“Little Women,” the durable Louisa May Alcott title that has inspired countless movie, play and musical versions, emerges once again April 21 with a Manhattan public presentation of Alison Hubbard, Kim Oler and Sean Hartley’s musical take on the property.
The show to be heard in The York Theatre Company’s Spring Developmental Reading Series 3 PM […]
It has been written, “Love is wonderful the second time around.” That holds true in this repeat production of “I Love You, You’re Perfect, No Change” now running at Chico Cabaret.
This musical farce, seen here April 7, premiered off-Broadway in 1996 and has played to appreciative audiences wherever performed. With book and lyrics by Joe […]
Rev up your ThighMaster, Broadway. Suzanne Somers is coming to town.
The star of television’s “Three’s Company” and the fitness guru whose latest book is called “Slim and Sexy Forever” will have her own one-woman show this summer at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre.
Entitled “The Blonde in the Thunderbird,” Somers’ entertainment with music will begin performances July […]
“Someone said in one of the reviews that [the play] was a combination of Stephen King and the Brothers Grimm meets Quentin Tarantino.” — Jeff Goldblum
Like a creepy ghost story with startling twists and turns, Broadway’s “The Pillowman” is hard to explain without spoiling it. But Jeff Goldblum takes a stab.
“It’s so compelling and smart […]
Racism is an ugly word, but it is a far uglier reality.
The state-sanctioned racism of apartheid is the backdrop for Athol Fugard’s ” ‘Master Harold’ . . . and the boys.” The racism that flows between a white teenager and the two black men employed in his parent’s restaurant is the poignant foreground.
Next Act Theatre’s […]
Plane Crazy is set during an explosive time in history: The intersection between the dawn of the Jet Age, the introduction of the Pill, the genesis of the modern Feminist Movement, and the Golden Age of Advertising.
Stewardesses represented the first-wave shock troops in a changing world. This was an exclusive sorority of women who had […]
HERE LIES JENNY, the smash theatrical event starring two-time Tony and Emmy Award winner Bebe Neuwirth and featuring the music of Kurt Weill will play San Francisco’s Post Street Theatre (450 Post Street) for a strictly limited engagement, with previews on Sunday, May 1st and Monday, May 2nd, and a press opening on Tuesday, May […]
Directed with an assured sense of style by Lynne Stinchcombe Pollingue, Prattville’s Way Off Broadway Theatre company’s production of Larry Shue’s “adult” comedy “The Nerd” manages to punctuate the play’s surface silliness with social and cultural barbs, which is delivered by a talented cast of seven actors.
The play, which relies on character stereotypes and clever […]
“Doubt,” which won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for drama, is up for another honor, the 20th annual Lucille Lortel Award for outstanding off-Broadway play.
The play by John Patrick Shanley is one of five Lortel best-play nominees, a group that also includes “After Ashley” by Gina Gionfriddo, “Going to St. Ives” by Lee Blessing, “Intimate Apparel” […]
Broadway favorite Rebecca Luker will be part of the York Theatre Company’s upcoming presentation of Darling of the Day.
Part of the Off-Broadway theatre’s acclaimed “Musicals in Mufti” spring season, Darling of the Day will be mounted April 15 at 8 PM, April 16 at 2:30 and 8 PM and April 17 at 2:30 and 7:30 […]
If you asked local audiences to identify the most influential theater artists in Milwaukee over the past 10 years, you would hear names like Hanreddy, Davis, Carsey and West.
It’s symptomatic of C. Michael Wright’s self-effacing personality that he doesn’t have a high public profile, but theater insiders would add his name to the list.
Wright has […]