Our Latest Articals

PUCK BUNNIES AND POWER PLAYS Knowing exactly who it’s playing to, this gleefully ridiculous send-up shoots and scores There are fandoms, and then there are fandoms. The kind that inspires message boards, fan fiction, watch parties, and now, apparently, full-blown musical theater parodies. Heated Rivalry: The Unauthorized Musical Parody understands…

DANCING THROUGH THE DECADES A mesmerizing theatrical collage that rewards surrender over analysis One never quite knows what to expect from the good folks at Trap Door Theatre, and I’m sure they wouldn’t want it any other way. The company restricts itself to furiously political works from lesser-known authors; they…

PULLED OUT OF MYTH AND INTO THE HEADLINES Kenneth Cavander relocates Thebes to a near-future America, and something is lost in the move I first read Antigone in a basement college classroom in the fall of 1984, the week the polls turned against Walter Mondale. Kreon sounded like the calm…

A THEATRICAL EXPERIENCE FOR THE SCIENCE-MINDED Theater of the Mind created by David Byrne and Mala Gaonkar and directed by Andrew Scoville is an interactive neuroscience experiment tied together with storytelling that takes you inside the mind of an audience surrogate, David, who I assume is based on the creator….

WIG IN A BOX, HEART ON A SLEEVE NCTC reinvents the cult classic with a fierce, funny, and deeply moving Hedwig John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch has traveled a remarkable road since premiering Off-Broadway in 1998. Part rock concert, part confessional, part gender-exploration odyssey,…

WHEN BALLET BECAME AMERICAN American Contemporary Ballet celebrates the choreographer who traded princes and swans for jazz, swagger, and pure fun Before George Balanchine arrived in America, ballet belonged largely to princes, princesses, fairy tales, and European courts. Within a generation, he transformed it into something unmistakably American. Balanchine understood…

THE GOLDEN BOYS A sitcom-worthy comedy finds surprising heart beneath the laughs The Palm Springs stage has long been fertile ground for stories about reinvention, friendship, and chosen family. Silver Foxes, receiving its West Coast premiere at Revolution Stage Company, embraces all three with a sitcom veteran’s knack for punchlines…