Lyric Stage Company closes the season with great comedy, great costumes, and great cast in Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" (more...)

Delightful comedy Beau Jest is expertly performed by members of Encore Entertainment. * * * * (OUT OF 5) (more...)

A dazzling new production of Lerner and Loewe's Broadway classic relights the long dark main stage at Toronto Centre for the Arts. * * * * * (OUT OF 5) (more...)

Stage Centre Productions offers a lively, entertaining staging of the popular French farce. * * * 1/2 (OUT OF 5) (more...)

Stage West's latest revue celebrates Canadian pop music from 1956 to the present. The energetic cast and the slick production values make for a highly enjoyable evening. * * * * (OUT OF 5) (more...)

In substance, AVENUE Q is a distant relative of THE LION KING, television’s SESAME STREET and many a yuppie sitcom in the mold of FRIENDS. The actor/singer/dancers in AVENUE Q also serve as the show’s puppet masters. AVENUE Q is inhabited by human people, puppet people, and puppet “monsters.” The inhabitants of AVENUE Q live on a block of homes where the superintendent is former child star Gary Coleman (more...)

Welcome to America: The Immigrant at FPCT

REVIEW: The musical The Immigrant opened last weekend at Fell’s Point Corner Theatre, and runs through June 8. (more...)

ROTM’s Variations on Power is Mostly in Balance

REVIEW: Run of the Mill’s annual Variations project takes on the theme of Power. At the Baltimore Theatre Project through May 18. (more...)

The New York Philharmonic presents Lerner & Loewe's classic musical of King Arthur and the Round Table. (more...)

The 2006 Tony Award winner for Best Play has its New England premiere at Speakeasy Stage Company in a production worthy of accolades. Director Scott Edmiston, topnotch technical crew, and entire cast of faculty and students deserve all "A's" for this effort. (more...)

Colorful World: Dramatis Personae

"Colorful World", the new play by James Comtois, presented by Nosedive Productions, is a sometimes confused - sometimes intriguing look at the neuroses of former costumed superheroes in an alternate world. (more...)

It's time to let your hair down or in this case tease, spray and dance away! (more...)

Pacific Playwrights Festival Looks to Art and Eccentricity

South Coast Rep's Pacific Playwrights Festival, known for launching many a shows to further runs beyond the Orange County locale, this season, proves somewhat spotty when it comes to the two fully-staged productions presented... (more...)

DCT’s “Millie” Thoroughly by the Book

REVIEW: Thoroughly Modern Millie plays through May 11 at Dundalk Community Theatre at CCBC-Dundalk. (more...)

Review: ‘The Drowsy Chaperone” at PPAC

Frothy, frilly and undeniably silly, the touring production will play at PPAC through May 11th. (more...)

Director Michael Unger talks about the challenges of recreating an early Kander & Ebb musical for the Signature Theatre's Kander & Ebb Celebration (more...)

It has finally happened. A hit Broadway musical — a Tony® Award-winner — has arrived in Las Vegas and it is the closest thing to both a Broadway experience and a genuine hit Broadway show this city has ever seen. Yes, we have a terrific Spamalot (or, we do until it closes in July), a breathtaking Phantom and Mamma Mia! just celebrated a record five-year run here. But none of them quite manages to do what Jersey Boys does. Spamalot is funny and true to the spirit of the original, but it runs a mere 90 minutes. (more...)

“These Shining Lives”: Surface Glimmer at CENTERSTAGE

REVIEW: The World Premiere of These Shinging Lives by Melanie Marnich is at CENTERSTAGE through June 1. (more...)

Peter Mills and Cara Reichel have transplanted Shakespeare's As You Like It to feudal Japan. (more...)

New Repertory Theatre's New England Premiere of Ahrens and Flaherty musical is powerful, passionate storytelling with a tour de force performance by Uzo Aduba in the title role (more...)

“The Color Purple”: Epic to a Fault

REVIEW: The First National Tour of The Color Purple lands for 3 weeks at Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre. (more...)

Review: 'Paris by Night' at Trinity Rep

Curt Columbus’ new musical is perfectly entertaining and packs an unexpected emotional punch. (more...)

Saturday Night at the Palace is without a doubt the most disturbing play I have seen this year proving the ugliness of racism is as much an issue today as it was when this play first premiered... (more...)

The Drowsy Chaperone: A Nod to Bad Musicals

Energetic and talented cast can’t overcome tiresome book and score in this touring production currently on stage at The Opera House in Boston (more...)

Triumph of Love: Make Our Garden Grow

Astoria Performing Arts Center presents a diverting production of "Triumph of Love", the much-maligned Marivaux musical. (more...)