FUTURE SHOCK FROM A PAST PRANK In less than 90 minutes this new one-act by Meridith Friedman plays hard: By show's end we get an absorbing case history in situational ethics. Cautionary scen…
Arena Stage mounts another first in the Women's Voices Theater Festival.
Erma Bombeck: At Wit's End is full of the wit and wisdom of the woman herself; written by journalist/sister duo Allison and Margaret Engel, the play allows Erma (Barbara Chisholm) to tell he…
As we close out the DC Women's Voices Theatre Festival, theatre-goers have experienced voices come that have roared, whispered, shocked us and teased. With the quirky and wholesome in…
Barbara Chisholm stars in the one-woman world premiere.
A Wonderful "Mom-ologue" Many Baby Boomers' earliest memories were of their stay-at-home mothers laughing at a risque line in an Erma Bombeck column, carefully cutting the column out " then …
I'M FEELING UNLUCKY The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence is Theatre Wit's latest local premiere by Madeleine George, author of Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England, a 2014 pro…
Moises Kaufman's first play, Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, will receive a star-studded benefit reading Oct. 5 to support the Tectonic Theater Project and the Inte…
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonPerformed by a fine ensemble, this adaptation of the picaresque novel is a good night out and a rousing tribute to feminist principlesLaura Wade's adaptation of Sara…
Adrienne Truscott's one-woman show, which is both chirpy and blistering, rewards and invites a strong drink.
Kokandy Productions invites you to pour yourself some eggnog and make yourself at home for a family-sized portion of holiday cheer at A KOKANDY CHRISTMAS, an evening of festive stories…
It’s a old wives’ tale that comics are at odds with the audience- the heckler at a comedy show these days is more far likely to be shouted down by the audience than by the comic.…
The new show “Celles d’en haute,” or in English “Women on Top,” has many rare and admirable qualities. It’s funny, bizarre, inventive, frightening and …
The team behind the full-scale feature film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Into the Woods will reunite to develop an original, live-action "Mary Poppins&q…
One of my favorite Merl Reagle moments was when he appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show in support of the 2006 Oscar-nominated documentary about the world of crossword puzzles, "Wordplay."
What greets us when we first enter the F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre to see George Bernard Shaw's “Misalliance” is the lovely sun-dappled Victorian conservatory designed by Bria…
The famous American humorist gets a one-woman show in Washington, D.C.
The new season features local favorites and an area premiere.
Theater Wit has announced its 2015-16 season on the North Side. The three titles will play in the company's space at 1229 N. Belmont Ave.; more information at TheaterWit.org.
If your upcoming vacation plans allow you any flexibility, then by any means possible add "Dear Evan Hansen" to your itinerary. The heart-piercingly lovely new musical, receiving its world p…
No Stakes Theater Project, a growing platform that supports the development of Chicago's emerging theater artists, presents Jim Cartwright's THE RISE AND FALL OF LITTLE VOICE, from August 14…
Review: Director Darko Tresnjak stages a splashy, exuberant revival of Cole Porter-scored favorite.
Soho theatre, LondonThe character comic is charismatic and subtle, but his attempts to get the audience to deliver the laughs sometimes fall flatWant to be a duck? Want your face lathered in…
OUR FEATHERED FIENDS This is not Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, a 1963 horror fest about being pecked to death and delighting in Tippi Hedrin and Suzanne Pleshette's contagious distress. It's…