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Review: PARANORMAL ACTIVITY, Ambassadors Theatre


by Franco Milazzo - December 15, 2025

London is a city built on ghosts. Romans, plague pits, abandoned Tube stations and the collective memory of audiences who still shudder about The Woman in Black. There’s even a theatre supposedly inhabited by a ghost dolphin called Flipper....

Review: PRINCESS LOCKEROOO’S THE NUTWAACKER at The Guggenheim Museum


by Gabby Ziccarelli - December 15, 2025

Presented by Works & Process at the Guggenheim, Princess Lockerooo’s The NutWAACKer a seasonal reimagining that also serves as a declaration: dance is art, street styles belong on the world’s most revered stages, and in movement born of resistance, we find freedom....

Review: PLAID TIDINGS at Revolution Stage Company


by Eri Gold - December 15, 2025

Grab Grandpa, the kids, and all of your retro-loving pals some tickets to Revolution Stage Company’s production of Plaid Tidings this holiday season!...

Review: BREAKING BACH at Marquee TV


by Cheryl Markosky - December 15, 2025

What did our critic think of BREAKING BACH at Marquee TV?...

Review: STEEL MAGNOLIAS at Susquehanna Stage


by Jason Davis - December 15, 2025

What did our critic think of STEEL MAGNOLIAS at Susquehanna Stage?...

Review: THE 1968 CHERRY COLA PITTS CHRISTMAS SPECIAL at Vincent Victoria Presents


by Brett Cullum - December 15, 2025

It’s a fantasy idea that a black gay man could have a Christmas special in 1968 that would revel in his own identity so unapologetically. It sure wasn’t the world of that time, and it sure isn’t the world of today. But in some strange way, you will leave wishing it were the world we live in....

Review: RUTHLESS! at New Conservatory Theatre Center


by Steve Murray - December 15, 2025

Mix one part All About Eve, one part Gypsy, and a healthy shot of The Bad Seed in a blender and you’ve got the recipe for Ruthless!, a delightfully dark comedy alternative to the typical holiday fare. A reboot from their 2023 production, Ruthless! is a delight for theatre and old movie references an...

Review: A CHRISTMAS CAROL at Portland Playhouse


by Krista Garver - December 15, 2025

Portland Playhouse’s annual production of A CHRISTMAS CAROL continues to be essential holiday viewing. It’s a gorgeous piece of theatre that honors tradition while finding ways to surprise even its most devoted returnees. Consider me among them, already looking forward to next year....

Review: CHICAGO at The Contemporary


by Greer Firestone - December 15, 2025

City Theatre Company’s CHICAGO was met with a warm audience response on opening night—and deservedly so. Now celebrating its 32nd year, CTC has long occupied a vital place in Delaware’s theatrical landscape, with current Artistic Director Kerri Kristine McElrone integral to the company since its inc...

Review: LITTLE BULB'S THE NUTCRACKER, Saint Martin’s Theatre


by Christiana Rose - December 15, 2025

Little Bulb’s The Nutcracker arrives in the West End as a celebration of imagination, music and collective joy. This Olivier Award nominated production proves why the company is so beloved by family audiences, offering a festive adventure that is both wildly silly and deeply thoughtful. With its hom...

Past Shows

Dialogues des Carmélites (Dialogues of the Carmelites)


Serving as the basis for French composer Francis Poulenc's opera was the true story of the martyrs of Compiègne: during the French Revolution, the terreur ...

Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman without a Shadow)


The daughter of the Emperor of the Spirit Realm turned from a gazelle into a beautiful girl. Hunter and prey fell in love with each ...

A Streetcar Named Desire
A Streetcar Named Desire
4/28 - 5/6/2018


A Streetcar Named Desire is Marianna Venekei's first full-length choreography. The project, lovingly nurtured for many years, is a collaboration between her and composer-saxophonist László ...

Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)


"The Magic Flute is like a mirror: gazing into it, we see ourselves and find whatever it is we are looking for." (János Leibner) The ...

Così fan tutte
Così fan tutte
2/17 - 2/25/2018


Così fan tutte. “Thus do all women.” Meaning that they're fickle, as Don Alfonso says in Mozart and Da Ponte's third joint opera. The fiancés ...

Der Zigeunerbaron (The Gypsy Baron)


On one of his visits to Budapest, the younger Johann Strauss formed an acquaintanceship with the Hungarian writer Mór Jókai, whose global popularity was also ...

Billy Elliot - The Musical
Billy Elliot - The Musical
8/23 - 8/27/2017


It's 1984. In England's mining towns, life is in upheaval: it is the time of the strikes. Eleven-year-old Billy Elliot lives in one of these ...

Hippolyte et Aricie
6/29 - 6/30/2013


The greatest geniuses of the operatörténet of Rameau, Gluck, a straight road that leads to arts of Mozart and Debussy. Rameau's Opera House in Budapest, ...

Hippolyte et Aricie
6/26 - 6/30/2013


The greatest geniuses of the operatörténet of Rameau, Gluck, a straight road that leads to arts of Mozart and Debussy. Rameau's Opera House in Budapest, ...

Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs
6/6 - 6/15/2013


The ballet by Gyula Harangozó and Tibor Kocsák remains faithful to the finest traditions of the Brothers Grimm. The choreography, the visual appearance of the ...


