Traverse, EdinburghThe activist-comedian takes the temperature of universal healthcare and delivers a grave diagnosisMark Thomas is standing centre stage, feet splayed, shoulders feeling the…
Morgan JamesandEllyn Marie Marshpresent 'Gettin Peggy Wit It' Peggy took time out of her busy schedule to check in with six green girls of Broadway past Eden Espinosa, Caroline Bowman, Julia…
By Myra Chanin Sholem Aleichem, aka "The Jewish Mark Twain," was not always a hilariously funny writer. Life was never fun and games for the poor shtetl Jews he immortalized…
Richard Strauss's opera sounds delicious, while Antony McDonald's production skilfully negotiates the plot's twists and turns
The movement just keeps building: On Wednesday, it was announced that "Haymarket," Underscore's folk musical about the 1886 Chicago battle between cops and labor organizers, will go on an ex…
Old Vic, LondonSally Cookson delivers an exhilarating production of Patrick Ness's story about a lonely boy coping with grief, bullying and a monster in a yew treeSometimes it is good to go …
Rob Brydon stars in this sinking Britcom about a synchronised swimming troupe
Morgan JamesandEllyn Marie Marshpresent 'Getting Peggy Wit It' Peggy took time out of her busy schedule to stop by Broadway Bares and chat with some of this year's performers, including Jay …
"All the world's a stage," as Shakespeare never said in "The Tempest." That much-quoted line actually is from "As You Like It," but it would fit nicely into the Bard's more fantasy-drenched …
Morgan James and Ellyn Marie Marsh present Getting Peggy Wit It Peggy took time out of her busy schedule to meet with esteemed members of the Broadway community to discuss all things Tony Aw…
OUR LOST DREAM CITY It's possible to think that it never happened, that we imagined its splendor to exalt our past. It was the most transient of treasures, with only the Museum of Science an…
There's a line from Anita Bryant's best-known song that goes: Like a big red rose made of paper / There isn't any sweetness in your heart. "Paper Roses" doesn't appear in "The Loneliest Girl…
Nigel Slater's autobiographical novel Toast is steeped in the aromas of home baking and burnt toast, and his genial writing style is
Aleichem Sholom! The Wit and Wisdom of Sholom Aleichem Reviewed by Paul Birchall Santa Monica Playhouse Through June 25 Chris DeCarlo and Evelyn Rudie, playwrights, perfor…
Theatre Royal Haymarket, LondonChristopher Hampton's erratic California-set adaptation features strong performances by Audrey Fleurot and Paul Anderson, but its lack of coherence is not just…
The one-woman show starring Kate McCauley Hathaway uses writer Bombeck's own words to paint a picture of her life. The Cape May Stage production runs May 24 to June 22.
Louise Dearman's performance at The Other Palace was faultless. Her natural wit and charm had me smiling from ear to ear and just feeling joyous.
Tom Stoppard’s 1917 tour-de-force can be a mess of historical and literary references, but it is handled deftly by this director and cast.
In an explosive unison Greek-Chorus, the girls share their wish that society would urge the importance of their personal individuality as much as their sexually stereotyped identities. It is…
"Da, da!" when translated as "Yes, yes!" is a fittingly celebratory salutation to greet the sparkling and incisive revival of Tom Stoppard's "Travesties" which has arrived at the American Ai…
REVOLVING FATES — AIN’T IT GRAND? Like the chandelier in Phantom of the Opera or the helicopter in Miss Saigon, a revolving door is the all-purpose metaphor for Berlin's…
Kokandy Productions is pleased to present the final production of its fifth anniversary season: the Tony [...]
Theater Wit is extending its smash hit comedy Women Laughing Alone with Salad, Sheila Callaghan's satirical [...]
Edgar & Emily, the premiere at Palm Beach Dramaworks, is a fascinating and funny fantasia about the dead Edgar Allan Poe visiting Emily Dickinson late one night dragging his coffin behi…