Herbert Paine

Strong performances, impressive staging, and the sense of fun and theatricality that audiences expect from a jukebox musical built around one of popular culture’s most enduring stars.

There are productions that succeed because the script is strong, and productions that succeed because performers manage to elevate familiar material. Theatre Artists Studio’s production of John Patrick Shanley’s OUTSIDE MULLINGAR achieves something rarer: a complete unity of tone, performance, language, and emotional truth.

In Joe Bardin's SEEING MAYA , peace doesn't emerge through political rhetoric or grand ideological revelation.

Some productions of DRACULA take the story's gothic atmosphere so seriously they forget the Count himself would find them tedious.

Guest contributor David Appleford's review of The Phoenix Theatre Company's production of Dear Even Hansen.

ABT’s cast is gangbusters. Try to imagine T. S. Eliot's prim little book of poems getting high—not on catnip, but on theatrical glitter—and deciding to stage a feverish feline dream with help from Andrew Lloyd Webber. And there you have it. That's CATS.

An entertaining collection of eight original ten-minute plays that ranges from broad comedy and satire to moments of genuine reflection.

The production runs through August 30th in the Dr. Stacie J. and Richard J Stephenson Theatre at The Phoenix Theatre Company.

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