By Mingsi Ma The Becoming Arts Collective marks the return of the Bridges and Stages 10-Minute Play Festival for its second year by introducing a new partnership at a new site, The New Hazlett Theater. The 26 new plays, selected… Read More ›
Barbara Burgess-Lefebvre
Little Lake Theatre’s Season Continues With ‘Mr. Burns A Post-Electric Play’
Opening November 2nd at Little Lake Theatre, the futuristic Mr. Burns A Post-Electric Play examines the power of theater and the human dedication to telling stories. Anne Washburn‘s often gritty, hyper-realist work takes place shortly after an apocalyptic event, when… Read More ›
Review: ‘These Shining Lives’ at South Park Theatre
By BOB HOOVER Plaudits go to the South Park Theatre for taking on this difficult play about American history by playwright and screenwriter Melanie Marnich. Known for her work on the HBO series Big Love, Marnich has also written plays produced at leading… Read More ›
‘Sondheim on Sondheim’ is the Perfect Sondheim Mixtape – Performed by the Immense Talent at Stage 62
By Jessica Neu Before Jonathan wrote Tick, Tick…Boom and Rent, and before Lin-Manuel Miranda gave us In the Heights and Hamilton, there was Stephen Sondheim. Hailing from the era of the big Broadway musical alongside the likes of Rodgers and Hammerstein, Kander and Ebb, Leonard Bernstein, and… Read More ›
Comtra Theatre Exposes All That’s Known in “Spring Awakening”
By Eva Phillips It is unsurprising that Goethe makes an appearance, in the beautiful yet eviscerating coming-of-age musical Spring Awakening. After all, the inimitable musical, with music by Duncan Sheik and book by Steven Sater, was adapted from an 1891… Read More ›