EVERYTHING'S OK Douglas McGrath presents as a nice, well-put together, middle-aged man. Onstage, McGrath wears a nice button-down collar shirt, stylish blazer with a matching kerchief in the…
AN EPIC JOURNEY TO HEAVEN AND HELL It is 1899 in Vienna, Christmas Eve to be exact, and two families, elegant and refined, are gathered together in what might be called joyous solemnity to c…
AUNTIE JACK MAME PANSEXUAL: relating to having, or open to sexual activity of many kinds. POLYAMOROUS: the practice of, or desire for, intimate relationships with more than one partner with …
WHAT'S BEEN DONE TO DEATH What cache Arthur Miller's 1949 classic Death of a Salesman has in terms of power and artistry, nuance, subtlety and insight, is buried by Miranda Cromwell's ineffe…
BOOM BOOM BOOM It's no wonder that Kristoffer Diaz's The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in drama. The veneer is a hip-hop comic entertainment about the d…
THE COST OF MISSING THIS RAVISHING SHOW Every week in the opening sequence of the eighties television series Fame, dance instructor Lydia Grant would state without irony, "…fame costs and …
Everything in New York Goes BANG!Written and performed by Robert Galinsky One Night Only Debut Tuesday, October 25, 2022 at 8 PM Hudson Mainstage Theatre, 6539 Santa Monica Blvd in Hollywood…
FOURGET ABOUT IT While her career may be skyrocketing as a TV writer, Christina Ham has not mastered the art of playwriting. I felt terrible thinking that after seeing the opening of her wor…
SEE THE LIGHT Illustrious lighting designer Jennifer Tipton will share an exhibit of light in Baryshnikov Arts Center's Jerome Robbins Theater for three performances only, November 17-19, 20…
WICKED GOOD A fantastic surprise from Open Fist Theatre Company awaits you at Atwater Theatre. A great story, funny stunning dialogue, and terrific performances arrive in a play " an actual …
CROSS-EXAMINING THE AFFIRMATIVE & NEGATIVE IN THIS DEBATE In 1965, at the Cambridge Union, Cambridge University, England, eminent social critic and author James Baldwin publicly debated …
DISCO BALL BOOGIE BLASTS INTO BURBANK Break out the bell-bottoms and platform shoes because Garry Marshall Theatre is gettin' down with the boogie with Cindy & The Disco Ball: The Musica…
ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, AT 7:30PM Queer Radio Hour is a live radio play that asks, "What would radio have been like in the 1930s and 1940s if they had let the…
TITLE SONG RELEASED TODAY With music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, book by Emerald Fennell and lyrics by David Zippel, Bad Cinderella is a modern retelling of the classic fairytale is set in the e…
THIS GUY REALLY DOES DESERVE AN EXCLAMATION POINT What can I say about musical comedy actor and funny man Jason Graae? Well, first, his last name is pronounced "Grah" but his latest one-man …
CRANES HAS A CLIPPED WING Last night at REDCAT in downtown Los Angeles, CalArts presented a new play by Octavio Solis, and the story is magnificent. In East L.A., a teenager named Nico has b…
OUR FUNKY FOUNDING FATHERS A hip-hop Alexander Hamilton? A beat-box Father of His Country? A jumping James Madison and a jiveass Jefferson who disses bigtime in a poetry slam? The ten-dollar…
JUMP TO AS YOU LIKE IT " IT'S A PEACH Frog & Peach Theatre Company, New York's critically acclaimed and revolutionary Shakespeare ensemble, will return to the live stage with their long-…
ACE YOUNG TO HEADLINE CONTROVERSIAL NEW PLAY ABOUT SEXUAL ABUSE WITHIN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH Vatican Falls, the controversial play written by Frank J. Avella that closely examines the Catholic…
SPILL YOUR MAGIC BEANS NOW; THIS SPELL ONLY LASTS ONE NIGHT Get all dead-dolled up and get your spook on for Broadway's biggest Halloween event of the year: Jay Armstrong Johnson's annual so…
LaChanze & More to Join The Flea's 2nd Annual House Party On Thursday, Sept. 29, 7:30pm until Midnight, The Flea Theater (20 Thomas Street) is presenting its 2nd Annual House Party en…
A BRAINDEAD MUSICAL REANIMATED TO GLORIOUS LIFE In 2007, the Mel Brooks musical Young Frankenstein opened on Broadway to largely dismissive reviews. Some say it opened too close on the heels…
THE FARM-TO-FABLE REVOLUTION IS HERE In what is Los Angeles's best season since well before the pandemic, comes along the best show of the season. Only in New York would one expect the calib…
JAGGED LITTLE SHOW You're going to need more than a pill to relieve your aches after seeing this dreck. From what I'd heard, the Broadway success of Jagged Little Pill, a hyper-woke jukebox …
THE SKY'S THE LIMIT IN THIS LOVELY PRODUCTION Unless you are an astronomer or an astronomy buff, you likely have never heard of Henrietta Swan Leavitt. She was an American woman who made dis…