THAT'S WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR Up-and-coming storyteller Gabe Mollica has brought his "sweet not sappy" 90-minute Solo: A Show About Friendship to Boston after 80 Off-Broadway performances and …
New Conservatory Theatre Center is offering The Tutor, a gripping and thought-provoking three-person drama that tells a timely story of love, lies, survival, and culture. With insightful min…
A COLOSSAL LEN CARIOU MAKES ANY DAY A GOOD DAY FOR TUESDAYS I have seen many a famous performer hit the stage in their senior years with a cabaret or theater performance, something I usually…
GREAT COMET! Who would have thought that a paltry 70 pages from a mammoth novel by 19th-century Russian author Leo Tolstoy would inspire one of the hits of the recent off-Broadway and Broadw…
GET A PARKER TICKET Michael McKeever's newest play Mr. Parker, under Randy Brenner's sublime direction is Dezart Performs' final production this season running through April 21. McKeever, (D…
BEDAZZLED WAR AND PEACE SIZZLES ON STAGE Let's face it: If you haven't read Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel War and Peace by now (with its 1400-plus pages), you probably aren't ever going to. Fortu…
NICE WORK! CVRep is closing its 23/24 season this month with a bewitching production of Nice Work If You Can Get It running through April 28th. Like other "new" Gershwin musicals including C…
Still impactful, The Boys in the Band, now playing at Palm Canyon Theater until April 21, is largely based on playwright Mart Crowley's own life in 1960s' Manhattan. The 1968 play was a sens…
A Noise Within continues their 2023-2024 season with a fine production of King Hedley II by August Wilson. This ninth play in his ten-play cycle about the Black experience in twentieth-centu…
I FEEL YA, OPHELIA Acclaimed playwright, director, and actor Stefan Marks has outdone himself taking on three roles in his World Premiere play Ophelia, now at the Odyssey Theatre through May…
WOOF! WOOLF WORKS WORKS! Virginia Woolf's novels have had a profound impact on literature, inspiring adaptations in ballet and opera. These adaptations face the unique challenge of capturing…
A HEARTBREAKINGLY BEAUTIFUL MINDFUCK "He was immortal, so he couldn't die, but this pain, it was agony " it was a wound that would never heal. So he begged the other deities to make him mort…
A MAJESTY OF DRAG QUEENS BECOMES A PRIDE OF LIONS Founded in 1977 The Castro District's Theatre Rhinoceros is the longest-running queer theater in the nation. This month is the world premier…
THE OUTSIDERS IS PURE THEATRICAL GOLD Neither a rehash of S.E. Hinton's classic 1967 novel nor of the iconic 1983 film by Frances Ford Coppola, the stunning new musical The Outsiders, which …
Then trip him that his heels may kick at heaven Hamlet soliloquy / Shakespeare Fat Ham by James Ijames " who received a Pulitzer for his play " is an unbridled, entertaining, and funny take …
The moment when the house lights dim, the stage blooms into a festival of colors and textures, and an electrifying energy pulses through the audience. Stage lighting can truly turn a perform…
KATERINA MCCRIMMON IS A BRIGHT NEW FUNNY GIRL Â BUT THE TOUR IS LIKE BUS-AND-TRUCK Funny Girl is a captivating musical that tells the story of Fanny Brice, a renowned comedienne and entert…
FLAMES CAN BURN IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE Last weekend, Hub Theatre Company of Boston began its own smoldering revival of Lanford Wilson's Burn This, a show filled with intertwined emotion, unan…
THE LOVE CHILD OF LAURA INGALLS AND ANNE OF GREEN GABLES In this novel-turned-musical, it's 1899 and the world, even in rural Texas, is changing. Just not nearly fast enough for Calpurnia Ta…
WEIMAR, YOU ASK? HERE'S THE ANSWER Cabaret the musical, opening on Broadway in a transformed theater, may sound exciting, but here's a highly recommended event for those who crave complete i…
WITNESSES FOR THE PROSECUTION Taking place within the confines of a witness room in Manhattan Criminal Court, four obdurate NYPD officers who have "done all this before and know what to say"…
FOUR WEDDINGS AND A MUSICAL Adore Broadway musicals? Hate Broadway musicals? Either way, you will love Lyric Stage's flip and frothy production of The Drowsy Chaperone. Director and choreogr…
A FISH OUT OF WATER The use of drama as a didactic tool usually works when we are learning new things or seeing old things through a different lens. Kia Corthron's Fish at Theater Row sta…
DAMN, IT'S GREAT Desert Theatricals hits another home run this weekend with their contagiously joyful production of Damn Yankees at Rancho Mirage Amphitheater running through Sunday, April 7…
RIDE ON! Annie Cohen Kopchovsky was a late 19th-century young English working-class woman who wanted to upgrade her life. So she tried to earn money and recognition as well as elevating her …