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Highly Recommended Theater: ULYSSES (Elevator Repair Service at The Fisher Center at Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY)
ELEVATOR REPAIR SERVICE’S ULYSSES, A WORLD PREMIERE, IS PART OF SUMMERSCAPE 2024 AT FISHER CENTER (JUNE 20 – AUGUST 18, 2024) Elevator Repair Service (ERS) has mastered the art of staging modernist literature with their highly-acclaimed productions Gatz (see Stage and Cinema’s review), The Sound and the Fury (review), and The Select (The Sun Also Rises)….
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Highly Recommended Dance: COMPAÑÍA NACIONAL DE DANZA, SPAIN (Luckman Fine Arts Complex at Cal State LA)
COMPAÑÍA DE SUEÑOS The Luckman Fine Arts Complex at Cal State LA is hosting Compañía Nacional de Danza in their Luckman debut, the last stop in the U.S. as part of an International Tour. The Madrid-based “Spanish National Dance Company” will perform a mixed repertory program featuring varied and representative styles, recognizable inside and outside…
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Recommended Dance: ACB JAZZ (American Contemporary Ballet at Bank of America Plaza)
Speak easy. Dance hard. Music from deep down. The best jazz musicians in L.A. live, a comedian or two, sixteen dancers, and the kind of dangerous, incendiary entertainment you didn’t think was around anymore. At the hottest underground club in the city, audiences may be mesmerized, but they won’t sit still. When you’re tired of…
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Music Recommendation: ENSEMBLE CONNECT (Carnegie Hall)
Ensemble Connect is made up of extraordinary young professional classical musicians residing in the US who take part in a two-year fellowship program created in 2007 by Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and the Weill Music Institute. The program prepares fellows for careers that combine musical excellence with teaching, community engagement, advocacy, entrepreneurship, and leadership by…
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Dance Review: COMMON GROUND(S) / THE RITE OF SPRING (Pina Bausch International Tour at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion)
RITE ON! As part of an international tour, the weekend-long dance program that opened at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on Thursday — an extra-added night due to ticket demand — gave us a taste of the neo-expressionist work of trailblazer Pina Bausch, whose company The Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch made its American debut here in…
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Highly Recommended Off-Broadway: BECOMES A WOMAN (Streaming Free from Mint Theater Feb 19-March17, 2024)
Mint Theater Company will continue its hybrid programming of live performances along with the FREE on-demand streaming of acclaimed previous productions. Beginning Monday February 19, 2024 (from 7pm) through March 17 only, Mint will be streaming the three-camera archival recording (filmed in HD) of last year’s World Premiere of one of its most exciting discoveries…
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Dance-Theater Review: MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE (North American Tour)
A SHOW THAT SENDS OUT AN S.O.S. Set to 28 songs of pop icon Sting, newly arranged and recorded with Beverley Knight and Lynval Golding (of The Specials), Sadler’s Wells Associate Artist Kate Prince (So You Think You Can Dance, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie) and her Zoo Nation company have a story to tell about the refugee…
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Theater Opening: YBOR CITY (The Actors’ Gang in Culver City)
THE ACTORS’ GANG PRESENTS YBOR CITY, A HAUNTINGLY BEAUTIFUL NEW PLAY Ybor City tells the story of overworked Cuban cigar factory immigrants in 1931, who find themselves inspired by the spirit world toward revolution. Ybor City in Tampa, Florida which dates from the 1880s, was founded by Vincente Martinez-Ybor, who moved his cigar factory from…
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Highly Recommended Theater: LITTLE BEAR RIDGE ROAD (Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago)
World premiere of Little Bear Ridge Road by Samuel D. Hunter and directed by Joe Mantello The Cast: Laurie Metcalf, Micah Stock, John Drea and Meighan Gerachis. June 13 – July 21, 2024 in Steppenwolf’s Downstairs Theater Steppenwolf, the nation’s premier ensemble theater company, is bringing to Chicago the world premiere of Little Bear Ridge Road,…
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Theater Review: THE LION KING (National Tour)
IT DOESN’T MATTER WHETHER IT’S THE KING OF MUSICALS OR NOT; IT’S THE KING OF EXPERIENCES Endearing heroes and villains. Shakespeare and ancient myth. Coherent storytelling. Anthropomorphic jungle animals. Gorgeous African chanting. Transfixing puppet pageantry on a pythonic, prodigious level. A celebration of theatrical ingenuity. Forty-nine cast members –six of whom are South African. Over…
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Theater Review: CABARET (CVRep in Cathedral City)
