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STEPPENWOLF BEGINS 2020-21 SEASON Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre begins its NOW virtual stage season with What Is Left, Burns, which "opens" for streaming on November 11, 2020. This world pre…
SALUTING FIVE DECADES OF NEW AMERICAN THEATER WITH GROOVIN' MUSIC New York's beloved radio hosts Felix Hernandez (WBGO's Rhythm Revue Dance Party) and G. Keith Alexander (WBLS from 1973-2017…
THIS YEAR MORE THAN EVER, THE PROJECT(S) MUST BE SEEN It's a continuing crisis seen from the inside out, fleshed out with warmth and truth. In The Project(s), the late, great American Theate…
PRICK UP YOUR EARS It's been said that radio is the invisible medium that has the greatest effect in stimulating the imagination of listeners, especially when it is a dramatization (versus n…
IT'S ALL GREEK ACTIVE TO YOU Getty Museum and Center Theatre Group have joined forces to premiere Luis Alfaro's Chicano adaptations of Electricidad, Oedipus El Rey, and Mojada in virtu…
OFF BROADWAY THEATERS AND COMEDY CLUB OWNERS WILL TAKE THEIR CASE TO COURT ON NOVEMBER 12 Catherine Russell, owner of New York's Theater Center at 50th and Broadway does pose an interesting …
THE SPIN IS A SPECTACULAR SPARKLING SPUNKY EXPLOIT Satisfying, enriching, entertaining and proof that Chicago contains some of this country's greatest actors and theater, The Spin is writer/…
TRENCHANT TROLLS TRIUMPH BY TRANSMOGRIFYING TRUTH Somewhere in the bowels of Saint Petersburg, Russia, there is an agency made up of both Americans and Russians that trolls the internet, cre…
HAMILTON IS STUCK ON YOU Beginning tomorrow October 30, 2020, the Hollywood Pantages Theater opens its doors for a special new experience starring you. The lobby of this gorgeous, lavish, Ar…
WHO'S ON FIRST, LADIES? The program states: "Rather than presenting a purely biographical story, this project uses the "honorary" office of First Lady as a lens to examine the roles that wom…
YES, BUT IS IT ART? Yasmina Reza's oft-produced Art (English translation by Christopher Hampton) may be singularly responsible for the current plethora of new plays today with one set, a sma…
BERKELEY REP'S IN SEASON As with most theater companies, Berkeley Rep's season goes virtual. Titled Rep On-Air, it will include collaborations with Raúl Esparza, New Yorker cartoon art…
LIESÂ ALL AROUND US Tampa, Florida's LAB Theater Project is taking to the stage live (yes, live) with the world premiere of Jerry Slaff's award-winning play Lies, running November 5-22, 20…
2020 TONY AWARD NOMINATIONS Nominations in 25 competitive categories for the 74th Annual "Tony" Awards were announced today by James Monroe Iglehart on the official Tony Awards YouTub…
UPCOMING READING HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Tony Award winner Rondi Reed and Steppenwolf's Francis Guinan will star in a world premiere virtual reading of Adam Szymkowicz's Such Small Ha…
TWO DO-NOT-MISS READINGS FROM ATLANTIC THEATER Atlantic Theater Company in New York is presenting a free virtual reading series of plays that had their World Premieres at Atlantic Theater…
GET PROUD Starting October 13, 2020, at 7pm ET, catch an exclusive virtual event hosted by Whoopi Goldberg featuring performances from the Broadway musical Ain't Too Proud " The Life and …
STILL. WAITING FOR THEATER No one has articulated the black American experience in such a way that I, as a white man, "get it," as has James Baldwin. His cool, unflappable, authoritative del…
MORE FROM CENTRAL WORKS The Human Ounce by Nicole Parizeau opened Central Works' 30th season and was the first offering from the Central Works Script Club. A CW world-premiere about art and …
WIESENTHAL ENTHRALLS Writer/performer Tom Dugan's solo show Wiesenthal capitalizes on the strengths of the famous Nazi hunter " his resilience, tenacity and humor. Dugan has crafted a show i…
CAP UCLA presents The Tune In Festival A Convergence of Music and Poetry in a Time of Change Oct. 28 " Oct. 31; Online "When the work of Pete Seeger is examined in its entirety, I find that …
CARRY MOONBEAMS HOME IN A JAR Here comes 42nd Street Moon's announcement for its fall season, with plenty of showtunes to keep you going until COVID-19 takes a big fat hike. The season, Moon…
RE-BREAKING THE FOURTH WALL New York's Primary Stages is gearing up for the new fall virtual season. Included in the mix are The Tribute Artist by Charles Busch and The Night Watcher…
A CROSSWORD, CODE-BREAKING COLLABORATION WITH KWONG One of my happiest achievements was getting my husband hooked on solving Crossword Puzzles. Here's your opportunity to find out why puzzli…
A TOULOUSE TO LOOSEN YOU UP Beginning September 30, Bated Breath Theatre Company will present VOYEUR: THE WINDOWS OF TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, a pandemic-friendly theatrical walking tour conceived a…
