DUBLIN YOUR PLEASURE WITH GOOD DRAMA AND COMEDY With a somewhat-forgettable title and a rather vague plot summary on the website, one walks into Outside Mullingar not quite sure what they ar…
Cabaret was and remains one of the boldest and most innovative experiments in the history of musical theater, a ravishing work that has neither lost its power nor its pertinence no matter…
HEART AND SOL A man perambulates around the stage, sunlight dancing on his bare chest or back, depending which way he faces. Then, the sun disappears, and in the plain, unnuanced light, …
HEARTBREAK AND HILARITY IN FULL DISPLAY Palm Canyon Theater has launched into 2024 with a revival of Del Shores' uproarious and heartfelt Sordid Lives. The playwright himself introduced the …
While I'm wrecked that Harmony is closing on Broadway February 5, 2024 after only 96 performances, the music, fortunately, still lives on with the Original Cast recording from Ghostlight Rec…
Directed by Obie-winner Chay Yew, the world-premiere of BATHHOUSE.PPTX by Jesús I. Valles is coming to The Flea March 19-April 22, 2024. BATHHOUSE.PPTX is an epic new play that foll…
ADVANCE WARNING: THIS CABARET WILL BE THE HOTTEST TICKET ON BROADWAY I saw this production in London, so prepare yourself for the most emotionally raw production of Cabaret you will ever see…
While films such as The Beekeeper, Mean Girls, and Wonka are currently showing in theaters, this week will see several fantastic releases arrive on streaming services. These titles include t…
THIS SHOW ISN'T A CRIME, BUT IT SOMETIMES FEELS LIKE PUNISHMENT Following his return from a decade in exile in Siberia as a dissenter against the Romanov order, Fyodor Dostoevsky intended hi…
Playwright, fiction writer, director, and immersive experience creator for weird, fantastical artistic ventures Chelsea Sutton has always had a very unique sense of humor. Hearing of her …
ANDREA GORDON'S NEW PLAY IS A DIAMOND In Andrea Gordon's lovely and engaging play Miriam and Esther Go to the Diamond District " which opened last Friday at Magic Theatre " two estran…
WHAT A GREAT SHOW CAN MEAN TO YOU Dezart Performs kicked off 2024 this past Friday with a compelling production of Heidi Schreck's What the Constitution Means to Me. When I saw the direct-fr…
OFFBEAT AND OFF TRACK In the often-unpredictable world of theatrical comedy, Kate Berlant's Kate promised to be a groundbreaking foray into the realm of absurdist humor. Yet, in its executio…
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27 from 1:30 to 3:30, National Jewish Theater Foundation President Arnold Mittelman will interview creators of current NYC shows Harmon…
THE HOUR HAS COME The Trinity Theatre in Mission Valley is currently presenting a too-brief revival of A. G. Gurney's comedy-drama The Cocktail Hour. The show originally debuted in 1988 at S…
GOOD TROUBLE Â Trouble in Mind, the first full-length play written and directed by Alice Childress premiered off-Broadway in 1955, yet nearly everyone who encounters this play is astonishe…
DEAD MEAT There is a notion floating around that critics get pleasure from bashing shows. I can't speak for everyone, but it's been my experience that most reviewers love the theater. Person…
KNOWING WHICH IS WITCH The word "crucible" has two very different meanings. One is a pot in which substances are heated to high temperatures. Another is a situation in which people are sever…
The death of childhood is the beginning of poetry. " Andrei Tarkovsky "This is a children's show," informed the Krymov Lab NYC stage manager after showing us where we could hang up our coats…
ECLIPSING NORMALITY: THE DARK ORBIT OF STEVE YOCKEY'S MERCURY Steve Yockey's work in the theatre world undeniably polarizes audiences, eliciting fervent admiration from some and equally pass…
It's hard to compose for modern musicals and not fall for pop-tunes or Sondheim's classic songs to be safe; Theatre is made of trials and errors, you keep reworking ingredients until you get…
EVERY BRILLIANT PLAY Now playing at Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek through Jan. 28 is the fantastic one-man show Every Brilliant Thing. Written by Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Dona…
MY KIND OF SHOW, CHICAGO IS Coming to the San Diego Civic Theatre is the National Tour of the 1996 revival of Chicago, now the longest-running revival in Broadway history, and the second …
IS LOVE REALLY ALL YOU NEED? "Love" appears three times in the title of this three-act play, and there are three separate time periods and settings, all of which are directed with solid, ass…
A SWEEPING MUSICAL PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN WHO CHANGED ART AND CULTURE FOREVER Lempicka, the musical about the Polish artist Tamara de Lempicka, will begin performances at Broadway's Longacre Th…