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Director Jenn Thompson Creates a Rare Behind the Scenes Look at Mint Theater's American Premiere of CHAINS by Elizabeth Baker. Performances on now at Theatre Row. Â Without a doubt one of…
IT'S A LOT TO TAKE IN, BUT TAKE IT IN YOU MUST Fake Friends, which co-created the zany streaming event This American Wife (review), are very very bright and insightful, au couran…
Latino Theater Company presents Spanish dancer, choreographer and performance artist Marta Carrasco in Perra de Nadie ("Nobody's Bitch"). In the deepest part of everyone, wher…
GUESS WHAT PLAY WORKS Based on the screenplay of the same name, writer Todd Kreidler has updated for the stage Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Stanley Kramer's smash-hit 1967 movie by William …
BELOVED THEATER At first, we think that Beloved is about the tragic state of the internet, that a high school boy at the prestigious St. Albans in Montreal, Canada, would never be in the mes…
DON'T GET HUNG OUT BY MISSING THIS MASTERPIECE Blimey, friends, you only have two more weeks to see my favorite play on Broadway. And not only my favorite, but the best. Martin McDonough's t…
EXCEPTIONAL EXCEPTION High school is a time of many rules, sometimes excessively so. How to dress, who to hang with, what's in, what's out, where to go, what to listen to " do you identify w…
GODDAMNED MEN Four Korean teen missionaries from Los Angeles " Kyung-Hwa (Ji-Young Yoo), Samantha (Shirley Chen), Jen (Emma Galbraith), and Mimi (Erin Rae Li) " have arrived in Bangkok with …
A NEWFOUND(LAND) WAY OF LOOKING AT MUSICAL THEATER This intimate ensemble piece may only have one stand-alone song, and it may not even be the best-crafted musical or have the emotional impa…
QUE SERÃ, SERà Those of us of a certain age may remember the now classic opening credits of the popular, seventies, television sitcom The Odd Couple. Right before the catchy the…
SARA BAREILLES, BRIAN D'ARCY JAMES, PATINA MILLER, PHILLIPA SOO, GAVIN CREEL, JOSHUA HENRY TO STAR The critically acclaimed New York City Center Encores! production of Stephen Sondheim and J…
WHAT A PIECE OF WORK IS FAT HAM The Father/Son relationship can often be difficult. It can be hard even when the father and son like, let alone love, each other. In Shakespeare's Hamlet, the…
MUSICAL THEATRE GUILD KNOWS HOW TO SUCCEED Reams can and have been written about the glories of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. With music and lyrics by Frank Loesser, a…
IT'S A LOT TO TAKE IN, BUT TAKE IT IN YOU MUST Fake Friends, which co-created the zany streaming event This American Wife (review), are very very bright and insightful, au courant about the …
OUR CELEBRATION This year marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of Thornton Wilder. As part of the Wilder125 celebration, about 150 productions of his plays are being staged worldwide, in…
HOW I LEARNED TO LOVE THEATER Some plays take time to come into their own but they're well worth a wait. Twenty-five years after its Off-Broadway debut, Paula Vogel's seminal wonder How I Le…
N-WORD, PLEASE! In six words, Samuel Beckett devours the human experience: "Birth was the death of him." This line permeates not just A Piece of Monologue (1979), but all of the master's wor…
DOES GOD MAKE A CASE? I liked Samuel D. Hunter's A Case for the Existence of God. I didn't love it, just liked it. Admittedly, I'm in the minority opinion on this one, as many people unabash…
THIS TIGER IS KING Tiger Style! at South Coast Rep is refreshing for many reasons. First, it's really funny. Playwright Mike Lew crafts his script like a super-smart teenager, mixing insight…
JOURNEY OUT OF DARKNESS Breathing new life into works by composers who suffered oppression Numi Opera Theatre is back live after the Covid shutdown and will present Journey Out of Darknes…
SHOW-SCORE & TODAYTIX TO PARTNER WITH THE ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY FUND ON 'PREDICT THE TONYS' The Entertainment Community Fund (formerly The Actors Fund), alongside Show-Score…
DID EVERYONE AT THE WALLIS NOT REALIZE THAT THE PLAY'S THE THING? One of the greatest travesties in L.A. theater history arrived at The Wallis last weekend, and I still have the emotional sc…
I NEVER MET A METAMORPHOSES I DIDN'T LIKE, BUT THIS ONE IS GREAT Critics often speak of "universal themes"Â " these are topics to which people in any place and at any time can relate. One…
Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater Youth Company Auditions Dancers 9 " 17 years old When? Saturday, May 21 @ 9:00-10:30 am ​Where: Northeastern Illinois University (J "…
THERE ARE NO WORDS It was one of those magical evenings in the theater that shall live with me forever. When Kulunka Teatro's André & Dorine appeared at the Los Angeles Theatre Cente…
