The Hollywood Fringe Festival is presenting the world premiere of Monkeys, a 2023 Hollywood Fringe Scholarship winner, written and directed by Bernard Badion. Monkeys is a workplace comedy s…
BROADWAY BABY GLENN ROSENBLUM is a man with an obsession he gladly acknowledges and is eager to share: Broadway and the glorious world of American Musical Theatre. On Thursday, June 15, 2023…
SCHMICAGO! The soundtrack to Season 2 of "SCHMIGADOON!" is now out, and it's fizzy, frothy fun. The musical comedy series, a confluence of stage productions and their film adaptations produc…
"You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility." " Eleanor Roosevelt Eleanor at the North Coast Repertory Theatre is a one-woman drama that condenses the life of E…
SHINING A RAY OF LIGHT ON PUBERTY This past weekend, San Franciscans were treated to a special treat with Ray Of Light Theater's version of Spring Awakening " yet while it was subtitled "In …
IT ALL COMES DOWN TO YOU TO SEE RAINEE BLAKE AS JONI MITCHELL LIVE During the 2018 Music Center concert, Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration Live, Peter Gabriel sent a prescient message to the a…
THIS SOUL NEEDS DOCTORING Soul Doctor is a 2010 musical about Rabbi Shlomo Carlbach, a.k.a. The Singing Rabbi and The Rock and Roll Rabbi, from his childhood in Nazi-occupied Vienna to his O…
THIN LOVE We go to the ballet for bodies. Don't we? If the dance audience at The Wallis in Beverly Hills, where I saw Alonzo King LINES Ballet's Deep River yesterday (there is one more perfo…
OOHS AND OZ Just in time for summer and for Pride Month, a new, colorful and fun version of everyone's childhood favorite movie based on L. Frank Baum's books is here in San Francisco. Ameri…
YOU GOTTA LOVE IT Spring is in the air and so is love at 54 Below, where Scott Siegel is presenting Love Song Saturday Night, a monthly show where couples are encouraged to "swoon, raise a g…
NEXT TO NORM Here's a way to spend a Monday evening: Broadway, television, and film actor Norm Lewis is taking his night off from starring in the national tour of A Soldier's Play at the Ahm…
WEST SIDE STORY HAPPILY REMAINS CLASSICAL AND SADLY REMAINS CONTEMPORARY Lyric Opera's 2022-2023 season has been a challenging one, especially for audiences. The season began with the seldom…
Broadway luminaries Teri Ralston and Alix Korey have performed in more than 15 Broadway shows between them and have worked with some of the greatest composers of all time, including Stephen …
MUELLER IS COOLER IN UP-CLOSE CABARET The Wallis in Beverly Hills lays claim to being the place to see and be seen on Friday June 16 at The Wallis in Beverly Hills, as one of Broadway's brig…
AS IF TELENOVELAS WEREN'T MELODRAMATIC ENOUGH FOR YA'… As someone who blew off after-school activities because he just couldn't miss General Hospital (in the grand days of Luke and Laura v…
EVERYONE IS WELCOME AT THESE PARTIES With a fierce commitment to inclusivity and celebrating the beauty of individuality, Company XIV captivates audiences throughout Pride Month with its …
Welcome to the world of modern theatre, where stories come alive and emotions run high. This season's lineup is packed with outstanding shows that promise to transport you into a world of wo…
The world premiere of THE SHYLOCK AND THE SHAKESPEAREANS, a darkly humorous retelling of The Merchant of Venice, written and directed by Edward Einhorn, begins tonight June 1 and runs throug…
The Drama Desk Awards are the only major New York City theater awards for which productions on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off Broadway compete against each other in the same categories.…
The Off Broadway Alliance, an organization of Off-Broadway producers, theaters, general managers, press agents, and marketing professionals, today announced the winners of the 12th Ann…
THIS WAR WITHIN A WAR IS COMMANDING AND COMPELLING The North American tour of A Soldier's Play " Roundabout's 2020 Tony Award-winning Best Revival of a Play " opened last Wednesday at L.A.'s…
A NEOPHYTE BROWNSHIRT UNDER A BLUE WALL OF DEFENCE Written by June Carryl and directed by Michael Matthews, Blue is a 60-minute nailbiter which has been extended to June 5. Rogue Machine …
Big Broadway, A Little Pop, A Lot of Passion. Music Direction: John Boswell Guests: Paul Freeman and Darrell Morris Jr Los Angeles audiences were treated to Aaron Lazar in both Dear Evan Han…
THE SONERO, THE BETTER Here's what tipped me off that we were about to see something special: Pianist Carlos Ordiano enters with four band members ("The Razor Blades") at Los Angeles Theatre…
PIFFLING PIRATES OF PENZANCE POPS WITH POP The plot of The Pirates of Penzance, a satire so cutting in Victorian days, will likely come off as inane to today's spectators. Still, Arthur Sull…