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Review: Nashville Repertory Theatre's POTUS...
by Jeffrey Ellis - May 12, 2024

Nashville Repertory Theatre closes out its 39th season with one of the best laugh-out-loud comedies we’ve ever seen on a Tennessee Performing Arts Center stage: Selina Fillinger’s uproariously funny, if all-too-real, POTUS or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive. Directed by the acclaimed Lauren Shouse and performed by an all-star cast that’s filled with seven of the best actors in Nashville, it’s a smart, incisive and topical farce that’s certain to lift your spirits and feed your soul.

Review: INK - DIMITRIS PAPAIOANNOU, Sadler's Wells
by Matthew Paluch - Feb 29, 2024

In the 2024 UK premiere of his 2020 work, INK, we see Papaioannou himself and Šuka Horn perform a “nightmarish manhunt…testing the limits of reality.”

Review: When Akhmetshina's CARMEN Is On Stage at The Met, Don't Fence Her In
by Richard Sasanow - Jan 6, 2024

Sometimes you hear a singer who embodies a role so completely that it’s hard to imagine her in anything else. That’s how I felt about the wonderful mezzo Aigul Akhmetshina, who’s singing the title role in the Met’s new production of Bizet’s CARMEN, which I saw at its second performance. Her portrayal was as full-bodied as her voice and she sizzled, filling up the stage as much as one can imagine. It’s little surprise that she’s considered the Carmen of the moment, having appeared in seven other productions (with two to come).

Geoff Sobelle's FOOD Defies Description, But Still We Make an Attempt
by Jeffrey Ellis - Dec 3, 2023

Now onstage at Oz Arts Nashville in a ten-performance run through Sunday, December 10, FOOD both defies description and demands it: if, for example, you are like me and found yourself so caught up in the sheer spectacle and drama of Sobelle’s stunning performance on opening night only to be unable to really talk about it for at least half an hour after...

Review: THE BREACH: STORIES OF SERVICE at Arkansas Repertory Theatre
by Theresa Bertram - Nov 27, 2023

Veteran’s Day is always special for me, because had it not been for my Air Force dad marrying a woman he met in Okinawa, I wouldn’t be here. It doesn’t take much to make me tear up when it comes to our service men and women, and that is exactly what happened when I went to THE BREACH: STORIES OF SERVICE at The Arkansas Repertory Theatre, 601 Main St, in Little Rock, on Saturday, Nov. 11. Director Ben Grimes and Assistant Director Ben Barham, founders of Riverside Actors Theatre, brought together an array of service members who braved the stage and shared their lives that pulled the audience members closer together as we melted while feeling collective emotions for our storytellers.   

Never Before Seen Artworks By Barry Humphries Now On Display At Adelaide Festival Centre
by Stephi Wild - Nov 17, 2023

Never before seen artworks by late Australian entertainer Barry Humphries AO CBE will be on display at Adelaide Festival Centre's Festival Theatre Galleries from this weekend, celebrating the artistic talents of Humphries.

Review: MOS, IOANNA PARASKEVOPOULOU, Barbican Centre
by Matthew Paluch - Oct 13, 2023

Foley artists don’t often get moments to shine - step forward Athens based dancer and choreographer Ioanna Paraskevopoulou with her work MOS presented by Dance Umbrella.

Review: THE REVENGE OF POPPERFACE, The Place
by Matthew Paluch - Sep 10, 2023

The Revenge of Popperface by Gareth Chambers invites the audience to muse over 'an experimental exploration of masculinity' through the occult and opera no less.

Glen Macnow To Host PCS Theater Season 112 Kick-Off Party
by A.A. Cristi - Aug 1, 2023

Get ready for a night of charitable giving as the highly anticipated Season 112 Kick-Off Party, hosted by legendary Philly Sportscaster Glen Macnow, is set to take place on Saturday August 26, 2023.

