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A TRAILBLAZING VOICE EMERGES It is tough to capture what Avaaz is in writing. On the surface, it is a one-person play in which author Michael Shayan plays his mother, Roya, a Jewish-Iranian …
I LOVES SHE LOVES ME Palm Canyon Theatre closed their 22/23 season this past week with a warm-hearted, inspired mounting of She Loves Me, one of the most romantic musicals ever written. She …
CHEERS! If there's anything better than a cocktail before or after a Broadway show, it's a cocktail in a Broadway show. So, I'd like to propose a toast … slide your coffee table book to th…
AN ANGEL IN NEW YORK, AND NEW YORK, NEW YORK Angel Sigala was born and raised near Mexico City. His parents moved the family to the U.S. when he was ten years old, and he quickly dove into l…
QUEERILY, WE ROLL ALONG From June 15-July 3, 2023, the 9th annual Queerly Festival hits The Kraine Theater (85 E 4th St) and UNDER St. Marks (94 St Marks Pl), Most performances will also be …
ASSASSINS SINGS! BUT THE COMPEXITY OF THE SHOW'S THEMES GO MISSING ALONG WITH THE GUNS Assassins, with music and lyrics by the late Stephen Sondheim and a book by John Weidman, opened Off-Br…
THE MILLENNIUM HAS COME AND GONE, BUT THE THEMES REMAIN THE SAME Central Square Theater's collaboration with Bedlam of Tony Kushner's still-relevant masterpiece Angels in America: A Gay Fant…
ISN'T IT BLISS? Striding onto the CVRep stage last night, Broadway star Melissa Errico, in a black dress draped in silver sequins, dazzled the eyes looking as if she had just stepped off of …
FAITH, HOPE AND SCIENCE I found myself thinking of Henrik Ibsen and Lucille Ball as I watched this world premiere of acclaimed playwright and performance artist Taylor Mac. Ibsen and Ball ar…
A GOOD SIGN FOR BROADWAY First-rate performances and Anne Kaufman's near-flawless direction work well to conceal the few shortcomings in Lorraine Hansberry's thoughtful and compelling The Si…
NEW YORK, NEW YORK SOARS ABOVE ITS OWN MATERIAL So apparently it's still up to you New York " with a healthy assist from Susan Stroman and Lin-Manuel Miranda " to bring Martin Scorsese's und…
A LUMINOUS NIGHT MUSIC I'm a little dizzy, bubbly"not from any reception champagne, mind you, but from seeing my very first production of A Little Night Music. It's left me floating. (The mu…
A WARM SUMMER From the moment we first see Diana (Laura Linney) and Alice (Jessica Hecht), the two friends whose story is told in David Auburn's new play, Summer, 1976, we know exactly who t…
NOTHING IS MORE REAL THAN NOTHING " Samuel Beckett Dramatist Will Eno doesn't make it easy on the audience in his 2012 play The Realistic Joneses at the Laguna Playhouse. Viewers are asked t…
A BAND TO BEAT THE BAND Coachella Valley's new queer theater company The Bent " in partnership with the Palm Springs Cultural Center " closes its wildly successful inaugural season with Mart…
A LOVE LETTER TO AN IMMIGRANT FATHER Coleman '72 is getting a fantastic world premiere production from South Coast Repertory. It is a melodrama about nostalgia, the immigrant experience, cro…
SCINTILLATING Every generation has it gap. Currently millennials are annoyed that baby boomers wrecked the planet and baby boomers are annoyed that millennials are, well, annoying. Add to th…
HOP INTO SPRING Friendship is among the hardest subjects to parse, but this musical based on Arnold Lobel's "Frog and Toad" stories, considers friendship warts and all. Frog and Toad worry a…
After the roaring success of Pasadena Playhouse's wonderful production of Sunday in the Park with George, now comes A Little Night Music, which officially opens May 1, 2023. This is…
GOES WRONG GOES RIGHT The Play That Goes Wrong running through Sunday, April 30 at Desert Theater Works (DTW) in Indio is the only comedy to ever win both a Tony and Olivier award. It is a h…
SOMETHING WICKED THAT WAY GOES No plague can kill a great show. It's back. In a rare clash of film noir, performance art, an awesome murder mystery party, and Shakespeare, Punchdrunk's Sleep…
WHITE GIRL IN DANGER IS IN DANGER Broadway wunderkind Michael R. Jackson is back on the boards at Second Stage's Vineyard Theatre, writing the book, music and lyrics for his…
THE BEST OSCAR GOES TO SEAN HAYES "It'd be nice to please everyone but I thought it would be more interesting to have a point of view." The incomparable Oscar Levant is the subject of the hi…
THIS SHOW IS MURDER The latest production at North Coast Rep is a stage adaption of Dame Agatha Christie's 1923 detective novel Murder on the Links. Originally titled The Murder on the Links…
TIPS AND TITS Bus Stop Productions LLC is a new entertainment company in the Coachella Valley focusing on lively and unique experiences appealing to all that enjoy local nightlife. Their cur…
