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Downsizing "Miss Daisy"

Downsizing "Miss Daisy"

A slimmed-down restaging lands just as the world prepares to change again.

Nora Grace-Flood

16 Jan 2025 · 3 min read

Ma Rainey Isn’t The Only One Showing Her Black Bottom At The Detroit Rep

Ma Rainey Isn’t The Only One Showing Her Black Bottom At The Detroit Rep

Even the small roles in this production of ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ shine

Randiah Camille Green

15 Jan 2025 · 3 min read

MLK & Nixon: The Musical

MLK & Nixon: The Musical

An ambitious attempt to understand historic figures at an American turning point gets distracted

Erica Hobbs

13 Jan 2025 · 3 min read

ABC, PYT ... WTF?

ABC, PYT ... WTF?

Lynn Nottage's "MJ" — now on tour in Philly — is an over-the-top ode to a celebrity abuser.

Nora Grace-Flood

10 Jan 2025 · 4 min read

Peter Pan Takes iPad Baby Turn

Peter Pan Takes iPad Baby Turn

Is Neverland... dead?

Leo David

8 Jan 2025 · 3 min read

Laughter Unscripted: Improv as Art Form

Laughter Unscripted: Improv as Art Form

Improv Curious? The All Out Comedy Theater delivered a night of laughter and hijinks, elevating the improv art form up out of the basement.

Vita Hewitt

7 Jan 2025 · 3 min read

Gardley’s Ships Launch at Small Oakland Theater

Gardley’s Ships Launch at Small Oakland Theater

From the Mother Continent to the promise of the West: Friends, family and community collide and divide in a very Oakland story, on stage at Oakland Theater Project.

Fred Noland

2 Jan 2025 · 1 min read

'24 In Tulsa

'24 In Tulsa

The year in art, music, food, theatre and other excellent oddities.

Alicia Chesser

30 Dec 2024 · 4 min read

A Bedford Falls Funeral

A Bedford Falls Funeral

A stripped-down radio version of the holiday classic adds depth to a study in character.

Nora Grace-Flood

24 Dec 2024 · 6 min read

John Waters Survives Fame, Fortune

John Waters Survives Fame, Fortune

His annual stand-up Xmas tour is no celebrity apologia.

Nora Grace-Flood

18 Dec 2024 · 3 min read

The Gloved One

The Gloved One

Jamaal Fields-Green captures the King of Pop onstage in MJ.

Jamil Ragland

12 Dec 2024 · 3 min read

A Hard Nutcracker

A Hard Nutcracker

Chris Davis challenges his 42-year-old dad quads to a comedic solo rendition of a holiday family favorite.

Nora Grace-Flood

11 Dec 2024 · 4 min read

Kiss Me Kate Plays It Straight

Kiss Me Kate Plays It Straight

A show within a show shows the permanent resonance of theater by inviting the audience behind the scenes.

Leo David

9 Dec 2024 · 4 min read

Recipe For A Pressure Cooker

Recipe For A Pressure Cooker

The Comeuppance, a play about high school reunions, offers home-for-the-holidays survival strategy.

Leo David

27 Nov 2024 · 2 min read

Trump II Unmasks "Hamilton"

Trump II Unmasks "Hamilton"

A revival of Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical, staged in the wake of the presidential election, reveals underlying liberal delusions.

Nora Grace-Flood

21 Nov 2024 · 4 min read

How To Sew A Seamless Story

How To Sew A Seamless Story

Arden Theatre stitches together Lynn Nottage's "Intimate Apparel."

Nora Grace-Flood

14 Nov 2024 · 4 min read

Musically Haunting: "Ghost Quartet"Gives us Life at Oakland Theater Project

Musically Haunting: "Ghost Quartet"Gives us Life at Oakland Theater Project

If you could be any kind of dead person, what kind would you be? Spoiler: you want to be a ghost, the kind that goes “hoo hoo hoo all night

Vita Hewitt

5 Nov 2024 · 3 min read

Yes, I’m “Bored of the Negro Problem”

Yes, I’m “Bored of the Negro Problem”

HartBeat Ensemble’s production of Jimmy and Lorraine: A Musing, which chronicles the friendship of famed African-American writers James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry, brings two of the giants of American literature to a present day...

Jamil Ragland

21 Oct 2024 · 3 min read