Detroit The Dirty Show Turns 25 ...but still has some growing up to do, length & girth-wise. Ryan Patrick Hooper 2 Mar 2025 · 3 min read
Detroit Parade Brings Leo Frank Tragedy to the Stage Fisher Theatre manages to find beauty in a dark historical chapter. Erica Hobbs 2 Mar 2025 · 4 min read
Philadelphia McCarthy, Who? A play about Chinese Americans falsely accused of espionage fails to go deep into our nation's systems of suspicion. Leo David 26 Feb 2025 · 3 min read
Detroit Rave Reviews For Broadway Rave Musicals nerds dance all night at the Loving Touch. Erica Hobbs 24 Feb 2025 · 3 min read
Hartford Lede Buried Thanks to mistimed civil rights context, Two Trains never leaves the station. Jamil Ragland 14 Feb 2025 · 3 min read
Detroit Hope for Humanity "Come From Away" taps true tales from 9/11 to offer a tonic for our times. Erica Hobbs 12 Feb 2025 · 3 min read
New Haven Nuyorican Superhero Hits New Haven Long Wharf Theatre’s “El Coquí Espectacular” brings spandex and Puerto Rican mythology Aster Aguilar 10 Feb 2025 · 3 min read
Detroit It's OK To Laugh Sometimes Even when serious matters of race and sex are explored in Dominique Morisseau's "Confederates." Erica Hobbs 9 Feb 2025 · 3 min read
Hartford Tiger Lily Steals The Show As "Peter Pan" makes me feel like a kids again. Jamil Ragland 6 Feb 2025 · 3 min read
New Haven Safety In Bubbles "Grandmother/Bathtub" makes a splash at Yale Cabaret. Adam Wassilchalk 2 Feb 2025 · 2 min read
Detroit The Human Behind The Helmet "Halftime with Don" confronts the audience with the price of our cultlike football obsession. Erica Hobbs 27 Jan 2025 · 3 min read
New Haven Love Is On The Brain In Yale Rep's revival of "Eden," about Black Families uprooted to build Lincoln Center. Adam Wassilchalk 24 Jan 2025 · 4 min read
Detroit "Bernhardt/Hamlet" Goes Meta A play about Sarah Bernhardt playing the Prince of Denmark onstage aims high, comes up short Erica Hobbs 22 Jan 2025 · 3 min read
Philadelphia 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
Detroit 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
Detroit 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
Philadelphia 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