Wednesday, May 24, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") Author Mark Haddon created a best selling novel 20 years ago in Great Britain with "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 02:02PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 20, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") There is an adage well known to pharmacists and those familiar with shampoo. The directions "repeat when necessary" come to mind for a…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 01:14PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 16, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") Despite its having won a Tony Award for scenic design, The SpongeBob Musical appeared to be a lightweight entry on the season for R…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 09:11AM[SHARE]Monday, May 15, 2023
By ROY BERKO The setting in which a musical production takes place, often affects the pleasure one gets from the experience. A perfect case in point is Ain't Misbehavin' presently being …
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 09:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 2, 2023
(NEW YORK) " Tony Awards nominations were announced this morning by Lea Michele and 2022 Tony Award winner Myles Frost. The full list of nominations follows. A total of 38 shows were elig…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 05:44PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 29, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") Lance E. Nichols has played many roles in his stellar movie and TV career, but the opportunity to emulate playwright August Wilson in …
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 10:46AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 25, 2023
By ROY BERKO It's always exciting and challenging to see a "new" play script come alive in a staged production, especially by a creditable performance company.  What We Look Like, now …
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 09:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 20, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") In 1851 in an article written for DeBow's Review that was published in New Orleans, Dr. Samuel Cartwright, a physician, created a pseu…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 02:29PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 15, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") Brian Egland wears many hats in the theatrical world " stage and film actor, singer, songwriter, photographer and director among them.…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 06:01PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 12, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") If Jersey Boys and Mamma Mia! are examples of "jukebox musicals," then the national tour of Moulin Rouge! might be more accurately …
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 01:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 28, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") The final production for the Jefferson Performing Arts Society's 2022-23 season is Misery, the play written by the late scriptwriter W…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 03:25PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 22, 2023
By EDWARD RUBIN Pictures from Home currently running thru April 30 is the most delightful and thought-provoking play currently gracing the Broadway stages at this very moment. Featuring the …
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 09:44AM[SHARE]Monday, March 20, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") One could argue that T. Lawrence Shannon, the defrocked Episcopal priest who is the central character of The Night of the Iguana by Te…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 12:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 15, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") For the second time in less than six months, The Play That Goes Wrong, the hit West End and Broadway award-winning comedy is on the bo…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 01:47AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 14, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") There's something to be said when a major New Orleans staple like Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is able to been seen with …
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 07:05AM[SHARE]Friday, March 10, 2023
By ANNE SIEGEL MILWAUKEE, WI " As England prepares for its royal coronation in May, Milwaukee audiences have gotten a glimpse of the upcoming festivities with the arrival of the Six national…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 10:57AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 7, 2023
By ROY BERKO In the late 1950's through the 1980s The Theatre of the Absurd theatrical movement was the intellectual rage.  Based on the concept of Existentialism which asks, "what …
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 08:42AM[SHARE]Monday, March 6, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") If artists of one cultural or racial extraction are being considered above others for inclusion at a museum or at gallery shows, is it…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 03:21PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 4, 2023
By ANNE SIEGEL MILWAUKEE, WI " This Midwest state is currently swept up in a slate of new plays, all part of a project called World Premiere Wisconsin. The project, with multiple sources of …
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 07:07AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 2, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") When it comes to an old chestnut like "Fiddler on the Roof," the biggest challenge may be in keeping the Joseph Stein book fresh and t…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 04:40PM[SHARE]Friday, February 24, 2023
By JASON ROBERT BROWN February 22, 2023, Nyack, NY So, the Neo-Nazis. There is a website about the Leo Frank case that is not hard to find on Google. It has been around in some form or other…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 03:25AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 4, 2023
By ROY BERKO When Hadestown, opened on Broadway on April 17, 2019, it was met with critical acclaim. Reviews contained such terms as "inventive," "gorgeous, "hypnotic," "high energy," "utter…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 01:37AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 29, 2023
By EDWARD RUBIN Having lived in New York City's East Village for many decades, I know the very neighborhood where much of the action in Anthony McCarten's currently running Broadway play The…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 04:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 26, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ('Steppin' Out") When A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical opened on Broadway nearly eight weeks ago, there was some bellyaching from first n…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 08:43AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 18, 2023
By ROY BERKO As the run of the awe-inspiring Hamilton draws to a close at the Playhouse Square's State Theatre, Beetlejuice, the cult-followed farcical ghostly show appears next door at the …
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 06:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 11, 2023
By ANNE SIEGEL MILWAUKEE, WI. " January temperatures rarely rise above 30 degrees here, so indoor activities are welcomed. Local theatergoers can watch a foot-stompin,' whooping and hollerin…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 05:24AM[SHARE]Monday, January 9, 2023
By ALAN SMASON There are a plethora of plays that have become the basis of successful Broadway musicals. A classic example is Lynn Riggs' Green Grow the Lilacs, which became Oklahoma. …
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 11:37AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 22, 2022
By EDWARD RUBIN Billed as "A Penetrating Portrayal of A Queer Giant," performance artist John Kelly's explosive gay-themed show Underneath The Skin, " bolstered by actor/dancers Hucklefa…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 08:25PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 20, 2022
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") Billy Wilder's "Some Like It Hot," considered by many film enthusiasts as one of the greatest movies of all time, would seem to be a p…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 03:55PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 11, 2022
By ROY BERKO Since 1959, Dobama Theatre has been dedicated to premiering important new plays by established and emerging playwrights in professional productions of the highest quality. The L…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 07:43AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 10, 2022
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") Tom Stoppard had long established his credentials as One of the 20th century's leading playwrights and authors, Tom Stoppard was a pro…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 10:28AM[SHARE] 
