opens with an orgasm and closes with a cathartic cleansing. Between these bold bookends lies 90 minutes of small talk"covering everything from sex and relationships …
Metamorphoses is the third show by Dmitry Krymov and Krymov Lab NYC that I have seen (the first was Three Love Stories Near the Railroad; the second Pushkin "Eugene Onegin" In Our Own Words)…
THE JAZZ AGE MEETS OPERA IN LA OPERA'S SEXY COSI Mozart's Così fan tutte started with royal scandal. In 1789, Emperor Joseph II commissioned the opera after a partner-swapping scandal sho…
THE PERPETUATION OF LEGACY Once a year we're reminded of the unique space Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT) occupies in the global dance sphere. And every year we're also reminded h…
At the end of last season, Desert Theatricals warned audiences that, due to renovations at the Rancho Mirage Amphitheatre, they would have to skip the 2025 season. Then, somehow, the constru…
FORBIDDEN LOVE AND THE GILDED AGE GLOW IN ARENA'S DAZZLING PRODUCTION, BUT THE AGE OF INNOCENCE LINGERS Playwright Karen ZacarÃas (Destiny of Desire which premiered at Arena in 2015, Nati…
A WHISPER THAT ECHOES There are plays that knock you over with intensity. And there are those that seep in, settle under your skin, and stay there long after the lights come up. Adam Szymkow…
A MUSICAL THAT CURVES IN CONCENTRIC CIRCLES Fly by Night, an affecting chamber musical which premiered in 2014 at Playwrights Horizon, has been described as a "darkly comic rock-fable," and …
If you need proof that Andrew Lloyd Webber was more consistent in creating great musicals before helping turn Broadway into the spectacle-driven British juggernaut of the 1980s, look no furt…
COME TO MICHAEL MATTHEW'S CABARET With the amount of political turmoil and rising antisemitism in the world right now, it seems the perfect time to present an updated staging of the popular …
THINGS ARE O.K. WITH MR. K For decades, three words""by Barry Kleinbort""have often appeared in cabaret and theatre credits, typically preceded by "directed" or "written." At Birdland, The K…
A MENAGERIE GONE MAD"IN THE BEST WAY Boston Court has never been a company to play it safe, and John Anthony Loffredo's world premiere of Frou-Frou: A Menagerie of Sorts is no exception. Ins…
OPEN FIST'S BAT BOY SINKS ITS TEETH IN " AND DOESN'T LET GO Bat Boy: The Musical has returned to Los Angeles with a vengeance. This outrageous comedy/horror Off-Broadway musical, which or…
