FREE STREAMS OF SIX PLAYS BY BLACK WRITERS L.A. Theatre Works, the world's leading producer of audio theater, has chosen six titles by Black playwrights from its extensive collection o…
A SAD DAY FOR THEATER Executive Director, L. Walter Stearns and partner Business Manager Eugene Dizon announced today the permanent closure of Mercury Theater Chicago after ten years and 25 …
HOW YOU GET TO FINISH THE HAT This has been a milestone year for America: but aside from an epidemic and protests " and all that is entailed therein " we have Stephen Sondheim's 90th birthda…
ABSOLUTELY BRIGHT INDEED Available now at 92Y, here's is a can't-miss piece of pride " and handily one of the best solo shows I've seen in years: The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey. O…
REASONS FOR LOVE Covering the arts nationwide means that Stage and Cinema has received hundreds and hundreds of virtual entertainments, from classical and jazz to theater and art, all with b…
DICK EXTENDS Chicago's Theater Wit announced a third and final extension today of Teenage Dick, its long-running critically acclaimed virtual production of Mike Lew's devastatingly funny new…
HAND SOLO How many of us theater addicts have gone to a solo show only to find some woman squealing about her private parts (or man for that matter), and you think "Never Again." Then you ca…
STARVING FOR THEATER? FEAST ON THIS! It's not just for Chicagoans anymore. Time and again, we have trumped that Chicago theater is the most exciting in the country. Not just because of the a…
CELEBRATING A PASSION FOR SONDHEIM Welcome to a new, free virtual series to celebrate Stephen Sondheim as an American icon while celebrating his 90th birthday year. Sondheim @ 90 Roundtable,…
CAUGHT ON TAPE It was an unprecedented and timely decision. It was March 15, 2020, and the American Shakespeare Center " which operates the fantastic Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton, VA " …
UPCOMING STAR-FILLED ONE-NIGHT-ONLY LIVESTREAM EVENTS TO BENEFIT THE ACTORS FUND Broadway's Best Shows is about to launch the weekly one-night-only "Spotlight On Plays" series beginning this…
PARTS OF A BODY Part Albee, part Ionesco, part mystery thriller, part Doubt, part Groundhog Day and " sadly " all red herrings, Lee Blessing's 2005 A Body of Water can't decide what it wants…
HERE'S SOMETHING THAT WILL INTEREST YOU This is the second show this year in L.A. to take head-on the insanity of modern journalism (the insanity being that while newspapers deliver so-calle…
IT'S THE HIGH SCHOOL SHOW THAT I WISH I WROTE IN HIGH SCHOOL The thing that looks like a high school vanity project at the Geffen Playhouse is actually a world premiere with a lot of bucks b…
I CAN ALWAYS USE MORE MEN Well, here's a national tour that isn't resting on its laurels. Somewhat tighter with impeccably glorious performances, a golden angel high above at the center of a…
CARYL ME HOME When the author is famed English playwright Caryl Churchill, theater about death and life's surmounting surrealism isn't depressing at all; it's exhilarating. The author of Clo…
AT DAY'S END Thanks to Lanie Robertson's bedrock-basic script, Wren T. Brown's dedicated staging, Karole Foreman's extraordinarily vulnerable performance, and Stephan Terry's elegant piano p…
THERE'S ARSENIC AND LACE; BUT IT DOESN'T FEEL OLD Serial murder, euthanasia, slasher psychopaths, bodies buried in a crawl space, face-lifts for people trying to change their images, the cya…
AFTER THE FLOOD Until the Flood lasts only 70 minutes. But its concentrated running time delivers a devastating drama. A ton of truth-telling now on tour at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, this 20…
YELLOW JOURNALISM, BLUE PLANET " UNCERTAIN FUTURES Propaganda has always existed. It's when people promote and publicize their agenda utilizing biased or misleading information, a perfect to…
A SHIP THAT REMAINS DOCKED Sting's musical The Last Ship has been in a shakedown cruise since it opened in Chicago six years ago. Based on last night's star-studded opening night at the Ahma…
PLENTY OF WATTAGE, EVEN WITH AN OBSCURE STORY Cirque du Soleil is back with its latest touring show, which opened last night, January 21, at Dodger Stadium. At its best, Volta provides all t…
WHAT WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME MEANS TO ME Given the barrage of nasty nightly news, I don't doubt that Americans are champing at the bit for a large slice of patriotism as they watch…
TOUCHING BUT TRAPPED IN A TIME WARP Stop Kiss was a big 1998 hit at New York's Joseph Papp Public Theater. In 2000 it arrived in Chicago in a tepid local premiere by the Naked Eye Theatre Co…
AN AMAZING INCIDENT Meet Christopher, a wannabe bloodhound who has significant social, behavioral and communication challenges; we assume the unnamed disorder is on the autism spectrum, but …