New Village Arts Reveals 24th Season
by Stephi Wild - May 21, 2025
This, the 24th season and third full season in the renovated and renamed Ray Charles Stage at the Dea Hurston New Village Arts Center, celebrates stories of resilience and friendship: tales of grit, growth, and the powerful joy that comes from facing life’s challenges together.
Review: A STRANGE LOOP at Soulpepper
by Ilana Lucas - May 16, 2025
Michael R. Jackson’s A STRANGE LOOP is a striking text and meta-text, calculatedly raw and messy, archly vulnerable, and sacredly profane.
[TITLE OF SHOW] Comes to Playhouse Square in April
by Stephi Wild - Mar 27, 2025
Playhouse Square and the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Performing Arts will present their 18th annual collaboration, [title of show]. Learn more about this upcoming show here!
Belle Spirale Dance Projects Presents Two World Premieres With UNIVERSUS
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 13, 2025
Belle Spirale Dance Projects, in partnership with the Chutzpah! Festival, Vancouver International Dance Festival, and New Works Dance will present UNIVERSUS, a compelling double bill featuring two world premieres from two extraordinary artists at the Vancouver Playhouse.
How Many Broadway Musicals Are Based on TV Shows?
by Jennifer Ashley Tepper - Jan 12, 2025
With Smash about to make a splash on Broadway this season, the question was asked: how many Broadway musicals have been based on television? While historically, far more Broadway musicals have been based on books or movies, television shows have also provided source materials for several productions on the main stem.
Review: [TITLE OF SHOW], Southwark Playhouse
by Cindy Marcolina - Nov 19, 2024
Director Christopher D. Clegg assembles Jacob Fowler (Hunter), Abbie Budden (Heidi), Mary Moore (Susan), and Thomas Oxley (Jeff) as the quartet, while Tom Chippendale is their accompanying pianist Larry. New casts will never have that je-ne-sais-quoi of the artists playing themselves, but, if the chemistry is there (and here it is indeed), the material is a boisterous enough journey through music and stressful deadlines bolstered up by meaningful friendships. Mind you, the piece is reasonably sized but, here, it regrettably comes off as a filler production to tide the venue over.
How Common Are Autobiographical Plays and Musicals?
by Jennifer Ashley Tepper - Oct 6, 2024
This time, the reader question was: With Yellow Face on Broadway, have there been other semi-autobiographical shows on Broadway where the writer made themself a character?
Photos: [TITLE OF SHOW] at PrideArts
by Blair Ingenthron - Aug 25, 2024
PrideArts is currently presenting the off-Broadway and Broadway hit musical [title of show] at Pride Arts Center through September 22, 2024. Check out production photos below!
Review: [TITLE OF SHOW] at Kranzberg Black Box
by James Lindhorst - Aug 19, 2024
First and foremost, I go to the theatre to be entertained. A show doesn’t have to be complex, have an agenda, or try to teach the audience a moral to be enjoyable. It’s perfectly acceptable, and usually preferential, to simply be entertained. Prism Theater Company’s [title of show] is an amusing diversion. It’s quirky, silly, funny musical entertainment, and I liked it so much more than I thought I would.
Cast Set For [TITLE OF SHOW] at Phoenix Arts Club
by Stephi Wild - May 20, 2024
The cast has been announced for the London production of Tony-nominated Broadway hit [title of show] by Hunter Bell and Jeff Bowen. Performances are on Tue 2 July and Wed 3 July 2024 at Phoenix Arts Club.