PAILAPIL POPS HIS CHERRY IN HIS PLAYWRITING PREMIERE "Why won't you let me top you? Is it because I am Asian?!" This ear-catching line is decried robustly by the very passionate protagonist …
YOU MUST SEE J. CONRAD FRANK " IF YOU LILY DARE New Conservatory Theater is finishing their exciting 2022-23 season with actor, playwright and drag performer Charles Busch's The Confession O…
YOU'LL BE SORRY IF YOU DON'T BRING A SARI In Monsoon Wedding, the Musical " which opened tonight at St. Ann's Warehouse " Act One gives us a lighthearted, sweet, and simple story of an arran…
Creating a musical is not an easy task. Finding backers to produce it is even more difficult. When creative people have the fortitude and faith to take on such an endeavor, one wants to be a…
CELEBRATION THEATRE GOT IT RIGHT! (BUT "THEY" DIDN'T) When William Finn's autobiographical musical A New Brain opened at Lincoln Center in 1998, I couldn't understand why the reviews were…
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 is in the Pantheon…
DEAR SAN FRANCISCO: A HIGH-FLYING LOVE STORY AT SAN FRANCISCO'S HISTORIC CLUB FUGAZI EXTENDED THRU DECEMBER 31, 2023 WORLD-RENOWNED CIRCUS AND ARTS COLLECTIVE, THE 7 FINGERS, CREATED THIS ON…
ALL THAT JAZZ AND MORE Bandstand, shining lights, and sexy murderers in lingerie. Chicago celebrates 25 years of razzle dazzle with this national tour featuring the original New York product…
FAITHFULLY BRINGING MILES MALLESON TO LIGHT In 2017, Mint Theater Company presented the World Premiere of Miles Malleson's Yours Unfaithfully, directed by Mint Artistic Director Jonathan …
ARE WE EVER GOING TO SAY GOODBYE TO GOODBYE GIRL? The 1977 film The Goodbye Girl, written by Neil Simon and directed by Herbert Ross, was the first romantic comedy to earn over $100 million …
XANA-DOOZY OF A MUSICAL Playwrights of musicals have frequently, with varying degrees of success, taken a successful non-musical movie and worked it into a staged musical. Billy Elliott, Wai…
VISHNU WERE HERE First, a little history lesson:Â In the Hindu religion, the god Vishnu incarnated ten times as different "avatara," which can be interpreted different ways, including "de…
A TRAILBLAZING VOICE EMERGES It is tough to capture what Avaaz is in writing. On the surface, it is a one-person play in which author Michael Shayan plays his mother, Roya, a Jewish-Iranian …
I LOVES SHE LOVES ME Palm Canyon Theatre closed their 22/23 season this past week with a warm-hearted, inspired mounting of She Loves Me, one of the most romantic musicals ever written. She …
CHEERS! If there's anything better than a cocktail before or after a Broadway show, it's a cocktail in a Broadway show. So, I'd like to propose a toast … slide your coffee table book to th…
AN ANGEL IN NEW YORK, AND NEW YORK, NEW YORK Angel Sigala was born and raised near Mexico City. His parents moved the family to the U.S. when he was ten years old, and he quickly dove into l…
QUEERILY, WE ROLL ALONG From June 15-July 3, 2023, the 9th annual Queerly Festival hits The Kraine Theater (85 E 4th St) and UNDER St. Marks (94 St Marks Pl), Most performances will also be …
ASSASSINS SINGS! BUT THE COMPEXITY OF THE SHOW'S THEMES GO MISSING ALONG WITH THE GUNS Assassins, with music and lyrics by the late Stephen Sondheim and a book by John Weidman, opened Off-Br…
THE MILLENNIUM HAS COME AND GONE, BUT THE THEMES REMAIN THE SAME Central Square Theater's collaboration with Bedlam of Tony Kushner's still-relevant masterpiece Angels in America: A Gay Fant…
ISN'T IT BLISS? Striding onto the CVRep stage last night, Broadway star Melissa Errico, in a black dress draped in silver sequins, dazzled the eyes looking as if she had just stepped off of …
FAITH, HOPE AND SCIENCE I found myself thinking of Henrik Ibsen and Lucille Ball as I watched this world premiere of acclaimed playwright and performance artist Taylor Mac. Ibsen and Ball ar…
A GOOD SIGN FOR BROADWAY First-rate performances and Anne Kaufman's near-flawless direction work well to conceal the few shortcomings in Lorraine Hansberry's thoughtful and compelling The Si…
NEW YORK, NEW YORK SOARS ABOVE ITS OWN MATERIAL So apparently it's still up to you New York " with a healthy assist from Susan Stroman and Lin-Manuel Miranda " to bring Martin Scorsese's und…
A LUMINOUS NIGHT MUSIC I'm a little dizzy, bubbly"not from any reception champagne, mind you, but from seeing my very first production of A Little Night Music. It's left me floating. (The mu…
A WARM SUMMER From the moment we first see Diana (Laura Linney) and Alice (Jessica Hecht), the two friends whose story is told in David Auburn's new play, Summer, 1976, we know exactly who t…