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BWW REVIEW: The Absurd True Story Of The Unbelievably Unaware Socialite Florence Foster Jenkins Plays Out In GLORIOUS.
by Jade Kops - September 08, 2017 Peter Quilter's play GLORIOUS, about the famously terrible amateur soprano Florence Foster Jenkins (Diana McLean), is a highly entertaining look at what happens when self-confidence collides with delusional belief in one's own abilities.... 
MAGNETS ON THE FRIDGE Returns to Buntport Theater!
by A.A. Cristi - December 04, 2017 In the spirit of Will & Grace, Roseanne, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and other television shows that are coming back after concluding all those years ago, Buntport Theater Company is reviving its first live sit-com! Back when Buntport was first starting up, they created a sit-com that played every other w... 
BWW REVIEW: Finding Humour In Hopeless Situations, SAMI IN PARADISE Presents A Different Look At Displacement And The Refugee Experience.
by Jade Kops - April 23, 2018 Combining the force of some fabulous comic actors, SAMI IN PARADISE presents an absurd piece that utilises humour to address the humanitarian issues that are occurring around the world.... 
The Hangar Theatre Company Presents A DOLL'S HOUSE, PART 2
by Stephi Wild - July 30, 2018 The 44th Mainstage Season at the Hangar Theatre continues with A Doll's House, Part 2, from August 2 to 11. Directed by Michael Barakiva and written by Lucas Hnath, almost 140 years after the original's first performance. In 1879 Henrik Ibsen produced the story of Nora Helmer, a wife and mother at a... 
I'M GONNA KILL THE PRESIDENT Returns To L.A.!
by A.A. Cristi - September 26, 2018 The award-winning guerrilla-theater comedy 'I'm Gonna Kill the President!' A Federal Offense will return to Los Angeles this fall, apropos of absolutely nothing happening in America.... 
BWW REVIEW: Bitterness And Bitchiness Are Served Up In The Bizarre Comedy Thriller DINNER
by Jade Kops - September 20, 2017 DINNER invites the audience to peer in on the world of the arrogant and affluent as they posture and pose through a night of feigned civility with backhanded barbs.... 
Hell In A Handbag Announces Casting For THE ARTIFICIAL JUNGLE
by Julie Musbach - June 20, 2018 Hell in a Handbag Productions is pleased to announce casting for THE ARTIFICIAL JUNGLE, the final play by the legendary master of camp, Charles Ludlam....
Photo Flash: DONALD TRUMP Pays a Visit to Planet Connections
by A.A. Cristi - June 16, 2017 This series of comedy sketches serves as a chronology which follows the self-induced disastrous relationship with the public and the ridiculousness that has plagued the current POTUS. ... 
Pipeline Theatre Company Announces World Premiere Of PLAYING HOT
by Stephi Wild - April 13, 2018 Pipeline Theatre Company (Ari Schrier, Artistic Director; Natalie Gershtein, Producing Director) is proud to announce the world premiere of jazz concert-party-play hybrid PLAYING HOT, created by Kevin Armento (Balls) and Jaki Bradley (Good Men Wanted). PLAYING HOT is written by Armento, will be dire... 
BWW Review: Janelle Koenig in DADDY'S GIRL at The Hellenic Club Of WA
by Ellin Sears - May 13, 2018 During comedy festivals it's quite common to see comedians meeting with fans and audience members after the show. But Janelle Koenig is the first one I've seen at the Perth Comedy Festival who came out BEFORE the show to have a chat.... 
Female Comedy Band THE BIG DITTIES Release MORE THAN SAD (A Donald Trump Dittie)
by Macon Prickett - February 21, 2018 While this week we're celebrating our country's rich history of distinguished gentlemen who've held the title of POTUS, The Big Ditties have no time for that shit. Instead they're throwing a bitch slap at Not-My-President Trump with their latest fiasco 'More Than SAD!' (A Donald Trump Dittie). A per... 
BWW Review: Shakespeare's Befuddling PERICLES Benefits from We Happy Few's Shameless Cast
by Sam Abney - May 21, 2018 As acknowledged by Director Kiernan McGowan's program note, Pericles is a hot mess of a show. It was only half-written by Shakespeare, completed later by George Wilkins (who isn't remembered for good reason). The incoherence of the plot reveals the fractured nature of the play's creation. It's under... 
Hell In A Handbag Productions Presents THE ARTIFICIAL JUNGLE
by BWW News Desk - September 20, 2018 This fall, Hell in a Handbag Productions is thrilled to explore THE ARTIFICIAL JUNGLE, the final play by the legendary master of camp, Charles Ludlam. Who better to direct this criminal tale of lust and murder than Hell in a Handbag's longtime partner in crime, Shade Murray of A Red Orchid Theatre. ...
