IATI Theater to Present US Premiere of AHORADESPUES by Argentinian Playwright Guido Zappacosta
by Blair Ingenthron - October 19, 2024 IATI Theater announced the US premiere of AHORADESPUÉS by Guido Zappacosta, directed by Gerardo Gudiño. The play explores the final moments between a father and son, running November 1-3, 2024....
Girl Scout Release New EP 'Headache'
by Josh Sharpe - November 08, 2024 Previewed over the past several months by way of their acclaimed singles “I Just Needed You To Know” and “Honey,” Swedish band Girl Scout have released their third EP Headache. Listen to it now!...
Review Roundup: Shayan Lotfi's WHAT BECAME OF US
by Nicole Rosky - June 05, 2024 The world premiere of What Became of Us, written by Shayan Lotfi (Off-Broadway debut) and directed by Jennifer Chang just celebrated opening night at Atlantic Theater Company.Two siblings. One born there. One born here. How do they maintain their connections to The Old Country, and to This Country, ...
Florida Grand Opera to Close 2023-24 Season With Puccini's LA BOHEME
by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 12, 2024 Florida Grand Opera will conclude its 2023-24 season with the timeless masterpiece, Puccini's La bohème. Learn how to purchase tickets....
Review: VISIT FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN, Hampstead Theatre
by Alexander Cohen - July 12, 2024 The lights flash on, a writer stumbles into his scantly decorated flat. A woman follows, champagne on her breath, flirtatious glances smuggled between them. It’s late at night and the inevitability of retiring to the bedroom looms. But it is not what it seems....
Review: THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA, Royal Opera House
by Alexander Cohen - November 14, 2022 There is a growing trend of operas drawing inspiration from and working alongside the contemporary theatre world. Whether it is collaborations or borrowing ideas, in these tempestuous times for the performing arts our artistic ecosystem inevitably grows richer as a result....
Review Roundup: Shayan Lotfi's WHAT BECAME OF US
by Nicole Rosky - June 05, 2024 The world premiere of What Became of Us, written by Shayan Lotfi (Off-Broadway debut) and directed by Jennifer Chang just celebrated opening night at Atlantic Theater Company.Two siblings. One born there. One born here. How do they maintain their connections to The Old Country, and to This Country, ...
London Premiere of Sophie Treadwell's MACHINAL Announced
by Aliya Al-Hassan - January 15, 2024 The Old Vic and Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal Bath have announced the London premiere of Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal, directed by Richard Jones (Endgame, The Hairy Ape) and starring The Stage 100 2024 Rising Star Rosie Sheehy (Oleanna, Romeo and Julie), in a limited run from 11 April-01 June 2024....
Review: HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING at American Lives Theatre
by Melissa Hall - January 17, 2023 Empathy is often in short supply when it comes to how we feel about people on the opposite side of the political divide. Heroes of the Fourth Turning, a Pulitzer-prize finalist, explores that tricky topic in an intense and memorable way. The show is perfectly in line with American Lives Theatre’s mi...
Review Roundup: IN THE AMAZON WAREHOUSE PARKING LOT at Playwrights Horizons
by Nicole Rosky - October 29, 2024 Playwrights Horizons is now presenting Sarah Mantell’s Susan Smith Blackburn Prize-winning In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot. Check out what the critics are saying about the new play......
Review: MISS JULIE (AFTER STRINDBERG) at Goodwood Theatre And Studios
by Barry Lenny - April 19, 2023 One of the finest performances on an Adelaide stage in a very long time...
Review: BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL, USD Department Of Theatre
by Sonja Niles - April 21, 2024 I loved this crazy roller coaster ride of storytelling delivered with a patchwork of musical genres....
Review: YOU ARE GOING TO DIE, Southwark Playhouse
by Franco Milazzo - April 23, 2024 A show dripping in pretension performed by a naked man? An impenetrable work obsessed with having a sex toy deep inside one’s backside? A meditation on “existential anxiety” that does little of note with an hour of precious life? There’s enough irony in You Are Going To Die to power an Alanis Moriss...
