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A&E Network Expands 'Secrets of' Franchise With The Return of 'Secrets of Playboy' & Photo A&E Network Expands 'Secrets of' Franchise With The Return of 'Secrets of Playboy' & Two New Limited Series
by Michael Major - June 08, 2023

Through in-depth interviews with insiders on all levels, rare archival footage, and exclusive content, series under the “Secrets Of” banner delve into complex worlds through a modern-day lens that examines how these brands, organizations, and figures have molded our culture’s view of power and sexua...
The HISTORY Channel Announces THE SECRET OF SKINWALKER RANCH Season Three Premiere Photo The HISTORY Channel Announces THE SECRET OF SKINWALKER RANCH Season Three Premiere
by Michael Major - March 29, 2022

With full access to one of the most infamous and secretive hotspots of paranormal and unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP)-related activities on earth, season three of “The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch” follows the team of scientists, researchers, and experts as they push their experiments beyond anyth...
Mint Theater to Present American Premiere of Noël Coward's THE RAT TRAP & World Premi Photo Mint Theater to Present American Premiere of Noël Coward's THE RAT TRAP & World Premiere of BECOMES A WOMAN
by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 30, 2022

The Mint Theater company will be presenting the American Premiere of Noel Coward's The Rap Trap, and the world premiere of Becomes a Woman by Betty Smith (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)....
World Premiere of Ari'el Stachel's OUT OF CHARACTER & More Announced for Berkeley Rep Photo World Premiere of Ari'el Stachel's OUT OF CHARACTER & More Announced for Berkeley Repertory Theatre 2022-2023 Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 19, 2022

Today Berkeley Repertory Theatre has announces a new selection of plays for the upcoming 2022/23 season. The six-play subscription series is comprised of an array of highly accomplished artists including Lynn Nottage, Emma Rice, Ari’el Stachel, Jack Thorne, Sanaz Toossi, and more...
WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? to Play Through May 1 at City Theatre Austin Photo WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? to Play Through May 1 at City Theatre Austin
by A.A. Cristi - April 18, 2022

Two more weekends! City Theatre continues the 2022 spring theatre season with Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Edward Albee's acclaimed stage play. April 21 – May 1 at Trinity Street Playhouse....
Feature: Is AI the Future of Live Theatre? Not Yet. Photo Feature: Is AI the Future of Live Theatre? Not Yet.
by Cindy Marcolina - May 02, 2023

The launch of ChatGPT has been received with general apprehension, if not frantic worry, by writers worldwide. If you can train Artificial Intelligence to deliver copy as profound, correct, and well-written as it’s humanly possible, does it mean that writing is soon to be an obsolete profession? ...
Curio Theatre Company Begins 2022-2023 Season With GIDION'S KNOT Photo Curio Theatre Company Begins 2022-2023 Season With GIDION'S KNOT
by Stephi Wild - October 20, 2022

Curio Theatre Company begins the season with a play that deals with an incredibly timely issue that is currently in the headlines. Curio begins the season with Gidion's Knot, a play that brings to light the question of who, if anyone, is responsible when a juvenile makes a tragic decision....
Review: The Stage Austin's HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH - A Magnificent Triumph Photo Review: The Stage Austin's HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH - A Magnificent Triumph
by Lynn Beaver - August 22, 2022

I urge you to grab your tickets for the final weekend before it’s completely sold out, it will be. HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH made its debut Off Broadway in 1998, an in-your-face rock musical with a non-hetero-normative central character that shocked audiences with its raw narrative. Looking back at...
Review: Storytelling Floods The Basement When Aaron David Gleason Brings COME HELL AN Photo Review: Storytelling Floods The Basement When Aaron David Gleason Brings COME HELL AND HIGH WATER To 54 Below
by Stephen Mosher - July 27, 2022

It may have taken Aaron David Gleason a few decades to tell his own story in a solo show but those years just gave him and his stories time to grow into the art form....
Review: THE SUSPICIONS OF MR WHICHER, The Watermill Theatre Photo Review: THE SUSPICIONS OF MR WHICHER, The Watermill Theatre
by Mickey-Jo Boucher - May 10, 2023

The ever enchanting Watermill Theatre in Newbury could hardly have hoped for more atmospheric weather to mark the opening night of their latest show, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher. The distant thunderclaps and bucketing rain seemed perfectly placed to instill a disquieting mood as the audience arrive...
Berkeley Repertory Theatre's The Ground Floor to Celebrate 10th Anniversary With Upco Photo Berkeley Repertory Theatre's The Ground Floor to Celebrate 10th Anniversary With Upcoming Residency Lab
by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 04, 2022

Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s Artistic Director Johanna Pfaelzer and Director of the Ground Floor Madeleine Oldham announced the Residency Lab participants and the return to full capacity of the Residency Lab portion of The Ground Floor: Berkeley Rep’s Center for the Creation and Development of New W...
Review: RICHARD III, Royal Shakespeare Theatre Photo Review: RICHARD III, Royal Shakespeare Theatre
by Gary Naylor - July 01, 2022

