This wondrous musical show from Canada defies genre, yet sweeps you up in the tale of two Jewish refugees who more than a century ago made a new home in a new world.
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Theater Review (NYC): Phoebe Legere’s ‘Speed Queen: The Joe Carstairs Story’
Uneven pacing and lengthy diversions derail this loving musical tribute from the multitalented Legere to the cross-dressing lesbian oil heiress and speedboat champion.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘Good for Otto’ by David Rabe
The play buffets us from patient to patient, crisis to crisis, and dream sequence to real-life therapy. Artifice this skillful glows with a heightened authenticity. The glittering cast including Ed Harris, Amy Madigan, Rhea Perlman, Mark Linn-Baker, and F. Murray Abraham.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Terminus’ by Gabriel Jason Dean
Frightened girl, earth mother, rusty old wreck, fallen angel, Dean's central character has lived a life larger than life, yet feels as real as cemetery dirt. Amidst a brilliant production, Deirdre O'Connell helps make 'Terminus' one of the best shows I've seen in a long time.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Gypsy’ at the Secret Theatre
The scrappy Secret Theatre, whose snazzy production of 'Cabaret' was an Off-Off-Broadway highlight last year, has done well by another classic big musical with a sinewy 'Gypsy.'
Read More »Theater Interview (San Antonio): Texas Light Opera Takes its Show on the Road
TLO Executive Director and Board Member Joseph Urick talk about bringing the Texas theater community together.
Read More »Theater Review (San Antonio): ‘Tomas and the Library Lady’ at the Magik Theatre
This charming production tells the true story of Tomás Rivera, the son of migrant farm workers who is exposed the joy of reading by a warm-hearted librarian.
Read More »Theater Review (San Antonio): ‘Little Women’ at the Public Theater of San Antonio
A talented cast and attractive production help smooth over the bumps in the musical based on the Louisa May Alcott classic.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Disco Pigs’ at the Irish Repertory Theatre
How does one discover the meaning of life at sixteen? Seventeen?
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Jericho’ by Michael Weller
This powerful reworking of Ferenc Molnár's classic 'Liliom' is set in Coney Island during the Great Depression
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