Theater

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

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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

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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.

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Nora Grace-Flood

10 Jan 2025 · 4 min read

Philadelphia

Peter Pan Takes iPad Baby Turn

Is Neverland... dead?

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Leo David

8 Jan 2025 · 3 min read

Oakland

Laughter Unscripted: Improv as Art Form

Improv Curious? The All Out Comedy Theater delivered a night of laughter and hijinks, elevating the improv art form up out of the basement.

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Vita Hewitt

7 Jan 2025 · 3 min read

Oakland

Gardley’s Ships Launch at Small Oakland Theater

From the Mother Continent to the promise of the West: Friends, family and community collide and divide in a very Oakland story, on stage at Oakland Theater Project.

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Frederick Noland

2 Jan 2025 · 1 min read

Tulsa

'24 In Tulsa

The year in art, music, food, theatre and other excellent oddities.

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Alicia Chesser

30 Dec 2024 · 4 min read

Philadelphia

A Bedford Falls Funeral

A stripped-down radio version of the holiday classic adds depth to a study in character.

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Nora Grace-Flood

24 Dec 2024 · 6 min read

Philadelphia

John Waters Survives Fame, Fortune

His annual stand-up Xmas tour is no celebrity apologia.

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Nora Grace-Flood

18 Dec 2024 · 3 min read

Hartford

The Gloved One

Jamaal Fields-Green captures the King of Pop onstage in MJ.

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Jamil Ragland

12 Dec 2024 · 3 min read

Philadelphia

A Hard Nutcracker

Chris Davis challenges his 42-year-old dad quads to a comedic solo rendition of a holiday family favorite.

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Nora Grace-Flood

11 Dec 2024 · 4 min read

Philadelphia

Kiss Me Kate Plays It Straight

A show within a show shows the permanent resonance of theater by inviting the audience behind the scenes.

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Leo David

9 Dec 2024 · 4 min read

Philadelphia

Recipe For A Pressure Cooker

The Comeuppance, a play about high school reunions, offers home-for-the-holidays survival strategy.

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Leo David

27 Nov 2024 · 2 min read

Philadelphia

Trump II Unmasks "Hamilton"

A revival of Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical, staged in the wake of the presidential election, reveals underlying liberal delusions.

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Nora Grace-Flood

21 Nov 2024 · 4 min read

Philadelphia

How To Sew A Seamless Story

Arden Theatre stitches together Lynn Nottage's "Intimate Apparel."

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Nora Grace-Flood

14 Nov 2024 · 4 min read

Oakland

Musically Haunting: "Ghost Quartet" Gives us Life

Ghost Quartet Oakland Theater Project 1501 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Oakland If you could be any kind of dead person, what kind would you be? Spoiler: you want to

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Vita Hewitt

5 Nov 2024 · 3 min read

Hartford

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...

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Jamil Ragland

21 Oct 2024 · 3 min read

Hartford

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

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Jamil Ragland

20 Oct 2024 · 3 min read