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Leila Buck's Game Show Spoofs ICE Cruelty by Hannah Yurke "American Dreams," with its built in rising dynamic and audience interaction, has the absorbing compulsion of reality TV" and a mena…
Josh Kornbluth, Genius Comic, Uses Science for Revolution by Barry David Horwitz Josh Kornbluth has found a way to link self-discovery to political regeneration. He has blazed a trail from t…
Gunderson, Smith, Spector Unfold Personal Crisis  by Patricia L. Morin Aurora Theatre has come up with an experimental, three-part, audio thriller called "The Flats""part play and part c…
Anna Deavere Smith Reignites Struggle over Police Brutality  by Patricia L. Morin Twilight: Los Angeles, the PBS movie, resurrects the explosive problem of police brutality. Raging riots …
Shakespeare Gets Dangerous in Women's Prison Setting by Kim Waldron "Mischief, thou art afoot," and it's thrilling. In Director Phyllida Lloyd's "Julius Caesar," the actors appear as inmates…
Millennial Notes Jeanne Sakata Summons Supreme Court Struggle by Evelyn Arevalo reviewed live at TheatreWorks, on July 26, 2018 Playwright Jeanne Sakata brings to life the terrors of the U.S…
Millennial Notes Indira Etwaroo Stages Black Lives in Glass Boxes by Abby Tozer A Brooklyn cityscape overlooks the bright yellow street mural memorializing 159 Black victims of injustice"fro…
Emily Mann Highlights Steinem's Fabulous Feminism by Barry David Horwitz Emily Mann's Off-Broadway play "Gloria: A Life" offers a shocking timeline of how professional women were treated fro…
Photo: "12 Angry Men . . . and Women" " #BLM " Billie Holiday Theatre, N.Y. Play List " Mostly FREE " Online Coming Soon Movie: The Glorias "Julie Taymor/Sarah Ruhl #GloriaSteinem! " …
Millennial Notes Matt Cox Appeals to PotterHeads & New 'Puffs' by Abby Tozer Twenty-three years ago, novelist J.K. Rowling created a magical world of witchcraft and wizardry. We all fell…
Lynn Nottage Unveils Plot against U.S. Workers by Barry David Horwitz Has anyone forgotten what we learned in 2016? Have we figured out yet why mid-western factory workers went for you know …
Madhuri Shekar Explores a Compulsive Gamer's World by Patricia L. Morin World of Warcraft"WoW"is an actual online role-playing game that Madhuri Shekar creatively weaves into "In Love and Wa…
Jorge Luis Borges Meets the Moment in New York Closet by Jennifer Ann Charron Not a lot of good has come out of 2020. Even the most privileged, most content, most well-adjusted of us seem…
Lisa Tierney-Keogh Depicts Sharp Irish Debates on Gender & Race  by Patricia L. Morin In Lisa Tierney-Keogh's "This Beautiful Virtual Village," six feisty members of a residents' asso…
Banner Photo: "West Side Story" " 1961 Mirisch Pictures Inc. Play List " Mostly FREE " On Line NOW  For Updates: See Theatrius.com  To Read REVIEWS, Click on Photos Below  To See…
Reflections  Bernstein, Sondheim Champion Youthful Self-Discovery by Abby Tozer Whenever I hear the words "West Side Story," I recall my Grandpa's story of proposing to my Grandma at a 19…
Josh Luxenberg Creates an Adventure in a Box  by Patricia L. Morin "The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy" maps new territory for online theater. Theater in Quarantine's video and electronic innov…
Millennial Notes Elizabeth Carter Creates A Female-Centric World by Abby Tozer With a woman in the title role and three bi-racial daughters vying for the throne, Director Elizabeth Carter's …
Banner: Anna Deavere Smith in "Notes from the Field." Photo by HBO Play List " Mostly FREE " On Line NOW For Updates: See Theatrius.com  To Read REVIEWS, Click on Photos Below  To Se…
Millennial Notes Lin-Manuel Miranda's Magical Music Unfolds US, Uniquely by Ilinca P. & Rachel Korsunsky As a kid in 6th grade learning about the American Revolution, I was not very inte…
Sondheim Songs Pit Painter's Life vs. Art Biz by Robert M. Gardner Stephen Sondheim's Pulitzer Prize winning musical "Sunday in the Park with George" offers insights into Georges Seurat's fa…
Millennial Notes Anna Deavere Smith Amplifies Protestors' Voices by Abby Tozer The sweet sound of gospel voices resonates on our screens as Pastor Jamal Harrison Bryant, brilliantly re-creat…
Reflections Chaim Topol's Tevye Proves We Can Change by Jordan Freed A few days ago, I noticed that Netflix was suggesting the 1971 film of the 1964 musical "Fiddler on the Roof." In the pre…
Photo: Karen Pittman & Namir Smallwood in "Pipeline" at Lincoln Center Play List " Mostly FREE " On Line NOW For Updates: See Theatrius.com  To Read REVIEWS, Click on Photos To See P…
Blank & Jensen Revive Health Workers' Humanity by Patricia L. Morin "The Line" is a heartache to watch. This beautifully crafted docu-drama by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen focuses on in…