1,382 stories by "Tony Frankel"
IT TICKS, IT BOOMS, IT EXPLODES! Theatre Palisades has struck gold with its astoundingly entertaining and moving production of Jonathan Larson's Tick, Tick… BOOM! Expanding the cast from t…
YOU'LL WANT TO SEE THIS CLOVER AND CLOVER AGAIN There's a wonderful new show playing at the Cinegrill Theater at the gorgeous Hollywood Roosevelt that is not so easy to shoehorn into a simpl…
TRYING TO MAKE LIFE BETTER AT ANY COSTCO Head north to the small town of Lewiston, Idaho, and you'll discover how the town got its name. One of the town's main attractions is the Lewis and C…
NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED Take a look at the highly decorated diorama just before you go upstairs to the Henry Murray Theatre for one of the most exciting world premieres you will ever se…
TRIUMPH OF THE WILL I love how the press notes for A Noise Within's stupendous revival of Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth noted a quote from original director Elia Kazan: "I overh…
A MUSICAL THAT'S TOO CIVIL TO RESONATE Union soldier Jeffrey N. Davis (no relation to President of the Confederate States of America Jefferson Davis), is on the hunt for his best friend, Alb…
THIS BAT COMES OUT SWINGING Bat Boy: The Musical is finally returning to Los Angeles for a run at Morgan"Wixson Theatre in Santa Monica September 28 through October 13, 2024. This outrageous…
THE DOUBLE V GETS A DOUBLE D It's a shame that Carole Eglash"Kosoff's period drama The Double V is such a lackluster, overwritten, repetitive piece of didacticism. The story is one which …
Chicago's Shattered Globe Theatre has unveiled its 2024-25 season, launching in October with its 34th season opener, the Midwest premiere of Sarah Ruhl's bewitching new dark comedy, Becky…
Rubicon Theatre, Ventura County's not-for-profit professional theatre company, has just announced the schedule for the company's 26th season. Rubicon's 2024-2025 six-show season, entitled "D…
Dido of Idaho, now playing at Atwater Village, is yet more proof that Echo Theater Company really knows how to pick bold original scripts. And usually they have a heart of darkness somewhere…
In his remembrance of Stephen Sondheim, Stage and Cinema's Jason Mannino wrote, "Sondheim delved fearlessly into the human psyche and condition, creating rich, complex worlds and characters …
Geffen Playhouse and Steppenwolf Theatre Company announce the joint Chicago/LA cast of Noises Off Written by Michael Frayn Directed by Anna D. Shapiro A Co-Production with Steppe…
ALL SCRIPTS SHOULD BE THIS GROWN UP One of the most riveting and original pieces of theater I have ever seen, The Grown-Ups is now playing outdoors around a campfire near you. Funny, spooky,…
CHICKEN STORIES IS A FOWL BALL! There are more than 8 billion people on the earth. But did you know that there are more chickens on the planet than human beings? And you know that we're not …
A SOLID 10 FOR 13 San Diego Musical Theatre's Pre-Professional production of 13: The Musical, with music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown (Parade, Last Five Years), left me positively giddy …
SIZING UP THE BROTHERS SIZE IS JUST PART OF ITS APPEAL When I first saw a play by Tarell Alvin McCraney, I wrote, "It is thrilling to hear the poetic dialogue of a propitious new American pl…
THE WORST BEST MAN MAKES THE BEST MAN SHOW A GUARANTEED WINNER We're attending a wedding. Every viewer in the audience is an attendee. The vows have already been exchanged, and now it's time…
One of my favorite places to see plays in NYC is also NYC's most prominent Latino theatre companies: Repertorio Español. Performed in Spanish with easy-to-read supertitles in English, …
"There's more to her than anyone could ever infer " You can kick my words to the curb. I think it's time that we heard from her." An ice-cold, high-octane adaptation of Euripides' play writt…
The People vs. Lenny Bruce, presented by Cause Célèbre Productions and Henderson Productions, is the third segment of All The Court's A Stage, a series of plays that are based on seven of …
A NICE EXPAT ON THE HEAD Now, here's a fascinating show. Two former lawyers (the best kind I say) and whip-smart writers, Dominique Roberts and Candace Leung, wrote and starred in Expatriate…
THERE MAY BE SOMETHING WRONG WITH CYRUS, BUT NOT SO MUCH HIS SHOW Meet Cyrus Deboo. An adult actor who, against all the odds and ends of a traditional Persian upbringing, blossomed into an o…
WHO WERE THE WOMEN OF BALLET RUSSES? The McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, TX is turning to its esteemed Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts to re-contextualize Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Wom…
ALL THE RIGHT MOVES I'm rather certain that most folks in the U.S.A. have no idea that Chicago is one of the best theater towns in the world. The reason for this is storefront theaters, whic…
