CLOTHES MIGHT MAKE THE MAN, BUT NOT THIS SHOW Costumes were essential to the success of superstar Cher. She and her singing partner and husband Sonny Bono first burst on the music scene in t…
A Bite Out of Minimalism: Timothy Griffin's imaginative adaptation turns Stoker's most chilling chapter into a voyage of dread, myth, and mind In 1897, Bram Stoker published a gothic horror …
YOU'RE NEVER GOING TO SEE A BETTER PRODUCTION OF THIS EVERGREEN MUSICAL. JUST BRING SOME CAUTIOUS OPTIMISM. How do you solve a problem like the schmaltz in The Sound of Music? Or even, how d…
THANKS TO ANTAEUS, CYMBELINE RIDES AGAIN Who knew Cymbeline could gallop? Director Nike Doukas's new staging at Antaeus Theatre Company turns one of Shakespeare's most notoriously unwieldy p…
ROXIE'S BACK IN TOWN! MY KIND OF PLAY, CHICAGO IS In Jazz Age Chicago, 1924 to be precise, Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner were tried and subsequently acquitted of murder. A young Tribune re…
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA OFFERS UNITY THROUGH AN ABSURDIST GROUP THERAPY SESSION I had no idea what I was walking into when I drove out to the Pasadena Playhouse (more than an hour's drive durin…
Angelin Preljocaj has carved out a daring niche in the dance world, fusing classical ballet with contemporary flair to invent a unique, bold alphabet of movements. Now, the US premiere of Ba…
LOVE IN UNEXPECTED PLACES Two women, from quite different backgrounds, meet in Boston in 1968, a time and a place where ancient grudges and present-day conflicts seem sure to keep them apart…
HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF ETTA JAMES? MUSE/IQUE SCHOOLS US IN SOUL Presented by MUSE/IQUE at The Huntington Library and The Skirball MUSE/IQUE's concerts have never been simple performances; th…
The Bent Theatre Company Tackles " and Conquers " Part 2 of Matthew Lopez's Epic The Inheritance This past May, Palm Springs' LGBTQ+ company The Bent Theatre staged The Inheritance, Part 1 a…
A revolution without an end game misses the mark, but only by this much. Babes With Blades, a theatre company that uses stage combat to create striking, thought-provoking theatre, presents a…
A REVOLUTION LOST IN THE (BEAUTIFUL) NOISE Revolution(s) is the first Owen Theatre production of Goodman's centennial celebration. With a book by Zayd Ayers Dohrn and music and lyrics by mul…
A KNOCKOUT OF CONSCIENCE NOW BECOMES A STREAM OF CONSCIENCE Stage and Cinema called the visceral and relevant Broadway hit Punch "a knockout of conscience." Now, Manhattan Theatre Club is gi…
Step backstage at any performance and you'll see nerves, anticipation, and last-minute choices"all fueled by instinct as much as rehearsal. In the performing arts, that gut feeling isn't jus…
A CIRCUS OF CULTURE, A CABARET OF CONSCIENCE: STEP RIGHT UP TO THE UNITED STATES OF ZINZANNI The gorgeous Art Deco Spielgeltent still sits on the fourteenth floor of the Cambria Hotel in the…
All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Â Â " Leo Tolstoy The most remarkable thing about Joel Drake Johnson's Four Places is how it prepares you …
AMAZING THEATER HERE AND NOW Kai A. Ealy stands in a doorway wearing a coat that looks like it weighs forty pounds. Maybe it does. His Herald Loomis has just walked off seven years of forced…
A HEAUX-LY COMMUNION Ars Nova kicks off its 2025"2026 season with a salacious and sanctified evening featuring Brandon Kyle Goodman in Heaux Church"a sermon on unabashed self-love (and yes, …
MISERY LOVES COMPANY… AND A GOOD PLOT Karen MacDonald and Tom Coiner do a wonderful job of animating William Goldman's stage adaptation of Stephen King's intriguing, twisty novel by the sa…
The Phantom of the Opera is a tale that not only captivates with its haunting storyline but also leaves an impression through its distinct and dramatic fashion. The iconic costumes worn by t…
Chicago Shakespeare Theater's North American premiere of Paranormal Activity is guaranteed to deliver the horror movie-style scares you're looking for this Halloween season, but if you're lo…
Pedal to the Monument: Yunchan Lim Reimagines the Goldberg Variations Last night, October 16, the audience fell quiet before Yunchan Lim, making his at Disney Hall debut, walked onstage, but…
OSBORNE TO DO LITTLE SHOP In 1960, a peculiar minor film (featuring a minor appearance by an up-and-coming Jack Nicholson) was released to no particular fanfare with good reason: It was pret…
THE DREAM REBORN: RAGTIME AWAKENS THE AMERICAN SOUL A momentous musical about American history, a momentous production in Lincoln Center Theater history, Ragtime, which opened last night, is…
DON'T KILL THE FATTED CALF JUST YET " THE PRODIGAL SON RETURNS EMPTY-HANDED "I was fifteen. Do you remember fifteen? For me, it was a special, beautiful room in Hell." That brilliant line op…