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LEARNING HOW TO SURVIVE IN THE DESERT Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities"which opened at Cygnet Theatre last weekend"portrays about 24 hours in the upscale home of the Wyeth home in Palm …
THIS CLASSIC MUSICAL STILL SPARKLES By and large, I don't understand why people are so eager to return to familiar musicals. We know that Curly and Laurie are going to get hitched and that A…
TO BOLDLY GO WHERE NO WOMAN HAS GONE BEFORE After seeing SPACE at Central Square Theater, the line that haunted me came from Mae Jemison, the first Black woman to travel into space: "Rockets…
THE THING ABOUT GREAT THEATER Directed by Tyne Rafaeli, Berkeley Rep's world premiere production of The Thing About Jellyfish delivers an emotionally resonant adaptation of Ali Benjamin's be…
PERFECT, INDEED: TERRIFIC"AND TIMELY The Bent Theatre, Palm Springs' queer theatre company now in its third season, continues to prove its significance not only for the LGBTQ+ community but …
STILL A WICKED GOOD TIME The stage musical Wicked is is now Broadway's fourth longest-running show"surpassing Cats; productions continue to sprout up globally in many languages; and last yea…
NOW VS. THEN A historic confrontation between James Baldwin, the leading literary voice of the civil rights movement, and William F. Buckley Jr., America's most influential conservative inte…
IT'S A SCHMIGAHIT! Adapting from his Apple TV+ series that satirized and saluted the glories of old timey musicals like Oklahoma! and Carousel, co-creator and writer Cinco Paul brings his st…
YOU MAY NEVER LOOK AT YOUR LAPTOP THE SAME WAY AGAIN Is Artificial Intelligence, more commonly known as AI, our friend? Does this ubiquitous development make our lives easier, cleaner, more …
WHAT FUN GETTING LOST IN AUSTEN Fresh from its smash hit engagement at Theatre 40, Jane Austen in 89 Minutes has moved into the artistically appropriate Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills fo…
JOIN THE PACK In one of The Wolves' final moments, one character's mom explains that she has a swear jar at home that her daughter must put a quarter in every time she says "like." If that j…
NEIL SIMON IN PALM SPRINGS WITH AN AGENDA Jon Robin Baitz' Broadway drama Other Desert Cities "which opens this week at Cygnet Theatre"depicts a crisis of apparent betrayal and imminent expo…
Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past? Â Â " John Leonard, American critic Appropriate won Branden Jacobs-Jenkins the 2024 Tony Award for Best Rev…
ADRIENNE WARREN IS, INDEED, SIMPLY THE BEST The second of a three Beyond Broadway concert series was headlined by Tony-winner Adrienne Warren. I have followed Warren since 2016 when I saw he…
DIRECTOR AND PLAY: A PERFECT ARRANGEMENT, INDEED On February 6, The Bent in Palm Springs is opening Perfect Arrangement, a biting and timely comedy by Topher Payne. Set in 1950 during the he…
THERE'S A HOT HIT COOKING IN ROSS In ancient biblical texts, Gilead is not only a place of final peace, but also invokes healing and hope. How appropriate that playwrights James Valcq and Fr…
A SEARCH FOR MEANING BROUGHT TO GLORIOUS LIFE BY A PUPPET Based on the Booker-prize winning novel by Nobel-laureate South African J.M. Coetzee and adapted and directed by Lara Foot in collab…
SIX DEGREES SPOOFS UPPER-CLASS PRETENTIONS Sonoma Arts Live (SAL) has launched an ambitious production of Six Degrees of Separation, John Guare's now-classic tale of belief and deception amo…
USING ART TO COMBAT GUN VIOLENCE GUAC at Woolly Mammoth is not traditional theater"it's a powerful act of performance art that explores with life and tragic loss in the wake of a mass school…
KEEPING MEMORY ALIVE Memoryhouse, which premiered in 2023 as the first full-length ballet directed by Los Angeles Ballet's new Artistic Director Melissa Barak, is an abstract work compose…
San Francisco Ballet opened its season last weekend with Manon"the first in its "British Icons" series"a sumptuous and heartbreaking ballet by Sir Kenneth MacMillan. Based on Abbé Prévost'…
SLEEPING GIANT THINKS TOO BIG FOR ITS BRITCHES To live is to be in a constant state of suspension. One must cling to whatever helps establish a sense of permanence. A lover that won't leave.…
A deal with the devil; eternal youth, for the ultimate price. The Picture of Dorian Gray is coming to Broadway's Music Box Theatre for a strictly limited engagement 14-week engagement fo…
EVERYONE WILL LIKE IT HOT It wouldn't be a valid review to simply write, "I loved it!" a hundred times and ship it off to my editor. However, if you're looking for a bottom line or a simple …
Where digital entertainment and live arts converge, there emerges a quite captivating new domain that audiences could explore. And with every advancement in technology, the way we watch thea…
