Theatre Reviews

Regional Theatre News: “Some Like It Hot” Replaces “La Cage Aux Folles” in Olney Theatre Season (September 18 – November 8, 2026)

July 6, 2026 | Music, Regional Theatre > | "La Cage aux Folles", "Some Like It Hot", Bernard Family Theatre, Christopher Youstra, David Roberts, Jacob Tischler, Karla Puno Garcia, Marc Shaiman, Matthew López & Amber Ruffin, New York Theatre Reviews, Olney Theatre Center, RegionalTheatre Reviews, Scott Wittman, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited

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…

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Seattle Review: “Jesus Christ Superstar” at Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre Mirrors the Modern World (Closed Saturday, May 30, 2026)

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,…

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Off-Broadway Review: “A Walk on the Moon” at the Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (Through Saturday, August 22, 2026)

“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…

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Preview: Bluebird Theatre Company’s “Significant Contacts” (July 13 – 16, 2926)

June 29, 2026 | Uncategorized > | "Significant Contacts", Amanda Stamm, Bluebird Theatre Company, David Roberts, Gracie Rittenberg, Meg Dowling, Milena Mass, New York Theatre Reviews, Sean Szak Prasso, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited

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…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Girl, Interrupted” at the Public’s Martinson Hall (Through Sunday, July 12, 2026)

“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…

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Off-Broadway Closing Notice: ||: Girls :||: Chance :||: Music :|| at the Vineyard Theatre (Through Sunday, June 21, 2026)

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…

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Off-Broadway News/Preview: PLAYWRIGHT JOHN J. CASWELL RETURNS TO PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS WITH “JEROME,’ A HAUNTING STORY OF GAY LOVE IN THE ARIZONA DESERT

May 29, 2026 | LGBTQ+, Off-Broadway, Queer > | "Jerome", "Wet Brain", Artistic Director Adam Greenfield, David Roberts, Dustin Wells, HIV/AIDS, John J. Caswell, Ken Barnett, New York Theatre Reviews, Playwrights Horizons, Stephen Spinella, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, Tyrone Mitchell Henderson

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,…

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Off-Broadway Review: Bedlam’s “Othello” at the West End Theatre (Through Sunday, May 31, 2026)

“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….

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Off-Broadway Review: “Animal Wisdom” at The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre at The Pershing Square Signature Center (Through Sunday, June 14, 2026)

Currently playing at the Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre at Pershing Square Signature Center, Heather Christian’s “Animal Wisdom” is a self-described “requiem within a requiem” that got terribly lost at the Mass’s Introit and never found its way back to the spiritual center it promised to disclose to the audience. Christian bills the piece as multiple things simultaneously: her life story,…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Indian Princesses” at The Atlantic Theater (Through Sunday, June 7, 2026)

The YMCA’s “Indian Princesses” program—rebranded in recent years as “Adventure Princesses”—bills itself as wholesome father-daughter bonding through Native-inspired activities. Playwright Eliana Theologides Rodriguez knows better. Her grandmother and great-grandmother were forced through assimilation schools designed to sever Indigenous families from their heritage, language, and identity. What the YMCA packages as “family fun” is cultural appropriation built on the machinery of…

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