The movie is a wreck. The musical is a joke. Why, then, will we always have 'Cats'?
The new movie is a wreck. The musical is a joke. So what's the appeal to this celebration of feline cosplay?
The new movie is a wreck. The musical is a joke. So what's the appeal to this celebration of feline cosplay?
Writing a review of Primal Force's Villainous Company, which has more plot twists than a Christmas corkscrew, is going to be hard because we wouldn't dare to give away any spoilers. Suffice …
Published as war broke out in 1939, TS Eliot's Book of Practical Cats outsold The Waste Land. The 1980s saw a West End smash. Will the new film speak to us today? When Old Possum's Book of P…
Everything that the Toronto production does to evoke Newfoundland had to be torn down, packed up and moved to the show's new home eight or so blocks away. Here's how they did it.
In IMPRESSIONS: And Then We Danced, "The film demands that you, the viewer, engage immediately and unceasingly with the protagonists and their plight, leaving you drained and astounded." …
What do you do if you have to learn 2 speeches, a song, be familiar with 70 pages of script and work
Festival culture is big. But many of the big festivals have become generic, expensive and boring. Here are five elements that define successful festivals, and five ways to think about reinve…
"The Inheritance," a long, ambitious play about three generations of gay men in New York, pays homage to two masterpieces, without being one itself. Yet the play by Matthew Lopez, making his…
The Broadway alum makes his Metropolitan Opera debut in Philip Glass' Akhnaten.
★★★★ Some fine acting and a sterling staging lend credence to a classy gay soap opera by Matthew Lopez The post The Inheritance: Gay Times in America, Then and Now ap…
Because Eliza Griswold's poems often take place in war zones, she's always provocative -- even when she is tendentious. The post Poetry Review: "If Men, Then" " Verse on Present Day Firing L…
Tiffany Mills' "Not then, not yet," a world premiere dance/theater work at The Flea proposed a dark, slightly chaotic view of relationships and alienation choreographed on her own troupe, th…
Teatro Biondo Stabile in Palermo has a full-house. To the right, left and up in the surrounding galleries are a mixture of different generations: ones who were there thirty years ago and one…
Check out Alex Gibson's Candy Crush-inspired showstopper from Octet.
A BIG APPLE ROMANCE WITH CRUNCH     How romantic New York is to the British heart! From Superman to Friends we seem to know it, from Elf and 34th Street (not to mentio…
It was a coincidence that could not have been more welcome if it had had been planned; One day, the mailwoman brought two new albums that feature pianist Bill Mays. " Doug Ramsey
"[Millicent Hodson's] reconstructions include the legendary George Balanchine's 1925 Le Chant du Rossignol, the tale of a Chinese emperor who favors the notes of a mechanical bird over the s…
Anupama Chandrasekhar's tense and searching new play When the Crows Visit is a theatrical response to the 2012 Delhi gang rape of a young woman on a bus. These men walk among us, protected b…
 Actress Adrienne C. Moore on Ntozake Shange, "Wonder Woman" and life after "Orange is the New Black."
David Henry Hwang got his first break in 1980, when a New York theatre sought to redress accusations of 'yellowface'. In the
Three very different Halloween adventures test a horror-film enthusiast with little experience visiting haunted houses.
As the self-involved, self-lacerating womanizer in the play "Linda Vista," Ian Barford aims to offer the audience just enough reasons not to give up on him.
In 1999, a small college in Kilgore, TX " in an area where, at the time, gay men were routinely beaten and sometimes murdered " staged Angels in America, angry protests from local fundamenta…
The comedian has written his first play " on whether science can prove that the Almighty exists. But first, there are some hecklers to deal with ... Schrödinger's cat can be both alive and…