Sabrina, the single mother at the center of Inda Craig-Galván's new play, "Black Super Hero Magic Mama," is acutely aware of the various ways her son's life can be upended. Gangs, drugs, …
Tony winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson recalls Nanny, the woman who guided him through boyhood, in a music-infused performance that proves theater, not TV, is the best way to experience this vivi…
"Lackawanna Blues," Ruben Santiago-Hudson's theatrical memoir about being raised by a big-hearted proprietor of a boardinghouse for castaways and strays in an industrial upstate New York cit…
Kelli O'Hara stars in a Broadway revival at Studio 54 that's long on impressive theatrics but short on human connection.
The new Roundabout Theatre Company production of "Kiss Me, Kate" at Studio 54 has nearly everything that's needed for a top-drawer revival of this Cole Porter classic. First and foremost, th…
NEW YORK ' It wasn't that long ago that a topic of concern was the graying of theater audiences. Today, we must address the high school takeover of Broadway stages.
A new Broadway musical by Joe Iconis and Joe Tracz delivers another tale of an awkward teen trying to navigate high school. The difference this time? Deafening volume and a kinetically convo…
A new Broadway musical by Jo Iconis and Joe Tracz delivers another tale of an awkward teen trying to navigate high school. The difference this time? Deafening volume and a kinetically convol…
It wasn't that long ago that a topic of concern was the graying of theater audiences. Today, we must address the high school takeover of Broadway stages. The success of "Dear Evan Hansen" ha…
La Jolla Playhouse premieres new work from Joe DiPietro and David Bryan, the duo behind Tony winner "Memphis," but the distinctly American sound is a disconnect to the tale of the "people's …
The story of Princess Diana's life was bound to be turned into a big, boisterous, Broadway-style musical. But who would have guessed that the music would come from David Bryan, a founding me…
At the Old Globe in San Diego, Nia Vardalos' lovely adaptation of Cheryl Strayed's Dear Sugar columns, "Tiny Beautiful Things," finds resilience in broken places.
Advice columns and theaters have more in common than you might think. Forums of instruction and delight, they appeal to anyone who could use some help negotiating the often trivial, ultimate…
The U.S. premiere of "What If They Went to Moscow?" at REDCAT merges live performance and filmmaking, reworking of Anton Chekhov's masterpiece, "Three Sisters," into an astonishing multimedi…
With a gorgeous staging and glorious singing, the musical based on the E.L. Doctorow novel captures the momentous turn of the 20th century " the song of a nation stepping toward its future.
"Ragtime: The Musical," based on E.L. Doctorow's sweeping historical novel, swings for the narrative fences. The saga of three sets of characters at the turn of what would come to be known a…
Anna Moench's "Man of God," having its world premiere, centers on young Korean Americans on a religious mission to Bangkok, their pastor and a discovery that upends their world.
Every good comedy has a human engine, and in Anna Moench's funny, creepy and unflinchingly observed "Man of God," that engine is Mimi, played with powder-keg force by Sandy Nguyen. Mimi is o…
As part of its politically incisive season, Tim Robbins' company takes on the Nobel Prize winner's wild play about corrupt authority, "Accidental Death oh an Anarchist."
Opportunities to see high-caliber productions of the work of Dario Fo " the Italian clown, political radical and Nobel laureate who died in 2016 " don't come around all that often. My one go…
The celebrated company turns "Negro Folklore From Texas State Prisons" into a stereophonic seance linking generations of African American experience.
The Wooster Group has developed such a signature multimedia aesthetic over the decades that it's refreshing to see this veteran avant-garde troupe willing to take a break from its playfully …
Two South Africans, desperate to escape the impoverished futility of their lives, break into the home of an aging academic who walks in on them as they're ransacking the place for money. A p…
Consider this a friendly public service announcement from a concerned theater critic: Please, unless there's a truly compelling reason, let's agree to a moratorium on revivals of "Hamlet," "…
As I was leaving the theater the other night, an older gentleman with a lapel-grabbing voice and a friendly jack-in-the-box manner stopped me dead in my tracks. "What was the point of that?…