Theatre
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Liberation
Reflection on Feminism in the 70s on Broadway
By: - Nov 17th, 2025Lizzie wants to learn more about her deceased mother who was committed to women's liberation. The scene shifts between her mother's "conscious raising" group in Ohio in the '70s and Lizzie's interviewing group members in present time.
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Reunions
Two Stories of Revisiting Set to Music Off-Broadway
By: - Nov 17th, 2025In the first of these turn-of-the-20th-century stories, a typist in England is sent unawares on a job that happens to be for her ex-husband who is being knighted. In the other, two Spanish lovers in youth find one another in their 70s.
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Six: The Musical
Long Running Broadway Production
By: - Nov 17th, 2025In this high energy musical, the six deceased wives of Henry VIII compete to find who is the best singer among them. Verbal jabs punctuate heavy rock solos by the contestants.
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Romy & Michele: The Musical
The Movie Comes Alive Off-Broadway
By: - Nov 17th, 2025The two ditsy women who left Tucson for LA are invited to their 10th high school reunion. Wanting to appear successful, they hatch the plot that they invented Post-Its. Sounds plausible. Right?
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The Woman in Black
London Production at Center Rep
By: - Nov 16th, 2025An attorney is dispatched to the creepy marshlands of eastern England to clear up the estate of a recently deceased widow. The attorney faces resistance from the local populace, a mountain of unexpected papers to be reviewed, and worse yet, earmarks of the supernatural - furnishings moved when no human is around and appearances of an apparition.
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From Epic Theater to “Oh, Mary”
Cole Escola Receives the Erwin Piscator Award
By: - Nov 03rd, 2025Honored for Oh, Mary!, a hysterical, historically inaccurate Broadway hit that reimagines Mary Todd Lincoln, the 16th president’s wife, as a perpetually tipsy, attention-starved First Lady who longs to be a cabaret singer. Performed in drag by Escola (who also wrote the play.
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Endgame at the Irish Arts Center
Druid Mounts a Magnificnet Production
By: - Nov 03rd, 2025The Druid theater is mounting Samuel Beckett’s Endgame at the Irish Arts Center in New York. The set is striking. It is curved like the inside of the two garbage cans sitting on the stage, covered by cloth at the start. Inside tthe actual cans are two stumps–a happily married couple, Negg and Nell, played here by Bosco Hogan and Marie Mullen (one of the founders of Druid).
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Ragtime at Lincoln Center
An All Time Favorite
By: - Nov 03rd, 2025This musical, even more so than when it opened in 1998, forces us to confront some truths that we would prefer to ignore. It points out that America has not always lived up to its ideals and, in fact, has at times rejected them.
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Parsifal
San Francisco Opera's Stellar Production
By: - Oct 30th, 2025Wagner's final opera boasts some of his most organic music and lyrics in a tale of redemption. The piece demands enormous resources of every kind, and San Francisco Opera has produced a matchless experience that excels in every way.
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The Mountaintop by Katori Hall
Splendid Regional Production at Palm Beach Dramaworks
By: - Oct 28th, 2025To open its season, Palm Beach Dramaworks in West Palm Beach is presenting a praiseworthy production of Katori Hall's moving and funny fantasia, "The Mountaintop."
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Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Theatre
2025–2026 Season
By: - Oct 27th, 2025This year's productions showcase a dynamic range of theatrical styles and voices, featuring contemporary works alongside student-created performances that push creative boundaries.
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The Wisdom of Eve
The Metatheatrical Treatise on Ambition
By: - Oct 27th, 2025The theatrical version of the movie "All About Eve" differs around the edges but carries the same impact. The fading star Margo Channing faces the rise of the talented but unprincipled Eve Harrington.
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The Great Emu War,
Goodspeed’s Terris Theatre
By: - Oct 25th, 2025The title sounds weird, but it is sophisticated silliness. If you think of Monty Python or Book of Mormon, you’ll get just a hint of how delicious this show, written by Cal Silberstein and Paul Hodge, is.
