Review: 'Almost Famous' is now a sweet Broadway musical, with the movie's rock 'n' roll edges smoothed away
Its story is now more a fable of a broken family that needs to be put back together, a theme that also was in Cameron Crowe's film.
Its story is now more a fable of a broken family that needs to be put back together, a theme that also was in Cameron Crowe's film.
In many ways, the play is a critique of bureaucratic power structures, endlessly empowered with putting people into Kafkaesque limbos.
Director Henry Godinez' new production opens in a freewheeling 1950s Havana playground of Cuban artistes and the Hotel Nacional.
This play is drawn from his 2020 memoir, from his 1960s youth as the son of a Guinness barrel maker.
An FBI special agent, known for her skills in profiling serial killers, returns to her small Florida town.
For all the sadness in this work, it's also humanistic and celebratory of diverse individuals, all under different kinds of stress.
The Berwyn-based Equity company with a 15-year history has begun its last show.
I have to report, in all fairness, that much of the audience around me was convulsed with laughter throughout the whole affair.
Suzan-Lori Parks' play is a phenomenal two-brother drama, as good an American play as most anything written during the last quarter century.
This complicated play moves backward and forwards in time, probing not just the story of Seacole but the whole question of how we view those who heal us.
Brett Neveu specializes in plays that perplex the audience and many of them have been staged in his creative home on Wells Street.
Actor Sean Hayes attended the joyous ceremony at the Drury Lane Theatre. Other top winners included A Red Orchid's "The Moors," Teatro Vista's "Somewhere Over the Border" and Porchlight Musi…
Rebecca Gilman's extraordinary new play deserves the broadest possible audience; it deserves a Broadway run.
The one-night-only, concert-style performance at the Cadillac Palace brought back Stephen Schwartz's musical based on the Bible.
In the original poems, Eve Ewing connects the events of 1919 subsequent racially charged events, ranging from the murder of Emmett Till to George Floyd protests.
The play stars Hollywood actor Samuel L. Jackson and is directed by the actor's wife, LaTanya Richardson Jackson.
In a major hire for the Glencoe theater, Braden Abraham was previously artistic director of the Seattle Repertory Theatre.
It's an ironclad rule of comedy that you have to keep your big toe in the world of truth, which wasn't the case here.
By really showing what it is like to fight the decay of your own mind, their principal ally is Maryann Plunkett, playing a woman fighting to recover her own memories and offering up as rich …
Arthur Miller would surely have been delighted at the idea of a revival of his masterful play with an all-Black Loman family. It only intensifies the story.
This new, Broadway-bound musical is now at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, based on the Nicholas Sparks novel and the hit 2004 movie.
In this production of the much-loved Peter Stone and Sherman Edwards musical about the signing of the Declaration of Independence, they are open to the charge of bait and switch.
The 63-year-old sketch comedy operation, headquartered throughout its history in Chicago's Old Town neighborhood, plans to open a theater in New York City.
Come Tony Awards time next spring, the committee is going to have an issue.
Martyna Majok's resonant, prismatic play from 2018 has now landed on Broadway in New York.