ALL IN A GOLDEN AFTERNOON Dan Lauria's gentle two-hander, which opened today at Theater 555, is a sly variation on Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Two characters, named simply "man" and …
OH, THE HUMANITY! Remember the 80s? Reaganomics here, Thatcherism abroad, apartheid, the tragedy of AIDS that ended up killing more than 700,000 people in the US alone, materialism, consumer…
EXTREME ACTS IS EXTREMELY GOOD A performance artist recounts the greatest moments of her career, from work that got her started, to the performance that almost killed her in the exciting and…
A SHOW SO FUN, IT SHOULD BE ILLEGAYL Welcome to Legally Blonde, wrapped in a rainbow flag. Yep, LeGAYlly Blonde: The Dragsical is the story of Elle Woods with a gay twist, and at last night'…
THE BEAUTY AND THE BEAST OF POPCORN THEATRE In Nocturn Theater's inaugural season, the company embarked on a daring journey, presenting some of Broadway's most iconic works. From Into the Wo…
STIRRING UP A RECIPE FOR FAMILY REVELATIONS It may seem like a lifetime ago, but can you remember way back to April of 2021? Washing canned goods with gloves on? Masking to accept a …
REMEMBER, THERE ARE NO SMALL PARTS, ONLY HILARIOUS ACTORS Ronnie Larsen, a prolific stalwart of Queer theatre, Off-Broadway and around the country, has made what clearly qualifies as a trium…
A TWIN-TWIN PRODUCTION In Elizabethan England the entertainments that closed the Christmas season (the Twelfth day) completed the festivities with a topsy-turvy role reversal, peasants prete…
GIGGLE JUICE If you love big-band jazz and swing music played by masters, or if you are a tourist and you wish to truly feel the beat of New York's roots, you must go to Birdland Jazz Club's…
WOMEN AND SPACE: THE JOURNEY SO FAR The World Premiere of Singularities or the Computers of Venus, written and directed by Laura Stribling, runs through Sunday, June 2 at The Road Theatre in…
SF SYMPHONY STRIKES BACK When you watch a film in theaters or play a video game at home you simply cannot recreate the power, emotion and feel of a live orchestra. As a result most music get…
Two five-star Edinburgh Festival Fringe shows are now at the Players Theatre and you don't want to miss them. Modern Witches is a solo show written and performed by Katie Kopajtic " a …
IT'S MAN AGAINST AI IN MAINTENANCE With the current threat of AI-generated digital characters taking over roles portrayed by human actors, it's timely for Peter Ritt to comically explore …
CV REP'S 2024 SUMMER CABARET SERIES STELLAR LINE-UP FOR MAY A summer of great music, charismatic personalities and unspoken theatre insider-only stories galore starts when COACHELLA VALL…
TASTY BUT FLAT FRYBREAD Carolyn Dunn's new play The Frybread Queen features three generations of Navajo women gathered at the reservation home of the family matriarch for the funeral of Paul…
Galilee 34 blends the divine and profane in its exploration of early Christianity Eleanor Burgess, a prolific playwright whose works have graced numerous stages (The Niceties, Wife of a Sale…
The Bent, in partnership with Palm Springs Cultural Center, is completing its second season with a revival run of the play that launched the company in December, 2022: Terry Ray's The Lincol…
WAS BLONDE, BUT NOW I SEE! It's easy to say that everyone wants to be taken seriously, but for Elle (Johnisa Breault) that notion has never really crossed her mind. She's happy, perky, prett…
THERE'S A BRIGHT, GOLDEN HAZE IN THE DESERT As the audience sat under a gorgeous golden sky with incessant desert winds, Jordan Killion sang "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'" in his stunning, B…
HOPE IS A WAKING DREAM " Aristotle Close-up magic by master illusionist, storyteller and seeming mind-reader Helder Guimarães is mesmerizing and dazzling in The Hope Theory, an 80-minu…
 YOU'LL SAY UNCLE Anton Chekhov's 1897 Uncle Vanya is a comic tragedy and one of the hardest plays to stage because the main actors have a significant change of identity througho…
NEW DANCE-THEATER MAKES A BIG (ILLI)NOISE For countless millennial hipsters, Illinois (2005) is THE album of their coming of age, as well it should be. Now, New York City Ballet's wun…
SHAZAM, KAZAN! So, have you heard? Lainie Kazan's 60s tunes are now just a click away on all those streaming sites. We're talking the kind of songs that make you want to break out in a drama…
A MEAL THAT'S HARD TO DIGEST Staff Meal at Playwrights Horizons is a light, surreal play with many points and no resolutions, intentionally unclear, written by Abe Koogler and direc…
IT WON'T WIN A PULITZER, BUT IT WILL REMIND YOU TO "BELIEVE IN LOVE" It is the fashion nowadays to present musicals with legitimate claims to sophisticated art, with elegant musical settings…