The Gold sounds like the kind of thing Oscar dreams are made of: it has boxing, decades-spanning melodrama and Nazis, but what’s remarkable is that despite all of these elements it’s a rather sophisticated piece of storytelling that goes beyond being …Read more
“It’s tiresome acting like something you’ve never been” says Abraham (Adrian Blake Enscoe) to Angelina (Elizabeth A. Davis), and even though he’s making a personal confession in the hopes of finally becoming free, he might as well have been talking a …Read more
Just like its extremely long title, The First Church of Mary, the Repentant Prostitute’s FIFTH ANNUAL!!! Benefit Concert, and Pot Luck Dinner, turns out to be a little too much. The show is set in an evangelical church in Nashville where service is p …Read more
Who would have imagined that one of the summer’s freshest musicals would be a Yiddish operetta first seen in 1923? That’s what the creative folks at National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene have achieved with The Golden Bride, a richly detailed, endlessly …Read more
The National Theatre of Ireland, Dublin’s Abbey Theatre, has a history that, other than a bit of infamous seat-tearing, was instrumental in the country’s vast political changes in the first quarter of the 20th century. In its newest transatlantic off …Read more
The initial concept of Joshua Young’s Who Mourns for Bob the Goon? is intriguing enough in and of itself to entice the audience into its labyrinthine plot: Bob (Alex Teachy) believes that he is Bob the Goon, one of the Joker’s henchmen from 1989’s Ba …Read more
Tony-nominated actress Carmen Cusack has left audiences completely breathless over the course of her longstanding career in London’s West End, Australia, and the United States. After performing in classics such as Wicked, The Phantom of the Opera, an …Read more
Growing up in the tri-state area, actress Kristin Piacentile had access to theater and Broadway early on and was instantly mesmerized by the performing arts. Studying both in New York at the Tisch School of the Arts and at the Royal Academy of Dramat …Read more
In a world that trades in nostalgia and where everything old is new again, it makes sense to see Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats come back to Broadway. The show ran in New York from 1982 to 2000 shattering records and amassing equal amounts of adoration a …Read more
In Love Me Forever Billy H. Tender Jesse LaVercombe plays a former child star, his mother, and his brother, all of whom take part in a tragicomedy about the price of fame. After a sold out run in Toronto, LaVercombe will be premiering his piece at th …Read more