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SOMETHING WONDERFUL IS COOKING IN HELL'S KITCHEN What else can be said about Alicia Keys'Â new Broadway musical Hell's Kitchen, that its recent thirteen Tony Award nominations, including o…
IS THE RAILSPLITTER A LOG-SPLITTER? Written by Terry Ray, The Lincoln Debate " based on factual information provided in letters and biographies " concerns the debate about the romance …
World Premiere at Moving Arts Theatre The world-premiere of Leviticus Jelks' debut play, My White Husband, directed by Melissa Coleman-Reed, opens May 18 in Los Angeles at the Moving …
REIGNITING TAMARA DE LEMPICKA [Editor's Note: Even with tonal problems, I enjoyed Lempicka, but a crowded season won out, and the new musical officially closes on May 19, 2024. Therefore, we…
Cooking on its own can be entertaining. But are there ways to embrace it as a performance of sorts? You can when you consider the world of cooking art! Today we're reimagining your culinary …
THE DECONSTRUCTED PLAY'S THE THING William Shakespeare's Hamlet recounts the story of the ghost of Denmark's murdered king who wants his son, Prince Hamlet, to kill his uncle Claudius, the m…
SOUND AND FURY INDEED "When the hurly-burly's done, when the battle's lost and won," says a Witch to introduce my favorite cursed play by the Bard, and I immediately crave medieval witches, …
BITCH, YOU AGING GOOD In the tradition '80s sitcoms but with elements of telenovela melodrama, Bitch Slap! is a hilarious, over-the-top spoof comedy written and directed by San Francisco's i…
A THEATRICAL LOOP-DE-LOOP Playwright Michael R. Jackson's acclaimed A Strange Loop (winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 2022 Tony Award for Best Musical) is a shocking work of genius, beau…
JUST A SENSE The North Coast Repertory Theatre is currently presenting the world premiere of Sense of Decency, a psychological drama adapted from a 2013 book by American author Jake El-Hai t…
A SWEET OFF-THE-GRID MUSICAL With the unexpectedly huge American response to Netflix's Virgin River, there seems to be a great longing to see what life might be like in a tiny, forested comm…
HOW GOOD YOU GOT IT There's an old saying that goes, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." But is "fixing" always a bad thing? What if that fix is not about correcting what's wrong but more abo…
A PLAY FOR THE PEOPLE Written by Ibsen in 1882, An Enemy of the People is a powerful drama that reminds us, as a discouraging premonition, how people would go against truth and honesty…
MEAN GIRLS MEETS THE THIRD REICH Three teenage girls sit at a table in a bunker of some kind bored out of their minds tasting food three times a day before it is sent off to Hitler. They hav…
THE HOUR HAS COME Playwright David Valdes offers a touching insight into the complexities of family life for a transitioning teen in Mermaid Hour. The New England premiere of this 2016 Final…
KINK SHAME: AN ENTERTAINMENT FOR THE MASSES In North Hollywood, the audience's senses were assaulted, mainly by each other, in the reception room before we even got into the theater for the …
MY OPERA EXPERIENCE WAS DARKEST BEFORE THIS DON Don Giovanni seduced me " in a manner of speaking " when I attended last night's opening of Mozart's Don Giovanni by Boston Baroque. I've cove…
MESHELL, MY BELL "Free like a bird," the Swahili meaning of the eclectic singer-songwriter and rapper Meshell Ndegeocello's last name (pronounced N-dee-gay-o-cello), describes the essence…
THE BOYS ARE BACK AND BETTER THAN EVER In the never-ending array of jukebox musicals that have lit up Broadway's vibrant landscape, Jersey Boys shines like a brilliant star. Premiering in 20…
A MONSTER MASH Like most boomers, I was raised watching black-and-white horror movies. Both frightening and amusing, those giant ants, grasshoppers and spiders attacking some innocent town w…
A ROYAL KING From the moment Irish actor extraordinaire Pat Kinevane appears out of the darkness as if in a dream, his lithe body moving as seductively as a snake into a sexy Argentine Tango…
IT MAY BE ABOUT A MOVEMENT MORE THAN ITS PEOPLE, BUT A POWERHOUSE SCORE AND WINNING PERFORMANCES EMPOWER SUFFS There are several major conflicts in Suffs, the new Broadway musical directed b…
YOU'LL WANT TO GET CAUGHT IN THIS LOOP A Strange Loop, a Pulitzer Prize winning, loosely autobiographical, one-act musical drama by Michael R. Jackson explores a myriad of themes related to …
PATRIOTS THEATER REVIEW The excellent Michael Stuhlbarg is continuously entertaining in Peter Morgan's bio-play Patriots, leading the cast as Boris Berezovsky, a Russian-Jewish mathematician…
A CHAMPION RETURNS In my first interview with Ethan Joseph a year ago, I wondered how a 12-year old boy would be able to top performing at the Met in Terence Blanchard's Champion. On one of …
