43 stories by "Stanford Friedman"
The employees of Jaja's each have their own ways of living with this danger. Bioh intertwines their tales, director Whitney White shapes the action into a tight thing of beauty and the ensem…
Close-up magic accounts for about a third of the production's 90 minutes and is never less than spectacular.
It turns out that the sense and sensibilities of Jane Austen can be neatly showcased in a sequence of country-western ballads, played on the banjo and written by a long-haired young man from…
Adapted from their true banger of a bio film of the same name, writers Colin Carberry and Glenn Patterson again conspire to cage intense musicality within the true life story of Terri Hooley…
A short but sweet set of old favorites, tinged with country music and seasoned with a dash of Smash.
Khan!!! The Musical! crazily, but cleverly, goes where no multi-racial, multi-talented, multi-species cast has gone before.
In this comically surreal reimagining of the Lizzie Borden story, the playwriting team of Zuzanna Szadkowski and Deborah Knox have more on their minds than just homicide by hatchet. They dis…
This decidedly dark drama chronicles the lives of five emotionally damaged Idahoans who spend their days working at an art supply store and their nights pensively seeking some sort of salvat…
You can't have a proper celebration of film noir music without a murder, so it is fortunate that Melissa Errico kills during her cinematic and sultry concert
A work that meditates on a heart aneurysm, cancer and the specter of AIDS, but finds joy in a son's love and an actor's big break.
Mellamphy's assured, charismatic performance, and clear gift of gab, makes Tim an engaging and all too relatable anti-hero who finds his way to success via a series of questionably justified…
This risky production could have been holy hell, but director Annie Tippe and an enthusiastic cast clearly have faith in Julia May Jonas's religious service of a script, making believers out…
Wedded bliss. Marital splendor. Joyful union. Matrimony hath many the happy descriptor. But, in 1918, for a budding 18-year-old playwright named Noël Coward, marriage was The Rat Trap.Â
Evanston, IL seems an unlikely spot to serve as the frozen, dark epicenter of suicidal thoughts and vanished pasts. But for Peter, a salt truck driver, and his co-worker Basil, its icy roads…
The work brings fresh urgency to the 1980's aftermath of China's Cultural Revolution, when young citizens experimented with forgoing the Communist Party in favor of the cocktail party,
Eight actors and one hand puppet portray over a dozen characters in Jonathan Hogue's pressurized fire hose of a musical. This parody of the hit Netflix series, Stranger Things, had its initi…
It is a meticulously researched must-read for fans and students of dance, aspiring directors, playwrights, and weekend theatergoers alike; which is to say that de Mille's choreographic contr…
There are goodly amounts of backstage lore and music appreciation surrounding her memories of Candide, The Music Man, She Loves Me and Follies"catnip for theater buffs. Her descriptions of w…
