NYC Word Paging Nurse Ratched: In Jesi Bender’s latest, Kinderkrankenhaus, language itself is the problem. Kinderkrankenhaus Brick Theatre Williamsburg, Brooklyn Through Sept. 30, 2023 White sheets. Six beds. Patients in unwashed K Hank Jost 29 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
NYC Can I Get A Yeehaw!? Cross That River 59E59 Theaters Theater B New York, NY Through Oct. 8, 2023 Most folks probably wouldn’t be able to guess that a quarter of American cowboys were Adam Wassilchalk 29 Sep 2023 · 4 min read
NYC That Upstairs Rave Isn’t In The Script One-Winged Dove The Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research Greenpoint, Brooklyn Closed It’s Sunday night and the room at the Brooklyn Center is packed. There’s a rave going on K Hank Jost 27 Sep 2023 · 4 min read
Hartford The Shoe Fits: Cinderella At The Bushnell “Is ballet for me?” That’s one of the questions on the homepage for The World Ballet Series’ production of Cinderella. When I saw that the show was coming to Jamil Ragland 22 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Oakland A Clown, A Maid, And A Midwife Save The World Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus Oakland Theater Project at FLAX art & design 1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland 94612 Through Oct. 1, 2023 General Admission $28-$38 Agustín Maes 19 Sep 2023 · 2 min read
Tulsa Challenging Appropriation From A Tiny World Stage The Chinese Lady September 10, 2023 World Stage Theatre Company You wouldn’t know it to look at the space from the street, but in a tiny studio on the Alicia Chesser 15 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
LA Boundaries Blur Between Student & Washed-Up Yale Prof THE SOUND INSIDE Pasadena Playhouse Through Oct. 1, 2023. In retrospect, I should have expected that I would see Daniel Franzese (Damian from Mean Girls) at the industry night opening Brandon Sward 12 Sep 2023 · 2 min read
LA It’s Not Pretty IT’S BETTER TO START OUT UGLY Written and directed by Asher Hartman JOAN, Los Angeles; closed The audience, on three sides, can at first imagine that they are on Martin Harries 7 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa “Drown Or Swim” New play recasts Oedipus's mother as a dancer navigating the modern age. What stories does the body tell? As we learn more about how our cells carry the Alicia Chesser 5 Sep 2023 · 4 min read
NYC New Play Asks What “Genius” Is Worth “What would you do with $800,000?” playwright and actor Tarek Ziad asks at the start of Give Me The MacArthur Genius Grant. And then again. And then again. The Adam Wassilchalk 29 Aug 2023 · 4 min read
NYC Egg And Spoon Tell The Truth About College “Give us a One Word Suggestion!” reads a sign on a table in the lobby of Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre at 502 West 53rd St. Before seeing What Else Adam Wassilchalk 21 Aug 2023 · 6 min read
Knoxville Old Gods Of Appalachia Pushes Back “Well, hey there, family.” It’s the welcome Steve Shell gives at the top of every episode of the hit podcast Old Gods of Appalachia, and he gave it again Drew Bunting 21 Aug 2023 · 4 min read
New Haven Elm Shakespeare Makes Merry “Here will be an old abusing of God’s patience and the King’s English,” says Mistress Quigley, played with cheeky humor by Martine Fleurisma in Elm Shakespeare Company’s Eleanor Polak 18 Aug 2023 · 1 min read
Tulsa We’re Off To See The Whizzer: Tulsa Theatre Ensemble Hits High Note in Falsettos Falsettos Aug. 11, 2023 Lynn Riggs Black Box Theater “Happy or sad? That’s a question with no answer.” Those early lines in Falsettos, the 1992 musical by William Finn Alicia Chesser 15 Aug 2023 · 3 min read
NYC The Rainfall Gods Descend Onto East Village Stage Greek Gods. Check. Yoruba Gods. Check. Basketball Gods. Check. It’s a combination you won’t find elsewhere, save for the New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW), located in Manhattan’s Adam Wassilchalk 1 Aug 2023 · 6 min read
NYC A House Of Desires: 1683 Play Finds New Footing In The Age Of Reality TV I love reality TV. I love live theater. When I saw that Repertorio Español was producing Los Empeños De Una Casa: Un Nuevo Reality TV Show Para El Escenario (House Adam Wassilchalk 25 Jul 2023 · 6 min read
NW Arkansas Rebecca Loves Marty: 8 Years Later, It Shoulda Been You Works Past Stereotypes Rogers, Ark. – Arkansas’ Public Theatre’s production of It Shoulda Been You — featuring an interfaith wedding gone awry, bickering mothers, and an all-knowing, borderline-magical wedding planner — is a joyful farewell Serena Puang 24 Jul 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa The Challenge Of Change: American Theatre Company Wrestles With Religion American Theatre Company: The Christians July 13 – 17, 2023 Studio 308 Tulsa, OK If you think the question of whether or not there’s a hell is a tricky one Alicia Chesser 20 Jul 2023 · 3 min read
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