GOING WRONG NEVER FELT SO RIGHT Like any great farce, the success of The Play That Goes Wrong depends on the utmost precision and skill of the actors, crew, and design team to make everythin…
EXIR, PURSUED BY MOVEMENT THAT CUTS DEEP Jealousy doesn't sneak in. It bursts. You can see it take hold of Leontes the second doubt flickers behind his eyes. His body folds in. Hands clutch …
TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE…AND FUNNY Now playing at San Francisco Playhouse, Fat Ham is James Ijames' Pulitzer Prize-winning and Tony-nominated riff on Hamlet"but this is no brooding royal …
LIFE IS LIKE A CARTON OF EGGS; YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO GET UNTIL YOU CRACK ONE OPEN How do we cope with the loss of control in a crisis? Imagine two couples (one from Manhattan, …
HERE'S THE SCOOP ON BOOP! ENDEARINGLY CUTE, ASTUTE AND A HOOT Some things are meant to last. Cartoon character Betty Boop has been around for 95 years and has been rejuvenated"as youthful, s…
A SLICE OF LIFE WITH LAYERS OF ISSUES The Bent, Coachella Valley's main theatre geared towards the queer community, is currently running The Cake, playwright Bekah Brunstetter's take on the …
FALLING IN LOVE AGAIN Last night, Revolution Stage Company presented Cindy Marinangel's in her one woman show, Dietrich. Â Inspired by the legendary Marlene Dietrich, this is a captivating…
A BEAUTIFULLY SHABBY, STARKLY HUMAN TRIUMPH From the moment the house opens, Shakespeare Theatre Company's Uncle Vanya, directed by Simon Godwin and starring Hugh Bonneville, signals that…
A SPIRITED REVIVAL WITH DEPTH AND DISSONANCE Eighty years after Carousel had its final pre-Broadway preview at Boston's Colonial Theatre, Boston Lyric Opera revives Rodgers and Hammerstein's…
HIGH NOTES AND HARD KNOCKS: SHOWSTOPPER CHARTS THE SONGBOOK OF SURVIVAL Singer songwriter Gary Stockdale has a loyal but eclectic fan base. His long-term devotees date back to legendary TV p…
MURDER BY MANGO Ricardo Pérez González's Don't Eat the Mangos"a tragicomedy brimming with revelation, rage, and retribution"transforms the Calderwood stage into a site of reckoning. Dire…
In an era dominated by the convenience of streaming platforms, where movies, TV shows, and even live events are just a click away, the question arises: Can classic theater still hold its gro…
I CAN'T CAVE ENOUGH In 1917, Kentucky cave explorer Floyd Collins discovered Crystal Cave. Located in the same area as Mammoth Cave"the longest cave system known in the world"the site operat…
LISTEN TO THE LISTENERS. DO YOU HEAR THE HUM? Perhaps the most contemporary opera ever to grace the Lyric stage, Missy Mazzoli's The Listeners borrows heavily from reality television, social…
SHARP AS EVER, BUT DOES IT CUT DEEP ENOUGH? OR, IF YOU WANT BIGGER SHARKS, YOU NEED MORE BLOOD IN THE WATER Glengarry Glen Ross is a testosterone-saturated 24 hours of five salesmen, some me…
HAUNTING, URGENT, AND SPEAKS VOLUMES Priyanka Shetty's #Charlottesville, currently running at the Keegan Theatre, is a searing and deeply personal exploration of one of the darkest moment…
CELEBRATING KANDER & EBB: WHAT A LARK! In the heart of southern Marin County, Larkspur's Lark Theater is a 1936 art deco movie house with a single screen. It required hard work, dedicate…
Suburbia is too close to the country to have anything real to do and too close to the city to admit you have nothing real to do. " American essayist Sloane Crosley First, I want to acknowled…
BENEATH THE SCHMALTZ IS A JOYFUL NOISE Fun, uplifting, and yes, frivolous, Sister Act is a musical remake of the famously successful 1992 hit movie starring Whoopi Goldberg. The historic For…
AN HONEST INTERVIEW ABOUT LYING Tom Moran is many things: a stage and film actor, a writer, a voice-over artist, a budding author, and a podcast host of Personality Bingo. Under the auspi…
I had a blind date. I waited two hours on the corner. A girl walked by. I said, "Are you Louise?'" She said, "Are you Rodney?" I said, "Yeah." She said, 'I'm not Louise." Â Â " Rodney …
TRUE ZEST IN TRUE WEST As my sixtieth year on earth winds down, I'd like to believe those years have seasoned me with a strong degree of wisdom, patience, and finesse. As I said, I'd like to…
THE FAIRY TALES BREAK" AND THAT'S THE POINT The stories are still here. Cinderella. Jack. Little Red. Rapunzel. A Baker and his Wife, tangled in a curse and each other. Into the Woods has al…
BEE MINUS Now playing at Wisteria Theater in North Hollywood is one of the few wonderful musicals from this century so far, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, by William Finn (music…
A RIPPING GOOD YARN WITH A JOLLY GOOD CAST OPERATION MINCEMEAT LANDS ON BROADWAY When I first encountered Operation Mincemeat at Riverside Studios in London back in 2022, it was a scrappy, s…