A PIPELINE TO GREAT THEATER Theater can do more than entertain. A good drama can not only pull at your heartstrings, it has the ability to educate, influence and inform. Pipeline, now playin…
Some consider A Midsummer Night's Dream to be one of William Shakespeare's greatest tributes to love: both romantic and platonic. "Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind. And therefo…
ONE FOR THE NOTEBOOKS While specialty branded tissue boxes are sold for $5 at the merch stands, the ushers at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre should insert more in the playbill of The No…
READY FOR A HOT BATH? Staged at The Flea Theater in Manhattan between the FBI building and an apocalyptic AT&T windowless high tower, Bathhouse.pptx " described as a "group project for p…
YOU'LL BE DANCING IN THE SHEETS ALL OVER AGAIN Sitting in a movie theater, in 1984, we teens were spellbound by the original film version of Footloose " and not because it was an amazing sto…
SCRIPT2STAGE2SCREEN TO DROP ITS FINAL CURTAIN Script2Stage2Screen, the theatrical group that has produced staged readings of original works since 2010, has confirmed that this 2023-24 season…
AN ENGAGING FISHBURNE DOES A SLOW BURN Who doesn't want to see Laurence Fishburne in a solo play he describes as "The stories and lies people have told me. And that I have told myself"? The …
THE VINEYARD: WHERE NEW PLAYS GROW INTO HITS Vineyard Theatre has transferred 11 shows to Broadway, seven directly after their acclaimed Vineyard premieres [highlights are links to Stage and…
CULTURAL COMEDY GOLD, THIS PLAY REALLY IS ONE OF THE GOOD ONES In a landscape where minority narratives often revolve around stereotypes of poverty and struggle, One of the Good Ones emerges…
THE DEMONS ON ANGEL ISLAND We've all heard stories about coming to America through Ellis Island. We've read the books and seen the movies set in the early 1900s about the immigrants sailing …
TAKING STOCK OF THE MURDOCH AFTERSHOCK: HACK. LIE. INTIMIDATE. CORRUPT. BEGIN AGAIN. Welcome to Rupert Murdoch's wicked, treacherous media empire where everybody is under surveillance and ca…
A DO-NOT-MISS REGIONAL PREMIERE Martin McDonagh's Hangmen at San Jose Stage Company I was lucky enough to catch the limited run of Martin McDonagh's tense and very funny Hangmen on Broadway,…
THE IDES HAVE IT It's 44 BCE, March 15, and Julius Caesar walks toward his death, changing the course of Western history. Exactly 2,067 years later, at the West End Theater in New York, a co…
Decades ago, only the most avid moviegoer would make the effort to install a mini theater at home. Today, home theaters are much more common thanks to advancing TV technology and, most impor…
CUMMING OR GOING, YOU'LL WANT TO SEE THIS ONE Man of many parts, Alan Cumming discusses life's big issues: death, love, and, yes, the size of his scrotum in Alan Cumming Is Not Acting His Ag…
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. " George Bernard Shaw With Avenue Q, Mid-Century Moderns, and The Boy Band Project, Palm Springs' newest profe…
OUR PUPPET, WHO ART IN HELL, HALLOWED BE THY BLAME When a newly widowed mom tries to lead three teens in a wholesome, Lutheran, extra-curricular church class, tasked with creating a Christia…
WINNING ASSIST Big hits can come in small packages. The wonderful production of King James " which opened last night at the Old Globe Theatre " has only two characters and runs only about 1 …
FINDING NEW ABILITIES Cost of Living is full of surprises, and I don't mean inflation or unexpected banking fees. Speakeasy Stage Company brings the Pulitzer-winning play from playwright Mar…
UNPACKING PACKS IN TOO MUCH INFO WITHOUT PACKING ENOUGH PUNCH Set in the East Coast Summer gay mecca Provincetown in 1959, four old vaudeville friends reunite anxiously awaiting the promisin…
IMMIGRANT WOMEN IRON OUT DIFFERENCES In Lost Sock Laundry by Ivan Faute, presented by Northern Manhattan's UP Theater Company April 10-27, 2024, there are rules and expectations about how…
Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one. ― Voltaire The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines parable as,  "…a usually short, fictitious story that…
CELEBRATE 25 YEARS OF JOE'S PUB! Since 1998, Joe's Pub has been a home for artists at all levels of development " from early-career artists to those at a critical stage in their careers (lik…
The National Theatre announces that the Donmar Warehouse revival of the Royal Court Theatre Production, Constellations, directed by former artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse …
CELEBRATING GENIE TODD Monday, April 15, 2024 at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre (124 W 43rd Street), Kristin Chenoweth " last seen on Roundabout's stage in the superb On the Twentieth Century …