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IT'S MAN AGAINST AI IN MAINTENANCE With the current threat of AI-generated digital characters taking over roles portrayed by human actors, it's timely for Peter Ritt to comically explore …
CV REP'S 2024 SUMMER CABARET SERIES STELLAR LINE-UP FOR MAY A summer of great music, charismatic personalities and unspoken theatre insider-only stories galore starts when COACHELLA VALL…
TASTY BUT FLAT FRYBREAD Carolyn Dunn's new play The Frybread Queen features three generations of Navajo women gathered at the reservation home of the family matriarch for the funeral of Paul…
Galilee 34 blends the divine and profane in its exploration of early Christianity Eleanor Burgess, a prolific playwright whose works have graced numerous stages (The Niceties, Wife of a Sale…
The Bent, in partnership with Palm Springs Cultural Center, is completing its second season with a revival run of the play that launched the company in December, 2022: Terry Ray's The Lincol…
WAS BLONDE, BUT NOW I SEE! It's easy to say that everyone wants to be taken seriously, but for Elle (Johnisa Breault) that notion has never really crossed her mind. She's happy, perky, prett…
THERE'S A BRIGHT, GOLDEN HAZE IN THE DESERT As the audience sat under a gorgeous golden sky with incessant desert winds, Jordan Killion sang "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'" in his stunning, B…
HOPE IS A WAKING DREAM " Aristotle Close-up magic by master illusionist, storyteller and seeming mind-reader Helder Guimarães is mesmerizing and dazzling in The Hope Theory, an 80-minu…
 YOU'LL SAY UNCLE Anton Chekhov's 1897 Uncle Vanya is a comic tragedy and one of the hardest plays to stage because the main actors have a significant change of identity througho…
NEW DANCE-THEATER MAKES A BIG (ILLI)NOISE For countless millennial hipsters, Illinois (2005) is THE album of their coming of age, as well it should be. Now, New York City Ballet's wun…
SHAZAM, KAZAN! So, have you heard? Lainie Kazan's 60s tunes are now just a click away on all those streaming sites. We're talking the kind of songs that make you want to break out in a drama…
A MEAL THAT'S HARD TO DIGEST Staff Meal at Playwrights Horizons is a light, surreal play with many points and no resolutions, intentionally unclear, written by Abe Koogler and direc…
IT WON'T WIN A PULITZER, BUT IT WILL REMIND YOU TO "BELIEVE IN LOVE" It is the fashion nowadays to present musicals with legitimate claims to sophisticated art, with elegant musical settings…
SOMETHING WONDERFUL IS COOKING IN HELL'S KITCHEN What else can be said about Alicia Keys'Â new Broadway musical Hell's Kitchen, that its recent thirteen Tony Award nominations, including o…
IS THE RAILSPLITTER A LOG-SPLITTER? Written by Terry Ray, The Lincoln Debate " based on factual information provided in letters and biographies " concerns the debate about the romance …
World Premiere at Moving Arts Theatre The world-premiere of Leviticus Jelks' debut play, My White Husband, directed by Melissa Coleman-Reed, opens May 18 in Los Angeles at the Moving …
REIGNITING TAMARA DE LEMPICKA [Editor's Note: Even with tonal problems, I enjoyed Lempicka, but a crowded season won out, and the new musical officially closes on May 19, 2024. Therefore, we…
Cooking on its own can be entertaining. But are there ways to embrace it as a performance of sorts? You can when you consider the world of cooking art! Today we're reimagining your culinary …
THE DECONSTRUCTED PLAY'S THE THING William Shakespeare's Hamlet recounts the story of the ghost of Denmark's murdered king who wants his son, Prince Hamlet, to kill his uncle Claudius, the m…
SOUND AND FURY INDEED "When the hurly-burly's done, when the battle's lost and won," says a Witch to introduce my favorite cursed play by the Bard, and I immediately crave medieval witches, …
BITCH, YOU AGING GOOD In the tradition '80s sitcoms but with elements of telenovela melodrama, Bitch Slap! is a hilarious, over-the-top spoof comedy written and directed by San Francisco's i…
A THEATRICAL LOOP-DE-LOOP Playwright Michael R. Jackson's acclaimed A Strange Loop (winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 2022 Tony Award for Best Musical) is a shocking work of genius, beau…
JUST A SENSE The North Coast Repertory Theatre is currently presenting the world premiere of Sense of Decency, a psychological drama adapted from a 2013 book by American author Jake El-Hai t…
A SWEET OFF-THE-GRID MUSICAL With the unexpectedly huge American response to Netflix's Virgin River, there seems to be a great longing to see what life might be like in a tiny, forested comm…
HOW GOOD YOU GOT IT There's an old saying that goes, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." But is "fixing" always a bad thing? What if that fix is not about correcting what's wrong but more abo…