BWW Review: Black comedy, “An Impending Rupture of The Belly,” insights at none-too-fragile
by Roy Berko - June 27, 2017 Matt Pelfrey is noted for inventing oddball concepts and writing sardonic dialogue. His 'An Impending Rupture of the Belly,' now on stage at none-too-fragile, is Pelfrey at his 'creative' black comedy best.... 
Florida Studio Theatre Announces A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER
by Julie Musbach - June 25, 2018 Florida Studio Theatre (FST) is proud to announce its first show of the 2018-2019 Winter Mainstage Season: the Tony Award-winning musical, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder. Called one of the "Most inspired new musicals in years" by The New York Times, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder fol... 
BWW Review: Theater Mu and Mixed Blood's Successful First Collaboration on the Hilarious New Play TWO MILE HOLLOW Provides Smart Commentary on Race and Class in America
by Jill Schafer - February 22, 2018 My 280-character (or less) review of Theater Mu and Mixed Blood Theatre's first ever collaboration: 'Friends, run don't walk to see #twomilehollow (co-production from @theatermu and @mixed_blood). I can't decide whom I love most in this cast of comic geniuses! But behind all the wackiness and humor ... 
Award-Winning Supervillain Kids Show Joins VAULT Festival
by Julie Musbach - January 09, 2018 A supervillain brings his show to London to get help from badly behaved children.... 
MULATTO MATH Comes To United Solo Fest After Hit Back To Back L.A. Runs
by A.A. Cristi - September 10, 2018 Following a hugely successful run at both The Whitefire Theatre in Sherman Oaks, CA, and at The Hollywood Fringe Festival (winning the Encore Producers' Award), MdB Productions is pleased to present Mulatto Math: Summing Up the Race Equation in America at United Solo Fest 2018. Featuring playwright ... 
Review: NO EXIT by Jean-Paul Sartre Offers an Inside Look at Existentialist Hell
by Shari Barrett - March 25, 2018 Real Art Daily Productions (RADProd) is a new company that produces both film and theatre productions. With concentrated study and education in both classical music and theatre, Georginna Feyst, CEO and Executive Producer, whose reverence for fine art, cinema, theatre and other forms of storytelling... 
BWW Review: ROOMS: A ROCK ROMANCE Returns to MetroStage with Energy and Enthusiasm
by Barbara Johnson - October 17, 2018 Returning to MetroStage for its tenth anniversary, ROOMS: A ROCK ROMANCE boasts an enthusiastic two-person cast and energetic backing band. It's exactly as described, a simple girl-meets-boy tale steeped in 1970s musical flair. But instead of boiling the romance down to timeless emotion, the book's ... 
BWW Review: MAP's Dark Absurd Comedy YEAR OF THE ROOSTER
by Jay Irwin - April 15, 2018 On the surface Olivia Dufault's "Year of the Rooster" doesn't seem like a fun night out filled with laughs. A play about a failed trainer for cock fights. And to be honest it packs an ending that will not send you whistling into the street filled with hope for tomorrow. But this is MAP Theatre, a... 
Comedian, Composer and Filmmaker Lauren Maul Creates 'Apologies From Men' Album and Concert
by Stephi Wild - February 28, 2018 New York based creator of comedy, music, and film Lauren Maul (NY Times, Amazon Reviews: The Musical!) is announcing the release of her album Apologies from Men. The album will be available for purchase on March 9th, 2018, and she will be debuting the songs live at a concert at The People's Improv ... 
BWW Review: THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG Goes So Right at Orpheum
by Christine Swerczek - October 31, 2018 Nothing goes wrong in THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG at Omaha's Orpheum Theatre.... 
BWW Review: RHINOCEROS Challenges the Audience to Place a Spotlight on the Absurdity of Life Today at Con-Con
by Roy Berko - August 27, 2017 Eugene Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter and Edward Albee are Theatre of the Absurd playwrights. Unlike modern-movement writers like Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and William Inge, who wrote realistic plays which included solutions to problems or resolved situations, the Absurdists based th... 
BWW Review: MY FAIR LADY at South Bend Civic Theatre
by Dave Kempher - July 24, 2018 There are shows that I believe get rave reviews, awards, and heralded as classics because, at some point, "true theatre people" aren't allowed to not like them. If you bring up Oklahoma, Hello, Dolly, or The Sound of Music, and don't fawn over it for hours, you are expected to turn in your theatre c... |
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