There is a new solo show playing on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre, but when you finally take your seat as the show begins you are immediately transferred to 860 Chautauqua Boulevard in the Pacific Palisades. That happens to be the address of a house that burned to the ground during that horrific fire in 2025. It was also the…
“I Became We” is currently playing at Atlantic Theater Company’s Linda Gross Theater without a conventional cast of characters played by Equity actors. Instead, the cast is a choir of sixteen members made up of professional singers from opera, concert, film, symphony orchestra, and theatre in addition to a conductor (Jack D. Coen, who is also responsible for music and…
The pulsating new musical presented by Roundabout Theatre Company entitled “The Heart” is based on the novel “Réparer les Vivants” by Maylis de Kerangel. The book changes the location from Normandy, France, to San Diego, California, and concisely contains the crucial events within a twenty-four-hour period. These events are contained in a stimulating ninety-minute, powerful performance. The energetic cast captures…
Jeanie (a fanatical and dogged Crystal Finn), the protagonist in MCC Theater’s “ANON,” works full time trolling the internet spinning conspiracy theories in “Biden’s America in 2024.” Neither her husband Michael (a supportive yet concerned Andrew Garman) nor her teenage daughter Delia (a rebellious and aware Izabel Mar) understand Jeanie’s TikTok obsession (she posts from her car) and find themselves…
The latest Off-Broadway offering by Audible Theater adds another supernatural horror experience to the current New York theatre scene but with a clever twist and remarkable sound technology. “A Ghost in Your Ear” penned by Jamie Armitage certainly lives up to its title, requiring audience members to wear headphones to experience the binaural sound technology used throughout the performance. What…
If I were still a pastor serving a local church, I would want my congregation to know how to connect what I share with them to their own lives and experience. It would not be enough for me to tell them how a particular text or life experience benefited me alone. In “How Shakespeare Saved My Life,” currently running at…
“Human Things,” a new play penned by Joshua Owen and directed by Rory McGregor, is presently playing at The West End Theatre at St. Paul and St. Andrews UMC. The play is laced with hints of absurdity and existentialism, and at times is reminiscent of the weird theater produced decades ago, devoid of theatrical devices such as video projections…
Eighteen-year-old Paulina Sarpong (Denée Benton) commands the pack of four fellow students at Aburi Girls Boarding School in central Ghana with a chilling blend of charisma and cruelty. Beautiful and talented, she wields power the way a practiced bully does—not through aggression alone, but through the magnetism that makes her pack want her approval even as they fear her judgment….
At the beginning of Playwright Levi Holloway’s “Paranormal Activity,” currently running at the August Wilson Theatre, newlyweds Lou (Cher Álvarez) and James (Travis A. Knight) enter their new home in London, a home provided by James’s company. The complex play asks a deceptively simple question: Who haunts whom – are houses haunted or are the people in the houses haunted?…
The following lines are dedicated to playwright Jonathan Spector, director Teddy Bergman, and the brilliant and resilient cast of “Birthright.” “In the beginning was the Collective Unconscious and that Collective Unconscious was all the gods that ever were or ever will. The Collective Conscious became Human and dwelled among us around the sacredness of the table.” David’s retelling/reimagining of John…