EVERYTHING TO GAINES AND NOTHING TO LOSE No, he doesn't sing "My Funny Valentine" in his entertaining show called Love Is in the Air on the night before Valentine's Day at Green Room 42 (rep…
URINE FOR A GOOD TIME SO, MIND YOUR PEES AND QUEUES It's the perfect time for a Urinetown revival. Twenty-four years after its successful Broadway debut, City Center's Encores! returns with …
WHAT"OR WHOM"SHALL BE DISCARDED? Marin Theatre Company has never shied away from provocative material, and its current production, Waste, is no exception. Waste tells the story of politicall…
GUARANTEED HAPPINESS AWAITS It was just slightly over a year ago that the newcomer Revolution Stage Company staked its claim as one of The Valley's top production companies with their presen…
A SUSPENSEFUL ONE-MAN MURDER MYSTERY The Gay community in San Francisco was shocked and terrified by a series of murders between 1974-75 committed by a serial killer known as "The Doodler." …
A BRILLIANTLY BRACING LOOK AT LOVE'S OTHER SIDE Romantic love is rarely easy. Even when a relationship progresses from first attraction to full commitment to picture-perfect nuptials, there …
A COLORFUL, KINETIC AND PUPPET-FILLED POW Emilio's A Million Chameleons at Soho Playhouse offers family-friendly, fabulously frenzied fun. Like many offerings aimed at, or at least semi-targ…
A TIME CAPSULE OF GENERATIONAL LOVE, PAIN, AND RESILIENCE Every family has a unique mix of personalities, each member knowing their place and how to maneuver others to get what they need. Bu…
Art education transcends the boundaries of paintbrushes and canvases. It shapes critical thinkers, problem-solvers, and visionaries. Creativity isn't limited to the art room; it flows into e…
MY HEART BELONGS TO THE NY POPS The New York Pops' Let's Misbehave: The Songs of Cole Porter was filled with many of Porter's best-known songs: "Night and Day," "I Love Paris," "My Heart Bel…
WELL-SEASONED THEATER IS LOADED WITH FLAVOR Welcome to 1999, a time of hysteria over the impending Y2K crisis, widespread fear of monosodium glutamate (MSG), crude video games and crude popu…
Currently playing at The New Conservatory Theater, Francis Grey and the Case of His Dead Boyfriend is a whirlwind one-man mystery that fuses elements of classic whodunits, camp, film noir, a…
GOOD GOLLY, MISS DOLLY! Under Randy Slovacek's direction for San Diego Musical Theatre, Hello, Dolly! festoons the theater with a cumulatively enchanting restoration of this infectious delig…
LEARNING HOW TO SURVIVE IN THE DESERT Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities"which opened at Cygnet Theatre last weekend"portrays about 24 hours in the upscale home of the Wyeth home in Palm …
THIS CLASSIC MUSICAL STILL SPARKLES By and large, I don't understand why people are so eager to return to familiar musicals. We know that Curly and Laurie are going to get hitched and that A…
TO BOLDLY GO WHERE NO WOMAN HAS GONE BEFORE After seeing SPACE at Central Square Theater, the line that haunted me came from Mae Jemison, the first Black woman to travel into space: "Rockets…
THE THING ABOUT GREAT THEATER Directed by Tyne Rafaeli, Berkeley Rep's world premiere production of The Thing About Jellyfish delivers an emotionally resonant adaptation of Ali Benjamin's be…
PERFECT, INDEED: TERRIFIC"AND TIMELY The Bent Theatre, Palm Springs' queer theatre company now in its third season, continues to prove its significance not only for the LGBTQ+ community but …
STILL A WICKED GOOD TIME The stage musical Wicked is is now Broadway's fourth longest-running show"surpassing Cats; productions continue to sprout up globally in many languages; and last yea…
NOW VS. THEN A historic confrontation between James Baldwin, the leading literary voice of the civil rights movement, and William F. Buckley Jr., America's most influential conservative inte…
IT'S A SCHMIGAHIT! Adapting from his Apple TV+ series that satirized and saluted the glories of old timey musicals like Oklahoma! and Carousel, co-creator and writer Cinco Paul brings his st…
YOU MAY NEVER LOOK AT YOUR LAPTOP THE SAME WAY AGAIN Is Artificial Intelligence, more commonly known as AI, our friend? Does this ubiquitous development make our lives easier, cleaner, more …
WHAT FUN GETTING LOST IN AUSTEN Fresh from its smash hit engagement at Theatre 40, Jane Austen in 89 Minutes has moved into the artistically appropriate Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills fo…
JOIN THE PACK In one of The Wolves' final moments, one character's mom explains that she has a swear jar at home that her daughter must put a quarter in every time she says "like." If that j…
NEIL SIMON IN PALM SPRINGS WITH AN AGENDA Jon Robin Baitz' Broadway drama Other Desert Cities "which opens this week at Cygnet Theatre"depicts a crisis of apparent betrayal and imminent expo…