Irishtown – 01 May 2025 Ciara Elizabeth Smyth’s dark comedy Irishtown explores the concept of how theatre is created and whether it’s best to stay within the realm of what you know or …
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 10:29PMDeath Becomes Her – 29 April 2024 Death Becomes Her is a show that didn’t work for me, but I’m having a hard time explaining why. The design elements were flawless and beautiful. Each…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 05:43PMDead Outlaw – 30 April 2025 I applaud Dead Outlaw for being one of the few Broadway shows with genuinely original content, a fully original score, and no need for a television/movie star t…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 10:45PMReal Women Have Curves – 25 April 2025 Real Women Have Curves was speaking my language from the moment I entered the theatre and saw the gorgeous mural that set the tone for story that, l…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 09:30PMPirates! The Penzance Musical – 09 April 2025 Roundabout Theater Company’s swashbuckling re-setting of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance in New Orleans, Louisiana is the…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 12:00AMManhatten Mayhem by David Rothenberg, review written 25 April 2025 David Rothenberg’s new memoir, Manhattan Mayhem, is an intelligent, beautiful look at a lifetime of memories (and fictio…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 11:58PMHold Me in the Water – 17 April 2025 Since I first saw Ryan J. Haddad present a preliminary reading of Dark Disabled Stories in Damrosch Park (and waited around afterwards to shake his h…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 08:30PMminor.ity – 19 April 2025 minor.ity begins with a Senegalese storyteller (Ato Essanndoh) inviting the audience into a tale he’s going to tell. He pulls back the curtain to a modern-day s…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 07:43PMGlass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp. – 12 April 2025 The Public Theater’s presentation of four of Caryl Churchill’s short works carefully curated into one production baring all of their …
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 10:00PMFeatured Production: Othello – 6 April 2025 Stunt casting has been a part of Broadway for generations, and this 2024-2025 season is no exception. On the surface, it seems like a good idea.…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 09:02PMOld Friends – 10 April 2025 As theatre revues go, Old Friends is absolutely unique in a number of ways. The most distinct (and most amazing) is that it’s not just a couple of talented …
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 11:14AMHe Said, She Says – 07 April 2025 Many transgender people, especially those who transition later in life, like to glamorize their medical transitions as a way of finding peace and comfort …
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 07:35PMBecoming Eve – 05 April 2025 The degree to which I saw myself in Becoming Eve was overwhelming. The powerful weight of Jewish tradition that seemingly hindered Chava (Tommy Dorfman)’s ab…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 09:00PMBoop! The Musical – 29 March 2025 The most interesting and exciting thing about Boop! The Musical is the devotion and commitment to creating a black-and-white cartoon world that is just as…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 12:00AMThe Threepenny Opera – 03 April 2025 Twenty-first century theatre, especially of late, primarily comes in two forms: safe and edgy. But it’s a very specific definition of “edgy”, whi…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 09:39AMThe Picture of Dorian Gray – 28 March 2025 The Picture of Dorian Gray starring Sarah Snook as all 26 roles appearing in this production makes brilliant use of a combination of live and pre…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 01:41PMAmerikin – 27 March 2025 There’s a strong push from civil rights advocates to acknowledge that everyone is human and therefore equal. Right from the get-go, Amerikin challenges this noti…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 11:40AMPOTUS – 22 March 2025 POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive at City Gate Productions utilized a talented cast of diverse women to shatter the glas…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 10:32PMThe Trojans – 20 March 2025 The Trojan horse of The Trojans by Leegrid Stevens as produced by Loading Dock Theatre was hiding a very dark and depressing reality inside a fun, enjoyable exp…
SOURCE: Pages on Stages at 07:00PMI have a deep admiration and respect for BASHEVIS'S DEMONS for not only bridging gaps between spoken Yiddish and the modern world, but also for reaching back into the theatre canon to bridge…
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