Closely Related Keys Closely Related Keys, Wendy Graf’s eerily relevant play about the US’s involvement in Iraq and its devastating influences on family members unfolds at International City Theatre. The circumstances feel […]
ISC’s latest outdoor production of The Tempest should remind us all of how much we’ve missed experiencing the magic of theatre shared with strangers,. Mindful of Covid restrictions, ISC has, nonetheless, crafted a […]
Maria Callas was undoubtedly the most influential opera singer of the 20th Century. She had rivals with lovelier tone or more consistent pitch but none of that mattered when she tore […]
John Kolvenbach’s new play, produced by Vs. Theatre Co, and Circle X, is a deceptively thoughtful, participatory piece, and at 70 minutes it is also short! As a result, I can […]
In The Last, Best Small Town that just opened at Theatricum Botanicum, my own experiences growing up are clarified with uncanny specificity. John Guerra’s elegant rendering of Thornton Wilder’s original “Our Town” reinforces […]
One of the joys of any Shakespeare production is the opportunity to apply fully-formed concepts to enhance Shakespeare’s loose dramaturgy. The Claremont-based Ophelia’s Jump enlivens the flood of Shakespearean revivals around […]
He’s back, on Broadway that is. As of June 26, 2021, Springsteen on Broadway is the first show to open (or in this case, to reopen) on Broadway. Though tickets are in […]
What a breath of fresh air — literally — to experience the Fountain Theatre’s new outdoor venue at the opening of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ send-up of Dion Boucicault’s 1859 depiction of […]
Sweat is the 2017 Pulitzer Prize winner in the category for drama. Written by the praised playwright Lynn Nottage, Sweat is now making its Orange County debut at The Chance Theater in a […]
For those of us who admire chameleon-like actors — Meryl Streep, Danial Day-Lewis, Kate Winslet, and the late James Whitmore, are all members of this disappear-into-their-character club of thespians — another one of these […]
