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Highly Recommended Off-Broadway: HYPNOTIQUE (The Club Car at McKittrick Hotel)
THE McKITTRICK HOTEL, HOME OF SLEEP NO MORE, EXTENDS LATE NIGHT SULTRY SPECTACLE H Y P N O T I Q U E ALL-NEW NOCTURNAL EXPERIENCE EXTENDED Performances have been extended again on Friday and Saturday nights at 10:30 — with tickets on sale through March 30, 2024 — for Hypnotique – A Late Night Sultry Spectacle….
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Interview: JELANI REMY (currently performing in Broadway’s Back to the Future: The Musical)
REMY OH MY Hill Valley has been recreated at the Winter Garden Theatre, where Back to the Future: The Musical opened in September. Speeding up to 88 miles per hour, Marty McFly (Casey Likes) is transported back to 1955 in a time machine, built by the eccentric scientist Doc Brown (Roger Bart). The course of history…
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Off-Broadway Dance/Opera Review: WATCH NIGHT (World Premiere at Perelman Performing Arts Center)
AN UNNECESSARILY HEAVY NIGHT COULD HAVE YOU CHECKING YOUR WATCH Bill Rauch, who guided the Oregon Shakespeare Festival from 2007 to 2019, is now the inaugural artistic director of the Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC). The first commissioned production under his watch is Watch Night, a major new work composed by Tamar-kali, with a libretto…
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Recommended Off-Broadway: WHITE ROSE: THE MUSICAL (Theatre Row)
THE BLOOM IS SOON TO BE ON THE WHITE ROSE Based on the true story of young people bravely standing up to injustice, White Rose: The Musical , which begins its Off-Broadway debut January 17, 2024, is a powerful new musical that follows the inspiring story of a courageous group of university students who stood…
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Broadway Review: MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG (Hudson Theater)
NO LONGER JUST ROLLING ALONG, MERRILY HAS LANDED WHERE IT BELONGS: BROADWAY It’s fitting that Merrily We Roll Along, which originally opened on Broadway in 1981 to mostly negative reviews, has been refurbished in the equally restored Hudson Theater. Both the theater and production make the perfect classy pair — stunning theater at its best…
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Off-Broadway Review: SWING STATE (Audible Theater at Minetta Lane Theatre)
SWING…AND MISS The Chicago Tribune review of Swing State, as advertised on the production poster, charged me with excitement in seeing Rebecca Gilman’s new play. “Perhaps the first of the great American plays of this decade. It blew me away!” Well, I wish I had that same experience. Mary Beth Fisher and Bubba Weiler The…
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Museum Exhibits Recommendation: ‘HERSTORY’ JUDY CHICAGO; ‘NOTHING NEW’ PUPPIES PUPPIES; ‘ECOROVE’ (The New Museum, NYC)
HERSTORY JUDY CHICAGOOctober 12, 2023–January 14, 2024 | Floors 2, 3, 4, 7 “Herstory” spans Judy Chicago’s sixty-year career to encompass the full breadth of the artist’s contributions across painting, sculpture, installation, drawing, textiles, photography, stained glass, needlework, and printmaking. Eschewing the boundaries of a traditional museum survey, “Herstory” will place Chicago’s work in dialogue with…
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Highly Recommended Theater: ROMEO & JULIET (The Curtain in Jersey City)
The Curtain — Jersey City’s premier classical theatre — has opened their Jazz Age adaptation of William Shakespeare’s classic Romeo & Juliet, directed and adapted by producing artistic director Sean Hagerty. Leading the cast are Italian actress and Venice Film Festival Pasinetti Award winner Anita Pomario (The Macaluso Sisters) in her American stage debut as ‘Juliet’; and Aria…
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Recommended Theater: A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Summoners Ensemble Theatre at the Merchant’s House)
WHAT? THE DICKENS! Nothing can keep a good Carol down. Beginning November 28, 2023, Summoners Ensemble Theatre’s A Christmas Carol at the Merchant’s house will indeed return for its 11th season. But like a ghost that visits magically in the night, these ghosts will attend you in person. In what year more than 2023 do…
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Interview: DREW DROEGE (currently performing in Off-Broadway’s TITANÍQUE)
TITAN OF LAUGHS Drew Droege has stepped into the role of Ruth, Rose’s mother, after Titaníque’s first year of performances at Off-Broadway’s Daryl Roth Theatre. He’s performed two solo shows in New York at the Soho Playhouse: Bright Colors and Bold Patterns, and Happy Birthday Doug. In L.A., he’s done Die Mommie Die!, Bitches, The…
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Recommended Off-Broadway: EDGAR OLIVER’S RIP TIDE (World Premiere by Axis Theatre Company)
Rip Tide Axis Theatre Company Axis Theatre, 1 Sheridan Square runs October 4–28, 2023; Wed-Sat at 8 for tickets (free-$40), visit Axis Directed by Axis Theatre Company founder Randall Sharp, Rip Tide, a new play written and performed by Edgar Oliver, takes audiences back to where it all began for the New York City icon….
