A WALLER OF STRENGTH The Creeps is a one-woman show created by and starring Catherine Waller, a native of Auckland, New Zealand, At Playhouse 46 at St. Luke's, an intimate black box arena co…
Funny Girl Tour Starts This Week The North American tour of Funny Girl launches on September 9, 2023, at the Providence Performing Arts Center before continuing on to more than 30 cities …
AN INTRUSIVE NEW MUSICAL Presented by Howard Alter and Tom Giachetti of Gotta Believe Theater Group, Relapse: A New Musical by J. Giachetti (Book and Lyrics) and Louis Josephson (Music and A…
A COTTAGE BUILT FOR LAURA BELL BUNDY Currently running on Broadway for a limited run is the very funny bedroom farce, The Cottage by Sandy Rustin, directed by Jason Alexander, and with the s…
AN UNSTOPPABLE TRAJECTORY Ruskin Group Theatre's season-opener, a landmark drama from 1955, exploded into relevance last Friday night. A rarity worth a return, Arthur Miller's drama of an in…
MAKE THIS FUN SHOW ONE TO CHEKHOV YOUR LIST Any time you take one sibling out of a group of three, the remaining two are bound to talk about the missing one. Take that situation further, wit…
THE BARBER OF HOLLYWOOD Last Friday, a beautiful night at The Ford amphitheater in the Cahuenga pass, Pacific Opera Project presented a one-night-only performance of Rossini's The Barber of …
CABARET JUST GETS BETTER WITH AGE 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 pow…
A SHARK HAS TO KEEP MOVING FORWARD, OR ELSE IT DIES " WHAT WE HAVE ON OUR HANDS HERE IS A LIVING SHARK Stories abound about the problem-plagued production of Steven Spielberg's 1975 blockbus…
On Friday, August 25th, attendees were treated to Broadway Romance, a delightful evening filled with romantic Broadway melodies at the Rady Shell. Situated in the heart of San Diego, Califor…
SIGNATURE'S BRIDGES FREES VIEWERS TO BE HOPELESS ROMANTICS Given its syrupy and soaring sentimentalism, Robert James Waller's very short 1992 novel The Bridges of Madison County was amazingl…
The world premiere of This Is Not a True Story, written by Preston Choi and directed by Reena Dutt, is a new comedy that tackles, head-on, the fetishization and anti-Asian racism of Oriental…
IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT GUNS. WE'LL GIVE YOU A MOMENT. If your imagination needs a hand, picture this: it's an age where all guns and even metal are a relic of the past, a murmured bit of lo…
DON'T KNOW WHETHER TO LAUGH OR CRY You know that close friend or relative you have who they can talk about the most trivial stuff in their world and you'll still ask leading questions for mo…
A HEROIC PRODUCTION Heroes of the Fourth Turning is a riveting and thought-provoking play that delves into the complexities of ideology, faith, and the generational divide in contemporary Am…
Gay Card is the hilariously heartwarming story of Logan Kapler, a one-friend loser who has never belonged. But now he's starting college with a trick up his sleeve: he's gay. Gay people are …
EL MAGO POP CUTS THROUGH THE CHEESE WITH AN ASTOUNDING BROADWAY DEBUT At 37, the celebrity illusionist Antonio Diaz, AKA "El Mago Pop," may or may not be the youngest illusionist to appear o…
GREAT (F.) SCOTT! If you love literature, have fond memories of being read to or of reading to others, and feel, as so many do, that F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby " the story of Jay…
A composite play by four playwrights, Mecca Is Burning " which closes Sunday at the Harlem School of the Arts " confronts social and racial themes through the use of protest poetry, dialogue…
HEATED PUMPS Now playing at The Marsh Theater, San Francisco's independent theater for new performances, writer and director Dirk Alphin's original production, Reciprocating Pumps, is a rive…
A PERFECT PERFECT GANESH In the realm of contemporary theater, where scripts often tend to shy away from tackling profound and uncomfortable subjects, A Perfect Ganesh is a remarkable outlie…
A PERFECTLY CRAFTED TRAINWRECK Having brought the house down with The Play that Goes Wrong, Mischief Theatre Company has followed up with a delicious offering: Peter Pan Goes Wrong. Written …
DON'T MIZ IT Unlike most of the characters in the blockbuster sung-through musical Les Misérables, the show itself will never die. Consistently presented either on Broadway, national tou…
HOPE FOR THE FUTURE The Red Suitcase, written by Jiggs Burgess and directed by Del Shores, with assistant direction and additional staging by Blake McIver Ewing, is a remarkable play that de…
EVITA IS SURPRISINGLY GOOD FOR YOU The Cygnet Theatre revival of the musical Evita has already been extended to October 1, 2023, due to positive ticket buyer interest. Cygnet visitors should…