Was Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors lacking for want of a Broadway-style splashy opening number? Probably not, but director Alan Paul has tinkered with the comedy by adding a handful of c…
Eye rolling and harrumphing over Broadway musical writers being out of ideas feels pretty banal at this stage in the game. It's no secret that creators of musical theater are relying more th…
In Monumental Theatre Co.'s production of Pippin, young dreamers are still out to find their own corner of the sky "Â they're just also likely to share that corner with their social media …
Playwright Matthew Capodicasa has tapped into a truly terrifying idea in The City Of… The premise: What would happen if an entire town just gradually started forgetting everything about ea…
Farah Lawal Harris' America's Wives is an extended metaphor, really. Its central two characters are both married to a distant, narcissistic, unfair man named America. His first wife is a…
Amy Leigh Horan's new play Burst is tough to watch " and at the same time, engrossing to watch " precisely because it feels so real. Anyone who has dealt with grave uncertainty and a dire pr…
Take out the words, and it turns out you can make Shakespeare's most violent play even more brutal and terrifying. With Titus Andronicus, Synetic Theater has created a vicious, disturbing…
There's no getting around it " The Winter's Tale, as far as Shakespearean romances go, is a weird play. One King's jealous rage springs into action for seemingly unfounded reasons. Huge chun…
Followers of Jesus post Bible verses on Reddit. John the Baptist unplugs the wifi to get everyone's attention. The surrendering of your cell phone or laptop is the ultimate show of commitmen…
Those unfamiliar with the works of Jonathan Coulton are likely to find themselves going down the Google rabbit hole after seeing It's the Rest of the World That Looks So Small, a theatrical …
You know things are going to start getting weird when the woolly mammoth and the dinosaur show up at the front door. Indeed, Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth may be a classic, but …
Jaqueline Marie Butler may seem like an unassuming teenage girl, just doing her best to find her way in her new, confusing home country of Nigeria. But don't underestimate her " as Jaqueline…
An Irish Carol does a fine job capturing the spirit and message of Charles Dickens' classic holiday tale in an evening spent in an Irish pub. No small feat. The play, courtesy of author Matt…
"Seasonal Disorder" is an improv grab bag of sorts. Depending on which night a person shows up, between now and December 31st, the audience can end up seeing everything from comedy to drama,…
It might be tempting to write off The Pajama Game as a slight, dated musical from the 50s that doesn't have much relevance today. After all, this is a show where characters throw around phra…
Man, Faction of Fools really loves its cheese. Dairy productions from pecorino to gouda all get gleefully name-checked during the troupe’s infectious Fool-for-All, Tales of Marriage an…
There’s a certain art to speaking without saying anything of substance  - a talent all too familiar to those who live among the politicians and think tank heads of Washington D.C.. …
There is a certain subset of people, particularly kids of the 80s, for whom such phrases as “As You Wish” and “Never argue with a Sicilian when death is on the line” …
You don’t meet a ton of pundits or humorists these days that can utter the phrase, “Never met a man I didn’t like” and mean it. But Will Rogers was a different sort o…