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A BRIEF SHINING MOMENT AT NORTH COAST REP Sometimes less can be more in the arts. Consider the Lerner and Loewe musical Camelot. The show set a record for the biggest advance sale in Broadwa…
COME TO THIS CABARET Cabaret is a masterpiece of American musical theater that has been presented in a vast variety of musical and physical shapes and sizes since its premiere on Broadway in…
LA COMEDIA DE THE COMEDY OF ERRORS Full disclosure, I don't speak Spanish. Oh, I've picked up a few phrases over the years and still remember a bit of what Mr. Sanchez taught us in high scho…
A MUSICAL THEATRE EXPLOSION San Francisco's New Conservatory Theatre Center is presenting a musical by the late Broadway composer, lyricist and playwright Jonathan Larson. If you have heard …
FAT HAM HATH POWER TO ASSUME A PLEASING SHAPE American playwright James Ijames has written a funny and thoughtful play based on the Shakespeare tragedy Hamlet. The work carries the unlikely …
THERE'S A STAR IN THIS DUSTY OLD COUCH OF A MUSICAL Funny Girl " the musical narrative of the ugly duckling turned Ziegfeld star turned tragic heroine " takes center stage once more. With be…
WHAT CAN I SAY EXCEPT, "I LOVE LUCIE" It has been said that the greatest art in the world is the art of storytelling and Lucie Arnaz is masterful at it. In her career of forty-five plus year…
PLATT'S WHERE IT'S AT AT THE PALACE As if opening the newly refurbished Palace Theater (after a 4 year hiatus) isn't exciting enough, why not add Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award winner Ben Plat…
COACHELLA VALLEY REPERTORY'S SUMMER CABARET SERIES of music, charismatic personalities and theatre insider stories galore continues through in June with Tony Award® nominee and 'Broadway …
BABY GO BOOM-BOOM Baby the 1983 Broadway musical now called Baby: The Musical with a book by Sybille Pearson, music by David Shire, and lyrics by Richard Maltby Jr., is a story that is almos…
TWAS BRILLIG! YOU'LL GET A HEART-ON IN THIS SEXY HOLE "All in the golden afternoon. / Full leisurely we glide" is part of the opening poem of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland…
YOU'RE THE TOPSY TURVY During the forced shutdown of theaters due to the COVID pandemic, The Actors' Gang in Culver City kept its employees on salary and health insurance, adapted their outr…
SWEENEY NOD By any measure, Irish playwright Brian Friel (who died in 2015) is one of the 20th-century's great dramatists, whose works are among the lasting treasures of Irish literature. Ir…
A PLAY NOT WORTH EXPLORING Doggedly determined to fight yesterday's battles, Nell Benjamin's chronic farce The Explorers Club manically mocks the heyday of male British explorers. Fudd…
UNSAVORY IS SAVORY INDEED Those of us who grew up on the Westside of Los Angeles certainly remember hanging out on the Venice and Santa Monica beaches when we were kids. Times then were as i…
THE CHOSEN FEW There is an impressive collection of talent on display in The Lonely Few, a rock musical making its New York debut at MCC after a run in Los Angeles at the Geffen Playhouse. C…
BLACK IN THE GAME Toni Stone is as much about storytelling as it is about the story it is telling. Thanks to the inspiring source material by Martha Ackmann and this resulting play poignantl…
A NEW SPECIES OF ACTRESS Maia Novi's Invasive Species is a topsy-turvy meta play that reflects its plot: a moment in the life of a confused young woman infected with the acting bug. Or…
A SONG WHICH HAS BECOME A STANDARD Harvey Fierstein wrote his semi-autobiographical Torch Song Trilogy in the late 1970s. In it, Arnold Beckoff, a gay, Jewish man and professional drag qu…
THE LAST FIVE YEARS AT SIERRA MADRE CAN BE SEEN IN DIFFERENT COMBINATIONS Last weekend, Sierra Madre Playhouse opened what seems like a bewildering number of performance configurations of th…
A DICTATOR DICTATES MUSIC IN STALIN'S MASTER CLASS In a time when politics collide with state and federal budgets for the arts, Stalin's Master Class " a wildly comic, music-filled ride b…
JOY JOY JOY JOY JOY JOY JOY Julia Masli's show Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha has finally arrived at the SoHo Playhouse after a successful run last year at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe an…
UNDERWEAR TYCOONS AND AERIAL INTRUSIONS: THE UNRAVELING COMEDY OF MISALLIANCE So, you stroll into the theater, right? You see this fancy conservatory set up, all English manor-style, and you…
PLAIN ENGLISH The New York production of English, written by Iranian-American Sanaz Toossi, won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2023. Directed by Diyan Zara, English is making its European pre…
The 3rd Annual Boston New Works Festival " a new Boston tradition " is a weekend-long festival celebrating new original plays by local playwrights. The eight original plays selected for this…
