WITNESSING WILDE'S WONDERFUL WIT IS ALWAYS WELCOME Storm Theatre delivers elegance and precision, if not always sparkle Lurking under the characters' control, courtesies and curtseys, calcul…
MOZART MEETS THE FINAL FRONTIER Pacific Opera Project boldly goes where singspiel has gone before Begin with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 1789 complex and comic singspiel Die Entführung aus …
HOW TO SUCCEED IN PRODUCING A MUSICAL Offices tend not to be much fun, which is why they are ripe for exploring undertones of emotion and comedy in scripts like Office Space, Working Girl…
BOXING, BLOODLINES, AND BURIED TRAUMA A smart, muscular, triumphant and thrilling two-hander that lands every blow What's worse? The monsters we fight, the monsters we carry, or the monsters…
SHABBAT, SLAPSTICK, AND THREE SUITORS IN 1968 CHICAGO The comedy cracks open plenty of laughs, then lets the shell sit too long. A domineering Jewish mother, her sharp-tongued teenage son, t…
It's the little ways you try together; cry together; lie together"that make perfect relationships     " Stephen Sondheim, Company Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, i…
LITTLE PATIENCE FOR LITTLE WOMEN Girls interrupted, potential unrealized Actors' Shakespeare Project is an esteemed local theater company here in Greater Boston and frankly one of my favorit…
HOPE WITH CALLOUSED HANDS: A QUIET MASTERPIECE REVISITED John Steinbeck's play Of Mice and Men came quickly after the success of his novella by the same name. In fact, the play opened on Bro…
DIM SUM, DAD JOKES, AND DOWNTOWN DELIRIUM It's ridiculous, but Richard Chang's solo show serves up wordplay, warmth, and a wonderfully wild cultural mashup. ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ âœ�…
TWO MONOLOGUES IN SEARCH OF A DIALOGUE Justin Tanner has spent decades making chaos look easy. Those early Cast Theatre productions like Pot Mom and Zombie Attack trafficked in a particular …
PALM SPRINGS DISPATCH FROM HEADAH HOPPERÂ Your faithful correspondent in the desert My dear reader, If you are planning a visit to Palm Springs and think your evenings will be limited to …
This oral history of the Irish-American journey soars when it sings A history lesson masquerading as a jukebox musical, The Irish … and How They Got That Way is the creation of Pulitzer wi…
A HIGH VOICE, SOME HIGHLIGHTS, AND A HIGH-SPIRITED CROWD If you were shopping for the most versatile fantasy fabric for fashioning a fabulous outfit, imagine it by checking each of these box…
QUINTESSENTIAL QUINTIN Essential jazz, effortless swing, and a trio's genuine chemistry Jazz fans bid farewell to January with a smile at Birdland Jazz Club by settling into a sublimely sati…
HISTORY IN DIALOGUE WITH ITSELF Dominique Morisseau's time-splitting drama refuses easy parallels On paper, Dominique Morisseau's Confederates might read as high concept: two Black women in …
HISTORY, POWER, AND WHO GETS TO DECIDE Rajiv Joseph's epic drama offers no comfort"only urgent questions For those seeking entertainment as a refuge from the nightmare of our current politic…
COSÃŒ FANTASTIC This was my third time seeing Mozart's Così Fan Tutte. The second was Lyric's 2018 production. While I was concerned about the three-and-a-half-hour runtime on a Sunday …
RISING WATER CAN'T FIND ITS CURRENT A powerful premise sinks under miscasting and flat pacing John Biguenet's Rising Water, a Pulitzer-nominated drama set in the immediate aftermath of Hurri…
SHAKESPEARE AS LIFELINE Jacob Ming-Trent turns the Bard into a blazing solo tour de force at Berkeley Rep We are all on our personal journeys of living and being in the world. Everyone encou…
A CONTEST AND A CONCERT The Mabel Mercer Foundation nurtures the next generation of cabaret artists Three cheers for the Mabel Mercer Foundation (MMF) and its ongoing commitment to introduci…
A packed ballpark has its own sound check. You hear the sharp pop of warmup throws, then the softer murmur that settles in once the first hitter digs in. Even on a late night broadcast, the …
THEATER IN STEREOPHONIC A terrific docudrama about artistic temperament and the torment of creation David Adjmi's Stereophonic, now playing at the CIBC, is an unusual piece of theater. It's …
JOYCE'S ODYSSEY ON STAGE Elevator Repair Service turns the impossible into a joyous theatrical sprint Beloved, despised, or abandoned halfway through by most readers, Joyce's Ulysses is one …
A SELF-INFLICTED WOUND POSING AS THEATER. SAFE WORD: CURTAIN An erotic psychological thriller script without the erotic, psychology, thrill, or script Dear Gay Theater-makers, I am writing t…
AN INTERGENERATIONAL, SENSATIONAL THEATRE GROUP Creative Stage Collective's annual revue proves that age is irrelevant when imagination leads To get to their Sunday rehearsals, the many memb…