Review: COLDHANDS at RUMPUS
by Barry Lenny - November 27, 2022 This is a pilgrim’s progress with a life-affirming focus....
Review: FRANK'S CLOSET, Wilton's Music Hall
by Michael Higgs - September 06, 2024 Frank’s Closet is a paean to queerness. With a variety of beautifully performed earworms and a never–ending stream of jokes, it’s a tongue–in–cheek show that may not glitter with a steamy plot, but still enchants with its musical numbers....
Review: SIX THE MUSICAL at ASU Gammage
by Nathaniel Jones - October 09, 2022 Overall, these performers are out of this world. A rollercoaster of emotions, SIX The Musical makes its audiences dig deeper into self-reflection and self-worth. So much so, that this reviewer had an even harder time putting words to the page that he felt could do semi-justice to this incredible sho...
Frail Body Announce Sophomore LP For Deathwish Inc., 'Artificial Bouquet'
by Michael Major - January 30, 2024 Illinois-based Frail Body embodies the spirit and soul of what many define as “screamo;” their songs are lamentations about nihilism, death, anxiety, existentialism and hopelessness of existence in modern American society, and both lyrically and sonically they unfurl with ground-shaking emotion....
Review: CLOUD TECTONICS from Sound Theatre Company And Earthseed
by Jay Irwin - September 25, 2022 Dear Readers, I am a sucker for both a sweet love story and even more so when we mix in a little magical realism. Movies like “Amelie” or plays like “O Lovely Glowworm, or Scenes of Great Beauty” are some of my favorites. So, something like Jose Rivera’s “Cloud Tectonics”, currently playing at 12th ...
Review: 42ND STREET at ARTS Theatre
by Barry Lenny - October 26, 2023 Ben Saunders’s direction keeps the action flowing like champagne....
Madison Opera to Present TOSCA in November
by Blair Ingenthron - September 29, 2023 Madison Opera will open its 63rd season with Giacomo Puccini's Tosca on Friday, November 3 at 8pm and Sunday, November 5 at 2:30pm in Overture Hall at the Overture Center for the Arts. ...
Review: AVITAL ASH: WORKSHOPS HER SUICIDE NOTE, Soho Theatre
by Kat Mokrynski - May 17, 2024 The story of Avital Ash: Workshops Her Suicide Note begins with some context for the audience. Ash’s mother committed suicide when Ash was only an infant and her father remarried, never telling his daughter that her mother was not actually her birth mother. ...
TINA – THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL Will Headline the NRL Grand Final Entertainment
by Stephi Wild - September 13, 2023 The National Rugby League (NRL) has announced that a very special performance from TINA – THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL will headline the entertainment at this year’s NRL and NRLW Telstra Premiership Grand Final, at Sydney’s Accor Stadium on Sunday 1 October....
Concert Review: EVERGLOW Persevere and Prove To Be a Top Performance Group on the ALL MY GIRLS Tour
by Stephi Wild - November 06, 2023 Everglow are back on tour in the U.S. for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic prematurely shut down their tour in 2020. Coming off of performing at KCON LA this past summer, the powerhouse performance girl group is now back in the states and hitting the road on their All My Girls tour. Read o...
Photos: First Look at HOLMES & WATSON at Laguna Playhouse
by Stephi Wild - May 31, 2024 Laguna Playhouse is now presenting HOLMES & WATSON, written by Jeffrey Hatcher and directed by Laguna Playhouse artistic director David Ellenstein. Check out all new photos here!...
Review: MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS at Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre
by Melissa Hall - January 12, 2025 The show’s farcical first half works because the second sticks the landing. Agatha Christie was the master of the big reveal, and this is one of her best. It all comes together beautifully in the final moments.... |