A Marvellous Party, commissioned by the Noël Coward Foundation, ostensibly marks the centenary of Coward's first appearance on stage and has been produced to raise funds for actors on bot…
Monica Dolan and Lesley Manville are peerless in this Alan Bennett double bill Monologues and duets rule the stage right now. We can only dream of the day when theatre steps up to the classi…
"The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny." Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) Continue reading Almanac: Edward Abbey on wit at About Last Ni…
Mary Rachel Brown Portrays Family Captured by Addiction by Patricia L. Morin At the intimate Griffin Theatre, Mary Rachel Brown explores the overlooked, slimy world of greyhound racing and g…
DICK EXTENDS Chicago's Theater Wit announced a third and final extension today of Teenage Dick, its long-running critically acclaimed virtual production of Mike Lew's devastatingly funny new…
In this time of isolation, wouldn't it be nice to take a virtual visit to the park? Fear not. PBS is streaming this past summer's Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing…
Michael Lew Turns "Winter of Our Discontent" to Comedy by Barry David Horwitz It all starts in high school, where it's so easy to shove aside the weak and the geek. At Theatre Wit in Chicago…
During their run in the Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of The Importance of Being Earnest, the two performers created a video series melding Snooki and Oscar Wilde.
The prolific author of "Love! Valour! Compassion!" won four Tonys, for both plays and musicals.
In the wake of COVID-19, Theater Wit brings the local premiere of Mike Lew's play directly to their audience.
Theater Wit's production of Mike Lew's play, which is running online through April 19th, has changed the way we view this teenage comedy turned melodrama based on Shakespeare's "Richard III"…
The Greek philosopher Plato, summarized what is to be in love as "a serious mental illness." Both a "rapture" yet also "pure madness." Love is the Pandora's box of human existence and both h…
There is out there, and then there is Will Eno. An interviewer once asked him one of those personality-in-a-nutshell questions. If you could pick any superpower for yourself, he asked the pl…
Showbiz Chicago Theater Wit To Stream Performances of TEENAGE DICK "All the world's a stage" takes on new meaning with Chicago's Theater Wit's announcement today [...] Theater Wit To Stream…
Jonathan Harvey has extraordinary skill in writing sensitive, witty dialogue. Our Lady of Blundellsands is an outstanding example of his ability to
Epstein theatre, LiverpoolTouring for the first time in seven years, it's clear that the standup veteran hasn't lost any of his sharp humour 'As Emperor Hirohito said after the Hiroshima bom…
Can a play about cancer be uplifting? That's the question posed by Margaret Edson in her Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Wit, currently showing at the Elite Theatre Company in Oxnard. The play …
It doesn't matter if you've never seen Ben Elton's TV comedy series Upstart Crow (I hadn't) as the stage play is a stand-alone piece
On the surface Albion may be a play about a woman restoring a garden, but once you dig beneath the topsoil this play is about a complicated, nostalgic and divided society, struggling to reas…
Suzanne Vega sings with effortless cool in this adaptation at the Pershing Square Signature Center, New York
The term "op traken" is Norwegian, and describes the act of a skier swiftly jumping and tucking their legs beneath them in
Jane Alexander and James Cromwell are a match made in theatrical heaven at the Helen Hayes Theater
LONELY HUBRIS "I want it all." "The sky's [not] the limit." "You only live once." "You can't take it with you.": We're fascinated by all the pride that precedes a fall. We can conditionally …
ROCKING THE BOAT When we enter the theater, we see two women in a small fishing boat. It's surrounded by huge buckets depicting the shallows of an inlet in the Alabama delta. Overhead nettin…
Many theaters spend the holiday season rotating through A Christmas Carol, It's a... The post Review: Magic, wit of its Theatrical Outfit forbear goes missing in "The Wickhams" appeared f…