Sharpen your senses, fire up your imagination, and bring along a hand to squeeze when you get scared out of your wits by "The Woman in Black," the season-ender at Gloucester Stage Company (more...)

“ACE”: Soaring Take Off, Bumpy Landing

ACE, a new musical, plays at Virginia’s Signature Theatre through September 28. (more...)

Summer's Last Hurrah: The 2008 Tanglewood Jazz Festival

The Festival is a tasting menu of the best Jazz, Blues and Vocals. (more...)

Fly by Night Theatre presents a festival of four one-act plays. Two of the four are dazzling pieces and a third has promise in its premise. * * * 1/2 (OUT OF 5) (more...)

Beautifully intimate staging of Tennessee Williams' classic drama is rewarding in so many ways. * * * * * (OUT OF 5) (more...)

Nicu's Spoon has remounted their ambitious production of Timothy Findley's Elizabeth Rex. (more...)

Without overstating the case, this is a marvel to behold — a purely theatrical wonder. (more...)

An elite group of graduate students from The Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama have been serving up a delicious musical theatre menu at the Edinburgh Fringe for the past three weeks with Sally Rapier’s atmospheric and tightly knit UK premiere production of The Off-Broadway musical "The Spitfire Grill". (more...)

'Love/Middle Ages' Premiere: Writers Proud, Audiences Agree

In development since 2003, and with three showcase productions in its hip pocket, the original musical “Love in the Middle Ages” had its fully-staged world premiere Friday night, August 22, 2008, much to the pride and delight of the opening crowd of well-wishers at the suburban Oak Park Village Players Theatre... (more...)

“Only the brave die young” claims a lyric line in the title song of the over-hyped and under achieving musical "Only The Brave" playing at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival. If you are a discerning fan of serious musical theatre then perhaps a more apt phrase would be “only the brave should come”. (more...)

There are those cherished moments in the theater when a performer grips the audience in such a manner that the evening not only becomes the talk of the town, but remains locked forever in the minds of the audiences who were fortunate enough to witness it. Such was the case recently when The Gateway Playhouse in Bellport, NY presented their version of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. Without exaggeration, the production became the buzz of the community. Not only were people enormously impressed with the stunning sets and costumes, but they were also bowled over by the brilliant performance of Josh Davis as the Beast. (more...)

The Joe Dipietro and Jimmy Roberts musical revue, "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change", is a smash hit Off Broadway show which in July 2008 ended a 12 year run of over 5,000 performances at New York's Westside Theatre. In August 2008 Edinburgh's Fringe fans have been flocking to Take Note Theatre's production at George Square. And it's not hard to see why. It's a great production of a great show. (more...)

Fringe: There Will Come Soft Rains

Sinking Ship Productions delivers ingenious new stage adaptations of three science fiction tales, using elements of story theatre, puppetry, and video. Part of the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival. (more...)

Fringe: CYCLE – A Vaudeville Comedy

In Rose Courtney's "CYCLE – A Vaudeville Comedy", an unsure young woman goes in search of The Secret of Success, helped by an itinerant vaudeville troupe flung to our age from the 30s. Part of the New York International Fringe Festival. (more...)

The Warren, RI theater finishes up it summer with a light, breezy comedy (more...)

Scott Schwartz and Natascia Diaz talk about the development of a musical from the New York Musical Theatre Festival to its formal premiere in Washington, DC. (more...)

Currently taking off at the Edinburgh Fringe's intimate George Square 2 venue is a new British musical, Jet, Set Go! by Pippa Cleary and Jake Brunger, directed by Luke Sheppard. For 75 minutes audiences are treated to a hugely enjoyable feast of humour and catchy tunes as this "cabin crew musical" takes them on a return flight between London Heathrow and JFK New York, spying on the lives of the aircraft's crew both during the flights and on their brief stay in the Big Apple. (more...)

'Syracuse' Adaptation is Oakbrook's 3rd Straight Homer!

Young producers Kyle and Drew DeSantis and Artistic Director William Osetek are on a roll with their Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace revisal of Rodgers and Hart's "The Boys from Syracuse." (more...)

Summer Shorts 2: Series A

Summer Shorts 2nd annual Festival of New American Plays includes 4 impressive one-act plays. Review of Series A. (more...)

Fringe: That Dorothy Parker: A Medley of Extemporanea

Carol Lempert’s one-woman show about Dorothy Parker naturally sparkles with wit, presented by Artistic New Directions as part of the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival. (more...)

Fringe: Anaïs Nin Goes to Hell: The Girls Who Just Watch

On an island in hell, Andromeda, Cleopatra, Heloise, Queen Victoria, and Joan of Arc all sit and wait, unchanging. And then comes erotica writer Anaïs Nin to turn their afterlives upside down, in David Stallings' fascinating play Anaïs Nin Goes to Hell, part of the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival. (more...)

Fringe: The Boy in the Basement: Romance in the Pants

A silly romance novel comes amusingly to life in Katherine Heller’s play "The Boy in the Basement", part of the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival. (more...)

Review: “The Producers’ at Theatre By The Sea

The Matunuck, RI theater caps its 75th season with a near-perfect production of the Mel Brooks comedy (more...)

Fringe: Big Thick Rod: Nymphomania Errant

When a wood nymph marries a stolid banker, she becomes sex-starved and ends up becoming a pimp as she learns about sexual commerce in Stanton Wood's new Fairy Tale Satire "Big Thick Rod", presented by Rabbit Hole Ensemble as part of the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival. (more...)

A Scottish-Jewish Musical? Bring in the Music, Bring in the Kilts (more...)