400 stories from Theatre Criticsm
By AARON KRAUSE While we still do not know when the 2020 virtual Tony Awards broadcast will take place, we at least now know the nominees. The Tony Awards' presenters, The Broadway League an…
By ALAN SMASON With the current COVID-19 pandemic creating new and interesting virtual meeting places, university campuses have been marked by responsiveness and ingenuity. Last spring's vir…
By AARON KRAUSE Certainly, six years ago, "This too shall pass" carried the same meaning as it does today. But oh, how we yearn to believe a speaker of those words in this age of COVID…
The Tony Awards Administration Committee met on August 27, 2020 to confirm the eligibility status of three Broadway productions for the 2020 Tony Awards®. This was the final time the Tony…
By AARON KRAUSE What are some "gifts" that you've brought to dark, anxiety-inducing times, places, or situations? Perhaps you smiled brightly while visiting a lonely, scared person forced to…
By ALAN SMASON As the seconds ticked by to display a 2:00 a.m. CDT time on the computer, it was easy for me to imagine the sounds of a million click booms on TV remotes across the nation. Th…
The 65th annual Drama Desk Awards, which had been postponed during the COVID-19 pandemic, and then rescheduled for Sunday, May 31, only to be postponed again due to the emerging protests and…
By HARRY DUKE, originally published in NORTH BAY BOHEMIAN What is the point of reviewing theatre? If you had asked me that question 90 days ago, my answer would be to provide potential audie…
BOCA RATON, FL. " Hopefully, sooner rather than later, Coronavirus will disappear. Then, the media may choose to highlight "unsung heroes" in the battle against the virus. Specifically, thes…
By EDWARD RUBIN Surprise of all surprises, the 1969 movie "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice," thanks to The New Group and Pershing Square Signature Center, is back in the news again"thi…
By EDWARD RUBIN In or out of drag, whether on stage or page, the 65-year-old actor playwright Charles Busch, with some 40 years of show business under his belt, is a force to be reckoned wit…
By JACK LYONS, Special from Desert Local News.com (PALM SPRINGS, CA.) " Coyote StageWorks, of Palm Springs, presents playwright Lucas Hnath's A Doll's House, Part 2 as the debut production i…
By AARON KRAUSE FT. LAUDERDALE " A man with much physical difficulty tries to reach the love of his life. Naturally, she seems overjoyed that hubby is approaching. And so, she cheers him on.…
By AARON KRAUSE FT. LAUDERDALE " Whoever said "You never get a second chance to make a first impression" obviously had never heard of Phil Connors. Certainly, the quote's originator had no w…
By EDWARD RUBIN My Name Is Lucy Barton written by Elizabeth Stout and published to a chorus of Hosannas in 2016, is now a one-woman, two-character play " running through Saturday, February 2…
By EDWARD RUBIN I cannot remember any play that unnerved me to such a degree as the Vineyard Theatre's production of Tina Satter's brilliantly conceived Is This A Room. Not only did this one…
By AARON KRAUSE MIAMI "A black mother expresses a chilling, yet valid concern in American Son, Christopher Demos-Brown's unflinchingly honest and heartbreaking play about race, set in …
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") With its current production of Something Rotten!, Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carré has set the bar so incredibly high that even they m…
By EDWARD RUBIN First things first. Before I delve into the Irish Repertory Theater's marvelous production of London Assurance by Dublin-born playwright Dion Boucicault (1820-1890) " extende…
By BILL HIRSCHMAN For even those who only knew Herbert Simpson in passing, likely what they remember was his voice " usually deep and sonorous, a bit scratchy, but brimming with passion. The…
By AARON KRAUSE NEW YORK, N.Y. " Dorothy Michaels is unstoppable. We learned that much in the Tony Award-nominated Broadway musical adaptation of Tootsie. It is based on the popular Ac…
By AARON KRAUSE NEW YORK, N.Y. " If you want to hear current members of the famed musical group The Temptations perform live this year, you're out of luck. According to https://www.songki…
By AARON KRAUSE NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. " The wording on the Playbill at Circle in the Square Theatre does not deceive your eyes: It really does say Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! Now,…
By EDWARD RUBIN Will Arbery's latest play, Heroes of the Fourth Turning, having been extended two times by popular demand, is now running Off-Broadway through Sunday, November 17, 2019 at Pl…
By ANNE SIEGEL It has been a long wait, but the people of southeast Wisconsin finally get to be in the room where it happens. Hamilton has arrived. And what a reception it's getting. The mos…
