By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") It's taken two years for the darkened stage of Tulane University's Dixon Hall to be witness to the frenetic work of dozens of dedicate…
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") Tovah Feldshuh has made a career of originating memorable roles of strong female characters on both the small and large screens, but t…
By Edward Rubin The night I attended a live production of Jacob Storms' one man show, Tennessee Rising: The Dawn of Tennessee Williams, held at the Cell Theater in New City, it was raining l…
By JACK LYONS North Coast Repertory Theatre (NCRT) of Solana Beach, CA., brings gifted, multiple award-winning actor Tovah Feldshuh to their stage to star in playwright Mark St. Germain's br…
By ALAN SMASON, WYES Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") At the start of this pandemic-impacted season, New Jersey's George Street Playhouse unveiled bold plans to present four productions. The …
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") It's been a year of firsts for Summer Lyric Theatre at Tulane's (SLT) artistic director Michael McKelvey. After a year of shutdowns an…
By AARON KRAUSE Young, visionary director Giancarlo Rodaz's winning approach in Area Stage Company's (ASC) current unorthodox, yet triumphant production of the classic musical Annie features…
By JACK LYONS If this COVID-19 pandemic has taught us anything, then it's forced the American viewing public to think outside the traditional creative arts box when it comes to entertainment…
By AARON KRAUSE While watching Drew Droege's delightfully comic, single-character play, Bright Colors and Bold Patterns, one might wonder: Is the horizontally big fellow at the piece's ce…
By EDWARD RUBIN Tiny Beautiful Things, George Street Playhouse's filmed play, based on Cheryl Strayed's book, "Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar," a 2012 …
By ALAN SMASON, Theatre Critic, WYES-TV ("Steppin' Out") When Heather Massie arrived on the stage of BB's Stage Door Canteen after 14 months of postponed performances from COVID safety proto…
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") If there were any indication that the worst of the pandemic is now behind us and that a return to what we formerly considered "normal"…
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") Cheryl Strayed published her book "Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar" in 2012, based on several of the ac…
By AARON KRAUSE When it comes to musicals, A Bronx Tale is not one of the great ones. Still, it's a crowd-pleasing, familiar tale populated by characters we care about. Surely, you don…
By ALAN SMASON Look out! The Little Sisters of Hoboken are back, but you need not reach for your rosary beads or prepare to make an act of contrition. All you need do is head over to Riverto…
By JACK LYONS Ernest Hemingway, the American novelist and author, became a giant of American 20th century literature.  His style was new in the early 1920s.  It was fresh and it …
By AARON KRAUSE "What are you doing to promote equality?" a black college student demands of her white professor in Eleanor Burgess's taut, intense, timely drama The Niceties. The profess…
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") John Cullum, the two-time Tony Award winning leading Broadway actor, might have been content to rest on his well-deserved laurels. But…
By AARON KRAUSE If you search Emily Dickinson on Google, one of the photos you'll find is that of an austere-looking woman dressed in black. The famous poet from Amherst, Massachusetts (1830…
By ALAN SMASON No. It's not a latter-day Our Town. Nor is it Love Letters for couples. It is, however, somewhere in between. Streaming sales for a filmed stage reading of Dan Clancy's Middle…
By ALAN SMASON When playwright Becky Mode wrote her first piece Fully Committed, she wrote well of what she knew. She had worked for many years as a worker in fine New York eateries taking r…
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") The story of God of Vengeance (Got fun Nekome), the three-act drama in Yiddish by Sholem Asch, was famously recounted in 2017 with …
By AARON KRAUSE A problem with online theater, especially a taped production, is that performers cannot take bows. In addition, the actors cannot bask in bravos, cheers, and sustained applau…
By EDWARD RUBIN For great fun, and a breathless romp through one woman's topsy-turvy life, Bad Dates, George Street Playhouses' filmed version of Theresa Rebeck's 2003 zany one-woman play st…
By ROY BERKO Beck Center often coordinates with Baldwin Wallace Music Theatre program to produce some of the Cleveland area's best musical theatre.  Not only does the stage often spark…