The downtown children's theater opens its 24th season with a delightful collection of Rudyard Kipling stories.
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Theater Review (San Antonio): Stephen Sondheim’s ‘Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street’
The Woodlawn Theatre offers up a bloody Halloween treat with an absolutely superb production of Sondheim's deliciously dark musical.
Read More »Hollywood Fringe Fest Preview: Robot Teammate and the Accidental Party’s ‘Thug Tunnel’
The Los Angeles-based improv troupe returns to the Fringe Fest this year with a promising new musical.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Dark Water’ by David Stallings
Dark Water is a stylistically powerful production that asks the overriding question,"Do we understanding what we are really doing to our environment and should we care?"
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Take Me Back’ by Emily Schwend
Bill is living at home with his diabetic mom. He feels frustrated as employment plans reach a dead end. But where else can he go and what else can he do? His mom needs him and he needs her. However, both are not inclined to admit it.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Gidion’s Knot’ by Johnna Adams
'Gidion's Knot,' written by Johnna Adams, brilliantly directed by Austin Pendleton and acted by Karen Leiner and Dara O'Brien examines social responsibility, parental responsibility and the cultural assumptions about both during a spell-binding, atypical parent-teacher conference.
Read More »The Nightmarish Interview Before Christmas: Chris Sarandon
Chris Sarandon talks to Blogcritics' Gabe Canada about his projects past and future.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Norwegians’ by C. Denby Swanson
Olive and Betty need some hit men, Norwegian gangsters in particular. These are really, really nice gangsters who will straighten out a woman's unhappy love life for a reasonable fee.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Playing Sinatra’ by Bernard Kops
Norman and Sandra Lewis enjoy playing Sinatra records. But the musical metaphor becomes associated with a psychological dynamic that is both funny and tragic.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Awake’ by Ken Urban
"...to sleep perchance to dream...ah what dreams may come?" Ken Urban's play challenges us about the division between reality and the dream-state. Does it exist?
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