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Theater Preview: TWELVE HOURS WITH TRACY LETTS (Circle in the Square)
A DAY WITH TRACY LETTS Animus Theatre Company presents a marathon reading festival with an all-star cast to support Circle in the Square Theatre School For theater lovers, the chance to experience even one play by Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Letts is worth clearing an evening. Animus Theatre Company is asking audiences to clear an…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: ROCOCO ROUGE (Company XIV)
A CABARET SHOW THAT GOES FOR BAROQUE Mae West, the sage and sybarite from Brooklyn, used to say, “Let joy be unrefined,” a point of view that also suits Austin McCormick, artistic director and choreographer of Company XIV. His latest extravaganza Rococo Rouge retools the roisterous risk-taking revelry he’s known for: bare skin, sultry ballet,…
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San Francisco Theater Review: STOREFRONT CHURCH (SF Playhouse)
DIME STORE PROPAGANDA One of the problems with watching a play that has an agenda, political or otherwise, is the difficulty of enjoying with a good conscience even those parts that work; knowing the playwright’s intentions to be dishonest (in that he’s serving up propaganda as art), one feels foolish being affected emotionally, as though…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: TRIBES (Center Theatre Group at Mark Taper Forum)
FINDING YOUR TRIBE Theatre of Identity, aka Social Issues Theatre, is a fascinating phenomenon: this genre promotes a particular people’s cultural identity and invites members of that culture and other cultures to experience that culture’s joys, problems, history, traditions, and point of view. Plays like Torch Song Trilogy, The Boys Next Door, and Yellow Face…
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Los Angeles Theater “Reviews”: PLAYS IN THE PARK (Santa Monica Playhouse) and GRACE NOTES & ANVILS (Odyssey Theatre)
TWO CRITICS; TWO STAGED READINGS; BASICALLY ONE OPINION From Jason Rohrer: Plays in the Park, Brian Conners’ collection of one-acts (only one of which is set in a park), intends to showcase its writer (who also directs) in the glow of its rotating cast of Actors’ Studio headliners. Mark Rydell, Ed Asner and Esai Morales…
Dance Review: OSCAR (Australian Ballet / Cal Performances / Berkeley)
by Chuck Louden | October 19, 2026
in Dance, San Francisco
(Bay Area), ToursTheater Review: THE BEST MEDICINE (Odyssey Theatre Ensemble / Los Angeles)
by Ernest Kearney | October 17, 2026
in Los Angeles, TheaterOff-Broadway Review: THE BALD SOPRANO (The Resident Acting Company)
by Paulanne Simmons | October 17, 2026
in New York, TheaterTheater Review: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (The Huntington / Boston)
by Carmen Barsomian-Dietrich | October 16, 2026
in Boston, TheaterTheater Review: RIPCORD (The Roustabouts / San Diego)
by Milo Shapiro | October 16, 2026
in San Diego, TheaterOff-Broadway Review: MEMOIRS OF AMOROUS GENTLEMEN (The Night Egg at Culture Club)
by Gregory Bernard | October 16, 2026
in New York, TheaterOff-Broadway Review: THE ASK (Theater 555 / New York)
by Gregory Bernard | October 16, 2026
in New York, TheaterTheater Review: ANY REBELLION OF WILL (Trap Door Theatre in Chicago)
by Croydon Fernandes | October 14, 2026
in Chicago, TheaterOff-Broadway Review: A GHOST IN YOUR EAR (Audible Theater at Minetta Lane Theatre)
by Gregory Bernard | October 14, 2026
in New York, Theater
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