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…
World Premiere at Moving Arts Theatre The world-premiere of Leviticus Jelks' debut play, My White Husband, directed by Melissa Coleman-Reed, opens May 18 in Los Angeles at the Moving …
MEAN GIRLS MEETS THE THIRD REICH Three teenage girls sit at a table in a bunker of some kind bored out of their minds tasting food three times a day before it is sent off to Hitler. They hav…
ONCE ON THIS PRAIRIE Developed at Signature Theatre in Virginia, the new musical Gun & Powder has stormed into Paper Mill Playhouse with enough energy to light the Manhattan skyline. The…
A COLOSSAL LEN CARIOU MAKES ANY DAY A GOOD DAY FOR TUESDAYS I have seen many a famous performer hit the stage in their senior years with a cabaret or theater performance, something I usually…
WEIMAR, YOU ASK? HERE'S THE ANSWER Cabaret the musical, opening on Broadway in a transformed theater, may sound exciting, but here's a highly recommended event for those who crave complete i…
A DO-NOT-MISS REGIONAL PREMIERE Martin McDonagh's Hangmen at San Jose Stage Company I was lucky enough to catch the limited run of Martin McDonagh's tense and very funny Hangmen on Broadway,…
SAINT BERNADETTE After she hung up her late-Victorian hat after taking over for Bette Midler in Hello, Dolly! on Broadway, the inimitable Bernadette Peters made her West End debut in Stephen…
LOOK AT WHAT THE CATASTROPHE DRAGGED IN He's funny. He's avuncular. He's unpretentious. He's loveable. He's dry and urbane. And, he's a decent person. But Nick Ullett is an actor by trade, s…
THE TALLEST LIVING THING ON EARTH INSPIRES A MUSICAL ACORN As one who has hiked many times deep in the ancient Redwood groves, those which have been relatively untouched for thousands of yea…
WHERE THE RHYTHM SWOOPS AND SWIRLS, THIS REALLY IS THE JAZZ CORNER OF THE WORLD From bands like The Hot Sardines, Hot Club of Cowtown and Maria Schneider Orchestra to cabaret stalwarts such …
STEPHEN SONDHEIM'S FINAL MUSICAL NOW AVAILABLE AT THE NEW YORK LIBRARY FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS' THEATRE ON FILM AND TAPE ARCHIVE The wworld premiere production of Here We Are, the new musica…
Sondheim In The City, a new album by Tony-nominated actress, singer and author Melissa Errico, is now available to buy, DL, or stream HERE. Errico has also announced a special Sondheim In…
THERE'S GOLD IN THE HILLS OF ARROWHEAD Move over, Bluefish Cove, you've had your last summer. Now, a modern-day retreat of lesbians is here, only this one isn't by the ocean, it's by a lake.…