By ALAN SMASON As the seconds ticked by to display a 2:00 a.m. CDT time on the computer, it was easy for me to imagine the sounds of a million click booms on TV remotes across the nation. Th…
The 65th annual Drama Desk Awards, which had been postponed during the COVID-19 pandemic, and then rescheduled for Sunday, May 31, only to be postponed again due to the emerging protests and…
By HARRY DUKE, originally published in NORTH BAY BOHEMIAN What is the point of reviewing theatre? If you had asked me that question 90 days ago, my answer would be to provide potential audie…
By EDWARD RUBIN Surprise of all surprises, the 1969 movie "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice," thanks to The New Group and Pershing Square Signature Center, is back in the news again"thi…
By EDWARD RUBIN In or out of drag, whether on stage or page, the 65-year-old actor playwright Charles Busch, with some 40 years of show business under his belt, is a force to be reckoned wit…
By JACK LYONS, Special from Desert Local News.com (PALM SPRINGS, CA.) " Coyote StageWorks, of Palm Springs, presents playwright Lucas Hnath's A Doll's House, Part 2 as the debut production i…
By EDWARD RUBIN My Name Is Lucy Barton written by Elizabeth Stout and published to a chorus of Hosannas in 2016, is now a one-woman, two-character play " running through Saturday, February 2…
By EDWARD RUBIN I cannot remember any play that unnerved me to such a degree as the Vineyard Theatre's production of Tina Satter's brilliantly conceived Is This A Room. Not only did this one…
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") With its current production of Something Rotten!, Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carré has set the bar so incredibly high that even they m…
By EDWARD RUBIN First things first. Before I delve into the Irish Repertory Theater's marvelous production of London Assurance by Dublin-born playwright Dion Boucicault (1820-1890) " extende…
By BILL HIRSCHMAN For even those who only knew Herbert Simpson in passing, likely what they remember was his voice " usually deep and sonorous, a bit scratchy, but brimming with passion. The…
By EDWARD RUBIN Will Arbery's latest play, Heroes of the Fourth Turning, having been extended two times by popular demand, is now running Off-Broadway through Sunday, November 17, 2019 at Pl…
By ANNE SIEGEL It has been a long wait, but the people of southeast Wisconsin finally get to be in the room where it happens. Hamilton has arrived. And what a reception it's getting. The mos…
By EDWARD RUBIN I have often been asked how my plays come about. I cannot say. Nor can I ever sum up my plays, except to say that this is what happened. That is what they said. That is what …
By ROY BERKO Suzan-Lori Parks, Lynn Nottage and Tonya Barfield are noted as emerging African-American playwrights. Another member of that sorority is the award-winning Dominique Morisseau, t…
By ROY BERKO In its off-Broadway production, Shakespeare R&J (which is now on stage at convergence continuum) ran for a year, making it the longest running version of "Romeo and Juliet" …
By JACK LYONS, Desert Local News "Silly is as silly does," could easily be the subtitle following the name of the current comedy/farce romp The Underpants, now on stage at the Old Globe's Sh…
By JACK LYONS, Desert Local News There have been many love stories written about the redemptive power of love in all its art forms:Â poems, songs, odes, sonnets, essays, novels, movies, an…
By ROY BERKO Kenneth Lonergan is noted for writing about decent people who are unexpectedly challenged by issues of ethics. In his Lobby Hero, now on stage at Blank Canvas, the 2016 Oscar wi…
By EDWARD RUBIN There are probably greater painters than Noël. Greater novelists than Noël, greater librettists, greater composers of music, greater singers, greater dancers, greater c…
By EDWARD RUBIN While New York City recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising with much hoopla and an enormous traffic-stopping Gay Pride parade that went on well in…
By HERBERT W. SIMPSON It seems that Geva Theater Center's long devotion to creating a worthy theater piece devoted to the history of Son House has reached a temporarily completed form in thi…
By HERBERT W. SIMPSON Virtually all of our leading contemporary repertory theaters now include non-traditional experimental techniques in staging not only original new work but also " even e…
By ANNE SIEGEL MILWAUKEE, WI. " A small but energetic theater company, Off the Wall Theatre, has produced a memorable production of one of Tennessee Williams' later works, Small Craft Warnin…
By ROY BERKO Jeanine Tesori (music) and David Lindsay-Abaire (books and lyrics) developed the creative Shrek: The Musical from DreamWorks Animation's film and William Steig's book of the sam…