Composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II have been called the greatest writing partnership of the 20th century. Their work spans from 1943 to 1959 and includes some of the …
Now in production at People's Light, Ken Ludwig's Moon over Buffalo, directed by Pete Pryor, contains all the expected elements of a farce: there's mistaken identity; insult humor; impassion…
From antiquity to the present, tragedy and drama to absurdism and comedy, masterpieces by classic playwrights to experimental ensemble-devised works by local artists, the 2017 Philadelphia F…
Out of nearly 90 shows in this year’s Capital Fringe Festival, 5 captured Audience Awards, as announced Monday, July 24. And a total of 16 shows got coveted extensions because they bec…
It's difficult to imagine a more lush or beautiful production to take the stage at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts than Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I. The reviv…
Thurgood, a one-man-show by George Stevens, Jr., is playing at the Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab at the Olney Theatre Center in Olney. The play is a about the late Supreme Court Justice and re…
Guys and Dolls is a paragon of American musical theater. Considering its blend of interesting characters, clever story and glorious songs by Frank Loesser, it deserves more frequent revivals…
This hot, summery production of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (VSMS), a production of Cockpit in Court Summer Theatre, is a spicy show you definitely want to… Chekhov… your b…
In Bowie Community Theatre's latest offering, Nana's Naughty Knickers, Sylvia Charles (Shelley Rochester) is a modern-day New York widow who has a pretty big secret. When her granddaughter B…
Like all of Shakespeare’s plays, As You Like It is filled with rich, quotable language. (This is the one with the "All the world's a stage" speech.) But Pennsylvania Shakespeare Fes…
Swapping one beloved Rodgers and Hammerstein's national tour production for another, the Tony Award-winning Lincoln Center Theater revival of The King and I made its Washington, D.C. premier…
The history of Bonnie and Clyde is well-known. Lovers, living a life of crime. Since their infamous streak of robberies and murders, which ended with the two being killed in an ambush on May…
For those who love musical theatre, there is something amazing going on in Fairfax, Virginia this weekend and next, as the City of Fairfax Theatre Company and Truro Anglican Church present J…
Grab your leather jacket and go back in time to Rydell High, 1959 in Grease. The John W. Engeman Theater at Northport has opened its 2017-2018 season with this much loved classic, and it's f…
Westchester Broadway Theatre is currently presenting Annie, and this production, directed and choreographed by Mary Jane Houda, is enjoyment and smiles from start to finish. In 1970 Martin C…
The city of Chicago is "Hog Butcher for the World… City of the Big Shoulders," as poet Carl Sandburg wrote just over a 100 years ago. Much the same could be said of certain elements of…
In 1850 Oregon, Adam Pontipee (a velvety-voiced Da'Von Moody) has come to town to trade some furs and look for a bride. We know he's a romantic because his opening song is "Bless Your Beauti…
Six days do not a week make. These famous words of nonsense, uttered by the young wife Cory, will tell all serious theatergoers that they are in the domain of Neil Simon and his oft-performe…
Imagine a bird emoji tweeting. No, it's not another bizarre White House official message. The Hodgepodge Group has adapted Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five. It would be wise to be have…
Honestly, I am still reeling after seeing Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins' An Octoroon last night. I've been wandering around the house all morning, eyes glazed over, wheels turning in my head while …
The first in Soulpepper Theatre Company's three-part musical celebration of the history of diversity in New York – The Melting Pot pays tribute to Lower Manhattan, from Battery Park to…
Maybe the only way the play Hamlet could ever make sense is to filter it through a teenaged girl perspective. Watching a 30-year-old man galumph and philosophize his way through Elsinore " c…
Landline, the latest from Gillian Robespierre and Elisabeth Holm, the creative team behind Obvious Child, opens with the sounds of… rutting, I guess is the word I can use in a family publi…
There's virtually nothing a drag queen won't say, or do, in public or private, say the Kinsey Sicks. The San Francisco-based beauty shop quartet that puts the show into show business, the ba…
Fans of Synetic Theater’s music-and movement-based works derived from classic texts will find a surprise twist in the company’s latest offering. Typically, s Synetic extravaganza…