Oakland Avant Pan Africanism In “Lake Walking, Revolutionary Talking” Lake Walking, Revolutionary Talking BAM House 1540 Broadway, Oakland August 9, 2024 Fred 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
New Haven Star-Crossed Acrobats Take Romeo & Juliet To New Heights The 7 Fingers, an acrobatic and theatrical company, was about to begin its performance of Arts & Ideas’ Duel Reality, a circus-like retelling of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, when Eleanor Polak 24 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven At Arts & Ideas Fest, Multitudes Contain Lear Compagnia de’ Colombari’s production of King Lear at University Theatre — whose first performance was part of Friday night’s big kickoff for the International Festival of Arts and Ideas Eleanor Polak 18 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
Hartford Never Mind Whodunit Sandra Theaterworks Hartford Through June 27, 2024 The following review contains spoilers. I went to see Sandra at Theaterworks on a Friday evening. The theater was packed, and we all Jamil Ragland 17 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford The Horror Of The Place 2.5 Minute Ride Hartford Stage Hartford Through June 23, 2024 2.5 Minute Ride is a one-person show about a woman named Lisa, who is making a movie about Jamil Ragland 11 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
LA Can I Be Sappy? THE LAST FIVE YEARS Sierra Madre Playhouse Sierra Madre Through June 16, 2024 Seven years ago, I made a single friend during freshman orientation. We bonded over having no other Maya Chen 10 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa Invitation To The Dance: An Original Adaptation of Pride & Prejudice Pembroke Players: Pride & Prejudice 101 Archer Tulsa June 1, 2024 I couldn’t have been more charmed by an invitation if Mr. Darcy had delivered it to me himself. Alicia Chesser 9 Jun 2024 · 5 min read
New Haven Me & Mom The photo is of Adil Mansoor when he was a child, in Pakistan. The scene was a family celebration, and a relative, on a lark, dressed the boy in a Brian Slattery 6 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
Tulsa Pixels, Pasties, Dice And Derrieres 2nd Annual Geeks & Cheeks Nerdlesque Show Chimera Ballroom Tulsa May 18, 2024 A truth that embarrasses me: Before last weekend, I’d only been to one burlesque show ever. Cassidy McCants 24 May 2024 · 4 min read
New Haven “Black Book” Opens Armed Teacher Debate It was just a read-through of a scene, without a costume or stage blocking, but the switches in writer and actor Austin Dean Ashford’s tone of voice were more Brian Slattery 7 May 2024 · 1 min read
Hartford All My Sons Goes Out With A Bang All My Sons Hartford Stage Hartford May 3, 2024 Warning: This review contains significant plot spoilers. There’s so much to say about this wonderful play, but I want to Jamil Ragland 3 May 2024 · 3 min read
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