388 stories from Theatre Criticsm
By ROY BERKO In 2010 a gay Mississippi high school student was banned from coming to her senior prom by the school's Board of Education because she wanted to bring her girlfriend as her date…
By ANNE SIEGEL The opening of Zora Howard's Stew marks a return to the stage for one of Milwaukee's longstanding companies, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre. For the past 20 months, one of the love…
By ROY BERKO For the last several years more and more attention has been placed on The Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements, woke language, microaggressions, radical feminism, transgender…
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") With the opening of The Addams Family musical last week, director Leslie Castay added a new company, the Jefferson Performing Arts Soc…
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") When Bryan Batt steps on the stage of Le Petit Theatre du Carré as the star of the one-man play Dear Mr. Williams, he is literally li…
By ROY BERKO The death penalty carries the inherent risk of executing an innocent person. Since 1973, more than 186 people who had been sentenced to death have been exonerated. Research b…
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") When it was announced that Ricky Graham would be in the director's chair for  Hello, Dolly! at Rivertown Theaters for the Perfo…
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") With its most recent production of God of Carnage, the Jefferson Performing Arts Society has taken the wraps off Yasmina Reza's contro…
By JACK LYONS When it comes to original stories made into movies and TV films about the subject of love and marriage, one would be hard pressed to ignore the angst-filled dramas of the great…
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") There are times when a single performance rises above all others within a given production. While these times are rare, when they occu…
By ANNE SIEGEL (Dashland, OREGON) " Water by the Spoonful is perhaps even more relevant today than when it was staged at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2014. The play initially appeared …
By AARON KRAUSE A story that is ripe with rich, raw, and real emotion is often a tale worth musicalizing. Certainly, Frank McCourt's award-winning memoir, "Angela's Ashes," is a work that fi…
By ANNE SIEGEL SPRING GREEN, WI. " This summer, while audiences were flocking to the large, outdoor theater to view Shakespeare under the stars, another small miracle was taking place inside…
By AARON KRAUSE "Hello Broadway. Gee, you're good to see. You look good to me," theatrical legend George M. Cohan sings. Well, George, you sure do look and sound spry yourself, considering t…
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") When the notices first went out proclaiming an upcoming production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard at Slidell's Cutting E…
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") Rob Ulin must be a very happy man. He obviously has been saying his prayers and living a proper and pious life. That must be the case …
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") Watch out, Sonny Crockett and Rico Tubbs, there are two dudes named Antipholus who are being confused for one another in the South Bea…
By ANNE SIEGEL Under a towering grove of old growth trees, on an exceptionally balmy evening, the Summit Players were hurriedly making preparations for their production of free Shakespeare i…
By AARON KRAUSE Wolf and Badger, a taut, intense drama receiving a mostly strong world premiere production at the professional Main Street Players in Miami Lakes, presents a sobering reminde…
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") Jill Conner Browne has transformed herself into the head of a giant cottage industry of self-aware and loudly proud plus-sized and old…
By JACK LYONS It's amazing what the human mind can understand and accomplish when it comes to the world of theatre and its sister art form the motion picture.  Both are potent art form…
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") The second and final weekend of Summer Lyric Theatre at Tulane's Jesus Christ Superstar brings with it the final shows of the Michael …
By EDWIN RUBIN The very mention of the New York City's own wildly popular actress and comedian Jackie Hoffman " she of 1000 facial expressions, bodily quirks, a score of well-placed ad libs,…
By AARON KRAUSE All Denitra Morgan wants is for her daughter, Noelle, to remain at the high school that she feels will provide the best possible education. But to the Black, working class, s…
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") When the shutdown of Broadway occurred in March of 2020, there were few devotees who expected it to drag on for more than 16 months. E…
