It is easy to understand why The Philadelphia Orchestra has tapped Yannick Nézet-Séguin to be their music director and conductor of such a prestigious institution. Yannick exudes charis…
I regret to say that until I saw Mint Theater Company’s production of Miles Malleson’s comedy Yours Unfaithfully, I wasn’t aware of the author, hadn’t heard of him. A…
Chris Stezin is a playwright, actor, and director whose work"on and off the stage"has brightened the marquees of DC theatres for more than two decades. The author of roughly 25 plays in as m…
Continuing the exciting season of Broadway Up Close concerts on Saturday at the Kimmel Center, Seth Rudetsky hosted Broadway and recording star Vanessa Williams for an evening of her career …
Samsara isn't a person's name (despite seeming like a blend of "Sam" and "Sara.") It is defined as either the process of coming into existence as a differentiated, mortal creature (Buddism) …
There's no business like show business, but does that include opera? If in a few years people finally agree that opera is genuinely another form of musical theater, it may be because of the …
On December 4, 1956, four performers young found themselves participating in an impromptu jam session in the recording studio of Sun Records in Memphis, TN. Enjoying the early stages of thei…
Excellently directed by Laura J. Martin with crisp musical direction from Mat Levine, Mel Brooks’ The Producers at the Washington County Playhouse Dinner Theater is an exceptional even…
A remarkable new production of August Wilson’s play Jitney is now available to us all, thanks to the Manhattan Theatre Club, which has staged it on Broadway as the last of the Wi…
"How could people be so bad that make me feel so good?" That is the rhetorical question posed by white DJ Huey Calhoun, a 9th-grade dropout with an eccentric style, a profound passion for bl…
The John W. Engeman Theater at Northport rarely disappoints, and true to form their newest production, The Full Monty is remarkably well done. This ten-time Tony nominee has a book written b…
There are very few things that could get me to uproot and move to Texas. Actually, there is just one thing, and his name is Lyle Lovett. Luckily, this long tall Texan graced the stage of Mar…
On the night of the J20 Art Strike, a protest movement asking that "business . . . not proceed as usual in any realm" of the creative arts on Inauguration Day, I felt a little guilty attendi…
In Constellations, what happens is just as important as what might have happened. Nick Payne's play concerns two young people who meet, fall in love, quarrel, break up, reunite, get engaged,…
Zestful. Savvy. Crafty. Satisfying — Director Abigail Isaac Fine's feisty NextStop production of Shakespeare's battle-of-wits, romantic-comedy Much Ado About Nothing is a stimula…
by Quynh Tran Aaron Tveit returns to his Broadway roots on Saturday evening during his debut at the Wolf Trap. Tveit (Next to Normal, Grease Live!) has not performed on a Broadway stage sinc…
In part five of a series of interviews with the cast of Loves and Hours, meet Heather Warren. Please introduce yourself and tell our readers where they may have seen you perform on the stage…
It's back to the '80s at Hammonton's Eagle Theatre, for an absolutely hilarious revisiting of the decade of big hair, tacky fashions, and bad-ass music–or just bad, if you're not of th…
Can't help lovin' that Show Boat at Toby’s Dinner Theatre. Modern audiences are still likely to find the miscegenation drama that sets the story in motion more dramatically engaging th…
Tom Stoppard’s The Hard Problem isn’t so much about consciousness and the existence of subjectivity, “the hard problem” elucidated by contemporary Australian philosop…
The names might seem familiar, and as you watch the show, some of the references sound like something you may have heard of before. In Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, the Tony Award-win…
Jillian, the main character of Deborah Zoe Laufer's play Informed Consent, is a genetic anthropologist " a scientist who has studied DNA for years and is still amazed at what she learns from…
e've all been between the proverbial "rock and a hard place." That's exactly where fictional famous Hollywood writer Ben Hecht found himself in, in the comedy A Visit from Scarface, now play…
"It is a glorious thing, to be a Pirate King" …but it is a far more glorious thing to spend a night at the Way off Broadway Dinner Theatre in Frederick, Maryland, seeing the first show of …
In part four of a series of interviews with the cast of Loves and Hours, meet Taylor Duvall. Please introduce yourself and tell our readers where they may have seen you perform on the stage …