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Review: ARIODANTE, Royal Ballet and Opera


by Gary Naylor - December 10, 2025

Musically impressive with real high points, the drama does not quite hold together...

Review: ARIODANTE, Royal Ballet and Opera


by Gary Naylor - December 10, 2025

Musically impressive with real high points, the drama does not quite hold together...

Review: THE BOOK OF MORMON at Van Wezel


by Jacob Ruscoe - December 10, 2025

I first saw The Book of Mormon in 2011, the year it opened on Broadway. I remember it being ok but disappointed in the overall performance. Years later (in 2022) I gave the show another chance on a trip to NYC and I wondered how my view could have been so different than the first time I saw it....

Review: David Archuleta Is A Christmas Star With MY ONLY WISH at Joe's Pub


by Stephen Mosher - December 10, 2025

Your only wish this holiday season should be to see David Archuleta's Christmas show at Joe's Pub....

Review: AJR ACOUSTIC SET at Newport Music Hall


by Paul Batterson - December 09, 2025

What did our critic think of AJR ACOUSTIC SET at Newport Music Hall?...

Review: A DOUBLEWIDE, TEXAS CHRISTMAS at Desert Theatreworks is a Great Deal of Fun


by Audrey Liebross - December 09, 2025

A DOUBLEWIDE, TEXAS CHRISTMAS is loaded with groaner puns and double entendres, the physical humor is anything but highbrow, and the characters are loony, with the audience frequently howling with laughter, especially during the insane second act....

Review: DANIEL'S HUSBAND, Marylebone Theatre


by Clementine Scott - December 10, 2025

We’re in a room straight out of the pages of Architectural Digest, two couples sipping Scotch on mid-century chaise longues. Like most plays set entirely in someone’s living room, though, fault lines amidst the middle-class domestic bliss soon emerge....

Review: RULES FOR LIVING at Round House Theatre


by Mary Lincer - December 09, 2025

What did our critic think of RULES FOR LIVING at Round House Theatre?...

Review: WHITE CHRISTMAS at Turner Theater


by Carolan Trbovich - December 09, 2025

What did our critic think of WHITE CHRISTMAS at Turner Theater?...

Review: COMMENÇONS PAR FAIRE L'AMOUR at Grand Théâtre


by David Sousa Lopes - December 09, 2025

Last week at the Grand Théâtre of Luxembourg, Laura Bachman’s new creation Commençons par faire l’amour premiered as an intimate, yet universal meditation on love, memory, and gender....

Past Shows

Into the Woods
Into the Woods
3/13 - 4/11/2020


James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim take everyone's favorite storybook characters and bring them together for a timeless, yet relevant, piece. The Tony Award-winning book and ...

The Rocky Horror Show
The Rocky Horror Show
1/17 - 3/1/2020


The Rocky Horror ShowMusic, Lyrics, & Book by Richard O'Brien & Richard HartleyJanuary 17 March 1, 2020, Thursday-Saturday at 8 pm & Sunday at 6 ...

Scrooge In Rouge
Scrooge In Rouge
12/6 - 12/22/2019


This quick-change, cross-dressing version of the Charles Dickens classic is set in a Victorian music hall. The Royal Music Hall Twenty-Member Variety Players are beset ...

Heathers, the Musical
Heathers, the Musical
10/18 - 11/24/2019


Heathers, the Musical is the darkly delicious story of Veronica Sawyer, a brainy, beautiful teenage misfit who hustles her way into the most powerful and ...

American Idiot
American Idiot
9/6 - 10/6/2019


The Grammy Award and two-time Tony Award-winning hit musical Green Day's AMERICAN IDIOT, based on the multi-platinum album, boldly takes the American musical where it's ...

Avenue Q
Avenue Q
7/5 - 7/28/2019


OB Playhouse is thrilled to present the return of an OB favorite, Avenue Q! Direction & Choreography by Jennie Gray Connard and Music Direction by ...

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street


Book by Hugh WheelerMusic and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Directed by Manny BejaranoMusical Direction by Will Ah SingThis Tony-Award-winning musical dark and witty tale of ...

You're A Good Man Charlie Brown


The classic comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schultz is coming to life in OB! Directed by Heather Deerfield & Bill Deerfield, Musical Direction by ...

Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead


This production of DOG SEES GOD is the first play produced by OB Playhouse in the three years they have produced live musicals in OB. ...

Pirates of Penzance Jr.
Pirates of Penzance Jr.
3/22 - 4/7/2019


Directed by Jennie Gray Connard and Musical Direction by Kirk Valles, set sail with this classic comedy that boasts one of the most famous patter ...

Scrooge In Rouge
Scrooge In Rouge
11/30 - 12/16/2018


This quick-change, cross-dressing version of the Charles Dickens classic is set in a Victorian music hall. The Royal Music Hall Twenty-Member Variety Players are beset ...

Avenue Q
Avenue Q
8/24 - 9/30/2018


Winner of the 2004 Tony® Award for best musical, Avenue Q is the story of Princeton, a bright-eyed college grad who comes to New York ...

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