Photos: 5-Star Theatricals' THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG
by Gillian Blum - Mar 14, 2026
Check out photos from 5-Star Theatricals and the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society's The Play That Goes Wrong, written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields, with direction by Larry Raben.
BWW Review: A DEATH DEFYING ESCAPE at Hudson Guild Theater
by Evan Henerson - Apr 27, 2022
Prestidigitation factors heavily into ESCAPE, but it’s by no means the performance’s only draw. Directed by Lee Costello from a script by Carter, the 90-minute three-hander showcases Judy Carter as a talented performer and a deeply conflicted person who has navigated some bumpy terrain in her life.
BWW Interview: The First Female Magician Judy Carter Reveals Her DEATH-DEFYING ESCAPE
by Gil Kaan - Mar 22, 2022
Author/ stand-up comedian/ magician Judy Carter presents her semi-biographical, part-stand-up, part-magic show A Death-Defying Escape! live at the Hudson Guild Theatre beginning April 2, 2022, with online streaming available starting April 9th. Lee Costello directs Judy alongside Kevin Scott Allen and Lyndsi LaRose. Judy made some time for me to magically transform my queries into amusing bon mots.
THERAPY WITH PAMI Premieres First Two Episodes
by Sarah Jae Leiber - Jan 30, 2020
Co-creators Kaitlin Huwe and Stephanie Erb are releasing the first season of Therapy with Pami, a comedy series about Beverly Hills reality star Pami, who seeks sliding-scale therapy from the unflappable Dr. L after her seventh divorce. Together they delve beneath layers of delusion, dysfunction, and lip fillers to help Pami become her 'best self.'
BWW ReviewsL ICT'S LEADING LADIES Give Entertainment a New Lift
by Don Grigware - Jun 12, 2012
The more I see Ken Ludwig (Lend Me a Tenor, Moon Over Buffalo, now Leading Ladies), the more I realize that he is one of a dying breed of American farceurs. How many presently exist? In the UK, yes, there are many. Farce is their specialty, but not in the US. So, that given, Leading Ladies is a uniquely special ode to the theatre, to Shakespeare and to that band of traveling actors who make little money but devote their lives to entertain us, and to comedy put forth at a breakneck pace. Thanks to Ken Ludwig and his Leading Ladies our lives are that much brighter. Now in a splendid production at ICT, Long Beach, Richard Israel exhilaratingly guides a fiercely talented cast through July 1.
LEADING LADIES Comes to Long Beach's International City Theatre, 6/8-7/1
by BWW News Desk - May 14, 2012
Some Like It Hot meets Twelfth Night in Ken Ludwig's delightful madcap comedy, Leading Ladies. Richard Israel directs a four-week run, June 8 through July 1, at International City Theatre in the Long Beach Performing Arts Center. Low-priced previews take place on Tuesday, June 5; Wednesday, June 6; and Thursday, June 7.