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by Jack L. B. Gohn - March 15, 2026

A logistically and artistically ambitious mashup of Shakespeare's play and modern American songs with some great acting....

by Cybele Pomeroy - March 14, 2026

Iron Crow’s brave production of NEXT TO NORMAL deserves a longer run. The script is a dramatic treatment of a nearly untouched topic, and the music is gorgeous and brilliantly rendered by excellent musicians and vocalists....

by Timoth David Copney - February 26, 2026

The Act II energy, the dazzling effects, and the powerhouse leads make for a wildly entertaining night at the theatre....

by Lisa A. Crayton - February 20, 2026

Strike one! Troy Maxson is at bat ready to hit a homerun in the game of life. What could possibly go wrong for the former Negro League baseball player in 1950’s Pittsburgh? Lots!...

by Tina Collins - February 13, 2026

In DAWN, the luminous world premiere by Tuyết Thị Phạm, now on stage at the Everyman Theatre , the ordinary becomes sacred. A kitchen table transforms into an altar. A cup of tea becomes an invocation. Silence stretches into something holy. What unfolds is not simply a story, but a ritual of...

by Jack L. B. Gohn - February 11, 2026

History will record that in 1976, a rock group named Fleetwood Mac, three men and two women, three Brits and two Americans, congregated with an engineer and staff at a recording studio in Sausalito, north of San Francisco, to begin recording a new album....

by Timoth David Copney - February 06, 2026

When F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby danced its way off the page and into the American consciousness, it became one of the defining portraits of the hedonistic, halcyon Roaring Twenties. ...

by Tina Collins - January 14, 2026

This gem of a production is a perfect way to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Jaws, the blockbuster that started it all....

by Timoth David Copney - December 22, 2025

For the last couple of years or so, theatre nerds everywhere have been besotted with the film version of the hit musical Wicked. After the debut of the first installment, anticipation only grew for Part Two, which dropped this past November. But amid all the brouhaha and ballyhoo over the cinematic ...

by Tina Collins - December 17, 2025

Christmas is the season for goodwill, warm hearths, and ghosts, real and imagined. Dark days and chill nights conjure tales of things tapping at the window or lingering in the shadows. ...