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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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Opera Review: ALICE RYLEY & BIG DEATHS (Source/Filter Music Collective at Heritage Square)
OPERA AMONG THE GHOSTS From playful parlor deaths to a chilling one-act about crime, punishment, and memory, Source/Filter Music Collective made Heritage Square sing. On November 8, Source/Filter Music Collective returned to Heritage Square Museum with the west coast premiere of Michael Ching’s 2015 true-crime opera Alice Ryley, about the first woman executed in Georgia….
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Theater Review: THE NOTEBOOK: THE MUSICAL (North American Tour)
Three Couples, Zero Accumulation With a score that forgets to remember, The Notebook drowns in its own mawkish bathwater There’s a musical version of The Notebook that might actually work. A decades-spanning romance built on longing, separation, and fading memory? That’s theater. What’s currently stinking up the Hollywood Pantages? That’s a $30 million hostage situation…
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Theater Review: THE SOUND OF MUSIC (National Tour at the Citizens Opera House, Boston)
THIS SHOW IS ALIVE … WITH THE SOUND OF MUSIC A classic musical celebrates the power of music to promote authenticity How do you solve a problem like—presenting a musical that is so familiar as a movie that an audience may think they already know everything it has to offer? Director Jack O’Brien offers a…
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Theater Commentary: WOMEN, POWER, AND PROGRESS (Ragtime and Liberation on Broadway)
SISTERHOOD, INTERRUPTED Ragtime, Liberation, and the unfinished work of women’s equality Even when we know better, most of us seem to think that history proceeds in a linear manner. Life in the present, while far from perfect, is an improvement over life in the past, isn’t it? Women as a whole today enjoy expanded educational…
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Theater Review: BABY (Hollywood Fringe / The Elysian)
WHEN CLOWNING, THERAPY, AND TRAUMA COLLIDE Rachel Troy’s fierce, genre-breaking solo triumph is fully realized, ferociously smart, and genuinely exhilarating. I receive thousands of invitations every year to see one-person shows—solo works popping up everywhere from major U.S. cities to international Fringe festivals, where artists travel circuit to circuit chasing audiences, awards, and momentum. With…
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Opera Review: AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS (The Met and Lincoln Center Theater at Mitzi E. Newhouse)
A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE, UP CLOSE AND BREATH-BY-BREATH Opera this intimate feels less like a performance and more like a shared act of wonder This holiday season, multi-Grammy Award winner and Olivier Award–winning star Joyce DiDonato made opera feel truly intimate—an entirely new experience for me. She brought her formidable talent to a brand-new production of…
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Theater Review: WONDER (American Repertory Theater World Premiere in Cambridge)
WONDER OF WONDERS! A musical that refuses pity and earns its hope American Repertory Theater’s world premiere of the musical adaptation of R. J. Palacio’s best-selling Wonder and the eponymous 2017 film, is, indeed, filled with wonders. The children’s novel is not only the story of a boy with a facial difference, though that is…
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Theater Preview: SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET (La Mirada Theatre, Starring Will Swenson and Lesli Margherita)
REVENGE AS ENTERTAINMENT With Will Swenson and Lesli Margherita, La Mirada goes all in for this major revival Some shows you make time for. Others you plan around. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is one of those shows — if it’s done right. When the musical first arrived in 1979 (winning 8…
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Cabaret Review: SONGS FROM MY HOLIDAY CLOSET (Revolution Stage Company in Palm Springs)
Unpacking the Magic: LT Cousineau’s Songs from My Holiday Closet is a Seasonal Smash that has become a holiday tradition There’s a special magic that happens when a performer stops trying to please everyone and simply tells their own truth, which is what went down at Revolution Stage Company this past Monday, December 22, for…
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Theater Review: SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE (Shotgun Players in Berkeley)
DOTS, DEDICATION, AND THE ART OF BEGINNING AGAIN Shotgun Players takes on Sondheim and Lapine’s most painterly meditation with exquisite results Shotgun Players presents Sunday in the Park with George, James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim’s singular, sometimes daunting, often ravishing meditation on art, obsession, and the human cost of creation. Directed by Susannah Martin with…
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Off-Broadway Review: BASIL TWIST’S PUPPET PARTY (HERE Arts’ Dorothy B. Williams Theatre)
One of the great pleasures of New York City is that it’s a place where it feels perfectly normal to hear someone say, “I’m headed to SoHo to see an adult Christmas puppet show,” and mean it sincerely. Now in its 26th year, Basil Twist’s Puppet Parlor, playing at HERE Arts Center, has become exactly…
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