NATIONAL THEATRE MUSICAL GETS US PREMIERE Determined and tenacious, the residents of Ipswich, UK mobilize to overcome the immense fear and media circus that unfolds following the serial murd…
NOT BAD, CINDERELLA These days Prince Charmings are not in style. Nor are Fairy Godmothers. So it's pretty hard to expect adults to take stories like Cinderella very seriously. Nevertheless,…
WE BUILT THIS SILLY ON ROCK AND ROLL Most musicals start with a premise, develop a plot, and then write songs to fit the themes. Rock of Ages flips the process by starting with class rock so…
ESCAPE TO MARGARITAVILLE IN THE DESERT Entering the theater at Desert TheatreWorks in Indio (between Palm Springs and the Salton Sea), it sure didn't feel like the desert. I was greeted by J…
HUMAN, ALL TOO HUMAN There is a world premiere now playing at Actors Co-op in Hollywood that is both ambitious and successful. The Human Comedy, set in the fictional California town of Ithac…
LET ME IN, OR GET ME OUT? In writer/director Brynn Thayer's Let Me In, now running at the newly and spiffily remodeled Theatre 68 Arts Complex in North Hollywood, actor Jorge Garcia of L…
DROP-DEAD FUNNY What happens when you take Little Shop of Horrors and mix it with The Pink Panther cartoons, and throw in a little dash of Urinetown? You get this fantastic dark musical come…
PROCTOR BY PROXY In playwright Talene Monahon's new play The Good John Proctor, John Proctor doesn't actually appear. He is integral to the plot and is certainly referenced but there is no p…
PLEASE HELLO! How's this for an overture: Go see it. Signature Theatre has mounted a very good production of an experimental, rarely performed musical by the late composer Stephen Sondheim. …
THE BLOSSOMS DO EVENTUALLY BLOOM IN THIS ORCHARD Russian playwright Anton Chekhov believed his classic 1904 drama The Cherry Orchard was a comedy bordering on farce, but generations of audie…
NO FAIRY TALE ENDINGS Last night, Boston became the third stop in the 2023 National Tour of the 2022 Broadway Revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's much-Tony'd and much-loved mash-u…
COME FOR THE SCORE, LEAVE FOR THE BOOK Prior to Geffen Playhouse's world premiere musical The Lonely Few, a pair of orange ear-plugs in ironically loud cellophane is offered to patrons, indi…
ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY Announces 2023-2024 Season ON BROADWAY I NEED THAT starring DANNY DEVITO at the American Airlines Theatre HOME at the American Airlines Theatre (on…
FROM THE BAILEY OF JOY At Off-Broadway's Theatre Row on West 42nd Street, Stage and Cinema's Gregory Fletcher spoke with Shanel Bailey, who stars in the first New York revival of Lynn Nottag…
Audible Theater Announces Four Performance Extension of Drinking In America Now Playing Through Thursday, April 13 Only At Audible's Minetta Lane Theatre Audible Theater has announced fou…
Community drama projects play an essential role in fostering cultural appreciation, artistic expression, and social engagement. They provide a unique opportunity for people to come together,…
LIFE AIN'T JUST A BOWL OF CHERRIES IN 1903 RUSSIA Written and set in 1903 Russia, Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard would be the master playwright's final creation. Unless one already has k…
A REAL BEAUTY Desert Theatricals' line-up for next season is exciting, but there was nothing more thrilling than being in an audience filled with awe-struck children to witness this magical …
NOW AND ZEN Coming out of the Baryshnikov Arts Center after watching its current offering The Hunting Gun, I overheard a woman ask her husband what he thought of the show. Good, but long, he…
A NEW SONDHEIM MUSICAL ANNOUNCED; LET THE PRAYERS TO THE THEATER GODS COMMENCE. A few months before he passed, Stephen Sondheim told Stephen Colbert during an interview that he was working o…
NEW TRACK FEATURES VOCALS BY KPOPÂ ICON LUNA & COMPANY LISTEN HERE WATCH THE VIDEO PREORDER & PRESAVE THE ALBUM HERE Well, we all know it happens. For whatever reasons, a show flop…
A-M-A-Z-I-N-G Poet, screenwriter, and performer Lenelle Moïse (pronounced Len-EL Moy-EEZ) is a playwright for this co-production from The Front Porch Arts Collective and The Huntington, t…
PERFORMERS AND PRODUCTION IMPROVE THE OPAQUE PLOT OF PERICLES Pericles by William Shakespeare is a play that is probably ripe for an HBO adaptation. It deals with incest, death, redemption, …
GET CAUGHT IN THIS VORTEX Opening the Chichester Festival Theatre 2023 season is a tantalisingly decadent production of The Vortex by Noël Coward " his first big commercial hit t…
HAVE A PIECE OF PI Based on one of the best-loved works of fiction " winner of the Man Booker Prize, selling over fifteen million copies worldwide " Yann Martel's best-selling novel Life of …