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…
National Virtual Casting Call Announced For TREVOR, A NEW MUSICAL Submit Your Audition by July 26! Teenagers, here's a great opportunity to be in a musical in New York! Trevor: The Musical i…
IT'S SAFE TO SAY THERE'S MAGIC IN STORE You know, I was never bored watching the epic two-part Harry Potter and the Cursed Child; it truly was a magical experience, and the production team d…
THE PLAY'S THE THING It's no wonder that Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' brilliant adaption of Dion Boucicault's 1895 suspenseful melodrama The Octoroon is eight times better and more exciting than …
TO TELL THE RUTH Talk about becoming a hit. Playwright Mark St. Germain (Camping with Henry and Tom, Freud's Last Session) has done it again. He loves to take us into the lives of renowned t…
RETURNING TO UTOPIA Talking Heads superstar David Byrne has acquired a home for his acclaimed rock spectacle American Utopia " Broadway's St. James Theatre, beginning Friday, September 17, 2…
HOW BROWN WAS MY VALLEY? Following the successful streamed productions of A Weekend with Pablo Picasso and JQA, San Diego REP is offering a filmed version of Cris Franco's play 57 Chevy, dir…
The beloved East Village supper club Pangea, which came perilously close to closing during COVID, is announcing a mixture of ticketed and no-cover entertainment during the summer. The announ…
THE MUSIC CENTER WELCOMES BACK PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY Los Angeles's Music Center has a hit on its hands with its DANCE AT DUSKÂ outdoor performance series. First, we had amazing tap dan…
SILLY PROCOPIO LEFT ME IN OSTRITCHES Well, last Sunday night, courtesy of Pacific Opera Project's presentation of Don Procopio, I had my first foray to a live production since the pandemic p…
Awesome Broadway fave Lillias White releases her first Solo Studio Album: Get Yourself Some Happy! Here she is, boys! The great Lillias White is releasing her first solo studio album, Get Yo…
L.A. Theatre Works has commissioned a new audio theater adaptation of the classic Agatha Christie "whodunit" The Murder on the Links. The all-star cast includes Alfred Molina …
SUPERCALILINEUP Talk about coming back with a bang! Berkeley's Cal Performances has announced its 2021"22 season, and the Bay Area is getting the best line-up I have seen since well before t…