“The Loved Ones” seems to open with a rather accessible setup. Gabby, a young Black college student, arrives at Nell’s house with suitcase and backpack in tow. Her arrival is unexpected and unannounced. She announces that she is in her seventh month of pregnancy and that Nell’s son Robin, who has been deceased for six months, is the father. Gabby…
Irish Repertory Theatre (Charlotte Moore, Artistic Director and Ciarán O’Reilly, Producing Artistic Director) announced today four productions for its 2026 Fall Season. Irish Rep’s 2026 Fall Season will kick off September 25 on the Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage with Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape directed by Ciarán O’Reilly (Ulster American), opening October 4 for a run through November 15. The…
Olney Theatre Center announced that it will open its newly renovated Bernard Family Theatre with the first regional theatre production of the Broadway musical Some Like It Hot (September 18 – November 8, 2026), replacing La Cage aux Folles, which will be produced in a future season. Said Jason Loewith, Olney Theatre Center’s Artistic Director, “While deciding to delay La…
Rising Star Project recently produced a weekend run of the classic rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar at The 5th Avenue Theatre in downtown Seattle. The organization is the venue’s tuition-free youth program for aspiring theatremakers ages 14–19, offering opportunities to work alongside experienced professionals across a range of theatrical disciplines. Composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber with lyrics by Tim Rice,…
“A Walk on the Moon” arrives at the Laura Pels Theatre promising a contemporary reimagining of Pamela Gray’s 1999 screenplay. Instead, it offers a production that settles for sentimentality—trapping its characters in dated romantic logic while asking audiences to celebrate a woman’s choice to abandon her own awakening. The result is a show that feels less like an Off-Broadway production…
Bluebird Theatre Company is pleased to announce the 2026 run of Significant Contacts, written by Amanda Stamm and directed by Sean Szak Prasso. The production will play a limited engagement July 13–16, 2026 at The Makers’ Space, located at 281 N. 7th Street in Brooklyn. Performances begin at 7:30 PM. The cast of Significant Contacts will feature Amanda Stamm as…
“The Public Theater’s latest offering, “Girl, Interrupted,” transcends the conventional musical. It is based on the 1993 memoir by Susanna Kayson, chronicling her eighteen-month stay in a psychiatric hospital after a failed attempt at suicide. The book gathered widespread attention when made into a film in 1999, which starred Wynona Ryder and Angelina Jolie, winning several awards. This new incarnation…
This new play with music was commissioned by Vineyard Theatre and American Conservatory Theater, and Eisa Davis’s intimate portrait of four gifted teenage girls navigating a transformative summer in Berkeley deserves to be seen before it closes on Sunday, June 21. In the world of “||: Girls :||: Chance :||: Music :||,” directed by Pam MacKinnon, a free summer music…
John J. Caswell Jr.’s “Jerome” arrives at Playwrights Horizons this May as both a homecoming and a reckoning. The acclaimed playwright returns to the theater where his previous work “Wet Brain” earned critical acclaim, this time bringing a deeply personal story rooted in his own Arizona childhood—a play about two aging gay men living in isolation in a ghost town,…
“Othello,” for the most part, is considered to be one of Shakespeare’s best works, and there have been many attempts at all levels of theatre development to present the lengthy tragedy. Few succeed, many are just plain mediocre, and some miserably fail to convey the complexity of the characters, that are simply embodied by the intriguing script and poetic language….