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THE CONSEQUENCES OF GREED: MANAHATTA IN MANHATTAN Before getting into the play, it is important to know that Manahatta is written by playwright, activist and attorney Mary Kathryn Nagle, who…
An exhilarating story told in dance and live performance by a seventeen-piece jazz orchestra, SUGAR HILL is set to the music of the genre-defying collaboration between jazz icons bandleader/…
Odd Man Out will return for strictly-limited nine-performance engagement at HERE Arts Center from January 9-16, 2024.Odd Man Out is an immersive experience in complete darkness in w…
The Joyce Theater continues to bring the best in dance to its New York City stage in the eighth iteration of American Dance Platform. Hand-picked by educator, dramaturg, choreographer, schol…
WHO DOESN'T LOVE A RUTHLESS CHILD? (ON STAGE, THAT IS) Just in time for some holiday fun, New Conservatory Theater presents the 1992 Off-Broadway smash hit Ruthless. With Book and Lyrics by …
Experiencing nervousness or anxiety before stepping onto the stage is a common challenge for many theater artists. Traditional techniques like breathing exercises, meditation, or positive af…
A PAGEANT OF PEACE AND PERSEVERANCE Since 2002, Latino Theater Company has been presenting La Virgen de Guadalupe, Dios Inantzin, a holiday pageant re-enacting the story of the appearance of…
BOOP! BOPS, HOPS, AND PLOPS Light-hearted, rather silly, and occasionally preachy, BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical could have been so much more. Betty Boop seems an unlikely candidate for reviv…
CAN'T SKATE AROUND IT: IT'S THE SCRIPT "Let's Just Skate While We Still Can" " is this the moral of Summer Session with the Bones Brigade, now playing at CVRep through December 17th? Is it r…
TERRIFIC TURTURRO, MARVELOUS MARVEL, CUNNING KRAVITS AND RIOTOUS ROTH: DON'T MISS SABBATH'S THEATER The New Group's production of Sabbath's Theater is a perfect adaptation of Philip Roth's e…
THESE GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN Two young women, one from Korea, the other from the Philippines, encounter one another in a grocery story on Thanksgiving morning in a small midwestern Americ…
A REALLY BIG SHOW The San Diego area does not lack for productions of A Christmas Carol this holiday season. Fortunately, fans of the Charles Dickens classic who would welcome a more hip ver…
IT'S LIKE KOSHER EGGNOG What better way to start the holiday season than to spend a Sunday evening with the man with the music, cabaret legend Michael Feinstein, who has single-handedly revi…
SHOTA MYOSHI THRILLS WITH STREET PERFORMANCE The Chicago veteran contemporary dance company, one of America's finest, doesn't disappoint in a dancey triple bill at the Ahmanson in Los Angele…
ALTOGETHER OOKEY GOOD FUN When American cartoonist Charles Addams started drawing a family of moderately harmless ghoulish folks for The New Yorker in 1938, how could he have expected them t…
A FEATHER IN ARYE GROSS'S CAP Playwright Anna Ouyang Moench uses the setting of a wooded area " beautifully designed at Odyssey Theatre by Mark Guirguis " as the backdrop of this beaut…
A FULFILLING FOLLIES One night? I mean, ONE night? Then again, the reunion in Follies we witness takes place on one night as well. And for those at said reunion and those of us lucky enough …
WHY ARE THE TRAVELERSÂ NOT MOVING? The calendar listings for Luis Alfaro's The Travelers, currently playing at the Los Angeles Theatre Center, say "We are all travelers, Brother. Our journ…
In the theatre something magical happens; your imagination comes alive, and your heart beats with excitement. The stories unfold before your eyes. As an audience member, you can be fully imm…
GHOSTLIGHT RECORDS will release the London Concept Album of Death Note, The Musical following performances at London's Palladium and Lyric theatres. The date for the 17-track album wil…
The Curtain " Jersey City's premier classical theatre " has opened their Jazz Age adaptation of William Shakespeare's classic Romeo & Juliet, directed and adapted by producing artisti…
AN AMAZINGÂ INCIDENT Meet Christopher Francis Boone, a wannabe bloodhound who has significant social, behavioral and communication challenges; we assume the unnamed disorder is on the auti…
A VICTORY LAUGH Purlie Victorious, written by the late Ossie Davis, is a brilliant, funny, moving play that premiered on Broadway in 1961, with Mr. Davis in the title role. The initial produ…
San Francisco Playhouse has begun its 2023-24 Season with the West Coast Premiere of the romantic comedy Nollywood Dreams, directed by Bay Area theatre veteran Margo Hall. Written by Ghan…
A MYTH, A MESS, AND A MISS For all the hoopla that is Evita, save for the beautifully haunting ballad "Don't Cry for me Argentina," Shakespeare Theatre's version, directed by Sammi Cannold, …
