I'M DREAMING OF A PSYCHEDLIC CHRISTMAS Well, Halloween is here soon, but you know what's really scary " aside from Christmas items for sale at Costco before Valentine's Day? By Thanksgiving,…
LET'S BE FRANKLIN Were our Founding Fathers good fathers to their children? Lloyd Suh's play Franklinland, directed by Chika Ike, now having its world premiere at the Ensemble Studio Theatre…
GLORIA, HALLELUJAH! Unless you can see Gloria at The Chance Theater tonight or tomorrow, this may be a review of record, as it ran only two weeks after opening night, but I tell you this is …
IN THE LOWER ROOM A triple bill of unconnected masterpieces showcases the best and worst of "America's National Ballet Company" George Balanchine's Ballet Imperial, which heads the triple bi…
NORM SETS THE STANDARD An Intimate Evening with Norm Lewis at The Barns last night was a magical journey through his musical theater career, brimming with charm, humor, and breathtaking voca…
IT DOES AND IT DOESN'T A moving exploration of one couple's life together, I Do! I Do! is an intimate two-character Broadway musical that spans half a century as it focuses on the ups and do…
YOUR PRIMARY CHOICE FOR GREAT THEATER. TRUST ME. The Goodman's Chicago-premiere production of Primary Trust by Eboni Booth is everything I've been craving in theatre lately. Directed by Malk…
Local theater groups often have very little space to store props, costumes, and theatrical equipment. Self-storage provides an ideal nominal resolution in a flexible way to keep everything n…
BRILLIANT. COMPLICATED. DARIN. Priority Access Pre-Sale begins Monday, October 21, 2024 at Just in Time Broadway General on-sale begins Wednesday, October 23, 2024 Exclusive Night Club Floor…
WHOSE TOWN IS IT ANYWAY? Long before there was a Sheriff Taylor and a Mayberry (google it) there was a Stage Manager and a Grover's Corners. Thornton Wilder's classic paean to small-town lif…
YOUR GREAT ADVENTURE AWAITS If you rearrange the letters of "progeria," you can get "opera rig," or "rigor ape," or "prior age." That last one is befitting. Progeria is an incredibly rare sy…
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money. " W. C. Fields I highly recommend the World Premiere of Robbin, From the Hood, which opened last Friday at Road Theatre. It is playwright …
AN EXTREMELY HEAVY PORTRAYAL OF ABUSE IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH It's no secret that the Catholic Church has a sordid history of covering up sexual abuse, and many have made art on this topic to…
In Symphony of Rats, a President of the United States has strange encounters of the phantasmagorical kind. Surrounded by his presidential aides, he plunges into…
S-T-U-P-E-N-D-O-U-S AND S-I-D-E-S-P-L-I-T-T-I-N-G The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a delightful and unconventional musical comedy that debuted in 2005. With music and lyrics by …
It is the Fourth of July sometime in the future, and history is about to be made. We are about to witness the annual Hot Dog Eating Contest. The five women invited to this stage have set out…
PUTIN ON THE FRITZ The most entertaining part of Manhattan Theater Club's Vladimir, which opened tonight at NY City Center, was the tirade the woman sitting behind me went into during interm…
TALLULAH'S BACK IN TOWN, DAHLING! "Don't touch my purse! Touching a woman's purse is like touching her vagina! Except, I can only put so much in my purse." Not quite a lady-like quote fo…
IT TAKES DAN HOYLE TO CREATE GREAT JOURNALISTIC THEATER San Franciscans pride themselves on their open mindedness towards all walks of life and outlooks. But do we really listen objectively …
BACKSTAGE BROADWAY BACKSTABBING: ALL ABOUT THE WISDOM OF EVE Any fan of film noir most assuredly has seen the 1950 major motion picture All About Eve, which shares the story of a young Broad…
Directed by Richard Israel, (Civility of Albert Cashier, Floyd Collins, 110 in the Shade), King of Pangea, the spellbinding new musical with book, music, and lyrics by Martin Storrow, …
THE BOYS IN THE BEDROOM Now in its third season, The Bent is presenting Fucking Men by Joe DiPietro at the Palm Springs Cultural Center. Based on 19th-century Austrian playwright Arthur Schn…
IDIOT IS AS IDIOT DOES Unlike the jukebox musicals Mamma Mia and Escape to Margaritaville, which invented stories around the songs of ABBA and Jimmy Buffett, American Idiot " …
ONE OF THE ALL-TIME FEEL-GOOD MUSICALS COMES TO THE CARPENTER CENTER Ain't Misbehavin'Â is a sizzling celebration of Fats Waller's music " songs that he made famous in a career that ranged…
BEMUSING, DISAPPOINTING, SUPERFICIAL, AND FULL OF CONTRADICTIONS After all the hype about Matthew Broderick starring in the title role of Babbitt, presented by Shakespeare Theatre Company at…