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Who’s His Daddy?: Jeremy Harris’ “Daddy” at Signature Theatre Center

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 9th Mar 2019 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America

The English author Samuel Butler once quipped grimly that the death of a father was “a new lease...

Invigorated By A New Cast, “My Fair Lady” Continues to Enchant Broadway

Posted by Michael Appler | 8th Mar 2019 | Musical Theatre, New York, Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America

Lincoln Center has reissued its mandate for Lerner and Loewe’s 1956 classic, casting off whatever creative anxiety earlier dogged the production and staging a decidedly lighter, exuberant My Fair Lady.

Love N’ Courage Gala At TNC

Posted by Jack Wernick | 6th Mar 2019 | News, United States of America

The Players Club was the location of the recent annual Theater for the New City gala titled “Love N’ Courage”.

“Ajijaak On Turtle Island”: New York Stories Old And New

Posted by Abigail Weil | 6th Mar 2019 | New York, Puppetry, Review, Theatre for Young Audiences, Transcultural Collaborations, United States of America

On a recent Sunday afternoon, at the New Victory Theater, timelines collided. The New Vic, founded...

Finding Something To Hold Onto: A Conversation About Art+Community

Posted by Jeremy Stoller | 5th Mar 2019 | Applied Theatre, Interview, United States of America

Playwright Chisa Hutchinson’s Surely Goodness And Mercy follows 12-year-old Tino, an orphan...

On Teaching Directing: The Essential Five

Posted by Fadi Fayad Skeiker | 5th Mar 2019 | Directing, United States of America

After teaching directing for several years, across the globe and at different kinds of...

At Roundabout, Can “Merrily” Still Roll Along, Reimagined?

Posted by Michael Appler | 5th Mar 2019 | Musical Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America

Fiasco Theater has dared to tempt fate yet again with Merrily, staging a buoyant, light-on-its-feet reimagining that’s stripped the musical of its original clutter, aiming, instead, for the story’s thematic heart.

“The Gun Show (Can We Talk About This?)” At Quantum Theatre In Pittsburgh, PA

Posted by Wendy Arons | 4th Mar 2019 | Pittsburgh, Review, The Pittsburgh Tatler, United States of America

While there are several guns conjured to the imagination in EM Lewis’s one-person play The Gun...

“The Legend Of Georgia McBride” At Barebones Productions In Pittsburgh, PA

Posted by Wendy Arons | 4th Mar 2019 | Pittsburgh, Review, The Pittsburgh Tatler, United States of America

Unless you are somehow immune to the infectious pleasures of a good drag show, I’m willing to...

Tears of a Clown: “American Juggalo”

Posted by Abigail Weil | 1st Mar 2019 | Adaptation, Documentary Theatre, New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

What is a juggalo? Let me think for a second…Oh! He gets butt-naked and then he walks through the...

Brecht In Exile: “Galileo” In Brooklyn

Posted by Jack Wernick | 1st Mar 2019 | Adaptation, Germany, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

New York’s Irondale Project presents a scrupulously faithful production of Brecht’s The Life Of...

“America Adjacent” At The Skylight Theatre Is Worth Consideration…

Posted by Christine Deitner | 28th Feb 2019 | Los Angeles, Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America

If this sounds stark, that’s only because a simple paragraph of explanation cannot possibly do the script justice. Los Angeles based playwright Boni B. Alvarez is himself a son of Filipino immigrant parents and he has tapped into his roots to craft multi-dimensional characters that deliver surprising levels of humor in spite of the fact that they are essentially prisoners. The humor reveals the humanity and depth of these characters in ways that draw you close to them no matter how far removed you might feel from their situation.

Machinations Of Circus And Light: “When Angels Fall” Created By Rapaëlle Boitel At ArtsEmerson

Posted by Matthew McMahan | 27th Feb 2019 | Boston, Devised Theatre, France, Review, United States of America

Using the tools of the circus, performance art, modern dance, and puppetry, the French director...

Guilty Pleasures, Escapism, And The Greatest Hits Of ABBA Abound In TUTS’s “Mamma Mia!”

Posted by Trevor Boffone | 26th Feb 2019 | Musical Theatre, Review, United States of America

Confession. I love ABBA. For years I kept my Abba-session private. No one needed to know nor did I...

On The Power Of Poetic Voice: A Conversation With The Multidisciplinary Artist Rafael Casal

Posted by Irina Yakubovskaya | 26th Feb 2019 | Boston, Interview, United States of America

The weekend of February 21-24 provided the audiences of the Paramount Center (Boston) with a...

Meshuggah, Nein? “Fiddler” In Yiddish

Posted by Abigail Weil | 24th Feb 2019 | Musical Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America

In 2004, Gwen Stefani, lately of the band No Doubt, released a song called Rich Girl which sampled...

Subtle and Striking, Irondale’s Timely “The Life of Galileo” is Epic Theater

Posted by Michael Appler | 22nd Feb 2019 | New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, Theatre and Science, United States of America

Irondale’s innovative and triumphant “Galileo” is Bertolt Brecht at his most excellent, cradled by an ensemble of dynamic and invested performers and pitched inevitably toward its audience with a playful, conscious eye toward its own didactic mission.