Theatre
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Chess Revived on Broadway
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Shakespeare & Company Holiday Show
Austen's Sense & Sensibility by Kate Hamill,
By: - Dec 04th, 2025Shakespeare & Company’s traditional winter show returns this year with Sense & Sensibility by Kate Hamill, a fast-paced, staged reading wherein the wit and romance of Jane Austen’s classic tale come to life. This year, the Austen-inspired production coincides with her 250th birthday on December 16.
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'Better Late' by Larry Gelbart
Pigs Do Fly Productions in South Florida
By: - Dec 03rd, 2025Pigs Do Fly Productions' mounting of 'Better Late' by Larry Gelbart featured impressively convincing performances but scene transitions that lasted too long. The production recently ended following a three-week run.
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Oedipus Rex on Broadway
Outstanding British Production
By: - Dec 01st, 2025Mark Strong is magnificent as Oedipus – a mixture of arrogance and moral certainty and idealism. It is a powerful combination. Yet he can be ruthless and cruel, and always needs to be right; often angry at Creon, his campaign manager and Jocasta’s brother, played by a fine David Carroll Lynch.
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The Monkey King
Spectacular World Premiere by San Francisco Opera
By: - Nov 21st, 2025Drawing from one of the four classic novels of Chinese literature, the opera tells the story of the Monkey King who claims to be more powerful than any being on earth other than the Buddha. Nonetheless, his story begins with 500 years of imprisonment but ends with his learning the ultimate lesson in life. It is hard to imagine an opera being more stunning visually.
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Chorus Line at Barrington Stage Company
To Be Directed by Alan Paul
By: - Nov 20th, 2025Barrington Stage Company announce that the company’s 2026 season will feature a 50th Anniversary production of A Chorus Line, the legendary Broadway musical that won nine 1976 Tony Awards and the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. BSC’s production will be directed by Alan Paul. Additional creative team will be announced soon.
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Ruthless! The Musical
Must-See Production at Island City Stage
By: - Nov 19th, 2025Island City Stage's fine production of "Ruthless the Musical" is a treat to savor. The professional production of the musical spoof runs through Dec. 7. Island City Stage's intimate black box theater is located at 2304 N. Dixie Highway in Wilton Manors.
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Madama Butterfly
One of Opera's Most Beloved by Opera San Jose
By: - Nov 18th, 2025Against social norms, the naive ingenue Cio Cio San marries the footloose U.S. Naval officer Pinkerton. On leaving, he promises to return to her before the robins nest. Some three years later, his return brings surprise and tragedy.
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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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