YOU'LL BE HOOKED The title says it all. Based on the play Peter Pan by JM Barrie, Peter Pan Goes Wrong by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields is about a stage production of the chi…
TRAGI-COMIC CON Desert Ensemble Theater's (DET) current production, Eliza Clark's Future Thinking, closing on April 23, is the final play in their season of "West Coast Originals." The compa…
THE ONCE AND FUTURE FESTIVAL PRESENTS SIX NEW PLAYS BY CHICAGO PLAYWRIGHTS Six Chicago playwrights have come together to self-produce their own plays, their way. Inspired by previous self-pr…
THIS HEAVYWEIGHT TAKES THE PRIZE Can you ask for a more perfect pairing than a drag queen and the high camp of musical theater? In this national tour production of Hairspray, Tracy Turnblad …
WHAT'S SO WONDERFUL? THIS REVIVAL OF WOMAN OF THE YEAR I'm jealous of New York Musical lovers. If they want to catch a rarely produced musical from the "golden age" of Broadway (the dates of…
HOW DO YOU CATCH A TIGER BY THE TAIL? STAGING. The eye-popping special effects of Life of Pi are reason enough to see this show, which opened this week at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. Yes,…
A GAY PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS From the Book of Proverbs: Locusts have no king. But they all move forward in formation. Rough translation: Locusts have no king so they lead a life of smallness and …
2023 COMES TO 1776 The founding of the United States of America has always been largely misunderstood, even by its own citizens. Fifty landowners got together in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania a…
WHAT A PIECE OF WORK IS FAT HAM Ah, the Father/Son relationship. Tough when bad and often difficult even when pop and junior love each other. In Shakespeare's Hamlet, adapted with delightful…
ANNA MIKAMI ALREADY WELL-SEASONED IN HER THEATRICAL DEBUT For theatergoers who have been waiting impatiently for a new play about monosodium glutamate, your wish has been answered. Check out…
VISITING THE PAST FOR PRESENT LAUGHTER If you're looking to expose yourself to the plays of Noël Coward, this is where to start. Not only did he write Present Laughter (in six days!) to a…
DESERT MUSICAL IS AN OASIS IN THE DESERT I have often proclaimed that Andrew Lloyd Webber's best work was in his pre-1980 collaborations with Tim Rice. If you need proof or simply want to ta…
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE WHITE SUPREMACIST MEETING If you're looking for great night of humor about white supremacy and anti-Semitism (and who isn't?), this is the show for y…
AN ANGELIC PRODUCTION Arena Stage's Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches begins with the Angel (rapturous Billie Krishawn) is grooming a sand-swept stage into a giant spiral. A…
It's fascinating to watch a new generation of Asian playwrights " Mike Lew, Qui Nguyen, Lauren Yee, Dipika Guha, Christopher Chen " writing about the quest for identity as it pertains to tra…
IT'S ONLY A FLOP There's a glaring contradiction in It's Only a Play: Written by the usually crafty Terrence McNally, a 20-time Broadway playwright, this two-act love letter to Broadway t…
I CAN'T GET THAT TASTE OUT OF MY MOUTH Get ready for a show that is all vagina and no vulva. This bloody awful musical by Big Little Theater Company is of the women, by the women and for the…
TWSL Expands to Year-Round Programming with 8th Annual Festival Returning September 7-17  "We lived in a world of light and shadow . . . But the shadow was almost as luminous as th…
THERE'S PLENTY OF GREAT PRANCIN' BUT IT'S A HEAD-SCRATCHIN' DANCIN' There's whole lotta dancing in the updated, Broadway revival of Bob Fosse's DANCIN', currently running at The Music Box. E…
WHERE'S THE GRIEF? A LOT OF GOOD SHIT, BUT WE NEED MORE SHOW Grief. It almost seems to come on a daily basis. You hear people grieve over politics, a lost job, a breakup, the weather " griev…
MAMA'S BOY, FOR BETTER OR WORSE When I think of Shakespeare's women, many names come to mind: Gertrude, Lady Macbeth, Ophelia, Beatrice, Portia, Helena, Titania, Rosalind, Juliet, Desdemona.…
TAKING HOLD OF EVIL Robert Askins' 2011 two-act Hand to God is both an existential, insightful commentary on religious hypocrisy and a hysterical dramedy about Tyrone, a possessed sock puppe…
A SATISFYING MEAL OF TASTY THEATER You might call Clyde's the other piece of bread in Lynn Nottage's sandwich about Reading, Pennsylvania, where the playwright spent two years conducting int…
Casting director and creative professional Chad Eric Murnane has launched Murnane Casting. Based in New York City, this boutique casting office works on theatre, film, and television project…
A PUB CRAWL FROM FOLKLORE INTO FANTASY When a show is called The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, you can bet that it's going to be a bit surreal, somewhat disturbing and ultimately captiv…