In Abingdon Theater Company’s It Has To Be You, three children reunite in their old family home after a neighbor tips them off that their elderly mother may be demented. Comedy ensues when the trio learn that their mother, far from demented, has take …Read more

Carly Ozard, a cabaret singer based in San Francisco, brought her delightful show, “Midler on the Roof,” to Stage 72 at the Triad for a one-night show on October 7. Ozard is a Bette Midler super-fan, the kind who knows all the lyrics to every song an …Read more

In Catherine Butterfield’s new play It Has to Be You, which opens October 12 at the Abingdon’s Dorothy Strelsin Theatre, three children visit their mother, suspecting she has Alzheimer’s; they soon learn that Mom is sane, but has taken on a much youn …Read more

The soundtrack to Grind, a dark, funny new movie about Grindr, the gay hookup app, is finally available online. Lyricist Selda Sahin and composer Derek Gregor deftly capture the essence of Grindr, and what it means to be a young gay man right now. Ea …Read more

PTP/NYC, a theater company celebrating their 28th anniversary, recently brought a revival of David Edgar’s 1998 play Pentecost to New York City’s Atlantic Theater. The New York production is directed by Cheryl Faraone, who in addition to being the co …Read more

Forbidden Broadway is back with another lampoon of this year in Broadway. The show is something like the enchanted mirror of Snow White’s stepmother. This year, it asks, what is the future of Broadway? And what a dark reflection it casts back. The th …Read more

From the moment she steps onstage, you won’t want to take your eyes off of Courtney Act for one second. Courtney Act, a drag performer who has appeared on Australian Idol and RuPaul’s Drag Race, and played Angel in RENT, has brought a cabaret show to …Read more

Hedwig and the Angry Inch, a cult 1998 punk rock musical written by and starring John Cameron Mitchell, with music and lyrics by Stephen Trask, is back onstage. The gritty rock musical has softened its edges a bit for Broadway, but Hedwig, the transg …Read more

Take a story about historic art restoration, communism, and human misery, add a ton of heart, humor, hope and hubris, and you might get something approximating David Edgar’s Pentecost. The PTP/NYC (Potomac Theatre Project) revival of Edgar’s 1994 pla …Read more

Why write a play about Ethel Rosenberg, you may ask? We already know the ending (spoiler alert: she dies); and we all know the evils of McCarthyism, but it’s old news, a relic of the fifties. But Joan Beber’s new play, Ethel Sings: The Unsung Song of …Read more