Season Closing Gala...

Stiffelio
6/1


Opera in three acts with libretto by Francesco Maria Piave,from the play Le Pasteur...

Simon Boccanegra
5/29 - 5/31/2013


A tale of public feuds and private griefs, set against a backdrop of civil war, Simon Boccanegra is revered as one of Verdi's most sublime, ...

I vespri siciliani
5/26 - 5/30/2013


Led by Guido de Montforte the French have conquered Sicíly, executed Duke Frederick of Austria who was the brother of Elena, and established a reign ...

Macbeth
5/25 - 5/28/2013


1. Act Duncan, King of Scotland, is at war with the rebels and supporting them in the making. Thanks to Macbethnek and Banquónak, two hadvezérének, ...

The King's New Clothes
2/23 - 5/25/2013


ACT I 1. scene There is a pillory on the main square of the country Pomadia's capital. Dani is put on the pillory tied out ...

Ariadne auf Naxos
5/17 - 5/23/2013


Two in one – sounds like the sokfel?l familiar slogan, that of Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, amidst much controversy and is more characterized ...

Tosca
4/4 - 5/22/2013


Act I Angelotti, the former Consul of the Republic of Rome, has escaped from the state prison at the Castle St. Angelo and sought refuge ...

Szöktetés a szerájból
5/9 - 5/19/2013


(I) in Act I A young Spanish nobleman Belmonte bride, Konstanzát, in English, as well as his komornáját Pedrillót was kidnapped by pirates and Selim ...

Madama Butterfly
4/25 - 5/16/2013


ACT I On a hill overlooking Nagasaki harbour, U. S. Navy Lieutenant Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton inspects a Japanese house with Goro, a sharp local marriage ...

Arabella
4/19 - 5/8/2013


1. Act Carnival in Vienna, 1860. The impoverished, Waldner and his wife's only hope is that the older leányukat, Arabellát rich kér?höz. The fiatalabbat, Zdenkát ...

The Taming of the Shrew
4/18 - 5/5/2013


Sets: in Padova, in the XVI century ACT I Prelude Inside the pub called Seamaid in London a lonely man is siitong and writing. We ...

János vitéz
4/5 - 4/28/2013


ACT I At the end of the village the girls say goodbye to the hussars, who are about to join the army. Iluska, the most ...

Aida
4/18 - 4/24/2013


ACT I In the royal palace at Memphis the high priest Ramfis tells the young warrior Radames that Egypt is threatened once again by the ...

Don Carlos
4/12 - 4/14/2013


Don Carlos: Kelen Péter, Csák József Erzsébet királyné: Csavlek Etelka, Misura Zsuzsa, Maria Teresa Uribe II. Fülöp, spanyol király: Kováts Kolos, Airizer Csaba Posa márki: ...

Romeo and Juliet
4/12 - 4/14/2013


Act 1 In the age of Shakespeare, the actors of the Globe Theatre are rehearsing for what is probably the first performance of Romeo and ...

A Midsummer Night's Dream
4/5 - 4/7/2013


The spiritual protagonist of Seregi's ballet is Bottom, the craftsman. Why Bottom? Because it is his fate that reveals the fate of those struggling, always ...

Cavalleria rusticana
3/31 - 4/2/2013


After the prelude, we hear from behind the curtain sounds of the “Siciliana” being sung by Turiddu to his true love. It is Easter morning ...

Parsifal
3/29 - 4/1/2013


"A symbol of the the deepest I've ever had, in the case of seed of the perceived intellectual religion kitalálhattak-writer of the mystical Holy Grálról's ...

Matthäus-Passion
3/28 - 3/30/2013

Bánk bán
3/13 - 3/23/2013


(I) in Act I Visegrad is the Tisza, and the 13th century. at the beginning of the 20th century, II. During the reign of David. ...

Eugene Onegin
3/8 - 3/20/2013


The plot of the opera takes place in Russia in the 1820s, on the Larin country estate and in St. Petersburg. Act I Scene 1: ...

Gone with the Wind
2/27 - 3/17/2013


ACT I Scarlett O'Hara, a beautiful 16-year-old born on the Tara estate in Atlanta, cheerfully awaits Mayday when the youths of the area get together. ...

Turandot
2/22 - 3/17/2013


The mandarins announce the emperor's decree in the streets of Peking: he who solves Princess Turandot's riddles will win her hand. The crowd is ecstatically ...

Don Giovanni
2/1 - 3/10/2013


Act One At night Leporello, Don Giovannis servant, grumbles in front of the Commendatores palace. Soon the masked Don appears, followed by Donna Anna, the ...

Xerxes
2/15 - 3/2/2013


Part 1 Xerxes, King of Persia is in love with a plane-tree. Neither hurricane nor lighting can crush the proud standing tree, whose leaves give ...

Don Quixote
2/8 - 2/23/2013


(I) in Act I 1. image A Spanish town square-in the normal every day takes place at the town's inhabitants as they dance, play music, ...

Il trovatore
1/26 - 2/9/2013


The events in the opera take place at the beginning of the fifteenth century in Spain, with the background of a revolt against the King ...

Requiem
10/30


Music by Rodgers, Richard; Arranged by Paul Yoder...


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