Cabaret was and remains one of the boldest and most innovative experiments in the history of musical theater, a ravishing work that has neither lost its power nor its pertinence no matter what one does with it. (If you think you’ve seen Cabaret because you saw the movie, you don’t know this show.) With a book by Joe Masteroff, music…
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Album Review: HARMONY (Original Broadway Cast)
While I’m wrecked that Harmony is closing on Broadway February 5, 2024 after only 96 performances, the music, fortunately, still lives on with the Original Cast recording from Ghostlight Records, available on CD today, Friday, January 26 (also available on digital platforms). A special bonus track exclusive to the CD, “Where Does the Time Go?,” performed by Barry Manilow,…
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Highly Recommended Concert: MARTIN CHALIFOUR AND FRIENDS FROM THE LA PHIL (St. Alban’s Episcopal Church)
Martin Chalifour (violin) is the Principal Concertmaster of the Los Angeles Philharmonic since 1995. Apart from his LA Phil duties, he maintains an active solo career, playing a diverse repertoire of more than 60 concertos. And rare is the opportunity to see him in such an intimate space as St. Alban’s Episcopal Church, where he…
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Highly Recommended Broadway: CABARET AT THE KIT KAT KLUB (starring Eddie Redmayne at the August Wilson Theatre)
ADVANCE WARNING: THIS CABARET WILL BE THE HOTTEST TICKET ON BROADWAY I saw this production in London, so prepare yourself for the most emotionally raw production of Cabaret you will ever see as Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club — starring Eddie Redmayne as ‘The Emcee’ and Gayle Rankin as the toast of Mayfair ‘Sally…
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Recommended Event: HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY PROGRAM (Interviews with NYC Show Creators at NY Public Library for the Performing Arts)
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27 from 1:30 to 3:30, National Jewish Theater Foundation President Arnold Mittelman will interview creators of current NYC shows Harmony, Our Class and Here There Are Blueberries. — several of this season’s plays & musicals that combat hate and antisemitism. The free public program takes place from 1:30-3:00 pm and illuminates how theater…
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Opera Review: DUDAMEL LEADS DAS RHEINGOLD (LA Phil)
AMID SOME LESSER JEWELS, THERE’S GOLD IN DISNEY HALL The Los Angeles Philharmonic brought the full gamut of its immense resources to bear on a weekend-long production of Wagner’s Das Rheingold. That includes an expanded orchestra conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, a cast of internationally renowned singers, and new stage design that significantly improves the Phil’s…
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Highly Recommended Cabaret: CUPID’S EROS (Troubadour Theatre — aka “The Troubies” — at Getty Villa in Malibu)
A VALENTINE’S CABARET WITH MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURES PERFORMING SONGS OF PASSION Join the Troubies, masters of musical mirth, for an hour-long, family-friendly, song-filled sojourn with classic characters from antiquity at their Valentine’s presentation of Cupid’s Eros. See Medusa & Perseus, Achilles & Patroclus, Pandora and her Box, Polyphemus & Sheep and more, sing and dance for…
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Recommended Concert: SING AND SWING: OUR AMERICAN SONGBOOK (North American Tour, Jan. 25 to March 30, 2024)
SINGIN’ AND SWINGIN’ ACROSS THE LAND They only need one name: Ella, Judy, Bing, Dean, Peggy. These were the artists who brought the music of Gershwin, Ellington, Porter, and Berlin to life. Now, Jazz at Lincoln Center presents Sing and Swing: Our American Songbook, which relives and recreates some of the classic pairings in jazz…
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Highly Recommended Theater: THE NOSEBLEED (National Tour Jan 25 – Feb 8, 2024 at The Walker, REDCAT & The Wex)
The Nosebleed, the Obie Award-Winning Show from Playwright and Director Aya Ogawa now on national tour The Walker, Minneapolis (Jan. 25-27); REDCAT in L.A. (West Coast Premiere Feb. 1-3, 2024); The Wex, Ohio State (Feb. 8-10, 2024) The Nosebleed (Brian Rogers) As part of its 2024 national tour, the profound and beautiful 2022 Obie Award-winning The Nosebleed…
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Theater Announcement PARADE (North American Tour Launches January 2025)
Easily one of the best Broadway productions ever, the revival of Parade, winner of the 2023 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical and Grammy Award nominee for Best Musical Theater Album, is launching a North American Tour in January 2025. The production will run technical rehearsals and have its first public performances at Proctors Theatre…
Off-Broadway Review: THE MAIDS (St. Ann’s Warehouse / Brooklyn)
by Gregory Fletcher | May 27, 2026
in New York, TheaterTheater Review: AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE (TimeLine Theatre / Chicago)
by Croydon Fernandes | May 27, 2026
in Chicago, TheaterTheater Review: LE BAL (Trap Door Theatre / Chicago)
by Croydon Fernandes | May 26, 2026
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