From left: Taya Ming and Nia Stephen in the National Tour of "The Enormous Crocodile" (Photo by Danny Kaan) As you enter the Kirk Douglas Theatre, you are handed a large foam peanut and greeted by smoke-filled soap bubbles that waft through the air. Eager children, peanuts in hand, scramble to pop as many bubbles as they can. Even from this pre-show, it’s clear that “Roald Dahl’s The Enormous Crocodile” will be filled with spectacle and interactivity.   This musical adaptatio

Directed by The Actors’ Gang director Chas Harvey and written by Harvey, Megan Stogner, Willa Fossum and Cihan Sahin, “Arrest the Clowns: Insolent Until Proven Guilty” promises to be “an action-packed nail-biter about a revolutionary freedom squad of buffoons who will stop at nothing to take down the elusive artificial intelligence LOLA and save the world.”   However, experiencing the play is more of a mixed bag of vaguely revolutionary rhetoric, profanity and the stale scent

Manuel Oliver in “GUAC” at Woolly Mammoth Theatre (Photo by Cameron Whitman) “When you lose a son, what do you do?”   This urgent and gut-wrenching question rang in the ears of writer Manuel Oliver from the moment his son Joaquin (nicknamed “Guac”) was murdered in a 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. It’s also the opening line of Manuel’s solo performance dedicated to Joaquin, which, layer by layer, begins to provide the answer.   Fro

Brian Henson (right) in "Puppet Up! – Uncensored" at Kirk Douglas Theatre (Photo courtesy the artist and Center Theatre Group) First,...