THE CAMPY ABBA FEST IS BACK Still an over-the-top, campy, family-friendly entertainment, the 25th Anniversary North American tour of Mamma Mia!, currently at The Kennedy Center Opera House, …
Dido of Idaho, now playing at Atwater Village, is yet more proof that Echo Theater Company really knows how to pick bold original scripts. And usually they have a heart of darkness somewhere…
BACK TO THE FUTURE NEEDS TO GO BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD The Broadway tour of Back to the Future, a musical adaptation of the beloved film, has landed at Chicago's Cadillac Palace as part of…
JULIE BENKO IS, AND IS ABOUT TO HAVE, A BROADWAY BABY Vocalists have found many fruitful ways of reaching their audiences, from celebrating other singers to paying tribute to composers and l…
MATTRESS HOLDS THE BREW THAT IS TRUE After 25 years, Once Upon a Mattress is back on Broadway at the Hudson Theatre, with a new adaptation by Amy Sherman-Palladino (creator of Th…
In his remembrance of Stephen Sondheim, Stage and Cinema's Jason Mannino wrote, "Sondheim delved fearlessly into the human psyche and condition, creating rich, complex worlds and characters …
Geffen Playhouse and Steppenwolf Theatre Company announce the joint Chicago/LA cast of Noises Off Written by Michael Frayn Directed by Anna D. Shapiro A Co-Production with Steppe…
IF ONLY THIS MUSICAL WAS CONSTRUCTED WITH THE SAME EFFICIENCY AS THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING Empire, at New World Stages, is unquestionably a musical created with an adult public in mind, p…
ALL SCRIPTS SHOULD BE THIS GROWN UP One of the most riveting and original pieces of theater I have ever seen, The Grown-Ups is now playing outdoors around a campfire near you. Funny, spooky,…
A SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE AT THE THEATER First Floor Theater's Chicago premiere of In His Hands by Benjamin Benn, which opened last night, is breathtaking from start to finish. Benn's writin…
YOU COULD HEAR THESE PEOPLE SING, ALL RIGHT First performed in Shanghai in 2013, the Hollywood Bowl hosted a new installment of The Music of Les Misérables, Miss Saigon, and More: Boublil a…
On July 25, CV Rep concluded its terrific 2024 Summer Cabaret Series with American singer-songwriter-actor David Burnham's delightful cabaret, Mostly Broadway. Burnham, a Broadway vet, joyfu…
NINE IS A TEN AT THE KEN CEN In Nine, the musical adaptation of Federico Fellini's 1963 film 8½ now playing at the Kennedy Center, Guido Contini, a renowned Italian film director of…
A MEETING THAT'S TOUGH TO INTERPRET Four months before the November 2016 presidential elections, a crucial meeting took place at Trump Tower between Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr.; T…
ALICE BY HEART: FULL-HEARTED PRODUCTION; HALF-HEARTED SCRIPT Alice by Heart follows a young girl, Alice (Caitlyn Cerza), during the London Blitz of World War II as she takes refuge in her be…
YOU CAN GO HOLMES AGAIN! The world obviously cannot get enough of Sherlock Holmes. Since the first story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle appeared in 1887, the immortal fictional private detective …
SUPPLIANT AND DEMAND Looking for a thoroughly pleasant evening on the banks of the Mystic River? Head for Chelsea's PORT Park and a transfixing performance of The Suppliant Women, by the Gre…
CHICKEN STORIES IS A FOWL BALL! There are more than 8 billion people on the earth. But did you know that there are more chickens on the planet than human beings? And you know that we're not …
STRIKE A POSE! Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street. Fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening. " Coco Chanel Ret…
CLUELESS NO MORE As a kid, I never played the Hasbro board game Clue, nor did I ever see the Paramount Pictures movie based on that board game. But at opening night on July 31, I was absolut…
HAPPILY EVER EVER IN THE LAND OF NEVER NEVER There have been so many versions of Peter Pan over the years that current viewers might have been exposed to the character in numerous ways. Gran…
THE COMPANY WE KEEP To wed or not to wed " that is the question that Stephen Sondheim poses in his 1970 musical Company, for which he is the composer and lyricist (with a book by George Furt…
ALL HAIL THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES! The pre-Broadway production of The Queen of Versailles, studded with Broadway royalty, understandably had Boston abuzz at the opening last night. Despite th…
A RIVETING TALE OF ART AND IDEOLOGY AT ITS FINEST In Tom Jacobson's Crevasse, playing at the Victory Center Theatre, the curtain rises on a fractured world where art, love, and propaganda in…
PILOBOLUS IS re:INVIGORATING In 1971, at Dartmouth College, three non-dance students were asked by their composition teacher to create a dance piece. The students were Jonathan Wolken, Steve…