WHAT? THE DICKENS! Nothing can keep a good Carol down. Beginning November 28, 2023, Summoners Ensemble Theatre's A Christmas Carol at the Merchant's house will indeed return for its 11th sea…
AN INCENDIARY COMING-OF-AGE STORY FOR A PORNIFIED WORLD Beginning today, Monday October 2, executive producer John Cameron Mitchell and producer Arterial Projects present xXPonyBoyD…
BLACK JOY RIDE This collaboration between Boston's Black theater company Front Porch Arts Collective and the Atlanta-based Alliance Theater Company, directed by Stevie Walker-Webb, takes its…
UNIQUE, DELICIOUS, ENTERTAINING, MAGICAL No matter how many times illusionists deceive our eyes and mentalists read our minds, we are always amazed by their feats. This is certainly true of …
#METOO FOR MEASURE I can't imagine the work that writer/director Jessica Kubzansky put into the world premiere of her immersive, hybrid-theater, play-within-a-play Measure STILL for Measure.…
Sony Masterworks Broadway has released the Original Cast Recording to The Time Traveller's Wife: The Musical, available everywhere now. The musical is now in previews and opens on Novembe…
A VICTORIOUS ROMP In Ossie Davis's 1961 play Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch"which opened last night at The Music Box Theatre"all the black residents of co…
A LEGAL DRAMA OF EPIC PROPORTIONS The casting for Pasadena Playhouse's fresh take on Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's powerful drama Inherit the Wind has been announced. Playing November …
TITAN OF LAUGHS Drew Droege has stepped into the role of Ruth, Rose's mother, after TitanÃque's first year of performances at Off-Broadway's Daryl Roth Theatre. He's performed two solo sh…
LIVES OF NOT-SO-QUIET DESPERATION The premise is simple: Each of nine people who have tried to kill or who actually have killed an American president is given a chance to persuade us of his …
TURNING SWORDS INTO PLOWSHARES British author Terence Hanbury "Tim" White (1906-1964), better known as T.H. White, is best-known for The Once and Future King (1958) a collection of four nove…
THE CUBAN THEATRICAL PHENOMENON OF THE LAST DECADE ARRIVES IN NYC One of my favorite places to see plays in NYC is also NYC's most prominent Latino theatre companies: Repertorio Español. …
ONE PLAGUE OR ANOTHER What happens when you put eight actors on a stage with a script that includes the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s, the Mormon Visitors Center, the Jewish mysticism of philos…
LIBERTY FOR WOLVES IS DEATH TO THE LAMBS Gabby Momah makes a star turn as Ash, a conflicted non-binary adoptive parent and up-and-coming boxer in Hansol Jung's Wolf Play, a fascinating, thri…
MUSICALS LIKE THIS OCCUR ONCE EVERY 100 YEARS Palm Canyon Theater (PCT) launched its 23/24 theater season here in Coachella Valley this past Friday evening with the opening of Lerner and Loe…
Rip Tide Axis Theatre Company Axis Theatre, 1 Sheridan Square runs October 4"28, 2023; Wed-Sat at 8 for tickets (free-$40), visit Axis Directed by Axis Theatre Company founder Randall Sharp,…
WELCOME TO THE WEST WING, WHERE THE WOMEN ARE FUCKED AND THE MAN IS FECKLESS Seven women propping up one man"that's the premise behind Selena Fillinger's POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbas…
HOW DO YOU SOLVE A PROBLEM LIKE KATRINA? What to do about The Taming of the Shrew, a play that seems to glorify the subjugation of women? Actors' Shakespeare Project offers an intriguing and…
WHO LEFT FROWNING? NUN OF US! When you're picking shows for your season, you're off to a good start when you pick the second-longest-running show in Off-Broadway history. One that's been pro…
RAY OF LIGHT ROCKS! The Bay Area's Ray of Light Theater is known for putting fresh interpretations on classic shows, most notably musicals that push boundaries, such as Kinky Boots and The F…
DR. STAGELOVE or: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING DISNEY'S REMAKES WILL BOMB Huzzah! As if by magic carpet, Aladdin"the stage musical"has flown into the City of Angels for a two-week stint at…
A PRAYER FOR ALL OF US Should they stay or should they go? That is the question that haunts the characters of this brilliant play by Joshua Harmon (Bad Jews, Skintight). It is directed by…
INFINITE PLAYWRITING Co-produced by Atlantic Theater Company and National Theatre, the one-hour and 45-minute production (no intermission) is Annie Baker's best play to date. At least from m…
A SHOWER OF CREATIVE INNOVATION The A.R.T. production of the stunningly staged and audaciously acted The Half-God of Rainfall is an act of creative destruction. It begins with the seven acto…
SOMEONE MUST HAVE CLIPPED THE WINGS, BECAUSE THIS ANGEL DOESN'T FLY There are times when a reviewer is tempted to recuse himself (or herself) from publicly commenting on a comedy because he/…