TITLE SONG RELEASED TODAY With music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, book by Emerald Fennell and lyrics by David Zippel, Bad Cinderella is a modern retelling of the classic fairytale is set in the e…
THIS GUY REALLY DOES DESERVE AN EXCLAMATION POINT What can I say about musical comedy actor and funny man Jason Graae? Well, first, his last name is pronounced "Grah" but his latest one-man …
CRANES HAS A CLIPPED WING Last night at REDCAT in downtown Los Angeles, CalArts presented a new play by Octavio Solis, and the story is magnificent. In East L.A., a teenager named Nico has b…
OUR FUNKY FOUNDING FATHERS A hip-hop Alexander Hamilton? A beat-box Father of His Country? A jumping James Madison and a jiveass Jefferson who disses bigtime in a poetry slam? The ten-dollar…
JUMP TO AS YOU LIKE IT " IT'S A PEACH Frog & Peach Theatre Company, New York's critically acclaimed and revolutionary Shakespeare ensemble, will return to the live stage with their long-…
ACE YOUNG TO HEADLINE CONTROVERSIAL NEW PLAY ABOUT SEXUAL ABUSE WITHIN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH Vatican Falls, the controversial play written by Frank J. Avella that closely examines the Catholic…
SPILL YOUR MAGIC BEANS NOW; THIS SPELL ONLY LASTS ONE NIGHT Get all dead-dolled up and get your spook on for Broadway's biggest Halloween event of the year: Jay Armstrong Johnson's annual so…
LaChanze & More to Join The Flea's 2nd Annual House Party On Thursday, Sept. 29, 7:30pm until Midnight, The Flea Theater (20 Thomas Street) is presenting its 2nd Annual House Party en…
A BRAINDEAD MUSICAL REANIMATED TO GLORIOUS LIFE In 2007, the Mel Brooks musical Young Frankenstein opened on Broadway to largely dismissive reviews. Some say it opened too close on the heels…
THE FARM-TO-FABLE REVOLUTION IS HERE In what is Los Angeles's best season since well before the pandemic, comes along the best show of the season. Only in New York would one expect the calib…
JAGGED LITTLE SHOW You're going to need more than a pill to relieve your aches after seeing this dreck. From what I'd heard, the Broadway success of Jagged Little Pill, a hyper-woke jukebox …
THE SKY'S THE LIMIT IN THIS LOVELY PRODUCTION Unless you are an astronomer or an astronomy buff, you likely have never heard of Henrietta Swan Leavitt. She was an American woman who made dis…
A BLINDINGLY BRILLIANT PRODUCTION Since its premiere in c. 429 BC, Sophocles' Oedipus the King has been considered the Mount Olympus of Greek Tragedies, largely because it humanizes the them…
OH, OUR MAN, I LOVE IT SO Does absolute power corrupt absolutely? Does America export democracy or expand empire? Can an idealistic young man maintain his ideals in the harsh reality of work…
A MUSICAL ABOUT PRESIDENTIAL ASSASSINS & ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS? WELL, SHOOT! At the very least, you have to give credit for anyone coming up with this bizarre idea: A musical about the …
SMALLS MAKES A HUGE STORY In January 2017, President Barack Obama issued an executive order establishing Reconstruction Era National Monument in Beaufort County, noting the significance of R…
OKLAHOMA! AS WOKELAHOMA NOT SO OK ON TOUR This ain't your mama's Oklahoma! While Daniel Fish's completely rethought and stripped-down production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1943 watershed m…
A CLOSER WALK WITH PATSY Patsy Cline couldn't be more fondly or accurately recalled than by Cayman Ilika in Karen Lund's sweet production of Always…Patsy Cline, the oft-produced 1990 paean…
SKI RESORT SKETCH SKILLFULLY SKIPS ALONG AND SKYROCKETS INTO OUR HEARTS Saturday Night Live has been notorious over the years for coming up with some bits that are funny enough to fill an en…
THESE BOOTSÂ AREÂ MEANT FOR WALKING Kinky Boots: The Musical is back in San Francisco, again at the Victoria Theater for a month-long run. Based on the same-titled 2005 film written by G…
A NEAR DISASTER HANDLED BY A MASTER Jones and Schmidt, the creative team behind one of Broadway's longest running hits, The Fantasticks, also wrote another, lesser-know musical called Philem…
ONE TOUCH OF GODDESS Goddess, the exciting new musical at Berkeley Rep with its sights set for Broadway, re-imagines the African myth of Marimba: the goddess of music. In order to experience…
NORM FOSTER'S NEW COMEDY OPENS SEPTEMBER 22 AT THEATRE 40 Norm Foster has been called "the Neil Simon of Canada." The remarkably prolific author of 54 plays (with more on the way) is Canada'…
AS EVERYBODY WILL LIKE IT To the mind of an ordinary Elizabethan, a forest in France might conjur thoughts of fairies, whimsy, beauty and adventure. While there is a Forest of Arden in Engla…
GETTING TO THE MEAT OF HER CAREER Michele Ragusa is blessed and touched by the theater Gods " they're real, trust us. Her career in theater is simply glowing, full of variety, and seemingly …