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
New Haven “Hadestown” Keeps Up The Fight Orpheus is smitten with Eurydice before they even speak. Hermes, Orpheus’s wingman, helps him work up his courage to ask her out. “Orpheus,” he warns, “don’t come on Brian Slattery 2 May 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland Transmasculine Experience Mythologized RED RED RED by Amelio García Oakland Theater Project 1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way Oakland Through May 19 RED RED RED, “the alternate telling of a story no one Breezy Bratton 1 May 2024 · 3 min read
LA Hello Gorgeous FUNNY GIRL Ahmanson Theatre Los Angeles April 9, 2024 The worst day of my life may be the day I turn 26, not only because I’ll be ineligible for Maya Chen 25 Apr 2024 · 2 min read
Raleigh/ Durham/ Chapel Hill When It’s Time To Take A Stand Trouble In Mind Raleigh Little Theatre March 30, 2024 “Don’t think!” the director yelled, stomping over the actress’ rebuttals. That was part of a pivotal scene in Trouble in Synclaire Cruel 3 Apr 2024 · 3 min read
Troy/Albany Suzan-Lori Parks’ Scarlet Update Draws Blood In the Blood Saint Rose Theater Albany N.Y. March 15, 2024 Suzan-Lori Parks’ In the Blood, a gritty urban remix of The Scarlet Letter, presents the struggles of a RS Benedict 21 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford When the Hero Falls, Mayhem Erupts & Bodies Fly Lone Survivor 5 Warehouse 635 West Hartford March 17, 2024 There are some people who know exactly what they want to be, and then they go out and do it. Jamil Ragland 17 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa Clear-Eyed Humanity In Two New Plays Heller Theatre Company: Double Feature Lynn Riggs Theatre Tulsa March 8, 2024 What does it mean to be “good”? Two new plays presented by Heller Theatre Company last weekend raised Alicia Chesser 17 Mar 2024 · 4 min read
New Haven Caryl Churchill’s “Escaped Alone” Lets Everyone Understand Escaped Alone Yale Repertory Theatre 1120 Chapel St. Through March 30, 2024 A group of women are talking together in a garden, under the shade of a tree. In the Brian Slattery 15 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland Masks Fall; Love Emerges The Cost of Living Oakland Theater Project at FLAX Art & Design 1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way Oakland Through March 24, 2024 People are people, despite how they might Agustín Maes 13 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
LA Glass House Is A Smash GLASS HOUSE VOLTA COLLECTIVE and CENTRAL SERVER WORKS G‑SON Studios Los Angeles Closed You enter not a room but a realm. Dreamlike, the space is bathed in deep, indigo Jack Skelley 11 Mar 2024 · 2 min read
LA The Pulsing Innards of Jack Skelley Fear of Kathy Acker Illusion Magic Lounge Santa Monica Feb. 29, 2024 A flash of red taillights: The satin stage curtain of the Illusion Magic Lounge in Santa Monica parts, Emily Ann Zisko 6 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Fathers, Sons And Chicken Wings At Hartford Stage The Hot Wing King Hartford Stage Hartford Through March 24, 2024 We got an extra day of Black History Month this year, so I celebrated by going to see the Jamil Ragland 1 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa Theatre North Has A Win With “Topdog” Theatre North “Topdog/Underdog“ Tulsa Performing Arts Center Feb. 25, 2024 There’s no winning in the game explored in Topdog/Underdog, Suzan-Lori Parks’ 2002 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, which Theatre Alicia Chesser 29 Feb 2024 · 4 min read
Salt Lake City Plan‑B Brings Shakespearean Gender Fluidity To The Stage Balthazar Plan‑B Theatre at the Studio Theatre in the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center Salt Lake City Feb. 22, 2024 I couldn’t have gotten a better first taste Jose Davila IV 27 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
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