Gregory Doran brings the RSC's decade long History cycle to its conclusion with a worthy, if wordy, Richard III...
BIRTH OF A MURDERER Heads Into Final Weekend At Desert Stages Photo BIRTH OF A MURDERER Heads Into Final Weekend At Desert Stages
by A.A. Cristi - June 05, 2023

Birth of a Murderer will complete its run at Desert Stages at Scottsdale Fashion Square, June 9 and June 10. ...
 TRUE STORIES at the Cherry Lane Theatre Photo TRUE STORIES at the Cherry Lane Theatre
by - May 16, 2022

Special Offer - True Stories at the Cherry Lane Theatre...
Review: THE MARVELOUS MARILYN MAYE Makes History And Legend At Carnegie Hall Photo Review: THE MARVELOUS MARILYN MAYE Makes History And Legend At Carnegie Hall
by Stephen Mosher - March 27, 2023

Steven Reineke and The New York Pops were energized by a ninety-five-year-old Carnegie Hall solo show neophyte last week....
Givēon & Drake Pen New Single 'Time' for AMSTERDAM Movie Soundtrack Photo Givēon & Drake Pen New Single 'Time' for AMSTERDAM Movie Soundtrack
by Michael Major - September 28, 2022

The track is written by Drake, GIVĒON and Daniel Pemberton. Pemberton also produced the record with Jahaan Sweet. Directed by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker David O. Russell, and starring Academy Award winner Christian Bale, John David Washington, Margot Robbie, Chris Rock, Taylor Swift, Zoe Sald...
Review: Nashville Story Garden's U.S. Premiere of Lucy Kirkwood's THE WELKIN Will Hav Photo Review: Nashville Story Garden's U.S. Premiere of Lucy Kirkwood's THE WELKIN Will Have Audiences Talking
by Jeffrey Ellis - September 24, 2022

Nothing engages the theaterati in Nashville and the surrounding provinces as the production of an eagerly anticipated new play no one’s done before in these parts, but about which we’ve read glowing reviews. The very promise of something new to energize the cultural zeitgeist – particularly under th...
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley to Present 19th Annual New Works Festival in November Photo TheatreWorks Silicon Valley to Present 19th Annual New Works Festival in November
by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 29, 2022

This Fall, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley will present the 19th Annual New Works Festival, providing Bay Area theatre lovers an advance look at tomorrow’s hits. The festival runs November 6-13, 2022 at Montalvo Arts Center....
CARMEN Comes to Vienna State Opera in September Photo CARMEN Comes to Vienna State Opera in September
by Stephi Wild - July 25, 2022

Carmen comes to Vienna State Opera in September. Performances run through 28 April 2023....
BWW Review: JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR Rocks the Audience With Songs and Sparkles Photo BWW Review: JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR Rocks the Audience With Songs and Sparkles
by Emily Short - April 08, 2022

JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR tells the story of Judas’s betrayal of Jesus Christ, but it’s not the same narrative you might have heard. This inventive musical humanizes both characters and invites the audience to witness their thoughts and experiences behind closed doors, putting their flaws and triumphs ...
Towne Street to Present FAILURE TO PROTECT Reading in October Photo Towne Street to Present FAILURE TO PROTECT Reading in October
by Blair Ingenthron - September 17, 2022

On Sunday, October 9, 2022, at 4:00 pm, Towne Street will present a staged reading performance of FAILURE TO PROTECT, the latest courtroom thriller by best-selling author Pamela Samuels Young....
Film at Lincoln Center Announces Jordan Peele Curation Photo Film at Lincoln Center Announces Jordan Peele Curation
by Michael Major - December 22, 2022

Widely hailed as one of this century’s great directorial debuts, Jordan Peele’s era-defining Get Out injected new life into horror with its witty subversion of racial politics and elitist social mores. Two years later, his wildly entertaining Us plumbed everything from isolationist fears and late-ca...
Review: DID YOU SEE WHAT WALTER PAISLEY DID TODAY? Scares Up Tons of Laughs in La Mir Photo Review: DID YOU SEE WHAT WALTER PAISLEY DID TODAY? Scares Up Tons of Laughs in La Mirada
by Michael Quintos - March 25, 2023

An admirable, absurdly funny first full production of a brand new musical, WALTER PAISLEY, is perhaps one of the most enjoyable work-in-progress shows this reviewer has seen in a long time. This delightful world premiere production---filled with madcap antics and a humorously pulpy plot---continues ...
REVIEW: THE INFERIOR SEX at Trinity Repertory Company Photo REVIEW: THE INFERIOR SEX at Trinity Repertory Company
by Christopher Verleger - March 26, 2023

Directed with intricacy and precision by Tatyana Marie-Carlo, 'The Inferior Sex' takes place in 1972, when Vietnam, Watergate and women's lib dominated the headlines, and Shirley Chisholm (portrayed with an eloquent ferocity by Jackie Davis), the first Black woman elected to Congress, is making a hi...
The CW Network Releases Primetime Listings for the Week of May 22nd Photo The CW Network Releases Primetime Listings for the Week of May 22nd
by Marissa Tomeo - May 04, 2022

Below are the CW Network's Primetime listings for the week of May 22nd. All times in the schedules are EST. ...




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