Review: HAIR- THE TRIBAL LOVE ROCK MUSICAL at Seacoast Repertory Theatre
by Dan Marois - Jul 24, 2023

'Hair' is well worth seeing especially for those who lived through the tumultuous times.

REVIEW: DRIFTWOOD THE MUSICAL Puts Eva de Jong-Duldig's Memoir About Her Australian Jewish Family's Journey Across The World On Stage
by Jade Kops - Jun 9, 2023

In the former Burton Street Baptist Tabernacle the story of a family fleeing religious persecution plays out in DRIFTWOOD THE MUSICAL. 

Silicon Valley Gay Men's Chorus to Present One-Night-Only Queer + 1983 Concert Party: FORTY
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 2, 2023

Silicon Valley Gay Men's Chorus' Rubyversary concert, FORTY, will celebrate and highlight all things 1983-the year the choir was founded-at the Hammer Theatre Center in Downtown San Jose, California, for one night only, at 7:30 pm on Friday, June 16, 2023.

Photos: Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks 'The Future is In Our Past' at Birdland
by Stephen Sorokoff - May 16, 2023

You don’t have to knock on the door and identify yourself to the bouncer looking through the peephole by saying “Joe sent me” the way revelers did during prohibition.  That was how to gain entry to the nightclubs of the day serving alcohol and jazz music during the 1920’s.

Review: RUSSELL MALIPHANT DANCE COMPANY: VORTEX, Sadler's Wells
by Matthew Paluch - May 4, 2023

Vortices and abstract expressionism: easy-breezy inspo for the Russell Maliphant Dance Company (RMDC) then. But definitely not a problem for me. I’ll take experimental over formulaic any day. And this isn't a new trend for the RMDC, as they’ve been taking a similar approach since their 1996 inception. But does experimentation guarantee success? I’d hope it’s more about discovery…and that as we know, can go either way. So fasten your seatbelts!

Geoff Norcott Brings New UK Tour to Worthing in March
by Stephi Wild - Jan 31, 2023

For his sixth UK tour, Geoff Norcott will be trying to make sense of the current cultural and political scene with his playfully provocative brand of humour. Whether it's the dire blandness of the two main parties or the shamelessly shoe-horned right-on messages in adverts and films, Geoff will continue to delve into areas much of comedy leaves well alone.

Dad Grass and Margo Price Partner For Special Collection in Celebration of Her Brand New Album 'Strays'
by Michael Major - Jan 26, 2023

Paying homage to the free-spirited nature, kaleidoscopic aesthetics, and personal elements that drive her recently-released fourth studio album, the collaboration includes federally legal Mom Grass flower and joints housed in limited edition packaging and made with CBG – the ‘mother of all cannabinoids’ and the building block for THC and CBD.

Review: RIDE THE CYCLONE at Arena Stage's Kreeger Theater
by Ken Kemp - Jan 24, 2023

Ride the Cyclone is a simply wonderful evening of fun, escapist theatre. It's quirky and unconventional and playing at Arena Stage's Kreeger Theater through February 9th.

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, COMEDY OF ERRORS, and More Set For Shakespeare's Globe 2023 Summer Season
by Stephi Wild - Jan 18, 2023

Shakespeare’s Globe has announced the Summer Season, running from April – October 2023.  Learn more about the lineup here!

A CHRISTMAS CAROL Opens In Two Weeks At Omaha Community Playhouse
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 5, 2022

Omaha's favorite holiday tradition, A Christmas Carol, will open Friday, Nov. 18, 2022 at the Omaha Community Playhouse (OCP). The show will run in the Hawks Mainstage Theatre from Nov. 18 through Dec. 23. Performances will be held Wednesdays at 7 p.m., Thursdays through Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and two performances Sundays at 2 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.

Review: Fiona Coyne's award-winning CAREFUL is on at Milnerton Playhouse
by Faeron Wheeler - Jul 16, 2022

The characters in CAREFUL are really well-rounded and the story develops in a very clever way. I enjoyed this offering from Milnerton Players and it was great to be back at this lovely theatre after two years.