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The Broadway revival of Funny Girl will end its run at the August Wilson Theatre on Sunday, September 3, 2023 after 30 previews and 599 performances. Current stars Lea Michele, Ramin K…
THE SECRET'S OUT: THIS GARDEN'S IN BLOOM It's been almost a year since Ahmanson Theatre ushered in spring with the national tour of Hadestown. This season (thank ye, Fates!), spring has come…
A SLAM DUNK! The Great Leap opens with hearty humor and carries its audience along in an absorbing story until a profound poignancy begins to permeate the senses. Tyler Simahk plays Manford …
WOMAN BECOMES A HIT Betty Smith is best known for her 1946 bestselling novel, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. But her first love was theater. When she was a child growing up in Brooklyn, she would…
SONDHEIMIA: IT'S A STATE OF MIND In this curated concert, musical theater actor Larry Owens explores time, love, and ambition through the music and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim, with music dir…
ARRRE YOU RRREADY FOR THIS CELEBRRRATION?! Anyone who hasn't watched RRR yet, do yourself a favor and see this masterpiece. Sure it's available streaming, but the best way to watch this auda…
THE JOURNEY OF A THOUSAND MILES BEGINS WITH THE JOURNEY OF A THOUSAND MILES In black odyssey written by Marcus Gardley and currently running at Classic Stage Company, Mr. Gardley steps again…
HELP WANTED AT THE LAPIN AGILE As I wrote last Sunday in my review of Sunday in the Park with George: "art isn't easy." Having just now seen Picasso at the Lapin Agile, I'll add to that Sond…
HAROLD AND MAUDE ARE BACK AND BETTER THAN EVER It has been decades since I saw, or even thought about, the classic 1971 movie Harold and Maude starring Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon. Do you remem…
MUSICAL THEATRE GUILD GOES DARK (WELL, GREY) WITH THE STUNNING MUSICAL, GREY GARDENS One Night Only: Monday, February 27 at 7:30pm The 2006 Broadway musical version of the cult 1975 Maysles …
GET YOURSELF SOME HAPPY So, which Lillias White is your favorite? Is it the bluesy, searching, achy soul singer? The sassy sweetheart of standards? The darling diva of Broadway showtunes? Th…
SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE JUST GETS BETTER WITH TIME "Art isn't easy," sing the cast of players in Sunday in the Park with George; the words are most notably sung by the artist-protagon…
SEVEN CHEERS FOR SEVEN GUITARS The Actors Shakespeare Company's production of Seven Guitars deserves at least seven cheers for this powerful production of August Wilson's Pulitzer-nominated …
A MAGIC AFTERNOON Beautiful music (Christopher Vu, composer; Bo Jones (Lee) flute; Thomas Barth, cello, and Michael Weinfeld-Zell, percussion) and richly colored projected visuals gave a sol…
PLAYFUL SINGULARITY DaEun Jung's Byoulnorri closes Odyssey Theatre Ensemble's dance festival, 2023 Dance at the Odyssey, with playful austerity. The hour-long concert is performed in two par…
GREAT STORYTELLING, TERRIFIC PLAY WONDERFUL CABARET, TOP ENTERTAINMENT " ALL IN ONE SHOW Jean Louisa Kelly (original Broadway cast of Into the Woods, and the movies Uncle Buck, Mr. …
WANDERING WRITING The Wanderers, the new play by Anna Ziegler (Boy, A Delicate Ship, The Last Match, Another Way Home) now making its New York premiere with The Roundabout Theatre Company, c…
SWINGTIME SHAKESPEARE Everyone will make much ado about Guillermo Cienfuego's delightful take on Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing which opened last weekend at A Noise Within. This comedy…
THIS JOYOUS TRIUMPH IS LIKE A PIG IN SHIT Mixed with the contradictory language of William Shakespeare and Trump-speak, Nimrod is a gut-busting, refreshing, sharp, irreverent, and often caco…
BROADWAY SUMMER CAMP IS COMING June 19"23 | Students ages 11"13June 26"30 | Students ages 14"19 Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â As a part…
HIT PLAYS IN THE MAKING Now in its 25th year, this rehearsed reading series is dedicated to the support and development of innovative new work, offering each playwright a week-long rehear…
WAITING TO EXHALE Getting its West Coast Premiere at the Geffen Playhouse's mainstage Gil Cates Theater, The First Deep Breath, a 2019 play by Lee Edward Colston II, is an overstuffed family…
REAL LIFE TRANSCRIPT MAKES FOR RIVETING THEATER Collaboraction Theatre's Emmy-winning teleplay, Trial in the Delta: The Murder of Emmett Till, is back at The DuSable Museum as a live, intera…
ANOTHER FEATHER IN MOXIE'S CAP Playwright Anna Ouyang Moench uses the setting of a wooded area " beautifully designed at MOXIE Theatre by Robin Sanford Roberts " as the backdrop of this beau…
TENNESSEE RISES AGAIN The newly renovated AMT Theater in midtown will host the Off-Broadway Premiere of TENNESSEE RISING: THE DAWN OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, a solo play written and performed…
