Playing with ideas of love, hope, inspiration, artistic merit and dreams, “The Nina Variations” is a clever, funny, and heartfelt adaptation-cum-homage to Chekhov’s “The Seagull”. The two main characters, Nina (Leigh Adel-Arnold) and Treplev (Mark Ko …Read more

Toni Bentley has worked with director Zishan Ugurlu to bring her 2005 semi-autobiographical erotic novel, “The Surrender”, to the stage. The story is that of a woman’s personal awakening to a level of intimacy and emotional exposure that is brought t …Read more

Playwright Eric Simonson is becoming a specialist in plays having to do with real-life sports icons. His “Lombardi” played a healthy run at Broadway’s Circle in the Square Theater in 2010-11, and “Magic/Bird”, about basketballers Magic Johnson and La …Read more

When George Faison of The Faison FireHouse Theater puts on a show, you have to attend.  And when he presents a free production, you need to run to the theater as fast as you can.  On Tuesday, The Tony Award Winner Faison along with the beautiful Cher …Read more

“On the final night of her reign as World Queen of the Cocoa Bean, the glamorous and eccentric Cookie Conwell fulfills her lifelong dream of hosting “The Chocolate Show!” where she must choose her successor. Who will be the next to wear the solid cho …Read more

There are so many things that can go wrong in an evening of 10-minute plays, but The Fire This Time Festival gets it right.  With six great new plays written by emerging playwrights — all of them with engaging voices rooted in truthful experience — …Read more

Authenticity, in language and delivery, is not always easy to convey. And thus having Spanish actor Pep Muñoz play Ricard, a fictitious character inspired by a Catalan activist and bank robber Enric Duran, gave “39 Defaults” a necessary sense of real …Read more

In the year 2012, Team iLuminate dazzled judges and audience members of “America’s Got Talent” with their glow in the dark dancing which combined popular pop hits with unique wireless lighting suits (Sharon Osbourne called them “groundbreaking”). Dur …Read more

Kids grow up so fast. I took my 7 year old to see “Piggy Nation”, and while he had a very good time, he also commented that the show is was obviously for “little kids”.  I would have to agree that the target audience for this enjoyable little product …Read more

Imagine a ghost story told in a rural nightmare town where the lights are always gone. Now add livestock, the abandoned women of Eaton, Colorado, and violence in the American West and you’ve got “My Daughter Keeps Our Hammer”, a world premiere play b …Read more