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LIKE A ROLLING STONE I imagine that some time back, the Theater Gods were sitting around talking. They had the idea to collaborate on a stupendous theatrical event. They thought to combine t…
IF A SHOW IS CALLED DANCIN', SHOULDN'T IT BE ALL ABOUT THE DANCING? With seemingly hundreds of thousands of Bob Fosse footsteps in Dancin' " now receiving a pre-Broadway updated revival at S…
CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER JUST GETS BETTERER AND BETTERER After two Covid-19 delays, Lookingglass Alice is once again high-flying and adored at the Lookingglass Theatre, whose glorious and …
YOU'LL WISH YOU WERE NIKKI Wish You Were Here begins in 1978 when protests are breaking out across Iran, encroaching on a suburb where a tight-knit circle of girlfriends is getting ready for…
ANY WAY IS THE BEST WAY: JUST FIND YOUR WAY TO WHICH WAY TO THE STAGE Lick this play, lick its playwright Ana Nogueira, its director Mike Donahue, its cast and designers, and while you're at…
PLENTY OF RAINBOW BUT LITTLE COLOR In feminist Ntozake Shange's 1976 "choreopoem" (a term coined by the late playwright), the experiences of Black women in America are transformed into poetr…
INTERCONNECTEDNESS: A WAY OF SURVIVAL Recently, at Theater for the New City on the lower eastside of Manhattan, Executive Artistic Director Crystal Field and AMERINDA (American Indian Artist…
75TH ANNUAL TONY AWARD NOMINATIONS This year's Tony nominees were announced this morning. I must say, it's difficult to argue with the majority of the noms. As usual, it seems that some of t…
NOT ONLY SHOULD THESE ACTORS BE SEEN ON BROADWAY, THEY CAN BE HEARD ON BROADWAY The faces of the actors featured in J.M. Synge's two one-act plays at the reputable Irish Repertory Theatre ar…
SKIN DEEP As I made my way through a gaggle of gay-listers to see "Los Angeles's steamiest show" at the Hudson Theatre in Los Angeles, that's when I saw it " yet missed it completely " right…
AS ¡AMERICANO! AS APPLE PIE The Merriam-Webster dictionary (remember dictionaries?) lists two definitions for the word dreamer. The first is simply "one that dreams." The second definitio…
MAKE ROOM FOR COMPANY As part of the series' fifth Broadway's Best lineup, Great Performances presents a new documentary exploring the legacy of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's mus…
HARRIED HAPPENINGS AT NAVY PIER A rarely produced dark comedy from the annals of William Shakespeare's folio is ushering in springtime at Navy Pier. All's Well That Ends Well might not ha…
CLASSICAL BLACK MUSIC MATTERS One of the really fantastic aspects of being a critic is discovering "new to me" talent. Being in the Chicago Arts scenes, it is next to impossible to see every…
WHO'S AFRAID OF A MODERN BEOWULF? When Covid hit, I curled up one night, script in hand, poring over Edward Albee's 60-year-old play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Perhaps the daily deat…
FINALLY IN THE LOOP A Strange Loop, the new Broadway musical that currently towers above the rest, is a Brilliant show. With book, music and lyrics by Michael R. Jackson, this Brilliant show…
WALTZING AROUND AUNT SUSAN Aunt Susan & Her Tennessee Waltz by Toby Armour is one play in two acts that feels more like two, one-act plays on the same bill. The acts have little in commo…
YOU THINK YOUR DAUGHTER WAS A HANDFUL? Joan of Arc is remembered as a hero and a martyr for her active role in France's defense from British invasion in the 15th century. How much the averag…
PRAISE THE GODS! As soon as the plunger-muted trombone began to wail, and ache, and wail again; as trickled sweat watered ivories being tickled on an upright piano; as the hmmm's of the chor…
FUNNY, HOW IT KINDA WORKS On the Internet exists a theater-centered, YouTube channel called "Staged Right". And there's an episode on Staged Right called Fanny & Barbra and the Legacy of…
SINS I FELL FOR YOU Mae West, the sage and sybarite from Brooklyn, used to say, "Let joy be unrefined," a point of view that also suits Austin McCormick, artistic director and choreographer …
WHERE THE RHYTHM SWOOPS AND SWIRLS, THIS IS THE JAZZ CORNER OF THE WORLD It amazes me how many of my NY friends haven't been to Birdland Jazz Club on 44th near Times Square (I'm an L.A. boy …
UNDERSTATED PATHOS As timely now as it was when the original play was written over 150 years ago, Spring Awakening is now rocking the stage at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts. This edgy…
WILL WE COME THROUGH THIS TOGETHER? Dave Malloy, the genius (and I don't use that word loosely) who wrote the music, lyrics, book and vocal arrangements for his chamber musical Octet, which …