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Off-Broadway Review: INFINITE LIFE (Atlantic Theater Company and National Theatre at the Linda Gross)
INFINITE PLAYWRITING Co-produced by Atlantic Theater Company and National Theatre, the one-hour and 45-minute production (no intermission) is Annie Baker’s best play to date. At least from my past three experiences of the admired Circle Mirror Transformation, The Flick, and John. The play is set two hours north of San Francisco. The set design by…
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Interview: CATHERINE WALLER (currently starring in Off-Broadway’s The Creeps at Playhouse 46 at St. Luke’s)
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 configuration that’s only a few rows deep, be prepared for six creeps onstage to speak directly to you. And they’ll expect a…
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Off-Broadway Review: RELAPSE: A NEW MUSICAL (Theatre Row)
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 Additional Lyrics) opened last night at Theatre Row for a limited three week run. Sheryl Liu‘s set has six blue chairs in a semi-circle,…
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Interview: LAURA BELL BUNDY (currently performing in Broadway’s The Cottage)
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 stellar cast of Laura Bell Bundy, Eric McCormack, Lili Cooper, Nehal Joshi, Alex Moffat, and Dana Steingold. A send-up of the old-fashioned…
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Broadway Review: EL MAGO POP (Ethel Barrymore)
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 on Broadway (the press says he is, but I saw 27-year-old Doug Henning when The Magic Show opened in 1974, and Paul…
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Off-Broadway Review: THE GREAT GATSBY — THE IMMERSIVE SHOW (Gatsby Mansion in the Park Central Hotel)
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 Gatsby, a self-made millionaire who dreams of turning back time to regain his first love, Daisy Buchanan —…
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Interview: JASMINE FORSBERG (currently performing in Broadway’s HERE LIES LOVE)
JASMINE GRACEFULLY BLOOMS Making her Broadway debut in Here Lies Love, triple-threat Jasmine Forsberg plays Maria Luisa and “Imelda’s Inner Voice.” Prior to this run, she played Jane Seymour in the first national tour of Six. Other credits include Off-Broadway’s Greenwich House Theater where she performed in Broadway Bounty Hunter, and regionally in the world…
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Theater Interview: LISA VROMAN (Appearing at CVRep in “Ingénue… …Ingé-not-so-new!” )
VROMAN AT HOME IN NEW CABARET SHOW Lisa Vroman, celebrated as one of the greatest crossover sopranos of this generation, makes her Coachella Valley Repertory debut Thursday, August 10, 2023 at 7 in CVRep’s 2023 Summer Cabaret Series. Vroman is best known for starring on Broadway, Los Angeles and San Francisco (where she won a…
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Broadway Opening: I NEED THAT (Roundabout Theatre Company at American Airlines Theatre)
Danny DeVito returns to Roundabout Theatre Company following his Tony Award nominated turn in Arthur Miller’s The Price, alongside his daughter, Lucy DeVito, and Ray Anthony Thomas in this deeply human new comedy from Theresa Rebeck. The world premiere of I Need That — directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel — previews on October 3, 2023. The design team includes Alexander Dodge (Sets), Tilly Grimes (Costumes), Yi Zhao (Lights),…
Theater Review: DEAD GIRL’S QUINCEAÑERA (Goodman Theatre / Chicago)
by Croydon Fernandes | October 22, 2026
in Chicago, TheaterBroadway Review: 860 (Billy Crystal / Imperial Theatre)
by Paola Bellu | October 22, 2026
in New York, TheaterTheater Review: A STRANGE LOOP (Raven and About Face / Chicago)
by Croydon Fernandes | October 22, 2026
in Chicago, TheaterTheater Review: THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON (The Public Theater / New York)
by Gregory Bernard | October 21, 2026
in New York, TheaterOff-Broadway Review: MACHINE LEARNING (Little Engine Theater)
by Alex Simmons | October 21, 2026
in New York, TheaterOff-Broadway Review: COPPERFIELD! (The Duke on 42nd Street)
by Rob Lester | October 20, 2026
in New York, TheaterOpera Review: CARMEN (LA Opera)
by Michael Landman-Karney | October 20, 2026
in Los Angeles, Music, TheaterTheater Review: CONVENTION (The Industry Loft / Los Angeles)
by Ernest Kearney | October 20, 2026
in Los Angeles, TheaterDance Review: OSCAR (Australian Ballet / Cal Performances / Berkeley)
by Chuck Louden | October 19, 2026
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