Clickbait, now playing at the Access Theater, is an interactive theater piece that poses multiple questions that deserve stage time: how can mental illness and suicide affect a community as a whole? How do we reconcile who we want to be and who we re …Read more

The promotional material on Dylan Coburn Gray’s Boys and Girls, part of the 1st Irish Festival, describes it well: “Emerging from the Irish spoken word scene, this play paints the Dublin nightscape in pyrotechnic verse; 4 intercut voices muse, tease, …Read more

The turbulent waters of friendship are explored in Ruby Rae Spiegel’s hard-hitting and moving new play Dry Land, now playing at the HERE Arts Center in a Colt Coeur production. The play mostly takes place in the girls’ locker room of a high school in …Read more

When there is chemistry between two people, they sometimes create a little smoke. In the titillating one-act, two-person play Smoke by Kim Davies, the heat generated by the characters gets so intense, you wonder if they’re going to get burned. At a h …Read more

Red Eye of Love, an old-fashioned musical with a few absurd twists, delivers an enjoyable and refreshing evening of fun. Produced by Amas Musical Theatre and playing at the Dicapo Theatre, Red Eye of Love gives the kind of pleasure one gets from Four …Read more

Dream Up Festival’s production Muse, by Crystal Field and Shakespeare’s Sister Company, is everything you could hope for in a gothic Victorian romance play. The costumes are beautifully authentic, the props apropos, and the love story — oh, the love …Read more

Tomorrow’s Dawn is a sweet and funny musical about being a teenager. The play explores love, friendship, family, and the gamut of emotions that plagues all young adults who are on the verge of discovering themselves. While the performance delves into …Read more

The weekly Wednesday floor show of the Slipper Room bar known as the Glitter Gutter show may be the best kept secret burlesque of the city. With featured acts such as Fire-eaters, Go-Go dancers, and aerial acrobatics, it’s essentially Pippin the Musi …Read more

Though billed as a “comedy for kids 7 to 107 years old”, Robinson (to) Crusoe isn’t your average children’s story. It takes place on a deserted island in the Asian Pacific Ocean, where two men have been stranded. One has come from a sunk Korean ship, …Read more

Abortion: A Race Redux brings to the stage an honest, provocative and ‘in your face’ storyline that does not tip-toe around the topic of how we view race in American culture. This modern adaption of Eugene O’Neill’s work, directed by Heather Lanza an …Read more