Boston Lizzie Borden’s Story Set To Music — & Mined For New Meaning Lizzie, The Musical Umbrella Arts Center 40 Stow St. Concord, Mass. Through Nov. 5, 2023 Lizzie Borden took an axe, And gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what Sasha Patkin 25 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
Hartford Quick: Who Is “AD” The Attacker? Sea Tea Improv’s Family Show Sea Tea Comedy Theater Hartford Oct. 22 I had to think fast — and not insult the kindergartener in the audience. I was in the Jamil Ragland 25 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven Yale Drama School Tackles Modern Take On The “A” “A small town in a small country in the middle of nowhere,” where abortionists are tolerated but forced to wear clothes that reveal the scarlet A seared to their flesh, Donald Brown 25 Oct 2023 · 1 min read
NYC A Star-Crossed Orca Rises In Red Hook Orca: A One-Whale Musical By Kyle Mazer Waterfront Museum Red Hook, Brooklyn Oct. 20, 2023 It’s my experience, in my relatively short time in NYC, that whenever one must K Hank Jost 23 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
NYC Juggler Defies Gravity, Reveals New Realms REFLEX: Unraveling 4,000 Years of Juggling Baruch Performing Arts Center 1 Bernard Baruch Way, NYC Through Oct. 22, 2023 “Skill, difficulty, and risk,” juggler Jay Gilligan notes, are one Adam Wassilchalk 20 Oct 2023 · 4 min read
New Haven Yale Rep Weighs The Private Costs Of Revolution Wish You Were Here Yale Repertory Theatre Through Oct. 28 Five female friends prepare for the wedding of one of them. High-spirited, vivacious, thoroughly at home with one another. They Donald Brown 16 Oct 2023 · 4 min read
NYC After Foam Plague, Something Smells Like Love MARY GETS HERS Playwrights Realm @ MCC Theater 511 W. 52nd Street, New York Through Oct. 14 Mary is 8 years old, and everyone she’s ever loved is dead. She’ Rebecca Salzhauer 12 Oct 2023 · 4 min read
Hartford No “Doubt”-Fire: You’ll Love This Musical Mrs. Doubtfire Bushnell Center for Performing Arts 166 Capitol Avenue, Hartford Through Oct. 8 The word “classic” gets thrown around a lot when referring to something outstanding from the past. Jamil Ragland 5 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
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
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