AMERICA'S BEST NOTES Beginning its first season since the COVID shutdown, Musical Theater West has, true to its name, celebrated musical theatre with A Grand Night for Singing, a heartfelt, …
MAGIC IN THE MUSIC Sometimes jukebox bio-musicals get so caught up in the fame and fortune of the journey that they miss the creative passion that is the true force driving most artists forw…
STILL THE FAIREST I'm rather certain one cannot visit enough productions of My Fair Lady. The 1956 musical, based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, tells the tale of Professor Hen…
THEY'RE FRIGGIN' BACK By now, the world knows about the musical Jersey Boys, the story of pop sensation Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons. It's a triumph, and the NY production leaves all…
The Echo Theater Company's world premiere production of Poor Clare will open in October, 19 months after the originally scheduled March, 2020 opening that was shuttered by the…
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater is opening Eduardo Machado's Celia and Fidel on October 8, 2021. It's 1980 and Cuba is dealing with a failing economy. As Fidel Castro pon…
YOU THINK BIGGER IS BETTER ON BROADWAY? THINK AGAIN. This is a fascinating year for Broadway. Not only are big-ticket plays and musicals coming back to life post-COVID, but we are also seein…
"STARS IN THE HOUSE" "MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG" REUNION WITH JIM WALTON, LONNY PRICE, ANN MORRISSON, AND JASON ALEXANDER Playing tonight Thursday, September 9 at 8pmET live, hosts Seth Rudetsky…
A hidden Latina history, pop music fantasies, sex, war, black-market cheese & child-snatching! True tales of a Texas tween in the '70s… Comedy and drama collide in the shifting realiti…
Odyssey Theatre presents 4 performances of John Fleck's it's alive, IT'S ALIVE! a musical cabaret special event-in-progress We're deconstructing again. Odyssey Theatre Ensemble pres…
Chicago's Porchlight Music Theatre's 27th season has been announced. Single tickets and a variety of subscription options for the Mainstage and Porchlight Revisits are on sale now at Porchli…
HAPPINESS IS JUST A THING CALLED LILLIAS So, which Lillias White is your favorite? Is it the bluesy, searching, achy soul singer? The sassy sweetheart of standards? The darling diva of Broad…
PREPARE FOR ONE HELLUVA TRIP 1950s Hollywood. You are at a beautiful beach house overlooking the Pacific with Cary Grant, Clare Boothe Luce and Aldous Huxley… and they are o…
THE TROUBIES ARE PUTTING OUT Tickets are now on sale for this hilarious musical retelling of Aristophanes's Lysistrata, one of history's greatest theatrical offerings. Lizastrata takes on th…
TASTY THEATER James Beard Award-winning Chef Rick Bayless and Windy City Playhouse Artistic Director Amy Rubenstein and Associate Artistic Director Carl Menninger are teaming up to create A …
CHICHESTER'S SOUTH PACIFIC GOES INTERNATIONAL Chichester Festival Theatre's hugely acclaimed new production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific will be streamed internationally on e…
New Great Performances Documentary Explores 1959-1983 Broadway Shows Through Stars' Personal Stories. Begins August 14, 2021 on PBS. Great Performances " Broadway: Beyond the Golden Ag…
URINE FOR A GOOD TIME Stage and Cinema has received the first six minutes of a virtual production of URINETOWN The Musical that looks more-than-intriguing. MSD Productions clearly has a non-…
The Town Hall has announced that Christine Baranski, who was in the original off-Broadway production of Sunday In the Park with George at Playwrights Horizons, will moderate an intimate digi…
JUDGE FOR YOURSELF Go figure. Just as I declared, "No More ZOOM plays," along comes the wittiest " no " most hilarious play I've seen since COVID shut down live performances. No, before that…
GORY, FREAKY AND DOWNRIGHT ALARMING The West Coast Premiere of the Off-Broadway production, The Wake of Dick Johnson, performed live and in person by writer and director Luke Walker, will be…
OPENS TODAY, JULY 16TH IN SELECT THEATERS & VIRTUAL CINEMAS New York, Baltimore, Cleveland, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Seattle *Expanding to Los Angeles, Detroit, San Francisco, Toronto o…
Long ago, I saw a very tired Lés Miz on Broadway. Not long thereafter, producer Cameron Mackintosh replaced the cast with a new ensemble rife with folks who had never performed on Broadway …
THEY'RE BA-A-A-A-A-A-A-CK L.A.'s home-grown Groundlings in-person programming returns with all of the best they got beginning July 23, 2021. An evening at the Groundlings means a packed t…
NOW THIS IS HOW YOU TELL A STORY Over the last 28 years, San Francisco's Word for Word theater company has performed short stories of over 100 writers, ranging from Alice Munro to Amy Tan, T…