Hartford 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
Hartford TheaterWorks Season Opens With A Promising Extinction-Level Event Fever Dreams tells the story of Zach and Adele, two lovers who have absconded away to a cabin in the woods for a weekend of passionate sex and food. Eventually Adele’s husband, and Zach’s former best friend, Miller shows up, and a series of revelations rock Zach’s world Jamil Ragland 20 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven “Falcon Girls” Portrays Adolescence On The Wing Hilary, a middle-school student, has just moved to Falcon, Colorado. She wears all the wrong clothes, says all the wrong things, and most of the other students are ready to tease her for it, except one, who reminds them to ask themselves what Jesus would do. Brian Slattery 18 Oct 2024 · 2 min read
Philadelphia The “Dumbass” Is The Play, Not The President POTUS: Or, behind every great dumbass are seven women trying to keep him alive Arden Theatre Company 40 N 2nd St. Philadelphia Sept. 17, 2024 An intentionally timely Broadway hit, Nora Grace-Flood 18 Sep 2024 · 5 min read
Tulsa “Waitress” Cooks Theatre Tulsa: “Waitress” Tulsa Performing Arts Center Tulsa Sept. 8, 2024 Fair warning: I’m going to exercise about as much restraint in my use of cooking-related metaphors in this Alicia Chesser 13 Sep 2024 · 4 min read
Philadelphia A Father And Son Face The Grim Darkness Of The Far Future There is Only War The Philly Game Shop 521 – 525 S 5th Street Philadelphia September 5 – 19, 2024 There Is Only War, a Fringe Festival two-hander played for an audience Adam Wassilchalk 8 Sep 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa “Shorts” In The Round Thinks Outside The Box Heller Shorts: Kick Off Your Shorts! Notion Coffee Tulsa Sept. 1, 2024 I went a bunch of places last Sunday afternoon: a backyard garden, a courtroom, a roadside diner with Alicia Chesser 6 Sep 2024 · 4 min read
Oakland Comedy Bang! Bang! All Star Improv Takes the Stage “Come see my improv group” are five words that have ended many friendships and estranged family members from one another. But these are professionals. Frederick Noland 4 Sep 2024 · 1 min read
LA Tricky Business SESSION Gattopardo Glendale Sept 20 – 22, 2024 You enter a room in “The Angus Street Hotel.” A dozen or so chairs cluster close to the bed. You take a seat. Jack Skelley 30 Aug 2024 · 2 min read
Tulsa Tulsa’s Vibrant, Homegrown “Fiddler” Has It All TPAC Produces: Fiddler On The Roof Tulsa Performing Arts Center Tulsa August 18, 2024 “I didn’t know Tulsa theatre could do that.” It’s a sentence I regularly hope Alicia Chesser 25 Aug 2024 · 6 min read
Oakland Avant Pan Africanism In “Lake Walking, Revolutionary Talking” Lake Walking, Revolutionary Talking BAM House 1540 Broadway, Oakland August 9, 2024 Frederick Noland 12 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven TikTok-Revived Play Pits “Teenagers Against The World” Ride the Cyclone, which ran this weekend at Whitneyville Cultural Commons in a production mounted by Magnolia Theatre Company, tells the story of six teenagers — Ocean O’Connor Rosenberg (Chloe Brian Slattery 12 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
Hartford 1st Half: Front Flip In 6‑Inch Heels. 2nd Half: A Drag Celebrate Drag with Plasma Theaterworks Hartford Aug. 8, 2024 Theaterworks’ second annual Celebrate Drag was my first drag show. I’d been invited to shows before, but conflicts and commitments Jamil Ragland 9 Aug 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven Witch Bitch Brings The Puppets What do felt, paper, string, feathers, eggs, and odd socks have in common? They can all be made into puppets, and they all came alive on Friday night during the Eleanor Polak 29 Jul 2024 · 1 min read
LA Straight From La La To Never Land PETER PAN: THE BROADWAY MUSICAL Pantages Theatre Los Angeles July 12 – 28, 2024 On Wednesday night, I headed toward the second star to the right and straight on till the Brittany Menjivar 24 Jul 2024 · 3 min read
LA A New Genus of Genius GIVE ME THE MACARTHUR GENIUS GRANT Hollywood Fringe Festival Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre Los Angeles, June 29, 2024 Whom or what do you envision when you hear the word “genius” Brittany Menjivar 18 Jul 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Reexamined South Pacific Lets Audience Off The Hook South Pacific Goodspeed Opera House 6 Main St. East Haddam, CT Through Aug. 11, 2024 The second time Nellie Forbush hears the end of “Some Enchanted Evening,” she gazes into Rebecca Salzhauer 5 Jul 2024 · 3 min read
Philadelphia Judas Iscariot Resurrected The Last Days of Judas Iscariot The Stagecrafters Theater 8130 Germantown Ave Philadelphia June 21, 2024 In the video above, Deadline Poet LindoYes reviews The Stagecrafters Theater’s production of Lindo Yes 28 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
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