In 2010, I witnessed the work of playwright Terrell Alvin McCraney for the first time. I knew immediately that his would prove to be an important voice in the theater. Since that fateful day…
TODAY IS THE DAY TO GET BACK IN THE DAY Back in the Day, the world premiere of local New Orleans playwright Harold Ellis Clark, will play October 12-22, 2023 at the André Cailloux Center fo…
GREAT STUFF IS COOKING IN THIS KITCHEN The world premiere of new coming-of-age musical, HELL'S KITCHEN, with music and lyrics by New York's own 15-time Grammy Award winner Alicia Keys and pl…
OUR DEAR DEAD PLAYWRIGHTING In Our Dear Dead Drug Lord, which opened last Sunday at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, feral feminism from sociopathic fledglings starts out fantastic but goes off the…
THE TRUEST EYE It's been 12 years since A Noise Within's architectural repurposing of the 1958 Stuart Pharmaceutical Neo-Formalist building in Pasadena into a theater complex. For those w…
TECHNICAL ISSUES ASIDE, THIS NEW MUSICAL IS FULL OF HEART The Right is Ours!, a world premiere new musical which opened yesterday at the Sierra Madre Playhouse, tells the story of the friend…
A HAUNTING SYMPHONY OF SOLITUDE AND CONNECTION Set in the dimly lit confines of a college creative writing class and the private world of its reclusive protagonist, The Sound Inside, which o…
A FRANK PORTRAYAL Perhaps the most famous quote from Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl is "Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart." However, these words were writ…
PERFECTLY MARVELOUS Cabaret is a masterpiece of American musical theater that has been presented in a vast variety of musical and physical shapes and sizes since its premiere on Broadway in …
A LOTTA SOUL IN THIS EXPRESS TRAIN TO JOY Officially starting A.C.T.'s 23/24 Season is the Broadway-bound world premiere musical based on the iconic TV Show Soul Train, which opened last Wed…
GIVE THREE CHEERS AND ONE CHEER MORE FOR SILLY GOOD FUN In the US, the term "Savoyard" generally means a person intensely interested in, and perhaps highly knowledgeable about, the works of …
THE GOSPEL AT GETTY Created by Lee Breuer and Bob Telson, The Gospel at Colonus " a Greek tragedy turned Pentecostal revival " had its original 1983 production at the fBrooklyn Academy of Mu…
A WALLER OF STRENGTH The Creeps is a one-woman show created by and starring Catherine Waller, a native of Auckland, New Zealand, At Playhouse 46 at St. Luke's, an intimate black box arena co…
Funny Girl Tour Starts This Week The North American tour of Funny Girl launches on September 9, 2023, at the Providence Performing Arts Center before continuing on to more than 30 cities …
AN INTRUSIVE NEW MUSICAL Presented by Howard Alter and Tom Giachetti of Gotta Believe Theater Group, Relapse: A New Musical by J. Giachetti (Book and Lyrics) and Louis Josephson (Music and A…
A COTTAGE BUILT FOR LAURA BELL BUNDY Currently running on Broadway for a limited run is the very funny bedroom farce, The Cottage by Sandy Rustin, directed by Jason Alexander, and with the s…
AN UNSTOPPABLE TRAJECTORY Ruskin Group Theatre's season-opener, a landmark drama from 1955, exploded into relevance last Friday night. A rarity worth a return, Arthur Miller's drama of an in…
MAKE THIS FUN SHOW ONE TO CHEKHOV YOUR LIST Any time you take one sibling out of a group of three, the remaining two are bound to talk about the missing one. Take that situation further, wit…
THE BARBER OF HOLLYWOOD Last Friday, a beautiful night at The Ford amphitheater in the Cahuenga pass, Pacific Opera Project presented a one-night-only performance of Rossini's The Barber of …
CABARET JUST GETS BETTER WITH AGE Cabaret was and remains one of the boldest and most innovative experiments in the history of musical theater, a ravishing work that has neither lost its pow…
A SHARK HAS TO KEEP MOVING FORWARD, OR ELSE IT DIES " WHAT WE HAVE ON OUR HANDS HERE IS A LIVING SHARK Stories abound about the problem-plagued production of Steven Spielberg's 1975 blockbus…
On Friday, August 25th, attendees were treated to Broadway Romance, a delightful evening filled with romantic Broadway melodies at the Rady Shell. Situated in the heart of San Diego, Califor…
SIGNATURE'S BRIDGES FREES VIEWERS TO BE HOPELESS ROMANTICS Given its syrupy and soaring sentimentalism, Robert James Waller's very short 1992 novel The Bridges of Madison County was amazingl…
The world premiere of This Is Not a True Story, written by Preston Choi and directed by Reena Dutt, is a new comedy that tackles, head-on, the fetishization and anti-Asian racism of Oriental…
IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT GUNS. WE'LL GIVE YOU A MOMENT. If your imagination needs a hand, picture this: it's an age where all guns and even metal are a relic of the past, a murmured bit of lo…