Monday, August 14, 2023
By ROY BERKO Alison Bechdel is a cartoonist who came to national attention via her long-running comic strip "Dykes to Watch Out For." She combined her life story and her comic strip style in…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 05:22PM[SHARE]Friday, August 11, 2023
By ROY BERKO "Guilt, the gift that keeps giving." "Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery." "Encourage independence in your children by reg…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 11:51PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 9, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") With its undercurrent of racism, statutory rape and threatened castration, Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth is not a play for t…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 11:55AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 2, 2023
By EDWARD RUBIN OK, so they weren't exactly dancing in the aisles at the New World Stages the night that I attended The Rock & Roll Man. Forget that I said that. What the audience was do…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 11:56AM[SHARE]Friday, July 7, 2023
By ALAN SMASON Polish filmmaker Rafal Zielinski is finally seeing his independent film "Tiger Within" released in theaters today, Friday, July 7. The motion picture released through Menemsha…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 12:24PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 1, 2023
By EDWARD RUBIN Little did Andrew Lloyd Webber know when he saddled his most recent musical with the ill-chosen name Bad Cinderella that he was handing theater critics here in New York a cud…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 11:15AM[SHARE]Monday, June 26, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") Many fans of Tennessee Williams know of the feelings of anguish he experienced when dealing with his sister Rose Isabel Williams. Rose…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 05:56AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 24, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike is a very funny work. That much has been clearly established in the decade…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 09:55AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 21, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") Meredith Wilson composed what may have been the most iconic of American musicals with his The Music Man that took home five Tony Award…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 06:05PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 20, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") In a town famous for launching its most famous celebration on Twelfth Night, one might think the connection to the self-named Shak…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 10:26AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 14, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") Aaron Sorkin and Bartlett Sher have made an impressive team. In fact, their partnership has resulted in the greatest box office for a …
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 10:32AM[SHARE]Monday, June 12, 2023
(NEW YORK) " The United Palace, the opulent and spectacular movie theater that was once home to minister Reverend Ike, served as the glamorous backdrop for Broadway's night to honor its own,…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 09:43AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 11, 2023
By ROY BERKO Doubt: A Parable, which is now on stage at Beck Center for the Arts, won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play.  It ran for 525 performances i…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 02:46PM[SHARE]Friday, June 2, 2023
By EDWARD RUBIN Alfred Uhry's musical Parade, co-conceived by Hal Prince with music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, is now playing to sell-out crowds and rave reviews, and back on Broadway…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 02:59PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 24, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") Author Mark Haddon created a best selling novel 20 years ago in Great Britain with "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 02:02PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 20, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") There is an adage well known to pharmacists and those familiar with shampoo. The directions "repeat when necessary" come to mind for a…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 01:14PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 16, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") Despite its having won a Tony Award for scenic design, The SpongeBob Musical appeared to be a lightweight entry on the season for R…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 09:11AM[SHARE]Monday, May 15, 2023
By ROY BERKO The setting in which a musical production takes place, often affects the pleasure one gets from the experience. A perfect case in point is Ain't Misbehavin' presently being …
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 09:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 2, 2023
(NEW YORK) " Tony Awards nominations were announced this morning by Lea Michele and 2022 Tony Award winner Myles Frost. The full list of nominations follows. A total of 38 shows were elig…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 05:44PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 29, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") Lance E. Nichols has played many roles in his stellar movie and TV career, but the opportunity to emulate playwright August Wilson in …
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 10:46AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 25, 2023
By ROY BERKO It's always exciting and challenging to see a "new" play script come alive in a staged production, especially by a creditable performance company.  What We Look Like, now …
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 09:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 20, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") In 1851 in an article written for DeBow's Review that was published in New Orleans, Dr. Samuel Cartwright, a physician, created a pseu…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 02:29PM[SHARE]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 among them.…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 06:01PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 accurately …
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 01:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 scriptwriter W…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 03:25PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 09:44AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 by Te…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 12:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 the bo…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 01:47AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 seen with …
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 07:05AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 national…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 10:57AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 …
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