Surreal Comedy About Jonah ASK SOMEONE ELSE, GOD Opens At The Looking Glass 9/9
by BWW News Desk - September 09, 2009 The Looking Glass Theatre proudly announces that it will present the world premiere of ASK SOMEONE ELSE, GOD, a surreal comedy about the prophet Jonah written by Kenneth Nowell and directed by Shari Johnson, as part of its exciting Fall 2009 lineup. Ask Someone Else, God is slated to open at The Loo...
Irrational Streak
by Daniel Collins - November 28, 2010 Absurdly, sublimely ridiculous playwright Charles Ludlam's salute to acting, the relationship between fathers and sons--especially when the father and son are both actors with an affinity for 'Hamlet'--is the stuff and nonsense of 'Stage Blood' now at the Spotlighters Theater in downtown Baltimore...
Review - Race: If You Could See Her Through My Eyes
by Michael Dale - July 03, 2010 'I didn't do anything.'...
Randy Gener Represents USA in the German and American Media Dialogue
by Gabrielle Sierra - November 03, 2011 Randy Gener, the Nathan Award-winning editor, writer, critic and artist, will represent the U.S. media in Washington, D.C.'s first-ever 'German and American Media Dialogue: Symposium on Contemporary Theater in Germany and the U.S.,' organized by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany....
MoMA Presents Sanja Ivekovic: Sweet Violence 12/18-3/26/11
by BWW News Desk - December 18, 2011 The Museum of Modern Art presents Sanja Ivekovi?: Sweet Violence, the first retrospective in the United States of the artist's work, from December 18, 2011, to March 26, 2012. ...
Rooftops: The Plot Chickens
by Duncan Pflaster - March 13, 2009 Wreckio Ensemble presents 'Rooftops', a fascinating new play by Karly Maurer, set in a dystopic future where debtors are forced into sexual slavery....
Review: Jane Monheit at the JVC Jazz Festival - Newport
by Randy Rice - August 15, 2006 In her first outing at the JVC Jazz Festival - Newport, Jane Monheit created her own Newport moment...
Review - Middletown: Our Postmodern Town
by Ben Peltz - November 10, 2010 Our Postmodern Town might be a more descriptive title for Will Eno's Middletown, a play that coats the Thornton Wilder standard of normal American life as it pertains to the cycle of life and death with a whitewash of Samuel Beckett absurdity. And if even half of the play's two hours contained the ...
Surreal Comedy About Jonah ASK SOMEONE ELSE, GOD Opens At The Looking Glass 9/9
by Gabrielle Sierra - June 23, 2009 The Looking Glass Theatre proudly announces that it will present the world premiere of ASK SOMEONE ELSE, GOD, a surreal comedy about the prophet Jonah written by Kenneth Nowell and directed by Shari Johnson, as part of its exciting Fall 2009 lineup. Ask Someone Else, God is slated to open at The Loo...
Pam Ann's YOU F'COFFEE' Appears at the Castro Theater, 10/8
by Caryn Robbins - September 30, 2011 Pam Ann aka Australian comedienne Caroline Reid, is the fashion-flying, hard-drinking, A-list hostess to the stars touching down at the Castro Theater 429 Castro St. 94114 for a SF port call to take you for a high-attitude ride in the glamorous skies on Sat. October 8, 2011 at 7:30 pm. Doors open at...
Stage Left Announces DrekFest: Worstament 2010
by BWW News Desk - June 25, 2010 Welcome to DrekFest: Worstament 2010, Stage Left's annual, national search for America's worst ten-minute play. The first contest of its kind (as far as we know!), DrekFest is on a mission to expose bad writing for what it really is: damn funny. DrekFest is also on a mission to expose the new-play d...
Rooftops: The Plot Chickens
by Duncan Pflaster - March 13, 2009 Wreckio Ensemble presents 'Rooftops', a fascinating new play by Karly Maurer, set in a dystopic future where debtors are forced into sexual slavery....
