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 and old…
By 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 form…
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 Michael …
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 libs,…
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 months. E…
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 of dedicate…
By 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, but t…
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 l…
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 br…
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 productions. The …
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 shutdowns an…
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 entertainment…
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 2012 …
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 safety proto…
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 "normal"…
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 of the ac…
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…
By 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 …
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 laurels. But…
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 Middle…
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…
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 with …
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 play st…
By ROY BERKO Beck Center often coordinates with Baldwin Wallace Music Theatre program to produce some of the Cleveland area's best musical theatre.  Not only does the stage often spark…
Andréa Burns sizzles and sparkles as Haley, a single parent trying to raise a teenage daughter, run a barely legitimate restaurant that only takes cash and still find time to search for lov…