PIFFLING PIRATES OF PENZANCE POPS WITH POP The plot of The Pirates of Penzance, a satire so cutting in Victorian days, will likely come off as inane to today's spectators. Still, Arthur Sull…
CELEBRATION THEATRE GOT IT RIGHT! (BUT "THEY" DIDN'T) When William Finn's autobiographical musical A New Brain opened at Lincoln Center in 1998, I couldn't understand why the reviews were…
DEAR SAN FRANCISCO: A HIGH-FLYING LOVE STORY AT SAN FRANCISCO'S HISTORIC CLUB FUGAZI EXTENDED THRU DECEMBER 31, 2023 WORLD-RENOWNED CIRCUS AND ARTS COLLECTIVE, THE 7 FINGERS, CREATED THIS ON…
CHEERS! If there's anything better than a cocktail before or after a Broadway show, it's a cocktail in a Broadway show. So, I'd like to propose a toast … slide your coffee table book to th…
QUEERILY, WE ROLL ALONG From June 15-July 3, 2023, the 9th annual Queerly Festival hits The Kraine Theater (85 E 4th St) and UNDER St. Marks (94 St Marks Pl), Most performances will also be …
HOP INTO SPRING Friendship is among the hardest subjects to parse, but this musical based on Arnold Lobel's "Frog and Toad" stories, considers friendship warts and all. Frog and Toad worry a…
After the roaring success of Pasadena Playhouse's wonderful production of Sunday in the Park with George, now comes A Little Night Music, which officially opens May 1, 2023. This is…
SOMETHING WICKED THAT WAY GOES No plague can kill a great show. It's back. In a rare clash of film noir, performance art, an awesome murder mystery party, and Shakespeare, Punchdrunk's Sleep…
THE BEST OSCAR GOES TO SEAN HAYES "It'd be nice to please everyone but I thought it would be more interesting to have a point of view." The incomparable Oscar Levant is the subject of the hi…
WHAT'S SO WONDERFUL? THIS REVIVAL OF WOMAN OF THE YEAR I'm jealous of New York Musical lovers. If they want to catch a rarely produced musical from the "golden age" of Broadway (the dates of…
HOW DO YOU CATCH A TIGER BY THE TAIL? STAGING. The eye-popping special effects of Life of Pi are reason enough to see this show, which opened this week at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. Yes,…
WHAT A PIECE OF WORK IS FAT HAM Ah, the Father/Son relationship. Tough when bad and often difficult even when pop and junior love each other. In Shakespeare's Hamlet, adapted with delightful…
It's fascinating to watch a new generation of Asian playwrights " Mike Lew, Qui Nguyen, Lauren Yee, Dipika Guha, Christopher Chen " writing about the quest for identity as it pertains to tra…
IT'S ONLY A FLOP There's a glaring contradiction in It's Only a Play: Written by the usually crafty Terrence McNally, a 20-time Broadway playwright, this two-act love letter to Broadway t…
I CAN'T GET THAT TASTE OUT OF MY MOUTH Get ready for a show that is all vagina and no vulva. This bloody awful musical by Big Little Theater Company is of the women, by the women and for the…
WHERE'S THE GRIEF? A LOT OF GOOD SHIT, BUT WE NEED MORE SHOW Grief. It almost seems to come on a daily basis. You hear people grieve over politics, a lost job, a breakup, the weather " griev…
HUMAN, ALL TOO HUMAN There is a world premiere now playing at Actors Co-op in Hollywood that is both ambitious and successful. The Human Comedy, set in the fictional California town of Ithac…
LET ME IN, OR GET ME OUT? In writer/director Brynn Thayer's Let Me In, now running at the newly and spiffily remodeled Theatre 68 Arts Complex in North Hollywood, actor Jorge Garcia of L…
COME FOR THE SCORE, LEAVE FOR THE BOOK Prior to Geffen Playhouse's world premiere musical The Lonely Few, a pair of orange ear-plugs in ironically loud cellophane is offered to patrons, indi…
NEW TRACK FEATURES VOCALS BY KPOPÂ ICON LUNA & COMPANY LISTEN HERE WATCH THE VIDEO PREORDER & PRESAVE THE ALBUM HERE Well, we all know it happens. For whatever reasons, a show flop…
LETTER FROM ONE INDUSTRY INSIDER TO ANOTHER Hullo Mick. Lady Antoinette here. Boy, I gotta thank you for inviting me to Jordon Waters and Stephanie Marrow's label influencer/release party th…
IT WOULD BE ABSURD TO MISS THIS THEATER In Endgame, the end of the world is upon us. But so, too, is the end of Ciarán O'Reilly's superlative production at Irish Rep, which has been ex…
BACKSTAGE COMEDIC CAPERS Chicago "storefront" theaters have produced some of the most amazing productions that I have ever scene. Usually started by a ragtag group of friends or a brave indi…
OFF TO NEVERLAND! It is common knowledge in the theater world that the most difficult show to create is a musical. The second is a parody. But both together?And yet, success has arrived in L…
HERE'S ANOTHER PLAY THAT SHOULD BE LOST In Cardenio, now playing at City Garage, a character states in Latin, "De gustibus non disputandum est," which means "There's no accounting for taste.…