Alan Ayckbourn's 'Table Manners' at Gloucester Stage
by Nancy Grossman - June 24, 2010 Emily Post would be horrified at the goings-on at this dining table, but you'll find it hilarious and ask for a second helping...
Stage Left Announces DrekFest: Worstament 2010
by Gabrielle Sierra - May 21, 2010 Welcome to DrekFest: Worstament 2010, Stage Left's annual, national search for America's worst ten-minute play. The first contest of its kind (as far as we know!), DrekFest is on a mission to expose bad writing for what it really is: damn funny. DrekFest is also on a mission to expose the new-play d...
SOUND OFF: Sondheim Palooza Part 6
by Robert Diamond - April 29, 2010 Today, we are continuing where we left off last week in our complete overview of Stephen Sondheim's career in honor of his 80th birthday, as well as the opening of his new musical SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM, by taking a listen to all the Sondheim-related soundtracks available on CD and MP3... ...
BWW Reviews: Fresh Ink Theatre Debuts with PRISCILLA DREAMS THE ANSWER
by Nancy Grossman - December 13, 2011 Fringe theatre company debuts with new, award-winning play by Walt McGough at Factory Theatre. While she struggles to overcome a trauma in her life, two aliens approach Priscilla to save their world. She looks for answers from a game show savant and learns that some things are unknowable, but that w...
'The Exceptionals' World Premiere at Merrimack Rep
by Nancy Grossman - February 16, 2011 Bob Clyman's smart, funny new play raises difficult issues in the debate about raising exceptional children. Should parents or scientists determine the course of a child's education? And what is society's interest in the outcome? In between the laughs,it will make you think....
Cockpit's "High Society:" Sophisticated Fun
by James Howard - June 25, 2007 WHO: Cockpit in Court Summer Theatre at CCBC Essex WHAT: High Society WHEN: Through July 1. Fri and Sat at 8PM, Sun at 3PM HOW MUCH: $18 Adult; $16 Seniors and Alumni; $12 Children www.ccbcmd.edu/cockpit...
The Singapore Mikado: Here's a How-De-Do
by Michael Dale - June 01, 2006 Theater Ten Ten's fascinating and innovative presentation of The Mikado has British military men as the 'gentlemen of Japan'...
MoMA Presents Sanja Ivekovic: Sweet Violence 12/18-3/26/11
by Gabrielle Sierra - August 03, 2011 The Museum of Modern Art presents Sanja Ivekovi?: Sweet Violence, the first retrospective in the United States of the artist's work, from December 18, 2011, to March 26, 2012. ...
Review - Knickerbocker: And None Of That Jazz
by Ben Peltz - May 20, 2011 Those who miss the patter of little urbanites that made Thursday night sitcoms so popular in the 1990s should welcome the arrival of Jonathan Marc Sherman's angsty new comedy, Knickerbocker; a play generously populated by an assortment of smart, funny and hip New Yorkers whose charm lies in their ab...
Review - The Merchant of Venice: The Flesh Failure
by Ben Peltz - July 01, 2010 It would certainly be an interesting experience for modern playgoers to travel back in time and see how The Merchant of Venice was first received by Shakespeare's audiences. Those only familiar with the play's famous, 'Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affection...
Review: Liza Minnelli at Mohegan Sun Arena
by Randy Rice - December 12, 2006 Liza Minnelli showed the audience why, even now, there is 'Liza' and then there is 'everyone else'....
Review - It Must Be Him: Left Coast Story
by Ben Peltz - September 02, 2010 It's not shaping up to be a very promising season for alumni of The Carol Burnett Show. Just like the recently closed Viagra Falls, Kenny Solms' It Must Be Him offers a terrific company of comical pros working hard to inject any mirth possible into ninety minutes of tepid material....
Review: 'Altar Boyz' at the Toronto Centre for the Arts.
by Mark Andrew Lawrence - October 08, 2009 Altar Boyz has been extended one more week at the Toronto Centre for the Arts. Show now closes October 18. (Ruthless will open there the following week.) ... |