Saturday, December 18, 2021
By JACK LYONS, Desert Local News Live theaters all over the country are mounting their various holiday versions of Christmas-themed plays and musicals. The Palm Canyon Theatre, the city’…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 04:24AMFriday, December 17, 2021
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) Coming just a year after the tragic deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor and last summer’s massive Black L…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 12:42PMTuesday, December 14, 2021
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) Any child of the Sixties or worthy Deadhead would probably bet their monthly Social Security check that Harvard professor Timoth…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 06:28PMFriday, December 10, 2021
By JACK LYONS, The world of theatre can become a transformative experience for many in the audience as each person views the production through different lenses at the same time. What i…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 10:11AMTuesday, December 7, 2021
By EDWARD RUBIN Manhattan Theatre Club’s production of British playwright Simon Stephen’s three-generation memory play Morning Sun runs through Sunday, December 19th at New York City Cen…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 07:06PMSaturday, November 20, 2021
By ANNE SIEGEL MILWAUKEE, WI – It may seem unusual for the state’s largest performing arts organization to open its doors after the pandemic with a comedy from the genteel South. Yet, a …
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 07:43PMFriday, November 12, 2021
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) There is an obvious conversation addressed early in Tootsie, the David Yazbek musical that won Santino Fontana a Leading Actor i…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 11:14AMFriday, November 5, 2021
By ROY BERKO In 2010 a gay Mississippi high school student was banned from coming to her senior prom by the school’s Board of Education because she wanted to bring her girlfriend as her da…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 11:35AMThursday, November 4, 2021
By ANNE SIEGEL The opening of Zora Howard’s Stew marks a return to the stage for one of Milwaukee’s longstanding companies, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre. For the past 20 months, one of the …
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 12:02AMSunday, October 31, 2021
By ROY BERKO For the last several years more and more attention has been placed on The Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements, woke language, microaggressions, radical feminism, transgender…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 10:51AMWednesday, October 27, 2021
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) With the opening of The Addams Family musical last week, director Leslie Castay added a new company, the Jefferson Performing Ar…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 11:02PMThursday, October 14, 2021
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) When Bryan Batt steps on the stage of Le Petit Theatre du Carré as the star of the one-man play Dear Mr. Williams, he is litera…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 12:29PMSaturday, October 9, 2021
By ROY BERKO The death penalty carries the inherent risk of executing an innocent person. Since 1973, more than 186 people who had been sentenced to death have been exonerated. Research by …
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 05:38PMFriday, October 8, 2021
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) When it was announced that Ricky Graham would be in the director’s chair for Hello, Dolly! at Rivertown Theaters for the P…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 02:14PMWednesday, October 6, 2021
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) With its most recent production of God of Carnage, the Jefferson Performing Arts Society has taken the wraps off Yasmina Reza’…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 09:15AMMonday, October 4, 2021
By JACK LYONS When it comes to original stories made into movies and TV films about the subject of love and marriage, one would be hard pressed to ignore the angst-filled dramas of the great…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 08:05AMThursday, September 30, 2021
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) There are times when a single performance rises above all others within a given production. While these times are rare, when the…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 05:47AMSaturday, September 18, 2021
By ANNE SIEGEL (Dashland, OREGON) – Water by the Spoonful is perhaps even more relevant today than when it was staged at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2014. The play initially appeare…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 09:04PMSaturday, September 11, 2021
By ANNE SIEGEL SPRING GREEN, WI. – This summer, while audiences were flocking to the large, outdoor theater to view Shakespeare under the stars, another small miracle was taking place insi…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 06:33AMThursday, August 12, 2021
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) When the notices first went out proclaiming an upcoming production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard at Slidell’s C…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 03:36AMTuesday, August 3, 2021
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) Rob Ulin must be a very happy man. He obviously has been saying his prayers and living a proper and pious life. That must be the…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 09:50AMWednesday, July 28, 2021
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) Watch out, Sonny Crockett and Rico Tubbs, there are two dudes named Antipholus who are being confused for one another in the Sou…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 07:24PMBy ANNE SIEGEL Under a towering grove of old growth trees, on an exceptionally balmy evening, the Summit Players were hurriedly making preparations for their production of free Shakespeare i…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 04:42AMSunday, July 25, 2021
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) Jill Conner Browne has transformed herself into the head of a giant cottage industry of self-aware and loudly proud plus-sized a…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 11:23PMBy JACK LYONS It’s amazing what the human mind can understand and accomplish when it comes to the world of theatre and its sister art form the motion picture. Both are potent art forms …
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 11:14AMSaturday, July 24, 2021
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out”) The second and final weekend of Summer Lyric Theatre at Tulane’s Jesus Christ Superstar brings with it the final shows of the …
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 11:09AMWednesday, July 14, 2021
By EDWIN RUBIN The very mention of the New York City’s own wildly popular actress and comedian Jackie Hoffman – she of 1000 facial expressions, bodily quirks, a score of well-placed ad l…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 05:52AMSaturday, July 3, 2021
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) When the shutdown of Broadway occurred in March of 2020, there were few devotees who expected it to drag on for more than 16 mon…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 11:43AMWednesday, June 30, 2021
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out”) It’s taken two years for the darkened stage of Tulane University’s Dixon Hall to be witness to the frenetic work of dozens o…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 08:11AMBy ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) Tovah Feldshuh has made a career of originating memorable roles of strong female characters on both the small and large screens,…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 07:48AMSaturday, June 26, 2021
By Edward Rubin The night I attended a live production of Jacob Storms’ one man show, Tennessee Rising: The Dawn of Tennessee Williams, held at the Cell Theater in New City, it was raining…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 02:02PM 
