Monday, October 4, 2021
By JACK LYONS When it comes to original stories made into movies and TV films about the subject of love and marriage, one would be hard pressed to ignore the angst-filled dramas of the great…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 08:05AMThursday, September 30, 2021
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) There are times when a single performance rises above all others within a given production. While these times are rare, when the…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 05:47AMSaturday, September 18, 2021
By ANNE SIEGEL (Dashland, OREGON) – Water by the Spoonful is perhaps even more relevant today than when it was staged at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2014. The play initially appeare…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 09:04PMSaturday, September 11, 2021
By ANNE SIEGEL SPRING GREEN, WI. – This summer, while audiences were flocking to the large, outdoor theater to view Shakespeare under the stars, another small miracle was taking place insi…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 06:33AMThursday, August 12, 2021
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) When the notices first went out proclaiming an upcoming production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard at Slidell’s C…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 03:36AMTuesday, August 3, 2021
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) Rob Ulin must be a very happy man. He obviously has been saying his prayers and living a proper and pious life. That must be the…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 09:50AMWednesday, July 28, 2021
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) Watch out, Sonny Crockett and Rico Tubbs, there are two dudes named Antipholus who are being confused for one another in the Sou…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 07:24PMBy ANNE SIEGEL Under a towering grove of old growth trees, on an exceptionally balmy evening, the Summit Players were hurriedly making preparations for their production of free Shakespeare i…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 04:42AMSunday, July 25, 2021
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) Jill Conner Browne has transformed herself into the head of a giant cottage industry of self-aware and loudly proud plus-sized a…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 11:23PMBy JACK LYONS It’s amazing what the human mind can understand and accomplish when it comes to the world of theatre and its sister art form the motion picture. Both are potent art forms …
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 11:14AMSaturday, July 24, 2021
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out”) The second and final weekend of Summer Lyric Theatre at Tulane’s Jesus Christ Superstar brings with it the final shows of the …
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 11:09AMWednesday, July 14, 2021
By EDWIN RUBIN The very mention of the New York City’s own wildly popular actress and comedian Jackie Hoffman – she of 1000 facial expressions, bodily quirks, a score of well-placed ad l…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 05:52AMSaturday, July 3, 2021
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) When the shutdown of Broadway occurred in March of 2020, there were few devotees who expected it to drag on for more than 16 mon…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 11:43AMWednesday, June 30, 2021
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out”) It’s taken two years for the darkened stage of Tulane University’s Dixon Hall to be witness to the frenetic work of dozens o…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 08:11AMBy ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) Tovah Feldshuh has made a career of originating memorable roles of strong female characters on both the small and large screens,…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 07:48AMSaturday, June 26, 2021
By Edward Rubin The night I attended a live production of Jacob Storms’ one man show, Tennessee Rising: The Dawn of Tennessee Williams, held at the Cell Theater in New City, it was raining…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 02:02PMMonday, June 21, 2021
By JACK LYONS North Coast Repertory Theatre (NCRT) of Solana Beach, CA., brings gifted, multiple award-winning actor Tovah Feldshuh to their stage to star in playwright Mark St. Germain’s …
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 04:15PMSunday, June 20, 2021
By ALAN SMASON, WYES Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out”) At the start of this pandemic-impacted season, New Jersey’s George Street Playhouse unveiled bold plans to present four productio…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 09:50AMWednesday, June 16, 2021
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out”) It’s been a year of firsts for Summer Lyric Theatre at Tulane’s (SLT) artistic director Michael McKelvey. After a year of sh…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 02:19PMThursday, June 10, 2021
By JACK LYONS If this COVID-19 pandemic has taught us anything, then it’s forced the American viewing public to think outside the traditional creative arts box when it comes to entertainme…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 05:51AMFriday, June 4, 2021
By EDWARD RUBIN Tiny Beautiful Things, George Street Playhouse’s filmed play, based on Cheryl Strayed’s book, “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar,” a 2…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 09:06PMTuesday, May 25, 2021
By ALAN SMASON, Theatre Critic, WYES-TV (“Steppin’ Out”) When Heather Massie arrived on the stage of BB’s Stage Door Canteen after 14 months of postponed performances from COVID safe…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 07:00PMThursday, May 20, 2021
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out”) If there were any indication that the worst of the pandemic is now behind us and that a return to what we formerly considered �…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 02:34PMFriday, May 14, 2021
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) Cheryl Strayed published her book “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar” in 2012, based on several…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 10:55PMSaturday, April 17, 2021
By ALAN SMASON Look out! The Little Sisters of Hoboken are back, but you need not reach for your rosary beads or prepare to make an act of contrition. All you need do is head over to Riverto…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 07:36AMBy JACK LYONS Ernest Hemingway, the American novelist and author, became a giant of American 20th century literature. His style was new in the early 1920s. It was fresh and it was larg…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 06:10AMThursday, April 8, 2021
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) John Cullum, the two-time Tony Award winning leading Broadway actor, might have been content to rest on his well-deserved laurel…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 11:43PMSunday, April 4, 2021
By ALAN SMASON No. It’s not a latter-day Our Town. Nor is it Love Letters for couples. It is, however, somewhere in between. Streaming sales for a filmed stage reading of Dan Clancy’s Mi…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 12:07PMTuesday, March 30, 2021
By ALAN SMASON When playwright Becky Mode wrote her first piece Fully Committed, she wrote well of what she knew. She had worked for many years as a worker in fine New York eateries taking r…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 12:49PMFriday, March 26, 2021
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) The story of God of Vengeance (Got fun Nekome), the three-act drama in Yiddish by Sholem Asch, was famously recounted in 2017 wi…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 04:27PMFriday, March 12, 2021
By EDWARD RUBIN For great fun, and a breathless romp through one woman’s topsy-turvy life, Bad Dates, George Street Playhouses’ filmed version of Theresa Rebeck’s 2003 zany one-woman p…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 02:54PM 
