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Theater Review: AN ARK (The Shed)
THEATRE THROUGH GOGGLES A 47-minute VR encounter turns a gallery into the closest “front row” imaginable. How would you like to attend a play starring Ian McKellen—and be seated front row center? Better yet, what if Sir Ian (along with Golda Rosheuvel, Arinzé Kene, and Rosie Sheehy) played directly to you, making sustained eye contact…
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Theater Review: GREEN CORRIDORS (Trap Door Theatre in Chicago)
FOUR UKRAINIAN REFUGEES NAVIGATE WAR’S AFTERSHOCKS IN A NIGHTMARE OF BUREAUCRACY Natalka Vorozhbyt’s darkly funny, deeply bruising play finds Trap Door Theatre at its most urgent—and most human. Four women push mobile doorjambs around the stage as the audience filters in. Their movement is slow and halting, as if moving through fog. Once the theatre…
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Theater Review: KID GLOVES (Skylight Theatre)
A MURDEROUSLY FUN MUSICAL SEND-UP OF KIDS-TV STARDOM Nathan Wang and Matthew Leavitt turn wholesome childhood icons into gleeful chaos— fast, filthy, and ridiculously entertaining. Sets are declarative. I have walked into theatres, taken one glance at the set occupying the stage, and could have written my whole review then and there. Anthony Lucca, Will…
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Theater Review: LOUISA GILLIS (North Coast Rep)
A FAMILY POISONED BY THE PAST Joanna McClelland Glass’s intimate drama lands like overhearing a quarrel— and keeps paying off thanks to a first-rate cast. Modern American theater does not lack for theatrical, intense plays. These works typically explore family secrets, betrayal, revenge, trust and mistrust, plot twists and turns, and psychological (and sometimes physical)…
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Theater Review: ASSASSINS (Revolution Stage)
AMERICA’S DARKEST CARNIVAL BARKS TO LIFE Revolution Stage Company delivers powerhouse vocals and sharp design in Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s unsettling musical revue. Revolution Stage Company has become one of my favorite local theatre companies, and its current production of Assassins (score: Stephen Sondheim, book: John Weidman) features one of the most uniformly talented…
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Theater Review: OCTET (Studio Theatre in DC)
DAVE MALLOY’S A CAPPELLA SUPPORT-GROUP MUSICAL ABOUT INTERNET ADDICTION Intimate, exacting, unplugged, emotionally bracing— an in-the-round ritual that is a communal act of listening Dave Malloy’s Octet is a bold and quietly unsettling chamber musical that explores the anxiety, isolation, and fragile intimacy of life online. From the Tony Award–winning composer of Natasha, Pierre &…
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Theatre Review: GOING BACHARACH: THE SONGS OF AN ICON (Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater)
A REMARKABLY RESPLENDENT & RADIANT REVUE If you’re wandering around Manhattan, just “Wishin’ and Hopin’” for a magnificent musical revue with some “Magic Moments,” don’t “Walk On By” the building at 10 West 64th Street. The show there is the “Best That You Can Do,” so “Make It Easy on Yourself” and see the super-satisfying…
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Theater Review: ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS (Coachella Valley Repertory)
A BRITISH FARCE OF DOUBLE-DEALING, DISGUISES, AND CHAOS IN ’60s BRIGHTON When it hits its stride, CV Rep’s high-energy staging delivers the kind of old-school physical comedy that feels like instant stress relief. What the world needs now is… laughter. Lots of laughter, which is being served up liberally in Coachella Valley Repertory’s tasty take…
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Concert | Theater Review: OKLAHOMA! IN CONCERT (Carnegie Hall)
OH, WHAT A BEAUTIFUL EVENIN’! RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN RIDE AGAIN AT CARNEGIE HALL With a full cast, full dialogue, and a glorious orchestra, this Oklahoma! concert leans into the classic’s warmth— exclamation point included. Ah, the classic musical Oklahoma! It begins with the offstage cowboy character named Curly singing about nature—“There’s a bright golden haze…
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Theater Review: I DO! I DO! (Palm Canyon Theatre)
A MARRIAGE MUSICAL THAT SPANS 50 YEARS—ALL IN ONE BEDROOM Palm Canyon’s I Do! I Do! is consistently enchanting, with actors strong enough to make this intimate two-hander feel genuinely moving In a word, Palm Canyon Theatre’s current production of I Do! I Do! is charming. Nearly 60 years after it premiered, the Tom Jones/Harvey…
