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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

TheaterWorks Season Opens With A Promising Extinction-Level Event

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

“Falcon Girls” Portrays Adolescence On The Wing

“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

The “Dumbass” Is The Play, Not The President

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

“Waitress” Cooks

“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

A Father And Son Face The Grim Darkness Of The Far Future

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

“Shorts” In The Round Thinks Outside The Box

“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

Comedy Bang! Bang! All Star Improv Takes the Stage

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.

Fred Noland

4 Sep 2024 · 1 min read

Tricky Business

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’s Vibrant, Homegrown “Fiddler” Has It All

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