Years after August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson" was first produced on Broadway in 1990, Black playwrights have continued to grapple with this enduring question which defines the struggle betw…
"Some Like It Hot" a modern day, good old-fashioned musical has arrived on Broadway at The Shubert Theatre, and it delivers on all levels, making for a very enjoyable evening of musical come…
There are two paths to "disappearance" in David Cale's engaging "Sandra" currently running at the Vineyard Theatre. The audience discovers that Ethan Martin's path has been well thought out.…
Broadway has had quite a roster of juke box musicals grace the stage in the past and it seems that this season will add a few more to the archive. Opening at The Stephen Sondheim Theatre is …
There is an abundance of medical and anatomical references in "Mike Birbiglia: The Old Man & The Pool" currently running at Lincoln Center Theater's Vivian Beaumont Theater. Mr. Birbigli…
If Will Arbery's "Evanston Salt Costs Climbing were an absurdist play, its non-sense narrative might make some sense. However, this is not a "Waiting for Godot" for post-pandemic Evanston, I…
The costume department at Bucks County Playhouse will open its wardrobe room for a holiday sale " offering a wide collection of festive frocks, and everyday ready-to-wear clothing, for sale …
Under Michael Arden's meticulous direction, Jefferson Mays navigates through his adaptation (with Susan Lyons and Michael Arden) of the five staves of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" wi…
Audiences are invited to relive one of the most magical nights in rock and roll history " but this time with a decidedly festive twist " when Bucks County Playhouse presents a special holida…
In heeding the advice mentor Lester Bangs gives young music journalist William Miller, the following comments will be "honest and unmerciful." Fans of the movie "Almost Famous" released twen…
There is no doubt that "Camp Siegfried" a new play penned by Bess Wohl is extremely relevant given the current social, moral, and political landscape that has evolved in the past few years. …
You will get sick. It happens. You do not know why. Often you do not want to tell anyone you are sick. Perhaps you might even pay someone to talk to you about your illness. Yet after all tha…
Playwright Mia Chung intends to raise a rich and enduring question in her play "Catch as Catch Can" currently running at Playwrights Horizons Peter Jay Sharp Theater: "What is inherent in ou…
Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" debuted on Broadway in 1959 and appeared in London's West End five months later. The musical adaptation "Raisin" won the Tony Award for Best Musica…
Marin Gazzaniga's "The Unbelieving" is based on select interviews from the 2013 book "Caught in the Pulpit: Leaving Belief Behind" by Daniel C. Dennett and Linda LaScola. The authors intervi…
Every once in a while, there comes along a little gem of a play that certainly will knock you off your feet, especially if it is a first-rate production and impeccably performed by two remar…
Some may say that Arthur Miller's play "Death of a Salesman" may be the greatest play of the 20th century and there is evidence that supports that claim. It premiered on Broadway in 1949, wi…
Sometimes there is no reason to try and improve or change something which would adhere to the adage "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Adjusting, tweaking, or trying to improve things when t…
Currently running at Classic Stage Company, "A Man of No Importance" chronicles gay middle-aged bus conductor Alfie Byrnes's (a gloomy and dispirited Jim Parsons) struggles to claim his agen…
In the current 20th anniversary production of "Topdog/Underdog," Suzan Lori-Parks reminds the audience that when one does not receive unconditional and nonjudgmental love and chooses to disc…
There is too much noise on the set of Victor I. Cazares's "american (tele)visions" currently running at New York Theatre Workshop (co-produced with Theatre Mitu). Although that noise comes f…
Applause Books is proud to announce the November 2022 release of Magic to Do (192 pages ' 978-1-4930-6435-9' Hardback) by Elysa Gardner. In Magic to Do, which celebrates the 50th anniversary…
"Cost of living indexes are meant to compare the expenses an average person can expect to incur to acquire food, shelter, transportation, energy, clothing, education, healthcare, childcare, …
The rags to riches story of one of the world's most charismatic and controversial political figures receives a new look, in an exciting, intimate production at Bucks County Playhouse, runnin…
Elodie (Francesca Carpanini) and Otto (Uly Schlesinger) reunite in a bedroom after they meet in a town square in Chartres, France in August 1944. Crazy things happened in the square includin…