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EVERYTHING KREYÓL IS NEW AGAIN Seemingly caught between differing identities and life paths, Simone is at a crossroads. Half African American and half Haitian, this early thirties, nativ…
A CAVALCADE OF RICHES Anticipating Giordano Dance Chicago's (GDC) newest season is getting to be a lot like looking forward to an extravagant Christmas that happens twice a year. In the Spri…
COWARD'S ANGELS ARE A LAUGH RIOT Almost one hundred years after its somewhat scandalous debut, Noël Coward's Fallen Angels is enjoying a revival at Berkeley's Aurora Theatre, where it run…
EXPLORING THE GULF IN A RELATIONSHIP New Conservatory Theater is premiering in it's West Coast debut, Audrey Cefaly's 2017 play The Gulf " An Elegy. This intense one-act two-hander traces th…
STARRING GEORGE CLOONEY IN HIS BROADWAY PREMIERE Good Night, and Good Luck, a new play by George Clooney and Grant Heslov, and directed by Tony Award winner David Cromer, will pr…
A WELL-PLAYED PIANO Though the surface plot of August Wilson's The Piano Lesson is fairly simple " an estranged brother and sister argue over whether to sell or keep a beautiful piano that h…
Whore's Eye View is a unique event, more of a lecture on the history of women's sexuality than the personal monologue one would expect from a sex-worker. Now at HERE Arts Center as part of a…
MEMORY AS AN ACT OF LOVE The East Coast premiere of playwright Steven Drukman's snappy and cleverly written Pru Payne is movingly brought to the stage under SpeakEasy Stage founder Paul Daig…
OUR SHOCKING HEALTH CARE SYSTEM Rawshock, a new drama by Rita Lewis which opened last night for a limited run by Manhattan Rep at the Chain Theatre, is set in a psychiatric hospital. As is o…
Today, Concord Theatricals Recordings released the audio recording of Jason Robert Brown and Stephen Sondheim: Live in Concert on digital platforms worldwide. Recorded in June 20…
HOT PATOOTIE, BLESS MY SOUL, I REALLY LOVE THIS ROCKY SHOW If you're a veteran fan of the film The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Ray of Light's production at the ever-fabulous Oasis Nightclub t…
WICKEDLY WITTY WILDE Sometimes you just need to take refuge from the contemporary world with a classic play. And when it's delivered as delightfully and professionally as Antaeus Theatre Com…
A SCREENING TO PUCKER UP FOR Following an acclaimed summertime run at London's Barbican Theatre, the cinema release of the smash-hit production KISS ME, KATEÂ brings the magic of this musi…
A BUMPY RIDE INTO THE AFTERLIFE Like many small, non-profit theatre groups, NEO Ensemble Theatre is nomadic by nature, moving from theater to theater to present modern, socially relevant pla…
FORBIDDEN PLEASURES Even the most avid theatergoers may not realize how much about Broadway there is to have fun with until they see Forbidden Broadway, the decades-old Off-Broadway musical …
Love In Idleness, a new musical comedy about a pharmaceutical scientist who invents the title drug to reignite passion in his long-term relationship with a drag performer is set for a limite…
EVERYTHING ABOUT KAFKAESQUE!, INCLUDING THE COCKROACH, PROVES THAT JAMES HARVEY HAS A HISS, I MEAN, HIT, ON HIS HANDS Full-time lawyer by day, prolific author Franz Kafka wrote at night and …
GET TO THIS MUSICAL ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE TO DRAG YOURSELF It's campy. It's trashy. It's WAAAAY over-the-top. It's ridiculous. It's stunning. It's funny. It's moving. It's touching. It's co…
TALLULAH BANKHEAD AND TENNESSEE WILLIAMS RETURN TO PALM SPRINGS Unwanted Laughter by Marty Martin plays for one night only, November 9, 2024, at 7pm, as a fundraiser for Temple Isaiah's LGBT…
QUIPS AND CHORDS Seasoned comedian Gianmarco Soresi asked a jovial audience member at Public Theater's cozy Joe's Pub: "Did you go to school for musical theater?"; "What was the last musical…
CIVIL UNREST When I walked into the very small and incredibly intimate Broadwater Studio Theatre, I immediately thought about Sam Shepard's Fool for Love, about a couple of loners looking to…
Manhattan Theatre Club has announce initial casting and the venue for the world premiere of We Had A World, written the amazing Joshua Harmon (Prayer for the French Republic, Bad…
The life and works of legendary comic playwright George S. Kaufman and his collaborators are being celebrated in an updated and revised legacy website that was launched officially this…
SMASH TO OPEN ON BROADWAY THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 2025 PREVIEWS BEGIN MARCH 11 AT IMPERIAL THEATRE Starring Robyn Hurder as "Ivy" Brooks Ashmanskas as "Nigel" Krysta Rodriguez as "T…
Let her entertain you! Legendary Broadway, film and TV star Bernadette Peters returns to Pacific Symphony at Segerstrom Concert Hall for two nights " Friday-Saturday, Nov. 1 and 2, at 8 " to…