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AIN’T TOO PROUD: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE TEMPTATIONS (National Tour): Songs, fun, and nostalgia

Toby Zinman January 6, 2024 2 Comments

This is Motown, and this cast is up to the task: good voices, great moves.

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Interviews Theater

Get Ready: Interview with Michael Andreaus in AIN’T TOO PROUD

Debra Danese January 2, 2024 No Comments

Michael Andreaus is playing the role of Otis Williams in the national tour of Ain’t Too Proud- The Life and Times of The Temptations.

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Theater

Holidaze Wishes: Local artist Ashley Zimmerman talks about the seasonal Cirque Dreams show

Debra Danese December 7, 2023 No Comments

A whimsical, Broadway-style musical infused with contemporary circus artistry

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Reviews Theater

COMPANY (Forrest Theater): Gorgeously musical if lacking in Sondheim’s subtlety

Toby Zinman December 3, 2023 No Comments

Sondheim’s genius makes ambivalence gorgeously musical, but his ironic, subtle sophistication is in short supply in this production

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Reviews Theater

MADAME OVARY (Inis Nua): Theater or therapy?

Toby Zinman November 12, 2023 No Comments

Madame Ovary is a staged memoir about a young woman who survived cancer; it is the fourth female solo show opening just this week:

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Reviews Theater

[NYC] TRANSLATIONS (Irish Rep): Searching for clues

Toby Zinman November 10, 2023 No Comments

The danger with a Brian Friel play is charm. No stage Irishmen here at Irish Rep’s production, no comical drunkenness. Another danger, especially in a…

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Reviews Theater

THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM (Azuka): Impassioned and interesting sidestepping

Toby Zinman November 6, 2023 No Comments

In a world full of rooms which are full of elephants, a lot of sidestepping is required of us all. 

View More THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM (Azuka): Impassioned and interesting sidestepping
Reviews Theater

CAMP SIEGFRIED (Theatre Exile): An unlikely love story

Kathryn Osenlund November 5, 2023 No Comments

Love happens, even in a setting dedicated to concentrated evil, as an American girl becomes a fierce Nazi uber-princess. 

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Reviews Theater

WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME (Arden): A witch’s cauldron of sometimes magic

Toby Zinman November 3, 2023 No Comments

Even the most hallowed document is no match for a teenage girl, as Heidi Schreck reveals in her play, What the Constitutions Means to Me.…

View More WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME (Arden): A witch’s cauldron of sometimes magic
Theater

Life in Oz: Interview with Celia Hottenstein in WICKED

Debra Danese November 3, 2023 No Comments

Actress Celia Hottenstein has taken on the role of Glinda in the national tour of Wicked. The musical sensation is the 4th longest running Broadway…

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Theater

Singing Sondheim: Interview with Beth Stafford Laird in COMPANY

Debra Danese November 2, 2023 No Comments

Beth Stafford Laird is no stranger to life on the road. The actress, who grew up in Wayne, PA, counts COMPANY as her fifth national…

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Reviews Theater

[NYC] MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG (Hudson Theater)

Toby Zinman October 15, 2023 No Comments

This is vintage Sondheim, the unimaginable flop now on Broadway again, restored to its dazzling, heart-wrenching brilliance. Merrily We Roll Along has been called his most personal,…

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Reviews Theater

NO EXIT (Quintessence): A new translation of a hellishly absurd classic

Kathryn Osenlund October 13, 2023 No Comments

Quintessence Theater’s founding artistic director Alex Burns, has written a new translation from the original French

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Reviews Theater

[NYC] PURLIE VICTORIOUS (Music Box Theatre): A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch

Toby Zinman October 2, 2023 No Comments

Ossie Davis’s brilliant and hilarious play is part vaudeville, part sermon. And if preaching is theater, theater is preaching. And the lesson is that “faith…

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Reviews Theater

ASSASSINS (Arden): A celebration of psychopaths

Kathryn Osenlund October 1, 2023 No Comments

The wall of the F. Otto Haas Stage features pictures of targets and X’s for murdered presidents. Starting with John Wilkes Booth’s killing of Abraham…

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Reviews Theater

TARTUFFE (Lantern): Delightfully over-the-top

Kathryn Osenlund September 29, 2023 No Comments

Before he became a celebrated playwright, Jean-Baptiste Poquelan was a poor thing in a touring shoestring theater company. Although he had wanted to be a…

View More TARTUFFE (Lantern): Delightfully over-the-top
Fringe Festival Theater

Fringe in Sketch: CYBORG DREAMS (Curt Haworth Movement and Performance)

Aaron Krolikowski September 27, 2023 No Comments

The piece lands in the not-so-distant future, when humans have evolved with their technology to become one. This is a nonlinear journey through the reimagined…

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Interviews Theater

That’s Fetch: Interview with MEAN GIRLS’ Natalie Shaw

Debra Danese September 26, 2023 No Comments

Natalie Shaw grew up in Fargo, North Dakota and started her musical theatre training at an early age. After finishing her degree at the University…

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Theater

Fringe in Sketch: ASHES ASHES (Yellow Bicycle Company)

Aaron Krolikowski September 17, 2023 No Comments

An exploration of the costs of total war and the minds of its apologists.

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Theater

Fringe in Sketch: TODOROV’S DIRTY LAUNDRY (Nick Gillette Improv)

Aaron Krolikowski September 16, 2023 No Comments

Each night, a freshly generated play centers upon a single unanswerable question: Did this widower see a ghost or is he going mad?

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