AN ANGELIC PRODUCTION Arena Stage's Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches begins with the Angel (rapturous Billie Krishawn) is grooming a sand-swept stage into a giant spiral. A…
It's fascinating to watch a new generation of Asian playwrights " Mike Lew, Qui Nguyen, Lauren Yee, Dipika Guha, Christopher Chen " writing about the quest for identity as it pertains to tra…
IT'S ONLY A FLOP There's a glaring contradiction in It's Only a Play: Written by the usually crafty Terrence McNally, a 20-time Broadway playwright, this two-act love letter to Broadway t…
I CAN'T GET THAT TASTE OUT OF MY MOUTH Get ready for a show that is all vagina and no vulva. This bloody awful musical by Big Little Theater Company is of the women, by the women and for the…
TWSL Expands to Year-Round Programming with 8th Annual Festival Returning September 7-17  "We lived in a world of light and shadow . . . But the shadow was almost as luminous as th…
THERE'S PLENTY OF GREAT PRANCIN' BUT IT'S A HEAD-SCRATCHIN' DANCIN' There's whole lotta dancing in the updated, Broadway revival of Bob Fosse's DANCIN', currently running at The Music Box. E…
WHERE'S THE GRIEF? A LOT OF GOOD SHIT, BUT WE NEED MORE SHOW Grief. It almost seems to come on a daily basis. You hear people grieve over politics, a lost job, a breakup, the weather " griev…
MAMA'S BOY, FOR BETTER OR WORSE When I think of Shakespeare's women, many names come to mind: Gertrude, Lady Macbeth, Ophelia, Beatrice, Portia, Helena, Titania, Rosalind, Juliet, Desdemona.…
TAKING HOLD OF EVIL Robert Askins' 2011 two-act Hand to God is both an existential, insightful commentary on religious hypocrisy and a hysterical dramedy about Tyrone, a possessed sock puppe…
A SATISFYING MEAL OF TASTY THEATER You might call Clyde's the other piece of bread in Lynn Nottage's sandwich about Reading, Pennsylvania, where the playwright spent two years conducting int…
Casting director and creative professional Chad Eric Murnane has launched Murnane Casting. Based in New York City, this boutique casting office works on theatre, film, and television project…
A PUB CRAWL FROM FOLKLORE INTO FANTASY When a show is called The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, you can bet that it's going to be a bit surreal, somewhat disturbing and ultimately captiv…
NATIONAL THEATRE MUSICAL GETS US PREMIERE Determined and tenacious, the residents of Ipswich, UK mobilize to overcome the immense fear and media circus that unfolds following the serial murd…
NOT BAD, CINDERELLA These days Prince Charmings are not in style. Nor are Fairy Godmothers. So it's pretty hard to expect adults to take stories like Cinderella very seriously. Nevertheless,…
WE BUILT THIS SILLY ON ROCK AND ROLL Most musicals start with a premise, develop a plot, and then write songs to fit the themes. Rock of Ages flips the process by starting with class rock so…
ESCAPE TO MARGARITAVILLE IN THE DESERT Entering the theater at Desert TheatreWorks in Indio (between Palm Springs and the Salton Sea), it sure didn't feel like the desert. I was greeted by J…
HUMAN, ALL TOO HUMAN There is a world premiere now playing at Actors Co-op in Hollywood that is both ambitious and successful. The Human Comedy, set in the fictional California town of Ithac…
LET ME IN, OR GET ME OUT? In writer/director Brynn Thayer's Let Me In, now running at the newly and spiffily remodeled Theatre 68 Arts Complex in North Hollywood, actor Jorge Garcia of L…
DROP-DEAD FUNNY What happens when you take Little Shop of Horrors and mix it with The Pink Panther cartoons, and throw in a little dash of Urinetown? You get this fantastic dark musical come…
PROCTOR BY PROXY In playwright Talene Monahon's new play The Good John Proctor, John Proctor doesn't actually appear. He is integral to the plot and is certainly referenced but there is no p…
PLEASE HELLO! How's this for an overture: Go see it. Signature Theatre has mounted a very good production of an experimental, rarely performed musical by the late composer Stephen Sondheim. …
THE BLOSSOMS DO EVENTUALLY BLOOM IN THIS ORCHARD Russian playwright Anton Chekhov believed his classic 1904 drama The Cherry Orchard was a comedy bordering on farce, but generations of audie…
NO FAIRY TALE ENDINGS Last night, Boston became the third stop in the 2023 National Tour of the 2022 Broadway Revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's much-Tony'd and much-loved mash-u…
COME FOR THE SCORE, LEAVE FOR THE BOOK Prior to Geffen Playhouse's world premiere musical The Lonely Few, a pair of orange ear-plugs in ironically loud cellophane is offered to patrons, indi…
ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY Announces 2023-2024 Season ON BROADWAY I NEED THAT starring DANNY DEVITO at the American Airlines Theatre HOME at the American Airlines Theatre (on…