Phillip McNiven, Matt Walker and Rick Batalla in the Troubies' "Home Alone-ly Hearts Club Band" at Colony Theatre (Photo by Ashley...

Mandy Foster (Emma) and Jeff Lowe (Mr. Knightley in “Jane Austen’s Emma, The Musical” at Chance Theater (Photo by Benjamin Busch) Some...

Patrick Page in "All the Devils Are Here" at Shakespeare Theatre Company (Photo by Julieta Cervantes) If you’ve ever been to a...

With its haunting sets, vivid costuming and energetic performances, A Noise Within’s (ANW) annual production of “A Christmas Carol”...

Photo by Bob Baker Marionette Theater The holidays are perfect for sweet confections wrapped in psychedelic bows. And that pretty much...

From left: Taylor Gilbert (Ann Carlson) and Andrew Elvis Miller (John Pine) in “The Civil Twilight” at the Broadwater Studio Theatre...

Rarely do the words “important” and “entertaining” stand side by side when describing a staged production. In fact, it often seems that...

Playwright Mark Wilding notes in the program for Theatre West’s “The Goddamn Couple Down the Hall (Oh…. and Merry Christmas!)” that he...

From left: Aasif Mandvi (Estragon / Gogo) and Rainn Wilson (Vladimir / Didi) in "Waiting for Godot" at Geffen Playhouse (Photo by Jeff...

Jason Alexander (Tevye) in "Fiddler on the Roof" at La Mirada Theatre (Photo by Jason Niedle/TETHOS) Stage-and-screen actor Jason...

Don Stephenson (Doc Brown) in "Back to the Future: The Musical" at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre (Photo by Matthew Murphy and Evan...

Shakespearean taboo For most theatergoers, the byline “by William Shakespeare” carries a unique weight. Seeing his name attached to a...

The title of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Piano Lesson” – one of his cycle of plays on African American life in the 20th...

The Group Rep’s “Four Top,” an original new comedy by Michael B. Kaplan at the Lonny Chapman Theatre, opens with a one-night stand, or at...

When the house lights dim for “Shipping” at The Elysian and a cloaked woman wanders the stage picking shellfish from the water, eating...

If you’re wondering whether the hype is real about “Kimberly Akimbo” – which won five Tony Awards following its 2022 Broadway run,...

“Babbitt” is playwright Joe DiPietro’s 2023 adaptation of Sinclair Lewis’s 1922 novel that contributed to him winning a Nobel Prize in...

Road Theatre Company’s “Robbin, from the Hood” opens with an elderly Percy Woods (William L. Warren) browsing TV channels from his...

Let’s cut to the chase: if you’re considering seeing Shakespeare Theatre Company ’s (STC) “Comedy of Errors”—continuing at STC’s Klein...

“The Skin of Our Teeth”—continuing through Sept. 29—is a weird play excellently executed by A Noise Within (ANW) with compelling acting...