One of my favorite places to see plays in NYC is also NYC's most prominent Latino theatre companies: Repertorio Español. Performed in Spanish with easy-to-read supertitles in English, …
A FANTASIZED LOOK INTO BLACKNESS IN AMERICA The Colored Museum by George C. Wolfe, currently at The Studio Theatre, is a wild, satirical glance into African-American experiences, dating back…
"There's more to her than anyone could ever infer " You can kick my words to the curb. I think it's time that we heard from her." An ice-cold, high-octane adaptation of Euripides' play writt…
NOT LARSON'S BIGGIE, BUT IT PAID THE "RENT" One of the great heartbreaks of theater history is that Jonathan Larson, the author and composer of the rock opera Rent, his modern telling of Puc…
HELLO HELLO BIRDIE! Waxing nostalgic about the 1950s is never out of style as Palm Canyon Theatre ably proves with their current production of Bye Bye Birdie running through July 14. Bye Bye…
A TIME-TRAVELING UNBROKEN BLOSSOMS REVEALS BIGOTRY AND MISOGYNY Before seeing the world premiere of Unbroken Blossoms by Philip W. Chung at East West Players, I had never heard of the 1919 A…
KATERINA MCCRIMMON IS INDEED THE GREATEST STAR Funny Girl is a beloved musical that first premiered on Broadway in 1964, with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Bob Merrill, and a book by Isobel…
ZAC IS ON THE INSIDE TRACK Token Theatre's world premiere production of Zac Efron by David Rhee " co-written by Wai Yim and directed by Alan Muraoka " is not about Zac Efron at all, be…
The People vs. Lenny Bruce, presented by Cause Célèbre Productions and Henderson Productions, is the third segment of All The Court's A Stage, a series of plays that are based on seven of …
HE HAD US ALL ON THE SAME PAGE Ken Page is a marvel. It would be reasonable to start and finish this review with that sentence. He has been a powerful presence in stage, film, and cabaret fo…
MRS. DOUBTFIRE IN GOOD HANDS WITH ROB McCLURE In Mrs. Doubtfire The Musical, a familiar San Francisco-based plot meets with the Tony-nominated actor Rob McClure, who makes Robin Williams' cl…
A NICE EXPAT ON THE HEAD Now, here's a fascinating show. Two former lawyers (the best kind I say) and whip-smart writers, Dominique Roberts and Candace Leung, wrote and starred in Expatriate…
THERE MAY BE SOMETHING WRONG WITH CYRUS, BUT NOT SO MUCH HIS SHOW Meet Cyrus Deboo. An adult actor who, against all the odds and ends of a traditional Persian upbringing, blossomed into an o…
DEBBY BOONE DOES INDEED LIGHT UP MY LIFE On Sunday July 14, the Richmond/Ermet Aid Foundation (REAF) is celebrating 30 years of producing Cabaret Concerts to fundraise for HIV and AIDS with …
WHO WERE THE WOMEN OF BALLET RUSSES? The McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, TX is turning to its esteemed Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts to re-contextualize Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Wom…
ALL THE RIGHT MOVES I'm rather certain that most folks in the U.S.A. have no idea that Chicago is one of the best theater towns in the world. The reason for this is storefront theaters, whic…
IT'S SILLY BUT NOT KOOKY (SNAP, SNAP) Every generation, there is an iconic TV family that defines the era. From the perfect clan of The Donna Reed Show to the trashy hellscape of Keeping Up …
A MUSICAL THAT REACHES FOR NEW HEIGHTS Built during the Depression between 1930 and 1931, the Empire State Building became the world's tallest office building"surpassing the Chrysler Buildin…
IN THIS CASE, NINE IS A PERFECT SCORE In Nine, the musical adaptation of Federico Fellini's 1963 film 8½ now playing at Coronado Playhouse, Guido Contini (William Henry Schneider), an …
MOMMIE McDEAREST Irish playwright Martin McDonagh quickly makes it abundantly clear that dysfunctional mother/daughter relationships are not just the stuff of Hollywood. In the tiny town of …
DAZZLED BY THE STARS UNDER THE STARS Last night, Signature Theatre and the Wolf Trap Center for the Arts (the only national park dedicated to presenting the performing arts) collaborated aga…
MUCH NOTHING ABOUT ADO Presenters Kelsey Grammer and Faith American Brewing Company offer a production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing at the Gene Frankel Theatre that is a daring…
NOT APPLICABLE Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (D-California) and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) are two of the brightest political stars ever to walk the halls of the Capito…
AN EVENT TO MAKE YOU HIGH No doubt spurred by William Randolph Hearst's yellow-journalism against pot (he invested in wood-pulp newsprint so he didn't want paper made from hemp), a church gr…
LITTLE BEAR RIDGE ROAD IS A BRIGHT STAR IN OUR VAST UNIVERSE Steppenwolf's world premiere production of Little Bear Ridge Road by Samuel D. Hunter lays bare the reality of two people who …