“Breathe in. Breathe out. Move on.” Such is the advice the happy-go-lucky lounge singer Tully Mars (Bright Star’s Paul Alexander Nolan), who serenades guests at the titular Margaritaville Hotel and Resort, gives to career-minded environmental scienti …Read more
Tony Kushner’s two-part, Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is an ordeal. A play to be wrestled with. It is funny, disturbing, thrilling, intellectual, guttural, erotic, angry, despairing, hopef …Read more
By now in their over 30-year history, Cirque du Soleil needs no introduction. Sui generis, they are the largest theatrical company in the world, combining circus traditions from around the globe with spectacle, unique narratives, an international phe …Read more
If you were a fan of the blockbuster movie Frozen, or better yet, saw it with a little person as I did, you were excited when Disney announced their plan to produce a Broadway version. In our house we’ve been anticipating this for two years. Finally …Read more
The Broadway show and global phenomenon Rocktopia can best be described as what might happen if Mozart and Beethoven were having a party and Freddie Mercury and Pete Townsend walked in. This musical revolution has spent the last several months tourin …Read more
“The Dream of the Rood” is an Old English poem about a talking cross – specifically, the cross on which Christ was crucified. Once a vehicle for administering punishment to the oppressed, the cross is now a symbol of salvation, encrusted with jewels …Read more
What is it about: Balti and Jaker are gay 20-year-olds enjoying romantic and sexual possibilities on their college campus. When Jaker asks Balti to pretend to be straight during Jaker’s grandmother’s campus visit, a chasm opens and Balti finds himsel …Read more
Arin Arbus doesn’t beat around the bush in her production of Shakespeare’s tragicomedy The Winter’s Tale (at Theatre for a New Audience’s Polonksy Shakespeare Center). She knows many of us are going to be waiting for that bear to show up in Act III a …Read more
The evolution of relationships and the challenges of lifelong partnership are two themes that Max Baker explores in his refreshingly witty play Hal and Bee. Stable Lab Co. and New Light Theater Project tackle the thoughtful, comedic work with finesse …Read more
Apparently, being William Shakespeare’s wife was a pretty thankless task. At least, that’s what Anne Hathaway leads us to believe in Vern Thiessen’s show Shakespeare’s Will (directed by Mimi McGurl at HERE). And I, for one, don’t doubt it. The scene …Read more