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Dada Teen Musical: The Play
Central Work's Provocative World Premiere
By: - Oct 24th, 2025High achieving Anabel wants to enhance her Harvard application by creating and producing a Dada version of a popular musical for her high school's theater group. To bring it off, she calls on two unlikely collaborators - self-indulgent Tyler who has money and people resources, and gothic Mariah, who has some music cred. Radical complications ensue.
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Life of Pi on Tour
Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Ft. Lauderdale
By: - Oct 24th, 2025The equity national touring production of the stage adaptation of Life of Pi astounds visually and moves us emotionally. The production remains in Ft. Lauderdale through Sunday. The play is a live stage adaptation of Yann Martel's popular novel.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning English by Sanaz Toosi
TheaterWorks Hartford
By: - Oct 23rd, 2025The play has flaws, but it is a credit to the playwright that we want to know more about these characters.
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Spunk by Zora Neale Hurston
World Premiere at Yale Rep
By: - Oct 23rd, 2025Zora Neale Hurston wrote short stories, novels, and plays. But she was also an ethnographic researcher, folklorist, and cultural anthropologist who published academic articles and taught at several universities. She was a major figure of the Harlem Renaissance – that period between the wars when music, art, dance, and literature flourished in Harlem – but whose works were forgotten for many years
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Krapp's Last Tape at NYU
Stephen Rea Stars in the Skirball Production
By: - Oct 19th, 2025Krapp’s Last Tape by Samuel Beckett is playing at NYU’s Skirball Theater, with the great Stephen Rea in the title role. Years ago, Rea rehearsed this play with Samuel Beckett himself and recorded Krapp’s early memories. It is those old recordings we now hear in this production—Rea, in the present, listening to the voice of his younger self.
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Hard Times: Appalachian Stories by Ron Rash
Word for Word Exquisitely Performs Three Regional Short Stories Without Alteration
By: - Oct 17th, 2025Three short stories span the period from the Great Depression through the end of the 20th century. Though they have little in common, collectively they contribute an insightful portrait of life in a region intimately known and revered by the author.
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Samson et Dalila
West Bay Opera's Fine Production
By: - Oct 14th, 2025The tale from the Bible is brought to the opera stage. The deceitful temptress Dalila seeks not love but destruction and revenge. Though she succeeds, Samson will have the last word.
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Saariaho's Passion in New York
Mannes Opera Presents La Passion de Simone
By: - Oct 14th, 2025Mannes, the most interesting and daring music school in New York, presented Kaija Saariaho’s La Passion de Simone at the Nagelberg Theater, just steps from its usual home in the Tishman Auditorium. At the Tishman, works were often presented catwalk-style, the action taking place on a narrow strip in front of the orchestra. At the Nagelberg, director Emma Griffin finally had space to mount the first fully staged chamber version of Saariaho’s oratorio.
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Shakespeare & Company Weekend of Jewish Plays
Roz and Ray by Karen Hartman
By: - Oct 12th, 2025Shakespeare & Company hosted “Celebrating Jewish Plays” from October 10 to October 12, showcasing a weekend of staged readings and a special literary event. We attended Roz and Ray by Karen Hartman. Directed by Daniela Varon it was brilliantly performed by John Douglas Thompson and Abigail Rose Solomon.
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Equity Touring Production of The Wiz
Hilarious and Energetic Production
By: - Oct 09th, 2025An equity touring production of The Wiz is playing an engagement in Miami through Sunday before heading north. The production is high-tech with an Afrofuturist flavor without sacrificing genuine emotion. The Wiz is a 1975 award-winning musical that features an all-Black cast. \
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New City Players Presents 'The 39 Steps'
Hilarious and Energetic Production in South Florida
By: - Oct 06th, 2025New City Players impresses once again with a hilarious and energetic production of 'The 39 Steps.' Under Ali Tallman's brisk, precise direction, the production whizzes by like a bullet train, but allows us to savor the comedy.
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Fall Theater Season Unfolds
New York and Connecticut
By: - Oct 05th, 2025The theater calendars are filling up in both Connecticut and New York. Looking over the planned productions for the fall, a number of them jumped out as being particularly interesting.
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