by David Friscic - May 19, 2023
A solid, well-crafted, and thought-provoking play---Good Bones is about four individuals coping in various ways with issues of onrushing gentrification, loss of community, and reconnection. Playwright James Ijames has written an all too relevant story about what happens when a community and sense of...
by David Friscic - January 18, 2023
Is learning a new language a hindrance to your heart’s love of your cultural heritage, is it purely functional, or is it a means of gaining enrichment and new understanding? Is precise pronunciation meant to trip lightly off the tongue in any language or is it best to take pride in your original acc...
by David Friscic - November 15, 2022
People, Places and Things are a constant trigger for addiction and anxiety in the probing and intellectually thrilling production of People, Places & Things now playing at the Studio Theatre. A highly evolved play of substance that really pushes the boundaries of the subject of addiction is a top-n...
Richard Nelson; dir: Serge Seiden....
Lucy Kirkwood; dir: David Muse....
book: Hunter Bell; lyrics: Al Kaplan, Jon Kaplan; music: Al Kaplan, Jon Kaplan; dir: Keith Alan Baker....
Tom Wells; dir: Matt Torney....
Mallery Avidon; dir: Holly Twyford....
Julia Jordan; book: Julia Jordan; lyrics: Julia Jordan, Juliana Nash; music: Juliana Nash; dir: David Muse....
Beth Henley; dir: David Schweizer....
The Charles R. Drew Prep School for Boys is dedicated to the creation of strong, ethical black men. Pharus wants nothing more than to take ...
Mark O'Rowe; dir: Tom Story....
Carrie: The Musical Lawrence D. Cohen; lyrics: Dean Pitchford; music: Michael Gore; dir: Keith Alan Baker....
Declan Greene; dir: Tom Story....
Somewhere in Philadelphia, Elliot has returned from Iraq and is struggling to find his place in the world. Somewhere in a chat room, recovering addicts ...
Mead Theatre: Nina Raine; dir: David Muse....
Stage 4: Sam Holcroft; dir: Holly Twyford....
Milton Theatre: Richard Nelson; dir: Serge Seiden....
Mead Theatre: Charlayne Woodard; dir: Charlayne Woodard....
Lucas Hnath; dir: Lila Neugebauer....
Harvey Fierstein; dir: Michael Kahn....
The Rocky Horror Picture Show, both a stage musical and a cult classic film, is the brainchild of Richard O'Brien. He wrote the music, lyrics, ...
The Mead Theatre: - Kirjan Waage, Gwendolyn Warnock; music: Lars Petter Hagen; dir: Daniel Goldstein (Consultant)....
The Milton Theatre: - Tom Stoppard; dir: David Muse....
Stage 4: - Daniel MacIvor; dir: Eric Ruffin....
Stage 4: - Gary Henderson; dir: Johanna Gruenhut....
The Mead Theatre: - Amy Herzog; dir: Joy Zinoman....
Jackie is a former drug dealer out on parole who is trying to stay clean. His girlfriend is coke-addicted Veronica, whom he has loved since ...
Stage 4: - Mike Bartlett; dir: Duncan MacMillan....
On a bare stage, a storyteller emerges from the back of the theatre to re-tell The Iliad, one of the oldest stories in Western civilization. ...
This rowdy and irreverent musical imagines President Andrew “Old Hickory” Jackson as a rock star, following young Jackson from his boyhood home to the spotlight ...
Five generations share the moments, both epic and intimate, that make a life. From the excitement and awkwardness of a first date to the grief ...
When Leon and Troy are caught breaking in to a north London boxing gym, the owner puts the aspiring black boxers to work rather than ...
A highly visual, retro-sci-fi performance about the 1960s animation series Astro Boy and its creator Osamu Tezuka. The play combines Tezuka’s life, the history of ...
This searing drama follows Sarah Goodwin, a globe-trotting photojournalist, who returns home from the battlefields of Iraq after she’s badly injured while covering a story. ...
Based on Lauren Weedman’s experiences working as a volunteer advocate in a Southern California prison for women. Weedman’s job is to listen, but talking is ...
In the cramped kitchen of an Asian restaurant, four cooks pull the tooth of a young Chinese co-worker. His tooth ends up in the Thai ...
The world is getting hotter, there’s unrest overseas—the seas themselves aren’t very calm—and one couple is thinking about their future. Duncan Macmillan’s chamber drama follows ...
Deep in the bowels of London’s National Theatre, rehearsals for a new play go apace: Benjamin Britten is having trouble with his latest opera and ...
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