There is no easy or pretty way to approach the subject of pedophilia, which playwright Paula Vogel explores in  “How I Learned to Drive”.  Tongue in Cheek Theater’s well-crafted production of this Pulitzer Prize-winning play is currently at the Bridg …Read more

“Mexican Hayride” is a Cole Porter musical that hasn’t been seen in New York since 1944, when it ran for a year with great success. It featured whopping cast of 99 performers and was later made into a feature film starring Abbott and Costello (though …Read more

The Flying Carpet Theatre’s new play, “The Medicine Showdown”, is a bright sunrise of great country entertainment, bona fide public health advice, and marvelous, metafictive dramatics.  Playwrights Adam Koplan and Topher Payne have written exuberant …Read more

What better way to show off your entertainment industry abilities than a one-man show about the entertainment industry? The Movement Theatre Company’s “Last Laugh”, written and performed by Eric Lockley and directed by Jonathan McCrory, is the perfec …Read more

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Cinderella” on Broadway banishes any thoughts about your daily life and whisks you away to dream in its fairytale world from the moment the orchestra starts to tune their instruments till you’re standing on your feet givi …Read more

In the prodigious Shakespeare canon, gender-benders have always been in vogue. Gender, like the theatre, is a performance and as our notions of gender fluctuate, complicate, and ultimately loosen, it only makes sense that the stage reflects those var …Read more

Fred Newman’s “Stealin’ Home” is a surrealistic portrayal of the story behind the hero Jackie Robinson, as told through intimate conversation and polymorphic perspective. It’s a wonderful performance full of gusto, historical-political flare, flashba …Read more

Pye, Pye, Pyewacket! That’s what the kids used to say — at least in the 1960s and ’70s. Probably in part because it’s kinda fun to say (try it out loud for yourself), but also because it’s a phrase attached to one of the few movies at the time that …Read more

I never imagined in middle school that I’d get to see a fully realized stage production of “Anthem”, a novel that blew my mind as an adolescent.  I therefore felt fortunate to see Austin Shakespeare’s take on the novel, adapted by Jeff Britting from …Read more

Glass Bandits Theater Company presents the world premiere of “feeling.” by Paul Cameron Hardy (a semi-finalist for the 2013 Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship), directed by Eddie Prunoske at the New Ohio Theatre.  It’s great space populated by talented a …Read more