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GLAD PLAID Forever Plaid, an Off-Broadway musical revue written in the late eighties by Stuart Ross, takes place in the in-between, or whatever exists between this life and the next. The Pla…
BEE THERE AT REVOLUTION! Revolution Stage Company, which had a winner earlier in the year with Avenue Q, has another hit musical comedy on its hands with The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelli…
THE FLAMES OF INJUSTICE Documentary theatre, a.k.a. docudrama, uses existing nonfiction sources to create works of performance that reenact historical events. My earliest recollection of doc…
WITH A MAGICAL IMBALANCE, THIS KISS IS MORE LIKE A PECK In the world of theater, revivals and adaptations often serve as a bridge between eras, illuminating how the sensibilities of one time…
FASCIST LOGIC CAUSES US TO HARD LOOK IN THE MIRROR When we think of all the Nazi monsters, Adolf Hitler's name reigns supreme. But it's only a short step down the ladder to be revolted by me…
THE MOUNT EVEREST OF PLAYS It's hard to say what is the most breathtaking aspect of the Apollinaire Theatre Company's masterful production of Touching the Void: Is it David Greig's deeply sa…
STILL WATERS RUN DEEP Lia Romeo's Still at the DR2 Theatre, is a moving, intimate play starring two confident actors, Jayne Atkinson as Helen and Tim Daly as Mark, who inhabit…
A RAY OF LIGHT ON THE RAIL SPLITTER The Lincoln Debate, the hit show by Terry Ray that launched The Bent theatre company in 2022, is having an encore run at Palm Springs Cultural Center from…
LEGENDARY MAN OF DISTINCTION " AT LEAST IN HIS MIND Directed by Jerome Elliott Moskowitz and written by Tony Padilla, Desert Ensemble Theatre presents an alternate version of the Sherlock Ho…
SECRET COMEDY IS NO SECRET ANYMORE In The Secret Comedy of Women, directors, writers and stars Barbra Gehring and Linda Klein are two women who you would swear were besties from childhood. T…
ONCE ON THIS PRAIRIE Developed at Signature Theatre in Virginia, the new musical Gun & Powder has stormed into Paper Mill Playhouse with enough energy to light the Manhattan skyline. The…
A STEREOPHONIC SHOW WITH A MONOPHONIC SCRIPT Stereophonic was so evenly cherished by critics in its Off-Broadway run at Playwrights Horizons that it transferred to Broadway, where it opened …
THAT'S WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR Up-and-coming storyteller Gabe Mollica has brought his "sweet not sappy" 90-minute Solo: A Show About Friendship to Boston after 80 Off-Broadway performances and …
New Conservatory Theatre Center is offering The Tutor, a gripping and thought-provoking three-person drama that tells a timely story of love, lies, survival, and culture. With insightful min…
A COLOSSAL LEN CARIOU MAKES ANY DAY A GOOD DAY FOR TUESDAYS I have seen many a famous performer hit the stage in their senior years with a cabaret or theater performance, something I usually…
GREAT COMET! Who would have thought that a paltry 70 pages from a mammoth novel by 19th-century Russian author Leo Tolstoy would inspire one of the hits of the recent off-Broadway and Broadw…
GET A PARKER TICKET Michael McKeever's newest play Mr. Parker, under Randy Brenner's sublime direction is Dezart Performs' final production this season running through April 21. McKeever, (D…
BEDAZZLED WAR AND PEACE SIZZLES ON STAGE Let's face it: If you haven't read Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel War and Peace by now (with its 1400-plus pages), you probably aren't ever going to. Fortu…
NICE WORK! CVRep is closing its 23/24 season this month with a bewitching production of Nice Work If You Can Get It running through April 28th. Like other "new" Gershwin musicals including C…
Still impactful, The Boys in the Band, now playing at Palm Canyon Theater until April 21, is largely based on playwright Mart Crowley's own life in 1960s' Manhattan. The 1968 play was a sens…
A Noise Within continues their 2023-2024 season with a fine production of King Hedley II by August Wilson. This ninth play in his ten-play cycle about the Black experience in twentieth-centu…
I FEEL YA, OPHELIA Acclaimed playwright, director, and actor Stefan Marks has outdone himself taking on three roles in his World Premiere play Ophelia, now at the Odyssey Theatre through May…
WOOF! WOOLF WORKS WORKS! Virginia Woolf's novels have had a profound impact on literature, inspiring adaptations in ballet and opera. These adaptations face the unique challenge of capturing…
A HEARTBREAKINGLY BEAUTIFUL MINDFUCK "He was immortal, so he couldn't die, but this pain, it was agony " it was a wound that would never heal. So he begged the other deities to make him mort…
A MAJESTY OF DRAG QUEENS BECOMES A PRIDE OF LIONS Founded in 1977 The Castro District's Theatre Rhinoceros is the longest-running queer theater in the nation. This month is the world premier…
