SOUND OF MUSIC climbs ev’ry mountain at Porthouse Many consider THE SOUND OF MUSIC the greatest American musical. Others think of it as ...

TROUBLE IN TAHITI, with words and music by Leonard Bernstein Leonard Bernstein is noted for his wonderful musical scores. To the surprise o...

Captivating RAGTIME lights up the stage at the Shaw Festival The early 20th century was the time of great change in America. Exploding popu...

Noel Coward’s PRESENT LAUGHTER delights at The Shaw Noel Coward is the type of playwright who is the darling of those theatre-goers who love...

MISALLIANCE delights as Shaw pontificates! George Bernard Shaw was a writer with a purpose, in fact, many purposes. Each of his scripts sho...

Poor writing and directing highlight HIS GIRL FRIDAY at The Shaw Ben Hecht and Charles McArthur’s THE FRONT PAGE was a witty satirical farce...

COME BACK LITTLE SHEBA explores playwright’s hidden fears The 1950s gave birth to a new movement in American theatre. Modernism used psycho...

A MAN AND SOME WOMEN, a liberating experience at The Shaw At the turn of twentieth century, England was operating on Victorian princ...

WANDERLUST—poetic, clever, magical The musical CATS was a compilation of the poetry of T. S. Eliot. The material was very loosely held toge...

THE BEST BROTHERS probes sibling rivalry and self-understand It is generally assumed that when a playwright scribes a play it is done with a...

Schizophrenic PIRATES OF PENZANCE partly pleases at Avon Theatre THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE, subtitled THE SLAVE OF DUTY, is a two-act comic o...

HIRSCH, a compelling study of a man in torment John Hirsch, was Jewish, gay, Hungarian, Holocaust survivor. Born in 1930, he was a man tor...

Delightful 42nd STREET lights up the Festival Theater stage Michael Stewart, Mark Bramble, Al Dubin and Harry Warren’s 42ND STREET harkens b...

MAMMA MIA!, back again and totally entertaining When a touring production of a hit Broadway show returns to the area for yet another visit, ...

Roy You may remember from a past conversation that I always admire and enjoy your writing and can hardly wait to see what you say after an o...

Delightful THE WORLD GOES ROUND at Porthouse Musical revues are a collection of songs which are performed as a single production. They us...

OMG…LEGALLY BLONDE delights at Beck It’s been quite a year at the Beck Center! Earlier in the season the startlingly good SPRING AWAKENING ...

Farcical ONCE UPON A MATTRESS at Mercury Summer Stock What do Carol Burnett, Jack Gilford, Dody Goodman, Imogene Coca, Buster Keaton, Sarah ...

Fairmount Center for the Arts takes on the realities of prescription drug abuse Two years ago, Fairmount Center for the Arts presented EAT I...

CATS prowl as Mercury Summer Stock finds new home Like many local theatres, Mercury Summer Stock, has experienced a vagabond existe...

AVENUE Q, X-rated fun at Cain Park What can be said about a delightful, thought provoking, Tony award winning, Sesame Street for adults? Ho...

DAMN YANKEES…an enjoyable evening of escapist theatre at Porthouse Probably the golden age of musical theatre in the US was from 1950 to...