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,…
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…
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…
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 …
(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…
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 …
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 …
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…
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.…
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 …
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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 …
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …