After more than 100 years, few remember that Henrik Ibsen’s play Ghosts received its first production, not in his native Scandinavia, but in the United States. In the 1880s, the […]
Playwright Jeff Gould hits a funny nerve again with his latest, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Divorce. Sky Pilot Theatre Company delivers this confection with an even-handed production, helmed […]
Theatre 40 continues to surprise with yet another engaging evening of theatre, presenting the English language adaptation of a French comedy that out-Moliere’s Moliere by his would-be successor, Alexis Piron. Never […]
With Trouble the Water, Artistic Director and force behind the Theatricum, Ellen Geer, brings us an important story of a civil war hero, Robert Smalls. Born into slavery, he survived to […]
Director Melissa Chalsma celebrates the diversity of Elizabethan playwrights by unearthing Francis Beaumont’s The Knight of the Burning Pestle. Beaumont, along with his co-writer John Fletcher, took the reins of Shakespeare’s company […]
I can’t stop raving about the latest production of Newsies, now lighting up the BofA Performing Arts Center in Thousand Oaks. There are only five more performances, ending on Sunday, July 24, […]
Dismay. Anger. Depression. Confusion. These were some of the emotions we all had when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the 50-year-old precedent cementing the right to abortion in the […]
This is the first production in two years for the venerable Victory Theatre, and it has chosen to present a bombshell of a dilemma with A Terminal Event by Richard Willett. This […]
Theatre 40 is on a roll. Each play they produce is funnier than the last, and their latest, The Play’s The Thing, is no exception. Cleverly directed by Melanie McQueen, the nearly 100–year old […]
The whimsical compendium of Greek myths found in Metamorphoses makes just the right vehicle for a return to the magic of live theatre. As if we need an excuse, A Noise Within understands […]
