Thursday, June 10, 2021
By JACK LYONS If this COVID-19 pandemic has taught us anything, then it's forced the American viewing public to think outside the traditional creative arts box when it comes to entertainment…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 05:51AM[SHARE]Friday, June 4, 2021
By EDWARD RUBIN Tiny Beautiful Things, George Street Playhouse's filmed play, based on Cheryl Strayed's book, "Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar," a 2012 …
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 09:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 25, 2021
By ALAN SMASON, Theatre Critic, WYES-TV ("Steppin' Out") When Heather Massie arrived on the stage of BB's Stage Door Canteen after 14 months of postponed performances from COVID safety proto…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 07:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 20, 2021
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") If there were any indication that the worst of the pandemic is now behind us and that a return to what we formerly considered "normal"…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 02:34PM[SHARE]Friday, May 14, 2021
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") Cheryl Strayed published her book "Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar" in 2012, based on several of the ac…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 10:55PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 17, 2021
By ALAN SMASON Look out! The Little Sisters of Hoboken are back, but you need not reach for your rosary beads or prepare to make an act of contrition. All you need do is head over to Riverto…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 07:36AM[SHARE]By JACK LYONS Ernest Hemingway, the American novelist and author, became a giant of American 20th century literature.  His style was new in the early 1920s.  It was fresh and it …
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 06:10AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 8, 2021
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") John Cullum, the two-time Tony Award winning leading Broadway actor, might have been content to rest on his well-deserved laurels. But…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 11:43PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 4, 2021
By ALAN SMASON No. It's not a latter-day Our Town. Nor is it Love Letters for couples. It is, however, somewhere in between. Streaming sales for a filmed stage reading of Dan Clancy's Middle…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 12:07PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 30, 2021
By ALAN SMASON When playwright Becky Mode wrote her first piece Fully Committed, she wrote well of what she knew. She had worked for many years as a worker in fine New York eateries taking r…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 12:49PM[SHARE]Friday, March 26, 2021
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") The story of God of Vengeance (Got fun Nekome), the three-act drama in Yiddish by Sholem Asch, was famously recounted in 2017 with …
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 04:27PM[SHARE]Friday, March 12, 2021
By EDWARD RUBIN For great fun, and a breathless romp through one woman's topsy-turvy life, Bad Dates, George Street Playhouses' filmed version of Theresa Rebeck's 2003 zany one-woman play st…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 02:54PM[SHARE]Monday, March 8, 2021
By ROY BERKO Beck Center often coordinates with Baldwin Wallace Music Theatre program to produce some of the Cleveland area's best musical theatre.  Not only does the stage often spark…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 07:37PM[SHARE]Andréa Burns sizzles and sparkles as Haley, a single parent trying to raise a teenage daughter, run a barely legitimate restaurant that only takes cash and still find time to search for lov…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 01:35PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 6, 2021
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") For three and a half years, Joseph Kesselring was the toast of Broadway with his dark comedy Arsenic & Old Lace. The play, which o…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 06:19PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 3, 2021
By JACK LYONS How does one cover 2000 years of religious history of the Jewish people and Gentiles in the Common Era (C.E.)?  Perhaps, a good start would be seeing life through the le…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 11:56PM[SHARE]Friday, February 26, 2021
When the worldwide theatre community shut down last March, Andréa Burns was riding high. She was getting ready to fly out to San Diego to be one one a group of actors who would be mounting …
SOURCE: www.crescentcityjewishnews.com at 06:02PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 13, 2021
By EDWARD RUBIN The first name that comes to mind whenever the name Hershey Felder comes into play is that of actor Sacha Baron Cohen. Not only do both men physically resemble each other, ar…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 09:18AM[SHARE]Friday, January 29, 2021
By ALAN SMASON, Special to Theatrecriticism.com For the past two decades, Stogie Kenyatta has researched, performed and perfected his one-man show The World Is My Home " The Life of Paul Rob…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 03:57AM[SHARE]Monday, January 4, 2021
By JACK LYONS, Special to Theatrecriticism.com (Desert Local News) " When the movie "Casablanca" merged the powerful elements of love, war, and destiny in 1942, the film and its producers ne…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 05:10PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 31, 2020
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") It might be easy to dismiss Estella Scrooge: A Christmas Carol with a Twist as another in a continuing procession of holiday fare we'v…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 10:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 29, 2020
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") The third entry in the Williamstown Theatre Festival's season using the Aubible platform was released in late December. This world pre…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 01:58PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 26, 2020
Rebecca Luker, a three-time Tony Award nominated actress, whose crystal-clear soprano voice and stunning presence established her as a star in some of Broadway's more noted musicals of the p…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 08:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 16, 2020
By ALAN SMASON Ever since the words "novel coronavirus" began to make the news circuits and theaters began what was hoped to be a relatively short downtime, the ingenuity of resourceful and …
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 11:11PM[SHARE]Friday, December 4, 2020
By EDWARD RUBIN Of all the celebs channeled by drag queens and female impersonators, Bette Davis, like flies to honey, has always been at the top of every performers list. Her mannerisms, he…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 11:26AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 12, 2020
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic ("Steppin' Out") Due to the ongoing COVID-19 restrictions limiting crowd sizes at public gatherings, local theatre companies have found themselves in a…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 02:50AM[SHARE]Friday, October 2, 2020
By ALAN SMASON With the current COVID-19 pandemic creating new and interesting virtual meeting places, university campuses have been marked by responsiveness and ingenuity. Last spring's vir…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 11:46AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 22, 2020
The Tony Awards Administration Committee met on August 27, 2020 to confirm the eligibility status of three Broadway productions for the 2020 Tony Awards®. This was the final time the Tony…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 03:10AM[SHARE]Friday, July 10, 2020
By ALAN SMASON As the seconds ticked by to display a 2:00 a.m. CDT time on the computer, it was easy for me to imagine the sounds of a million click booms on TV remotes across the nation. Th…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 08:07AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 18, 2020
The 65th annual Drama Desk Awards, which had been postponed during the COVID-19 pandemic, and then rescheduled for Sunday, May 31, only to be postponed again due to the emerging protests and…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 12:34AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 17, 2020
By HARRY DUKE, originally published in NORTH BAY BOHEMIAN What is the point of reviewing theatre? If you had asked me that question 90 days ago, my answer would be to provide potential audie…
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