Before a certain virus changed everything, I’d gotten into the enviable habit of jetting off to New York whenever a show I really, really wanted to see premiered on Broadway. […]
Women in America have long demanded that society appreciate their worth and contributions beyond the confines of a household. Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel, directed by Tasia Jones, mines the history […]
Guest review by Anne Siegel. In 1912, the fabled ocean liner Titanic never made it to its destination in New York City. In 2021, it seemed as though the Milwaukee […]
Guest review by Anne Siegel. Make no mistake; while most of the real-life wives of Henry VIII ended their days in misery (or worse), their 21st century counterparts are wiser, […]
Renée Elise Goldsberry is a charismatic entertainer with a big musical theater voice, and she was well-received as she sang her way through a variety of musical genres at the […]
A family’s Passover seder table at several time periods is the center of In Every Generation, a play about family, faith and history. Victory Gardens Theater is staging this world premiere […]
Life’s been a circus over the last two years, so we might as well lean into it. Welcome to the Chicago Circus & Performing Arts Festival, the Windy City’s newest multidisciplinary […]
Molly Sweeney is an independent middle-aged woman who lives in Donegal. She has a job, a husband, friends, social activities, and she loves to swim in the sea. She has […]
Emily Mann: Rebel Artist of the American Theater By Alexis Greene Applause Theatre and Cinema Books If B for Biography equals B for Boring to you, I suggest you adjust […]
More than 80 years ago, Hungary’s most famous playwright not named Ferenc Molnar wrote a little comedy called Parfumerie, all about a fancy cosmetic shop and the clerks who work […]
It’s 1958, and host Jack Paar has brought his Tonight Show to Los Angeles at the behest of NBC President Bob Sarnoff to conduct a simple test: can a live […]
It seems like it’s all about basketball but it really isn’t—until it finally is. King James, the wickedly funny world premiere play by Rajiv Joseph, is on stage at Steppenwolf […]