Thursday, August 6, 2026
By LOU HARRY On a four-day visit to the Stratford Festival in July, I was able to witness all but one of the simultaneously running productions, only missing Othello and a trio of plays not …
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 08:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 16, 2026
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) When director Kelly Fouchi decided to revisit one of her first successes as an artistic director at Rivertown Theaters for the P…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 08:40AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 12, 2026
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) Scott Sauber has proven to be an accomplished and impressive performer in recent years. Already a successful director and lighti…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 04:40AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 5, 2026
By LOU HARRY I laughed a lot during Iceboy, the new musical getting what producers hope is a pre-Broadway run at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. The new musical concerns a wealthy actress’…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 10:53AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 1, 2026
By LOU HARRY From 1970 to 1973, composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim and director Harold Prince masterminded a trio of landmark musicals that focused largely on marriages – their complexitie…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 09:59PM[SHARE]By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) In Shakespeare’s Richard II at the beginning of Act II, there is a famous phrase that is uttered in reference to England. On…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 12:26PM[SHARE]Monday, June 22, 2026
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out”) When John Kander and Fred Ebb first premiered Chicago, they must have thought they had bad timing. That’s because with Gwen Ve…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 06:39PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 20, 2026
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) There are so many things to consider about Once that make it a truly special musical experience like few others. The superb dire…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 06:38PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 16, 2026
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) When the 79th Tony Awards became a part of Broadway history, the show with the biggest heart and smallest carried themselves acr…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 05:09PM[SHARE]By AARON KRAUSE I recently witnessed the non-Equity, national touring production of The Book of Mormon at the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami from June 9-14. Here are some observations: This …
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 01:23AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 7, 2026
By GINNY MARIE Monty Python’s Spamalot galloped onto the Saenger Theater stage this week, the final show of the Broadway across New Orleans 2025-26 season. With lyrics and a book by Eric I…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 12:36PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 6, 2026
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) The first clue I had that this production was going to be something special was when I got to my row and discovered to my shock …
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 12:22PM[SHARE]Friday, June 5, 2026
By LOU HARRY I had the honor of representing the U.S. as a delegate to the International Association of Theatre Critics congress in Craiova, Romania in late May. The fringe benefit of that w…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 09:27AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 21, 2026
By MEGHAN LOVELACE The Book of Mormon is a familiar buddy comedy with satirical flair. The jumpy choreography and dopamine disco lighting had me sitting back in my seat thinking I was going …
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 04:17AM[SHARE]Friday, December 12, 2025
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") The national tour of Back to the Future: The Musical materialized onto the stage of the Saenger Theater this week and left wakes of la…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 02:18PM[SHARE]By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") The national tour of Back to the Future:The Musical materialized onto the stage of the Saenger Theater this week and left wakes of lau…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 12:41PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 22, 2025
By LOU HARRY Based on a documentary, The Queen of Versailles, the new Stephen Schwartz and Lindsey Ferrentino musical on Broadway at the St. James Theatre concerns an amoral, in-it-for-herse…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 11:04AM[SHARE]Monday, November 17, 2025
By LOU HARRY Musicals tend not to be humble. With rare exceptions, they announce themselves whether with well-known performers, high-profile source material, energetic dance, or visual spect…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 09:18AM[SHARE]Friday, November 14, 2025
By LOU HARRY Thanks to its notorious David Merrick-produced/Patti LuPone-starring died-on-the-road 1976 tryout, the Steven Schwartz/Joseph Stein musical "The Baker's Wife" landed a reputatio…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 06:37PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 9, 2025
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") At the beginning of Bess Wohi's play Liberation, the character of Lizzie breaks the fourth wall to greet the expectant audience. She m…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 10:01AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 21, 2025
'By LOU HARRY Instead of praising our goulash, They're appraising the plays of Willie Mays. In the original production of Dawn Yankees, that's a lyric sung by Meg Boyd and other neglected wi…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 01:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 18, 2025
By ROY BERKO The Notebook: The Musical tells the heart warming, and often heartbreaking life-long love story, of Allie and Noah.  It is based on a true tale inspired by author Nicholas…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 04:38AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 13, 2025
By SCOTTY BENNETT Hard to Say by Kyle Ayers is a stand-up comedy show about dealing with chronic " at times " nearly intractable pain. In Ayers' case, it is caused by a nerve disorder called…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 12:29PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 13, 2025
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") When Arthur Miller debuted The Crucible in 1953, the nation was emerging from the dark and sinister times of accusations and recrimina…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 02:15AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 12, 2025
By ANNE SIEGEL SPRING GREEN, Wis. " There's no better time for out-of-state visitors to head towards Wisconsin than right now. Some people might stay at campgrounds, others may find a secret…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 05:03AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 3, 2025
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") Jamie Wax's play Call Me Izzy is set in Mansfield, Louisiana, some three to four hours away from where he grew up in Baton Rouge and N…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 11:11PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 31, 2025
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") It is perhaps most appropriate that for the third jewel in Summer Lyric Theatre at Tulane's studded crown is Carousel, the Rodgers and…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 02:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 23, 2025
By SCOTTY BENNETT Storytellers are artists who use a palette of verbal and physical effects to paint, in sound and motion, the picture the wordsmith creates in words on a page. David Dean Bo…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 06:56AM[SHARE]By ALAN SMASON This season's New Orleans Shakespeare Festival has been quite unusual. To begin with, the first of its two major productions wasn't even Shakespeare: it was Moliére and his f…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 06:15AM[SHARE]Monday, July 21, 2025
By LOU HARRY There are expectations that come when a play explicitly centers on death " particularly a play with a doom-and-gloom title such as the one attached to Noah Diaz's play You Will …
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 09:37AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 19, 2025
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") Julie Benko turned in a perfect performance as Eliza Doolittle in a concert version of Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady opposite Broadw…
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