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THE PUZZLE BOX OF THE SOUL Sharr White's riveting and affective play, The Other Side, concerns Juliana, a neurologist and holder of a billion-dollar patent, whose life suddenly starts crumbl…
A RETROACTIVE RECKONING IN 12 SONGS His seventh coming is a gift worth opening. It's been 13 years since Obie-winner David Cale has appeared on the Goodman Theatre stage. That's where he pre…
THE ENDURING LEGACY OF JERRY HERMAN AND THE 'STAR VEHICLE' The chief pleasure in Musical Theatre Guild's presentation of Mame at the Alex Theatre is hearing the music, full-out, as written, …
THIS ONE’S A BEEPER Richard Saudek's one man show beep boop begins with a man struggling to break through an elastic translucent membrane. He succeeds and is born — spit out of a…
LOVE AND TOLERANCE BEGIN AT HOME Debra Jo Rupp is like a hurricane in miniature. She takes us inside a character's small, unexpected, interior storms. We see and feel her mind and emotions c…
A SURE(GUN)FIRE HIT The team of Bonnie Elizabeth Parker and Clyde Chestnut Barrow, the most famous robbing, murdering, loving couple in U.S. history, is as unlikely a subject for a musical a…
FECKIN’ GREAT While the horror and suspense aren't as palpable as previous productions of The Beauty Queen of Leenane — Martin McDonagh's 1996 black comedy — the dark humor…
JAZZ, GENIUS AND ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS Wynton Marsalis's wildly enjoyable composition, a new dance suite called Spaces, combines modern dance with big band jazz in a playful and entirely …
AN EARNEST HEART THAT SHAKES, THROBS, PALPITATES & FLATLINES For all of its sincere heart and driving rock ‘n’ roll, this new jukebox musical inspired by Huey Lewis and the N…
MORE THAN BROADWAY, THIS PRODUCTION IS MORE INTIMATE WITH MORE HEART AND MORE FUN Wise and warm, funny and tender, this 100-minute family memory-play musical charts the twisted courses of a …
ARMS HAS LEGS George Bernard Shaw was not amused when his serious-minded "pleasant play" Arms and the Man, produced in 1894, was diminished into the 1908 operetta The Chocolate Soldier. He i…
18 & OVER THE MOON You gotta love a revue that starts with a song, "Turn off Your Fucking Phone." Even better is that Ammunition Theatre Company — which gave us the astounding Gian…
MODERN LOSS MEETS THE ORPHEUS MYTH, BUT NEVER MAKES IT TO THE OTHER SIDE A superb cast tackles life and death in José Rivera's new play The Untranslatable Secrets of Nikki Corona, now in it…
FORGET STICKS AND STONES: WORDS WILL ALWAYS HURT YOU Who says words can't kill? In BigMouth, flawlessly intoning English, Walloon, French, and German (with captions), Belgian solo p…
AN EXTRAORDINARY PERFORMER IN A POWERFUL PLAY Produced by the Australian Theatre Company along with Skylight Theatre, Conor McDermottroe’s one-man play Swansong and André de Van…
LET THE SPIRIT MOVE YOU TO NORTH COAST REP Is it bigamy if you’re still seeing your first wife while married to your second? Does your answer change if the first wife has been dead for…
THE WAR OF ROSES — AND WEEDS Christian Barillas is adorably frazzled and enormously appealing in Native Gardens at the Pasadena Playhouse. He plays Pablo Del Valle, an ambitious lawyer…
THE RIGHT TO DO WRONG Count this among the finest offerings from a Chicago theater: Shattered Globe Theatre's kinetic staging of Chris Hannan's adaptation of Crime and Punishment is flawless…
MURDER WITHOUT END Sha'Leah Nikole Stubblefield is already a mesmerizing, ethereal presence on stage when you take a seat for Rogue Machine's American Saga Gunshot Medley: Part 1, now in its…
WE ARE THE MEAN GIRLS The subhead of Jocelyn Bioh's 2017 play, now at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City, is alluring but ultimately misleading. School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls…
THE BIRTH OF TRUMP'S RACIAL BLUE-COLLAR DIVIDE Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage places much of the action of Sweat, now at the Mark Taper Forum, in a working-class bar in Reading, Pennsylv…
TRAPPED IN A DREARY DRAMEDY There's a tender scene at the start of HOMOS, OR EVERYONE IN AMERICA (a perversely paradoxical title) that wants to convince us that Jordan Seavey's lads really a…
THE WORLD IS FLAT Musical revues are a tricky business. While highly enjoyable and entertaining, even high profile compilations such as Side by Side by Sondheim and the Fats Waller son…
PLAY ON Opening Night of the 2018 PLAY LA Festival of New Plays takes place Friday, September 7, at CASA 0101. Doors open at 7:00 pm at the Casa 0101 Gallery space for Hotel Mariachi, …
NO CLOSURE FOR GENOCIDE Family is how history happens. As Arthur Miller wisely showed in All My Sons, The Gift and The Crucible, change radiates outward. Even, or especially, an …
