We are reminded, subtly, that we too are made up of the stuff of those who have loved us. Whether we like it or not there are characteristics and tendencies we each carry within ourselves ta…
A jukebox musical that tells the story of Tina Turner, one of the most powerful and unique performers to take a stage.
One of William Shakespeare's earliest plays, "The Comedy of Errors" is sublimely ridiculous.
There are lies told for art and lies told for power. In art, a lie (known as a story), can show what's true. In politics, lies oppress. This play reveals hard truths about fascism's destruct…
Music Theater Works' production of "Avenue Q" is delightful.
Sharon is likely the hottest American director in opera right now. The world premiere of "Proximity: A trio of new American operas" is being dubbed Sharon's "Lyric Opera main-stage debut" an…
This Saturday, Sleeping Village will become a petri dish for the femme and queer-led performance extravaganza the Fly Honey Show. In the lab will be three mad geniuses of party chemistry.
J'Nai Bridges is making a homecoming of sorts with an iconic role that is becoming signature for her, Carmen.
For this show, the emphasis is on Annie seeking to be loved and accepted and that template is well in place in the new touring production currently playing.
What makes a tribute show work? Watch "Reasons" and learn while swaying, clapping, cheering and ultimately rising to your feet to dance and sing.
Flannery will be one of six comics taking the stage for the "Shamrock Shenanigans" show at the Den Theatre, as part of a lineup of Irish comics detailing their unique life experiences as par…
Backed by a seven-piece band, John-Mark McGaha performs in a concert filled with stories and music.
The ten companies in the new edition of the CBDLP will perform March 25 and 26 in a program entitled "Sans Pareil," celebrating the past and the present of the city.
The play is set in Room 306 of Memphis' Lorraine Motel, the setting of Martin Luther King's assassination in 1968.
"1776" took our Founding Fathers off their pedestals and revealed them as clay-footed human beings who passionately squabbled over something as fundamental as American independence. Director…
British writer Simon Stephens' 2015 two-hander references physicist Werner Heisenberg's 1927 discovery that it is impossible for an observer to precisely discern both the position and veloci…
Four world premieres and one fond farewell make March a must-go month for theater and opera fans.
Fantasy landscapes are great to build a show around, but sometimes it seems even more fantastical when theater so acutely captures real life"and real emotions.
Hubbard Street Dance, Alvin Ailey and much more pack March's dance calendar.
Fighting a revolution looks like glorious fun from the outside. On the inside, you see friends die and family members suffer.
In Nilo Cruz' Pulitzer Prize-winning 2003 play, cigars symbolize all kinds of things, from capitalist commodity to an older, slower lifestyle to religious burnt offering, like smoke through …
The moving production is author Mahogany L. Browne's adaptation of her verse novel. Sky, is the thoughtful, athletic, resilient character at the center of this young-adult play.
"Fen," a revival of a 1983 Caryl Churchhill play, is about women in the rural lowlands of England. But the distant setting in a somewhat distant time doesn't matter, because the conflicts ar…
"Villette" is a new play based on Charlotte Bronte's final novel.
"Gone with the Wind"'s Hattie McDaniel's artistry and life were complicated, much like history. That's why TimeLine's production suits them so well. We get to imagine what things were like f…