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WHITEOUT NYU Skirball adheres closely to James Baldwin's dictum: "Artists are here to disturb the peace." With the U.S. premiere of Masterclass, Skirball's mission has been resoundingly fulf…
A WAR OF WORDS BETWEEN BERNSTEIN AND VON KARAJAN… AND THE AUDIENCE LOSES Peter Danish's Last Call at New World Stages imagines a high-stakes intellectual showdown between two musical titan…
THE PICTURE OF ASTOUNDING THEATRE I've been fortunate to witness some extraordinary one-person plays on Broadway. To name a few: Zoe Caldwell in Lillian, Ben Kingsley in Edmund Kean, Robert …
QUITE A NIGHT WITH MISS WHITE The series of concerts by Lillias White at 54 Below"running nightly through March 29 (and live streamed on the 28)"is billed as Divine Sass: A Tribute to Sarah …
IT'LL KNOCK THE PANTS OFF O' YOUSE Who Is Jimmy Pants? is the second production in the York's Spring 2025 "New2NY" series, presented at the Theater at St. Jean's on East 76th Street"a welcom…
STITCHING TOGETHER BEAUTY AND HORROR: SF BALLET'S ELECTRIFYING FRANKENSTEIN San Francisco Ballet's Frankenstein, a co-production with The Royal Ballet of London, had its world premiere in Lo…
WHEN THE GRIM PAST WAS A PARTY Willkommen to the intimate 99-seat NTC Playhouse in Novato, transformed into the seedy Kit Kat Klub in pre-war Berlin. While poverty, unemployment, and a sense…
LOOM WITH A VIEW Ghost Road Theatre's The Unraveling pulls you into its strange, hypnotic orbit and doesn't let go. This is a truly original work with some breathtaking theatrical coups. Ann…
HERE'S A BROADWAY SUCCESS THAT ALSO BRIMS WITH PURPOSE Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' doesn't just expose the cracks in a so-called perfect life"he shines a floodlight on them. Except for a few seq…
WE HAD A BALL Manhattan Theatre Club's We Had a World is an unconventional modern-day three-hander memory play that covers roughly 30 years. Our diarist, memoirist, and damn funny playwright…
UPSIDE DOWN A STRAIGHT UP MUSICAL SATIRE I admire AMT Theater for two key reasons: its dedication to developing new works"particularly musicals, which I've witnessed in the past"and its comm…
Now playing at The Hobby Center in Houston is the national tour of the absolute crown jewel of the theater known simply as Hamilton. This artistic cultural phenomenon is non-stop high-energy…
ASHES TO ASHES, PIXIE DUST TO PIXIE DUST Academy Award-nominated actor, playwright, and former Bay Area resident Colman Domingo's semi-autobiographical dramedy, Wild With Happy, is having it…
FROM HAVANA TO BROADWAY: A SOCIAL CLUB WORTH JOINING Buena Vista Social Club is a sun-drenched, rhythm-soaked explosion of life, proving that sometimes a show just needs space to breathe"and…
BACALING'S BOHÈME CAPTURED MY HEART The operas of Giacomo Puccini are ever-present on the Lyric Opera stage. Only a month ago, Sondra Radvanovsky sang a whole program of Puccini arias, in…
FELL-GOOD SHOW SPICES UP MARIN THEATRE Marin Theatre takes a flying leap into immersive culture with Mrs. Krishnan's Party"which opened tonight in the intimate Boyer Main Stage. The interact…
WE, THE THEATRE, IN ORDER TO FORM A MORE PERFECT UNION Heidi Schreck wrote this mostly-autobiographical play and starred in it when it played on Broadway, where it was Tony-nominated for Bes…
HOW TO SUCCEED SUCCEEDS AND HOW! Reams can and have been written about the glories of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. With music and lyrics by Frank Loesser, and book by Ab…
Coronado Playhouse is reviving the 2007 musical comedy/murder mystery Curtains through March 30. The show is the final collaboration of the great music theater team of composer John Kander a…
VA-VA-VOOM TO VICTOR/VICTORIA The story of Victoria who becomes Victor impersonating Victoria has been around for a while. It started as a 1933 German film. Then writer/director Blak…
SWINGS BIG, SHINES BRIGHT All Roads Theatre Company just set the bar sky-high with One for My Baby, a slick, jazz-soaked tribute to the music of Harold Arlen. This is old-school showbiz at i…
EMBRACIN' JASON For many, Jason Tam first made a lasting impression with his unforgettable audition for Paul in the Broadway revival of A Chorus Line, as seen in the documentary Every Little…
THE ART OF MAKING ART An extravagant art purchase causes a major upheaval among three old friends in Yasmina Reza's Art, at Berkeley's Ashby Stage through April 9. David Sinaiko and Benoî…
LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL In what may be the slowest lights-up in New York theater, the first cue of Grangeville takes several minutes to complete"perhaps a 400 count. But lighting designer Stace…
NOW HEAR THIS! Film may be first and foremost a visual medium, but where would it be without music to bring out the emotions, heighten the drama, quicken the heart, create tension, and tie t…
