Saturday, April 15, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) Brian Egland wears many hats in the theatrical world – stage and film actor, singer, songwriter, photographer and director amo…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 06:01PMWednesday, April 12, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) If Jersey Boys and Mamma Mia! are examples of “jukebox musicals,” then the national tour of Moulin Rouge! might be more acc…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 01:15PMTuesday, March 28, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) The final production for the Jefferson Performing Arts Society’s 2022-23 season is Misery, the play written by the late script…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 03:25PMWednesday, March 22, 2023
By EDWARD RUBIN Pictures from Home currently running thru April 30 is the most delightful and thought-provoking play currently gracing the Broadway stages at this very moment. Featuring the …
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 09:44AMMonday, March 20, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) One could argue that T. Lawrence Shannon, the defrocked Episcopal priest who is the central character of The Night of the Iguana…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 12:48PMWednesday, March 15, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) For the second time in less than six months, The Play That Goes Wrong, the hit West End and Broadway award-winning comedy is on …
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 01:47AMTuesday, March 14, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) There’s something to be said when a major New Orleans staple like Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is able to been …
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 07:05AMFriday, March 10, 2023
By ANNE SIEGEL MILWAUKEE, WI – As England prepares for its royal coronation in May, Milwaukee audiences have gotten a glimpse of the upcoming festivities with the arrival of the Six nation…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 10:57AMTuesday, March 7, 2023
By ROY BERKO In the late 1950’s through the 1980s The Theatre of the Absurd theatrical movement was the intellectual rage. Based on the concept of Existentialism which asks, “what ha…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 08:42AMMonday, March 6, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out”) If artists of one cultural or racial extraction are being considered above others for inclusion at a museum or at gallery shows,…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 03:21PMSaturday, March 4, 2023
By ANNE SIEGEL MILWAUKEE, WI – This Midwest state is currently swept up in a slate of new plays, all part of a project called World Premiere Wisconsin. The project, with multiple sources o…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 07:07AMThursday, March 2, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) When it comes to an old chestnut like “Fiddler on the Roof,” the biggest challenge may be in keeping the Joseph Stein book f…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 04:40PMFriday, February 24, 2023
By JASON ROBERT BROWN February 22, 2023, Nyack, NY So, the Neo-Nazis. There is a website about the Leo Frank case that is not hard to find on Google. It has been around in some form or other…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 03:25AMSaturday, February 4, 2023
By ROY BERKO When Hadestown, opened on Broadway on April 17, 2019, it was met with critical acclaim. Reviews contained such terms as “inventive,” “gorgeous, “hypnotic,” “high ene…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 01:37AMSunday, January 29, 2023
By EDWARD RUBIN Having lived in New York City’s East Village for many decades, I know the very neighborhood where much of the action in Anthony McCarten’s currently running Broadway play…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 04:32AMThursday, January 26, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (‘Steppin’ Out“) When A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical opened on Broadway nearly eight weeks ago, there was some bellyaching from fir…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 08:43AMWednesday, January 18, 2023
By ROY BERKO As the run of the awe-inspiring Hamilton draws to a close at the Playhouse Square’s State Theatre, Beetlejuice, the cult-followed farcical ghostly show appears next door at th…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 06:24PMWednesday, January 11, 2023
By ANNE SIEGEL MILWAUKEE, WI. – January temperatures rarely rise above 30 degrees here, so indoor activities are welcomed. Local theatergoers can watch a foot-stompin,’ whooping and holl…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 05:24AMMonday, January 9, 2023
By ALAN SMASON There are a plethora of plays that have become the basis of successful Broadway musicals. A classic example is Lynn Riggs’ Green Grow the Lilacs, which became Oklahoma. Th…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 11:37AMThursday, December 22, 2022
By EDWARD RUBIN Billed as “A Penetrating Portrayal of A Queer Giant,” performance artist John Kelly’s explosive gay-themed show Underneath The Skin, – bolstered by actor/dancers Hu…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 08:25PMTuesday, December 20, 2022
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) Billy Wilder’s “Some Like It Hot,” considered by many film enthusiasts as one of the greatest movies of all time, would se…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 03:55PMSunday, December 11, 2022
By ROY BERKO Since 1959, Dobama Theatre has been dedicated to premiering important new plays by established and emerging playwrights in professional productions of the highest quality. The L…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 07:43AMSaturday, December 10, 2022
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) Tom Stoppard had long established his credentials as One of the 20th century’s leading playwrights and authors, Tom Stoppard w…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 10:28AMThursday, December 8, 2022
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out”) There’s no more an appropriate time to present Irving Berlin’s ‘Holiday Inn’ than during the festive season of holiday …
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 11:19AMWednesday, December 7, 2022
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) Sharai Bohannon is an activist playwright who doesn’t shy away from tackling issues that some might feel uncomfortable discuss…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 05:40AMWednesday, November 30, 2022
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) Taking their regal cues from the likes of pop music royalty Beyoncé, Miley Cyrus, Ariana Grande, Jennifer Hudson, Avril Lavigne…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 08:01PMSaturday, November 26, 2022
By EDWARD RUBIN You Will Get Sick, currently playing Off-Broadway at the Laura Pels Theatre in New York City through Sunday, December 11, is the most riveting and mind-stretching play that I…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 06:37AMThursday, November 24, 2022
By ANNE SIEGEL MILWAUKEE, WI – Some funny anecdotes were once relayed by playwright Catherine Trieschmann to Milwaukee Repertory Theater Artistic Director Mark Clements. They initially led…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 04:54PMWednesday, November 9, 2022
By ROY BERKO Describe the Night, which is now on stage at Ensemble Theatre, is Cleveland Heights native Rajiv Joseph’s 2018 Obie Award winner for Best New American Play. Joseph was named …
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 12:39PMMonday, October 31, 2022
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) There is probably no more magnificent opening number in Broadway history than “Circle of Life/ Nants Ingonyama” found in Dis…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 06:41PMThursday, October 27, 2022
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) It’s taken a minute, but the only play to ever win both an Olivier Award in London and a Tony Award on Broadway has finally ar…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 01:28PM 
