"Bad Auditions…On Camera" is just fun. Sheer, uncomplicated fun. It has an amazingly large cast " 19 in all " that manage to create their characters and have fun with them, in about three …
"Bad Auditions…On Camera" is just fun. Sheer, uncomplicated fun. It has an amazingly large cast " 19 in all " that manage to create their characters and have fun with them, in about three …
This play is based on a real serial killer and bigamist who was tried, convicted, and hanged in England in 1915. He was responsible for the murders of three of his brides " Bessie Williams, …
This is a new play that sheds some light on the time when Theodore Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to the White House to have dinner " an unprecedented act in the early 20th century. …
This one-man show, written and acted by Ryan J. Haddad, has some interesting twists. It's a gutsy play that calls attention to something that many people find discomfiting " that people who …
I have never seen anyone as infectiously delighted with science, specifically epidemiology, as the protagonist of "The Catastrophist" " not even Bill Nye. One of the joys of this multi-layer…
Imagine having the opportunity to interview various people who live in and around Ferguson, Missouri, and get them to really open up, even when they don't realize how much they reveal. This …
"We had no idea it would take so long, and be so hard." There's a hard truth in that statement, softly but emphatically delivered by Gwendolyn Briley-Strand as Mrs. Rosa Parks that seems to …
"Mothers and Sons" is being produced in memory of Terrence McNally by MetroStage, the Board of Trustees, and Carolyn Griffin, who is the producing artistic director. A study in how quickly p…
"Etta and Ella on the Upper West Side," part of the "Work of Adrienne Kennedy: Inspiration and Influence" festival on-going at Round House Theatre, had its world premier on Sunday. This is a…
This one-woman show is a story-teller's dream, and Perry Gaffney, who wrote and performs it, is a storyteller. She can have you laughing, gasping, crying, nodding your head going uh-huh, and…
Written on an accelerated schedule (commissioned in June 2020 and ready in August 2020), then cast, rehearsed, and produced by five companies across the United States by December 2020, Sunda…
Updated slightly for the Zoom, socially-distanced theatre era we're in, "The Courage to Right a Woman's Wrongs" is a fun romp from the 17th century that has a subtle touch of feminism. See t…
Dark Horse Theatre Company has come up with an ingenious new play that uses Zoom's strengths and still gives us an insightful, funny, and wrenching work. And they accomplish it all within 30…
Once in a while a reviewer is lucky enough to review a pre-production of a new show, and then review it again when it produced for the public. I have been privileged to watch the incarnation…
"Marisol," by José Rivera, is a fever-dream of a play. It is as if the normal world has lost its moorings, or mind, and people, systems, institutions are breaking down under the strain. It …
"Roaring" is one of the most delicious productions put on by Best Medicine Rep, and a world premier written and directed by John Morogiello, a founder of Best Medicine Rep. 'Roaring' is a ce…
Stage managers rule. In this innovative and imaginative venture that combines theatricality, games, and last-man-standing types of reality shows, the stage managers have gotten together and …
In this imaginative upending of "Hamlet," We Happy Few has put Ophelia front and center. It's a refreshing concept, and mostly works pretty well in this new play by Amber Smithers and Daniel…
"Joy" is complicated. It's not just a sudden childlike leap of glee with a whoopee. At least not all the time. In the hands of Synetic Theater's cast and director, these two iterations of "J…
This is another world-creating, universe-hopping story brought by the same folks that brought 'Shattered Spaces' to streaming earlier in the pandemic. It has a similar message of unity, coop…
This is a show that is made for our times when we have a reality TV show star as the president, and the chaos that has worn us down. Created in 2016 (or at least started to be conceptualized…
Are you comfortable with surprises? With not having a clear idea of what is happening next? With vagaries and/or vicissitudes? Of a moment of unexpected snort-laughter and then a sudden sear…
"The Alden presents Drive-Thru Drama, a new model of theater…in a COVID-19 world. Drive-Thru Drama is a social-distance theater format that brings people together for live theater from the…
"Genesis 37" was an intriguing and rather mysterious play and where it ended up was not at all expected. It was also a rather savage " in a supremely civilized fashion " takedown of the one …