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New York Theater: HOUSEWIVES OF SECAUCUS: WHAT A DRAG! (Actors Temple Theatre)
An open-ended run of The Housewives of Secaucus: What a Drag! is beginning LIVE performances on Saturday, May 1 at 8pm ET. This new interactive musical comedy at Actors Temple, (339 West 47th Street) will be the first show to perform at the theatre since March 13, 2020 – when Black Angels Over Tuskegee was forced…
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Regional Opera Review: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (Virginia Opera)
NEW ORLEANS IN VIRGINIA Like many operas in the last 100 years, Andre Previn’s A Streetcar Named Desire – recently produced by Virginia Opera – is through-composed with very little straight dialogue, declamatory vocals, and text set to music so that the words and sense are both clear (this is also known as Literaturoper). Before Debussy’s Pellas et Melisande…
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San Francisco Opera Review: GREEN SNEAKERS (composed by Ricky Ian Gordon)
GRIEF TURNS TO POETRY AND MUSIC Composer and poet Ricky Ian Gordon’s partner, Jeffrey Michael Grossi, died of AIDS in 1996, at the age of 32. In response, Gordon created, among his many other works, Dream True (1998 – book and lyrics Tina Landau) and the song cycle Orpheus and Euridice (2005), which Long Beach…
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Los Angeles/Regional Theater Review: ALADDIN’S LUCK (Lewis Family Playhouse)
ALL YOUR WISHES ARE GRANTED The production values of MainStreet Theatre Company’s 70-minute performance of Aladdin’s Luck at the Lewis Family Playhouse in Rancho Cucamonga were among the best I’ve seen in mid-size regional theaters in both Europe and America. The very reasonably priced tickets ($16 full-prized adult, with various opportunities for discounts) couldn’t have…
Music Review: NELLIE McKAY (City Vineyard)
by Rob Lester | April 29, 2026
in Cabaret, New YorkOff-Broadway Review: BROKEN SNOW (Theatre 71)
by Gregory Fletcher | April 28, 2026
in New York, TheaterTheater Review: THE SECRET SHARER (DNAWorks at Emerson Paramount Center)
by Lynne Weiss | April 27, 2026
in Boston, TheaterBroadway Review: JOE TURNER’S COME AND GONE (Barrymore Theatre)
by Paola Bellu | April 25, 2026
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