WICKED, the West End and Broadway musical sensation that tells the incredible untold story of the Witches of Oz, is pleased to announce that Miss Saigon star Alistair Brammer will play Fiyer…
Shakespeare Theatre Company will be presenting playwright Ellen McLaughlin's adaptation of Aeschylus' "The Oresteia," directed by Michael Kahn, at Sidney Harman Hall at the Harman Center for…
In IMPRESSIONS: Stephen Petronio Company at NYU Skirball, "The full company fills the stage, moving in and out of diagonal patterns with driving lines and turns. I am deeply struck by the…
Vienna Theatre Company has just opened David Lindsay-Abaire's hilarious play, Ripcord, for the last production of their current season. The show takes place in an assisted living facility, w…
The Arden Theatre Company brings a feminist wink to a delightful children's theater adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. Alix Rosenfeld reviews.
Toni Stone is an encyclopedia of baseball stats. She's got a great arm. And she doesn't understand why she can't play with the boys. Lydia Diamond's new play knocks it out of the park with a…
By Owais Lightwala. Owais Lightwala talks about how Toronto's Why Not Theatre grew from a scrappy startup to an institution in their own right"which came with a greater responsibility to tac…
First, there was a letter. Then, the Philly theater community caught fire on social media, with unintended effects for everyone. Now, the original authors have met with Philadelphia Theatre …
The new Broadway production of Terrence McNally's Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, starring Tony, Grammy and Emmy Award winner Audra McDonald and two-time Academy Award nominee Micha…
The splashy opening is spectacularly preconception-smashing. We know we're about to see a play premised on a 1953 meeting in a Paris café between the literary lion Richard Wright and James …
Pandemic Collective, a nonprofit horror theater company based in Denver, gets eerie and supernatural in its latest production, Laveau.
The post Local Theater Company Embraces the Macabre and…
Staging an epic that involves a bloody chain of events in "a deluge of violence," as the Shakespeare Theatre Company describes The Oresteia, requires not just the skills and talents of the a…
For over a dozen years, the brilliant directorchoreographer Austin McCormick and the intriguing troupe of artists he's gathered to create and expand Company XIV have been luring audiences to…
In Les Deux Noirs: Notes on Notes of a Native Son, Playwright Psalmayene 24, Director Raymond O. Caldwell, and Founding Artistic Director Ari Roth take on the risky task of staging a well-kn…
Leader of the Humboldt Park-based theater, Vega and his company are actively working to preserve their community's stories while training a new generation of theater artists.
The City of Fairfax Theatre Company is marking its 10th anniversary this year. Founded by two Fairfax High School drama teachers and a team of volunteers in 2009, CFTC underwent what Artisti…
"Sisters, Sisters, There were never such devoted sisters," warbled Rosemary Clooney and Rosemary Clooney in White Christmas. (Yes, Clooney was the stand-in singing voice for Vera-Ellen for t…
SOME, NOT ALL, IS ILLUMINATED Sadly, not everything is illuminated in British playwright Simon Block's fascinating but problematic adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's best-selling novel abo…
Rachelle Rak, director Richard Matlby, Jr., and more remember the unconventional casting process, backstage (and onstage) pranks, showmances, and more behind the Tony-winning Broadway revue.
