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Now playing at the Los Angeles LGBT Center's Renberg Theatre is the world premiere of Happy Fall: A Queer Stunt Spectacular. Performed by an enthusiastic and energetic ensemble, and writt…
A DOWNSIZED HURRICANE Hurricane Season at Theatre Row is an experimental play where it's difficult to understand what is happening, and why, from the beginning to the very end. Produced by A…
The San Diego Symphony delivered a night of sheer enchantment on Friday, August 23rd, with Sondheim Tonight! A Celebration of Genius. Held at the stunning Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, this con…
Rubicon Theatre, Ventura County's not-for-profit professional theatre company, has just announced the schedule for the company's 26th season. Rubicon's 2024-2025 six-show season, entitled "D…
THIS SIZE FITS ALL Opening the 2024/25 season of Geffen Playhouse is The Brothers Size, written by the Geffen's Artistic Director Tarell Alvin McCraney, performed in the smaller of the Playh…
TOO MUCH HEART; NOT ENOUGH BLOOD Directed by Braxton Crewell, the Factory Theater's production of Cody Lindley and Nate Hall's new rock musical Stabbed in the Heart has some hilarious moment…
DRAGTACULAR Velour at the La Jolla Playhouse subtitles itself "A Drag Extravaganza" and for 105 uninterrupted minutes it validates the label with a smorgasbord of song, dance, film, projecti…
A FABULOUS FEVER DREAM Soft Power at Signature Theatre is a meta-theatrical production that begins with a semi-autobiographical portrayal of David Henry Hwang, who, following a near-fatal in…
NOT QUITE THE GREATEST STAR The opening moments of this retelling of the Fanny Brice story has the main character sitting backstage as "ghosts" of former performers circle about her. The rea…
The Coronado Playhouse is currently presenting Exit, Pursued by a Bear, a one-act 80-minute play by American dramatist Lauren Gundersen. who is one of the most successful writers on the Amer…
IF LOOKS COULD KILL … The strength of a person's spirit would then be measured by how much 'truth' he could tolerate, or more precisely, to what extent he needs to have it diluted, disguis…
A TRIP THROUGH MICHAEL JACKSON'S TRIPPY LIFE For those who never had the chance to see Michael Jackson perform live, MJÂ " the current smash-hit Broadway jukebox musical now on tour at The…
RACHEL BLOOMS IN DEATH Rachel Bloom, the co-creator and star of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, gives a hilarious and vulnerable performance in her raunchy and irreverent one-woman musical comedy Death…
THE CAMPY ABBA FEST IS BACK Still an over-the-top, campy, family-friendly entertainment, the 25th Anniversary North American tour of Mamma Mia!, currently at The Kennedy Center Opera House, …
Dido of Idaho, now playing at Atwater Village, is yet more proof that Echo Theater Company really knows how to pick bold original scripts. And usually they have a heart of darkness somewhere…
BACK TO THE FUTURE NEEDS TO GO BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD The Broadway tour of Back to the Future, a musical adaptation of the beloved film, has landed at Chicago's Cadillac Palace as part of…
JULIE BENKO IS, AND IS ABOUT TO HAVE, A BROADWAY BABY Vocalists have found many fruitful ways of reaching their audiences, from celebrating other singers to paying tribute to composers and l…
MATTRESS HOLDS THE BREW THAT IS TRUE After 25 years, Once Upon a Mattress is back on Broadway at the Hudson Theatre, with a new adaptation by Amy Sherman-Palladino (creator of Th…
In his remembrance of Stephen Sondheim, Stage and Cinema's Jason Mannino wrote, "Sondheim delved fearlessly into the human psyche and condition, creating rich, complex worlds and characters …
Geffen Playhouse and Steppenwolf Theatre Company announce the joint Chicago/LA cast of Noises Off Written by Michael Frayn Directed by Anna D. Shapiro A Co-Production with Steppe…
IF ONLY THIS MUSICAL WAS CONSTRUCTED WITH THE SAME EFFICIENCY AS THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING Empire, at New World Stages, is unquestionably a musical created with an adult public in mind, p…
ALL SCRIPTS SHOULD BE THIS GROWN UP One of the most riveting and original pieces of theater I have ever seen, The Grown-Ups is now playing outdoors around a campfire near you. Funny, spooky,…
A SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE AT THE THEATER First Floor Theater's Chicago premiere of In His Hands by Benjamin Benn, which opened last night, is breathtaking from start to finish. Benn's writin…
YOU COULD HEAR THESE PEOPLE SING, ALL RIGHT First performed in Shanghai in 2013, the Hollywood Bowl hosted a new installment of The Music of Les Misérables, Miss Saigon, and More: Boublil a…
On July 25, CV Rep concluded its terrific 2024 Summer Cabaret Series with American singer-songwriter-actor David Burnham's delightful cabaret, Mostly Broadway. Burnham, a Broadway vet, joyfu…