AMADEUS Extends at Pasadena Playhouse Through Mid-March
by Chloe Rabinowitz
- Jan 15, 2026
Pasadena Playhouse has extended its upcoming production of Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus even before performances begin! Pasadena Playhouse will present a fifth and final week of performances.
Review: Snider’s Brilliant Score Anchors HILDEGARD at Prototype under Pulitzer’s Caring Eye
by Richard Sasanow
- Jan 12, 2026
This is Beth Morrison’s first year as sole curator, producer and presenter of New York’s PROTOTYPE Festival of indie opera/music theatre. She’s also midwife for the birth of Sarah Kirkland Snider’s gorgeously composed HILDEGARD, its centerpiece, which I heard at the Gerald Lynch Theater at John Jay College on January 11.
Morrison has proven herself, once again, to be true to her eponymous organization’s seeming marching orders: “I never do anything twice.”
Review: South Coast Repertory Presents THE HEART SELLERS
by Michael Quintos
- Nov 11, 2025
An intermission-less, two-character, conversational-centric play that focuses on a pair of women's specific immigrant experiences—marked with loneliness, hopes, fears, and puzzlements big and small—Pulitzer Prize finalist Lloyd Suh's absorbing, touching, and occasionally (thankfully) very funny play explores the emotional tug-of-war between comfortable, familiar cultural traditions left behind and the need to accept, learn, and assimilate to the often confounding realities of their new home environment—a sometimes exciting, but sometimes heartbreaking concept that many first-generation immigrants know all too well. Continues at South Coast Repertory through November 16, 2025.
Photos: THE BODY SNATCHER at Alley Theatre First Look
by Chloe Rabinowitz
- Oct 8, 2025
Alley Theatre is presenting The Body Snatcher. Alley Associate Artistic Director Brandon Weinbrenner directs Katie Forgette’s spine-tingling love story, inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson’s Victorian Gothic classic. See photos here!
Sarah Kirkland Snider’s HILDEGARD Premieres at Los Angeles Opera
by Nicole Rosky
- Oct 1, 2025
Snider’s first opera, HILDEGARD, for which she also wrote the libretto, will be presented in rolling world premieres by Los Angeles Opera (November 5-9, 2025) and PROTOTYPE Festival in New York (January 9-17, 2026), with subsequent performances at the Aspen Music Festival and School (Summer 2026, details TBA).
Review: AM I ROXIE? at GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE
by Tracey Paleo
- Sep 12, 2025
Roxana Ortega’s, one woman show, AM I ROXIE? is absolute magnificence. No need for lead-in or build-up. The statement is consummate fact.
Photos: AM I ROXIE? Opens at Geffen Playhouse September 11
by A.A. Cristi
- Sep 9, 2025
The Geffen Playhouse will open Am I Roxie? on Thursday, September 11, 2025, following previews September 3–10. Written and performed by Roxana Ortega (Nickelodeon’s The Casagrandes, The Groundlings) and directed by Bernardo Cubría, the one-woman show runs through October 5 at the Gil Cates Theater. See photos of the show.
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