15 stories by "Mia Bonadonna"
NOTHINGS IS SOMETHING ELSE Shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down theaters around the world, a slew of stage and cabaret favorites got together at Joe's Pub to celebrate the vibrancy…
HELL COMES TO THE GARMENT DISTRICT Melbourne-based Four Larks is performing their ghostly junkyard opera, Orpheus, in a secret space on the outskirts of the Fashion District. Workshopped at …
IT’S SAFE TO PUT YOURSELF IN HARMONY‘S WAY Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman's high-energy, surprisingly melancholy new musical, Harmony, depicts the real-life story of the all-mal…
GOAT ON A BOAT Edward Albee's diligently disturbing tragicomedy, The Goat or Who is Sylvia?, is running at California Repertory Company in the belly of the Queen Mary's Royal Theatre. One of…
A HEART-POUNDING, COSMOS-QUESTIONING PIECE OF THEATER Today may be your last chance to see Blue Cube's hauntingly philosophical drama, Coldwater, but now that it has been tried out as part o…
THE LEGACY WILL HAVE YOU GEEKING OUT FOR GENE KELLY Gene Kelly's widow, Patricia Ward Kelly, is touring with her retrospective multi-media presentation of Gene Kelly's life and work, Gene Ke…
SKETCHY THEATER Velvet Pile's comedic look at identity and commercial branding, A Word from Our Sponsors, is running as part of the Son of Semele Company Creation Festival. Comprised of come…
WHAT A DOG Poor Dog Group's S.M.S.I.W.O.O.F. (SaveMySoul In a WorldOfOddFoices) or 8 bottles of vodka is a dance-centric, multimedia performance based on text messages sent between the membe…
GO DRUNK OR DON'T GO AT ALL The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, David Greig's ghostly, song-filled tale of a mousy academic in search of artful Scottish balladry, is running at the Broad …
APPARENTLY CAT FIGHTING IN TRASH ISN'T AS FUN AS WE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE Jami Brandli's ambiguous whodunit, S.O.E., strands three disillusioned and combative rivals together during a state of…
FAKE BOOK COMES TO TRUE LIFE Published in Paris in 1894, The Songs of Bilitis is a book of poems and epitaphs describing the life and loves of an ancient lesbian heroine named Bilitis. With …
CYBER SEEDINESS, FBI BUREAUCRACY, AND TABOO MONSTROSITY COME TO VIVID LIFE IN SEXSTING Written in collaboration with Internet crime attorney Susan Raffanti, Doris Baizley's boundary-blurring…
THE THEATER TAKES ONÂ CORPORATE AMERICA’SÂ EVILS After a flurry of controversy in 2012, Mike Daisey's provocative activism-cum-monologue work, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jo…
PROMISING SCRIPT BUTCHERED BY PRODUCTION VALUES Adam Seidel's sanguinary dark comedy, Catching the Butcher, is an unlikely and eccentric love story in which a secret and utterly sick relatio…
A RAUCHNY REUNION FOR THE PEANUTS GANG Set at Charlie Brown's funeral in modern-day Los Angeles, Brendan Hunt's raunchy Peanuts parody, Absolutely Filthy, is an admirably smutty comedy which…