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DON'T KNOW WHETHER TO LAUGH OR CRY You know that close friend or relative you have who they can talk about the most trivial stuff in their world and you'll still ask leading questions for mo…
A HEROIC PRODUCTION Heroes of the Fourth Turning is a riveting and thought-provoking play that delves into the complexities of ideology, faith, and the generational divide in contemporary Am…
Gay Card is the hilariously heartwarming story of Logan Kapler, a one-friend loser who has never belonged. But now he's starting college with a trick up his sleeve: he's gay. Gay people are …
EL MAGO POP CUTS THROUGH THE CHEESE WITH AN ASTOUNDING BROADWAY DEBUT At 37, the celebrity illusionist Antonio Diaz, AKA "El Mago Pop," may or may not be the youngest illusionist to appear o…
GREAT (F.) SCOTT! If you love literature, have fond memories of being read to or of reading to others, and feel, as so many do, that F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby " the story of Jay…
A composite play by four playwrights, Mecca Is Burning " which closes Sunday at the Harlem School of the Arts " confronts social and racial themes through the use of protest poetry, dialogue…
HEATED PUMPS Now playing at The Marsh Theater, San Francisco's independent theater for new performances, writer and director Dirk Alphin's original production, Reciprocating Pumps, is a rive…
A PERFECT PERFECT GANESH In the realm of contemporary theater, where scripts often tend to shy away from tackling profound and uncomfortable subjects, A Perfect Ganesh is a remarkable outlie…
A PERFECTLY CRAFTED TRAINWRECK Having brought the house down with The Play that Goes Wrong, Mischief Theatre Company has followed up with a delicious offering: Peter Pan Goes Wrong. Written …
DON'T MIZ IT Unlike most of the characters in the blockbuster sung-through musical Les Misérables, the show itself will never die. Consistently presented either on Broadway, national tou…
HOPE FOR THE FUTURE The Red Suitcase, written by Jiggs Burgess and directed by Del Shores, with assistant direction and additional staging by Blake McIver Ewing, is a remarkable play that de…
EVITA IS SURPRISINGLY GOOD FOR YOU The Cygnet Theatre revival of the musical Evita has already been extended to October 1, 2023, due to positive ticket buyer interest. Cygnet visitors should…
JASMINE GRACEFULLY BLOOMS Making her Broadway debut in Here Lies Love, triple-threat Jasmine Forsberg plays Maria Luisa and "Imelda's Inner Voice." Prior to this run, she played Jane Seymour…
THE WEARYING WIVES OF WINDSOR Scholars generally believe that William Shakespeare wrote about 38 plays. And those scholars likely would rank the comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor at or close…
VIVA LA VIE CHANCE Rent by the late Jonathan Larson (tick, tick… BOOM!) is a musical theater phenom; productions are as ubiquitous as the stars in the firmament. The show is about a year i…
Miller Theatre at Columbia UniversitySchool of the Arts announces the fall season of Pop-Up Concerts "Close to the music" takes on new meaning with this friendly, free modern music series wi…
WHILE IT'S BACK TO THE MOVIE MUSICAL, FUTURE IS A PRESENT Ever go on the original Star Tours ride at Disneyland? You're seated in some kind of space ship/tour bus that is piloted by a loveab…
A PIPELINE TO THE TROUBLED SOUL One of our era's greatest dramatists, Dominique Morisseau (Skeleton Crew, Ain't Too Proud) sheds light on the complicated realities of urban African-Americ…
VROMAN AT HOME IN NEW CABARET SHOW Lisa Vroman, celebrated as one of the greatest crossover sopranos of this generation, makes her Coachella Valley Repertory debut Thursday, August 10, 2023 …
A DOCTORED PLAY NURSED BY JULIET STEVENSON Robert Icke's adaptation of Viennese dramatist Arthur Schnitzler's 1912 play, Professor Bernhardi might have been an interesting, if somewhat confu…
HOT CHA-CHA-CHA As I stepped into the beautiful grounds of the San Juan Capistrano mission for La Havana Madrid, I was filled with anticipation and curiosity about the promised time travel t…
Danny DeVito returns to Roundabout Theatre Company following his Tony Award nominated turn in Arthur Miller's The Price, alongside his daughter, Lucy DeVito, and Ray Anthony Thom…
Renée Fleming's feature-length films, Renée Fleming's Cities That Sing: Paris and Renée Fleming's Cities That Sing: Venice. The films take viewers on an immersive and richly cinemat…
George Street Playhouse is offering THE PIANIST, a play with music, based on the memoir The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman and directed and adapted for the stage by Emily Mann (Broadway: A St…
Ogunquit Playhouse on Maine's Southern Seacoast, a renowned destination for regional theatre, announces casting for the American premiere of The Da Vinci Code, based on the bestselling myste…
