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…
A MUSICAL THAT REACHES FOR NEW HEIGHTS Built during the Depression between 1930 and 1931, the Empire State Building became the world's tallest office building"surpassing the Chrysler Buildin…
AN EVENT TO MAKE YOU HIGH No doubt spurred by William Randolph Hearst's yellow-journalism against pot (he invested in wood-pulp newsprint so he didn't want paper made from hemp), a church gr…
SUPER FEMMINA SUPER To say that I was fascinated with Femmina Super is an understatement. The show is subtitled, "A Modern Opera," which normally has me running in the other direction, as ne…
A PREMISE THAT DOESN'T SUCK I have dealt with PR firms for 15 years now, both in (mostly) and out of the arts world. Some may say that public relations is a strategic communication practice …
What Happens When a Right-Wing White Woman Wakes up Trapped in the Body of a Black Man? LA's beloved and acclaimed writer and theatre performer Paul Outlaw presents his latest work BBC (Big …
GET DOWN .. TO THE HOTTEST REVUE IN TOWN Created and directed by Fritz Brekeller, this feminocentric musical revue of 70s hits, Foxy Ladies Love Boogie 70s Explosion!, celebrates an amazing …
The Richmond/Ermet Aid Foundation presents Help is on the Way: 30th Anniversary Concert & Gala on Sunday, July 14, 2024 at the Marines' Memorial Theater (concert) and Beacon Grand Hotel …
SOMETHING WICKED THAT WAY GOES When this megahit closed during COVID, and then came roaring back, I wrote "No plague can kill a great show." Now, having welcomed over two million visitors in…
A JOY TO BEHOLD COMES TO MCCALLUM ONE NIGHT ONLY, SATURDAY JUNE 15 AT 8 The jazz world has been abuzz about the 24-year-old New Yorker Samara Joy since she won the Sarah Vaughan Internationa…
Sugar Daddy, a new production of comedian and actor Sam Morrison's hilariously funny, unexpectedly moving one-man show, will play the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Be…
MICHAEL SHANNON STARS IN A TANTALIZING TURRET If you had to define the word turret, what would an easy definition be? Well, I love castles, so I know a turret was often the corner where a gu…
A TWIN-TWIN PRODUCTION In Elizabethan England the entertainments that closed the Christmas season (the Twelfth day) completed the festivities with a topsy-turvy role reversal, peasants prete…