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Theatre Review: FINDING DOROTHY PARKER (Laurie Beechman Theatre)
SARCASM ON STEROIDS To say that Dorothy Parker had a way with words would be the understatement of the century—and she spanned two of them, being born in the last decade of the 1800s and hanging on until 1967. Even her own death was subject to one more pithy punchline. In a story with herself…
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Off-Broadway Review: H.M.S. PINAFORE (New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players)
SAILORS, SATIRE, AND SOPRANOS New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players keep H.M.S. Pinafore proudly afloat—smart, tuneful, and gloriously old-school. Producing a Gilbert & Sullivan operetta takes courage, talent, and resources. Yet every year the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players put on several productions, complete with a gorgeous single set, period costumes, and a live…
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Theater Review: ALL THE DEVILS ARE HERE: HOW SHAKESPEARE INVENTED THE VILLAIN (Patrick Page at BroadStage)
A MASTER VILLAIN TAKES THE STAGE Patrick Page turns Shakespeare’s greatest monsters into a riveting, slyly funny tour through human nature— one blood-red spotlight at a time. Dubbed “the villain of Broadway” by Playbill, Patrick Page has never shied away from exploring his dark side. Now, with his tour-de-force solo show All the Devils Are…
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Theater Review: EUREKA DAY (Dezart Performs)
DESERT THEATER FINDS ITS NEW HOME WITH A PERFECTLY TIMED POWDER KEG Welcome to the sharply funny Eureka Day, where a mumps outbreak turns a school board meeting into a full-contact sport Last night was a massive milestone for our desert theater community. Dezart Performs officially opened their new season in their brand-new, first-ever permanent…
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Cabaret Theater Review: FINDING DOROTHY PARKER (Laurie Beechman Theatre)
WIT, WOUNDS, AND A GREAT SET OF PODIUMS A smart, lively cabaret revue that reminds us Parker was more than just a quote machine. Those of us who remember Dorothy Parker think of a sharp-witted, often biting writer and wise observer of human nature. Her one-liners, such as “Men seldom make passes at girls who…
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Off-Broadway Review: THE DISAPPEAR (Minetta Lane Theatre)
MARRIAGE, MOVIES & MISERIES AT MINETTA LANE Marriage may be like a garden — has to be consistently and attentively nurtured and cared for or it will wither instead of bloom and grow — but for Ben and Mira in The Disappear, nobody’s doing much watering, making this particular union look parched, prickly, and perilously…
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Theater Review: YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL 2026 (Pegasus Theatre Chicago)
CHICAGO TEENS DELIVER THE GOODS WITH ORIGINAL ONE-ACTS Pegasus Theatre Chicago’s Young Playwrights Festival proves —again—that fresh voices can write with candor, wit, and bite. For the last 39 years, Pegasus Theatre Chicago’s Young Playwrights Festival (YPF) has been showcasing the fruits of enlightened collaboration. By exposing high school students to the fundamentals of writing…
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Theater Review: LIBRARY LION (Adam Theater)
NO LYIN’ ABOUT THIS ADORABLE LION A story about rules and when it is right to break them The four-year-old I took to the Adam Theater production of Library Lion at the Calderwood Pavilion in the Boston Center for the Arts was terrified when he saw the picture of the lion’s large and expressive face…
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Broadway Review: BUG (Manhattan Theatre Club)
There could have been a better time to bring back Bug, Tracy Letts’s disturbing drama about paranoia and its devastating consequences. We have enough to be paranoid about these days, don’t you think? Nevertheless, Manhattan Theatre Club has revived Letts’s 1996 psychological thriller—this is the 2020 production direct from Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago—starring Letts’s…
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Audition Announcement: BEACHES, A NEW MUSICAL (Are You a Little Cee-Cee?)
VIRTUAL CASTING SEARCH LAUNCHED FOR BROADWAY’S BEACHES Beaches, A New Musical has launched a virtual casting search titled “Are You a Little Cee Cee?”, inviting young performers to audition for the role of Little Cee Cee, the childhood version of one of the story’s two iconic best friends. Video submissions are being accepted now through…
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