Tuesday, May 13, 2025
To Free a Mockingbird – 12 May 2025 To Free a Mockingbird creator and performer Grace Aki delivers a funny, dark, and twisted solo performance at Soho Playhouse. The story works its way t…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 06:38PMSunday, May 11, 2025
Smash – 11 May 2025 Although many expect Smash to simply be a fun, comedic musical that’s pure entertainment, I found myself puzzling through some broader themes that came to light in th…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 10:05PMPages on Stages, Mason Pilevsky Direction of a Musical Saheem Ali, Buena Vista Social Club Since the actual text of Buena Vista Social Club is so minimal, it fell on director Saheem Ali to m…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 09:30AMSaturday, May 10, 2025
Operation Mincemeat – 8 May 2025 Most reminiscent of The Producers, Operation Mincemeat leans into the idea that people with highly classified, top secret government jobs can actually be m…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 11:26AMFloyd Collins – 9 May 2025 Floyd Collins is utterly unlike the rest of this Broadway season’s musicals, and I found it an incredible breath of fresh air. Structured more like an opera th…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 10:21AMWednesday, May 7, 2025
Stranger Things: The First Shadow – 06 May 2025 A high intensity ride through the life of possibly possessed Henry Creel (Louis McCartney), Stranger Things tells a story taking place in …
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 11:36PMSunday, May 4, 2025
Purpose – 04 May 2025 If I had to characterize Purpose in a single word, I think I might say, “hypocritical”—but I’d mean it in a good way. Purpose focuses on family values, but ex…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 09:21PMPages on Stages, Mason Pilevsky Featured Actress in a Play Tara Ashe, English Elham was a challenging character because she struggled the most with the language barrier, and Tara Ashe had t…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 07:29PMJohn Proctor is the Villain – 03 May 2025 John Proctor is the Villain examines the shifting perceptions of the status quo and radical redefinitions of feminism in a small town in Georgia …
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 08:30AMBuena Vista Social Club – 03 May 2025 The strongest element of Buena Vista Social Club was also the uniting force within the world of the show – the music. Though it didn’t used to…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 07:00AMSaturday, May 3, 2025
78th Annual Tony Awards Predictions – Mason Pilevsky Beginning Sunday May 4, Pages on Stages will be dropping Tony Award predictions every week until the big night. The first set of predic…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 10:32PMFriday, May 2, 2025
Just in Time – 02 May 2025 There are few musicians, actors, and performers whose talent can truly transcend genre, and, in Just In Time, Jonathan Groff proves his versatility a thousand t…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 11:42PMThursday, May 1, 2025
Irishtown – 01 May 2025 Ciara Elizabeth Smyth’s dark comedy Irishtown explores the concept of how theatre is created and whether it’s best to stay within the realm of what you know or …
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 10:29PMDeath Becomes Her – 29 April 2024 Death Becomes Her is a show that didn’t work for me, but I’m having a hard time explaining why. The design elements were flawless and beautiful. Each…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 05:43PMWednesday, April 30, 2025
Dead Outlaw – 30 April 2025 I applaud Dead Outlaw for being one of the few Broadway shows with genuinely original content, a fully original score, and no need for a television/movie star t…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 10:45PMSunday, April 27, 2025
Real Women Have Curves – 25 April 2025 Real Women Have Curves was speaking my language from the moment I entered the theatre and saw the gorgeous mural that set the tone for story that, l…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 09:30PMFriday, April 25, 2025
Pirates! The Penzance Musical – 09 April 2025 Roundabout Theater Company’s swashbuckling re-setting of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance in New Orleans, Louisiana is the…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 12:00AMThursday, April 24, 2025
Manhatten Mayhem by David Rothenberg, review written 25 April 2025 David Rothenberg’s new memoir, Manhattan Mayhem, is an intelligent, beautiful look at a lifetime of memories (and fictio…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 11:58PMWednesday, April 23, 2025
Hold Me in the Water – 17 April 2025 Since I first saw Ryan J. Haddad present a preliminary reading of Dark Disabled Stories in Damrosch Park (and waited around afterwards to shake his h…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 08:30PMSunday, April 20, 2025
minor.ity – 19 April 2025 minor.ity begins with a Senegalese storyteller (Ato Essanndoh) inviting the audience into a tale he’s going to tell. He pulls back the curtain to a modern-day s…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 07:43PMWednesday, April 16, 2025
Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp. – 12 April 2025 The Public Theater’s presentation of four of Caryl Churchill’s short works carefully curated into one production baring all of their …
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 10:00PMFriday, April 11, 2025
Featured Production: Othello – 6 April 2025 Stunt casting has been a part of Broadway for generations, and this 2024-2025 season is no exception. On the surface, it seems like a good idea.…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 09:02PMOld Friends – 10 April 2025 As theatre revues go, Old Friends is absolutely unique in a number of ways. The most distinct (and most amazing) is that it’s not just a couple of talented …
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 11:14AMWednesday, April 9, 2025
He Said, She Says – 07 April 2025 Many transgender people, especially those who transition later in life, like to glamorize their medical transitions as a way of finding peace and comfort …
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 07:35PMMonday, April 7, 2025
Becoming Eve – 05 April 2025 The degree to which I saw myself in Becoming Eve was overwhelming. The powerful weight of Jewish tradition that seemingly hindered Chava (Tommy Dorfman)’s ab…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 09:00PMSunday, April 6, 2025
Boop! The Musical – 29 March 2025 The most interesting and exciting thing about Boop! The Musical is the devotion and commitment to creating a black-and-white cartoon world that is just as…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 12:00AMSaturday, April 5, 2025
The Threepenny Opera – 03 April 2025 Twenty-first century theatre, especially of late, primarily comes in two forms: safe and edgy. But it’s a very specific definition of “edgy”, whi…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 09:39AMSunday, March 30, 2025
The Picture of Dorian Gray – 28 March 2025 The Picture of Dorian Gray starring Sarah Snook as all 26 roles appearing in this production makes brilliant use of a combination of live and pre…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 01:41PMSaturday, March 29, 2025
Amerikin – 27 March 2025 There’s a strong push from civil rights advocates to acknowledge that everyone is human and therefore equal. Right from the get-go, Amerikin challenges this noti…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 11:40AMSaturday, March 22, 2025
POTUS – 22 March 2025 POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive at City Gate Productions utilized a talented cast of diverse women to shatter the glas…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 10:32PMThe Trojans – 20 March 2025 The Trojan horse of The Trojans by Leegrid Stevens as produced by Loading Dock Theatre was hiding a very dark and depressing reality inside a fun, enjoyable exp…
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