A PLAY NOT WORTH EXPLORING Doggedly determined to fight yesterday's battles, Nell Benjamin's chronic farce The Explorers Club manically mocks the heyday of male British explorers. Fudd…
UNSAVORY IS SAVORY INDEED Those of us who grew up on the Westside of Los Angeles certainly remember hanging out on the Venice and Santa Monica beaches when we were kids. Times then were as i…
THE CHOSEN FEW There is an impressive collection of talent on display in The Lonely Few, a rock musical making its New York debut at MCC after a run in Los Angeles at the Geffen Playhouse. C…
BLACK IN THE GAME Toni Stone is as much about storytelling as it is about the story it is telling. Thanks to the inspiring source material by Martha Ackmann and this resulting play poignantl…
A NEW SPECIES OF ACTRESS Maia Novi's Invasive Species is a topsy-turvy meta play that reflects its plot: a moment in the life of a confused young woman infected with the acting bug. Or…
A SONG WHICH HAS BECOME A STANDARD Harvey Fierstein wrote his semi-autobiographical Torch Song Trilogy in the late 1970s. In it, Arnold Beckoff, a gay, Jewish man and professional drag qu…
THE LAST FIVE YEARS AT SIERRA MADRE CAN BE SEEN IN DIFFERENT COMBINATIONS Last weekend, Sierra Madre Playhouse opened what seems like a bewildering number of performance configurations of th…
A DICTATOR DICTATES MUSIC IN STALIN'S MASTER CLASS In a time when politics collide with state and federal budgets for the arts, Stalin's Master Class " a wildly comic, music-filled ride b…
JOY JOY JOY JOY JOY JOY JOY Julia Masli's show Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha has finally arrived at the SoHo Playhouse after a successful run last year at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe an…
UNDERWEAR TYCOONS AND AERIAL INTRUSIONS: THE UNRAVELING COMEDY OF MISALLIANCE So, you stroll into the theater, right? You see this fancy conservatory set up, all English manor-style, and you…
PLAIN ENGLISH The New York production of English, written by Iranian-American Sanaz Toossi, won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2023. Directed by Diyan Zara, English is making its European pre…
The 3rd Annual Boston New Works Festival " a new Boston tradition " is a weekend-long festival celebrating new original plays by local playwrights. The eight original plays selected for this…
A GROUNDBREAKING ACHIEVEMENT INDEED The short take on this play is that Jake Shore " as they say at the website The Rumpus " WRITES LIKE A MOTHERFUCKER. He is new to me, but he's not an unkn…
MICHAEL SHANNON STARS IN A TANTALIZING TURRET If you had to define the word turret, what would an easy definition be? Well, I love castles, so I know a turret was often the corner where a gu…
The Buddha of Suburbia, a lively and joyous coming-of-age story set in late 1970s suburban London is a delightful exploration of love in numerous forms, some painful, most unconventional, bu…
SCARLETT FEVER Kevin (Andrew Keenan-Bolger) used to be a hunk, and a successful playwright with an off-Broadway hit. But lately, he's become a couch potato, much to the chagrin of his husban…
DOWNTOWN URBAN ARTS FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 22nd SEASON OF PRESENTING NEW WORKS BY EMERGING PLAYWRIGHTS JUNE 12 " JUNE 29 AT THEATRE ROW (DUAFnyc) Savion Glover  - Photo Courtesy: Savion…
BRINGING BACK ROSAS' BLOOM The inaugural presentation of the Latino Theater Company's 2024 season, Ghost Waltz stands as a testament to the company's commitment to groundbreaking theatrical …
GET THEE TO SEE ASP'S R&J "Romeo. Romeo, where for art thou Romeo?" Did you know this means, "Why are you Romeo?" Language becomes the thing as Shakespearean dialogue positively blossoms…
SEE THE LIGHT Palm Canyon Theatre (PCT) opened a glorious production of The Light in the Piazza last Friday, and it's sensational. Based on the 1960 novella by Elizabeth Spencer, th…
RONNIE BURKETT HAS THE WORLD ON A STRING You haven't lived until you've seen Santa as a beer-bellied, Silverlake bear puppet twerking in a nightclub with Jesus and the Tooth Fairy. Wonderful…
All of Me is a rom-com in which the central couple is wheelchair bound and unable to speak; they use text-to-speech technology. The New Group's production, which opened last night at Pershin…
TIME TO CHECK-IN TO HOT L HOLLYWOOD Written by Roger Mathey based on his own personal experience working in a three-star hotel in Los Angeles for over a decade, The Night Auditor takes place…
EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS OF OCTOBER 7 BECOME A SHATTERING THEATRICAL EVENT After the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, the husband-and-wife team of journalists Phelim McAleer, playwright, and Ann…
FRAGILE GIRL, KOOKY MOM, POSSIBLY QUEER SON, HANDSOME CALLER, STURDY PRODUCTION The Glass Menagerie is likely the reason you've heard the name Tennessee Williams. The Glass Menagerie put Ten…