Chekhov Lizardbrain: Iguana be Sedated

Pig Iron Theater Company returns to New York with the hilarious and brilliant "Chekhov Lizardbrain", a comedy inspired by Anton Chekhov's "Three Sisters" and autistic author Temple Grandin's inquiries into the evolving contortions of her own brain. (more...)

Extra! Extra! Read all about it...and you can, because Gutenberg has just invented the printing press. You'll learn things you never knew in this piece of "historical fiction" set to music, performed by two actors wearing many hats in New Rep's Downstage Black Box Theater (more...)

The New York Musical Theater Festival may be spawning something extraordinarily special with their production of PLAY IT COOL. The show, with a book by Martin Casella and Larry Dean Harris, features music by Philip Swan and lyrics by Mark Winkler. Is set in a 1920’s Hollywood jazz club catering to a gay clientele and is owned my Mary (Sally Mayes), who has put all her life’s savings into it. (more...)

Don't hesitate to see the Broadway Tour of this entertaining musical at Baltimore's Hippodrome Theatre (more...)

Three years after its Broadway debut, the lively musical comedy “All Shook Up” has found a perfect Chicagoland setting at Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire. This fast-paced show is a real crowd-pleaser, with frequent moments of mistaken identity, gender confusion and unexpected love triangles. (more...)

Linn Maxwell’s one-woman show "Lilli Marlene" explores the music of WWII from the perspective of three friends living in America, England, and Germany. (more...)

This is not the first time I’ve seen productions I’ve enjoyed better at the Everyman Theatre than on Broadway. Sure, Doubt on Broadway won the Tony Award for Best Play, Cherry Jones received the Tony for Best Actress in a Play, won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, but I found the play lacking and unenjoyable. (more...)

Tommy Tune's 'Turn:' It's Good and Could Be Great!

Where to begin? I have so many things to say about the world premiere production of the musical "Turn of the Century" at Chicago's Goodman Theatre, a show with more than a dash of incisive sophistication, that I hardly know how to start this review. I'll just say that it is an extraordinarily beautiful production, (more...)

NYMF: Fancy Boys Follies: Losing My Grind

"Fancy Boys Follies" is a rather tired, but fitfully amusing, vociferously Gay musical revue by David Pevsner, one of the creators of "Naked Boys Singing". An official selection of the 2008 New York Musical Theatre Festival. (more...)

Tony-nominee performs this dance-less concert with the Baltimore Symphony proving he's a stellar performer. (more...)

A young woman's quest for outer beauty brings her to inner beauty in this impressive production of Jeanine Tesori's 1997 musical. (more...)

Oz Scott directs fabulous cast with original jazz-influenced score (more...)

Nick Spangler & Starr Spangler on The Amazing Race: Week One

Nick Spangler currently starring as Matt in the Off Broadway revival of The Fantasticks, will be a contestant on the latest edition of The Amazing Race. Spangler will compete against the other "Amazing Racers" with his sister and teammate, Starr Spangler, a former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader. Starting at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the 13th season of the Emmy-winning reality competition will follow the teams as they travel over 30,000 miles in 23 days to countries such as Brazil, Bolivia, Russia, India and Kazakhstan. (more...)

SpeakEasy Lights ‘Piazza’ from Within

Lovely performances from a stellar ensemble create intimate portraits of a family learning to grow up and let go (more...)

"Moonlight and Magnolias" goes behind closed doors at Selznick International Pictures in 1939 as the highly anticipated epic gets a new screenplay and a new director to meet boffo expectations (more...)

Flip Side - The Water's Always Wetter

The Talking Band presents Ellen Maddow's new experimental multimedia play "Flip Side", in which 6 actors play two sets of very different people whose lives are barely separated. (more...)

NYMF: The Jerusalem Syndrome: Milk and Honey

Laurence Holzman, Felicia Needleman, and Kyle Rosen's new musical "The Jerusalem Syndrome" spins an unusual mental delusion that afflicts visitors to the holy land into a rollicking and joyous original musical. (more...)

“Elegies” at Spots

Elegies For Angels, Punks and Raging Queens plays at Spotlighters Theatre Thurs – Sat at 8PM and Sun at 2PM, through October 5. (more...)

The Hairspray star makes her cabaret debut at Feinstein's at Loews Regency. (more...)

Review: 'Bug' at The Providence Black Rep

Skip the movie and head to the theater to experience Tracy Letts' claustrophobic thriller. (more...)

New Rep Breathes Life into ‘Eurydice’

Watertown’s New Repertory Theatre masterfully navigates the troubled waters of Sarah Ruhl’s mythic tale of life, death, love and choice (more...)

Review: ‘The Dreams of Antigone’ at Trinity Rep

Trinity Rep opens its 2008-2009 theater season with an all-hands-on-deck retelling of a true 'Greek Tragedy'. (more...)

Arena Stage Presents One-Woman Show about Life in Hollywood (more...)

A Chorus Line: A Carbon Copy in the Digital Age

The national tour currently at the Boston Opera House is a by-the-numbers recreation with all the moves but none of the essence to make it sing for a new generation (more...)

Yet another "juke-box musical" with a whimsical plot written around a collection of well known hit songs would appear on the surface to be a nightmare theatrical scenario. But Bill Kenwright's production of Can't Smile Without You currently playing at the Bristol Hippodrome during the early stages of its UK tour turns out to be a very pleasant and hugely enjoyable surprise. The enjoyment is due partly to the fact that the hit songs are by Barry Manilow - a vintage songwriter whose melodies always soar and touch the right emotional buttons - and partly due to some knock-out performances by an immensely talented cast. (more...)