Theater Review: GEM OF THE OCEAN (Goodman in Chicago)
SIMPLY SUBLIME What a wonderful way to kick off Black History Month in the Windy City. The Goodman Theatre is revisiting a thoroughly engaging production of August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean.…
SIMPLY SUBLIME What a wonderful way to kick off Black History Month in the Windy City. The Goodman Theatre is revisiting a thoroughly engaging production of August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean.…
THE PHYSICS OF ATTRACTION If this totally non-physicist reviewer understands what he is reading " the Uncertainty Principle launched by renowned physicist Werner Heisenberg, roughly state…
RELENTLESS: A BOLD DEBUT As the snow falls, a fire is currently smoldering centerstage at Theater Wit. This slow-burning ember is better known as the World Premiere, Relentless. Playwright T…
THE SECRET IS OUT: COUNCIL IS A WINNER The First Folio Theatre has come up with an unexpected winner in David Rice's world premiere adaptation of Agatha Christie's light novel of internation…
FIREFLIES SHINES BRIGHT AT NORTHLIGHT Fireflies at the Northlight Theater takes audiences back to the fraught year of 1963 in the Deep South, where racial tensions burn hot, as black people …
FIREFLIES FAILS TO TAKE FLIGHT The old adage, behind every great man is an even greater woman, has never been truer than in the new play, Fireflies, now being staged at the North Shore Cente…
A GREAT CREW OF ACTORS BRING THIS SKELETON TO LIFE There is a family onstage in Dominique Morisseau's expertly crafted new play Skeleton Crew, which had its Broadway opening at the Samuel J.…
Broadway Stars Perform Musical Theatre Hits in Malibu Featuring the best songs from the current New York City theatre season and sung by Broadway stars with a live band, On Broadway is an un…
THIS WRONG IS OH SO RIGHT Broadway in Chicago's gamble is absolutely the right play at the right time. Staged in the intimate setting of the Broadway Playhouse Theatre, this Broadway and Lon…
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Suites from Three of His Best-Loved Musicals: Evita, The Phantom of the Opera, and Sunset Boulevard Recorded at the Newly Restored Theatre RoyalDrury Lane with an 81…
As part of its 20th Anniversary season, Hell in a Handbag is presenting a revival of its popular comedy The Drag Seed, an unauthorized parody of the 1956 psychological horror-thriller …
NEW PLAY BY BERNARDO CUBRÃA COMES TO THE ROAD The Road Theatre Company returns to live performances with three plays performing in repertory, beginning and re-opening with the world premi…
Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. is presenting a revised version of the much-loved musical Catch Me If You Can, directed by Molly Smith. It will run March 4 " April 17, 2022, i…
The Impostors Theatre Company (ITC) continues their third season with the Chicago premiere of Hertha Nova, by ITC Executive Director Rachel Borgo and directed by ITC Artistic Director Stefan…
The Bay Area Premiere of Heroes of the Fourth Turning by Will Arbery " the winner of the 2020 Obie Award for Playwriting, Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, and a Pulitzer Finalist "…
How do families stay together, even when they are kept apart? The Fountain Theatre presents a gripping new docudrama, a compilation of true stories that explores the rippling impact of ma…
CULTURAL ICON FRAN LEBOWITZ RETURNS TO BERKELEY REP Berkeley Repertory Theatre is proud to announce a special presentation of Fran Lebowitz in Conversation. Following her bingeworthy hit …
Grammy Nominated Singer Aloe Blacc and Maya Jupiter to Open the New Phantom Projects Theatre at La Habra Depot The historic La Habra Depot Theatre under the new management of the Phantom Pro…
A PLAY TO MAKE YOU KVELL AND KVETCH Crazy Meshugga Hurricane Earthquake by Amy Coleman is a play about parallels. Parallel religious practices. Parallel childhoods. Parallel abuses. Parallel…
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD GOES ON HIATUS Aaron Sorkin's To Kill a Mockingbird, the best play I've seen on Broadway in years " and the most successful American play in Broadway history "…
BROADWAY HOTSPOT THE GREEN ROOM 42 CELEBRATES 5 YEARS WITH JUDY KUHN AND ALEXANDRA SILBER ON VALENTINE'S DAY The outstanding venue Green Room 42, which I had the pleasure of getting to know …
Relevant. Absorbing. Intense. Thought-provoking. Riveting. Ambitious. This is powerful theatre that plumbs the depths. It does not allow you to breathe. It's rewards are rich and will stay w…
SONDHEIM'S A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC OPENS FEBRUARY 4 AT GREENWAY COURT THEATRE Some 50 years after its birth, A Little Night Music feels like it's always been here. Wisely and warmly, composer S…
A CONVERGENCE BETWEEN TECH\GAMING, THEATER & SOCIO-POLITICAL DISCOURSE Tomorrow, Thursday, January 13, 2022, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater will debut Addressless in a format fitting…
A MUST-SEE MARVEL OF MAGIC Harry Potter, named "The Boy Who Lived" by the wizarding world, is alive and well and back on Broadway at the Lyric after having been shuttered by the evil world o…