There are some fine performances in Joanne Akalaitis' production and a new score from Philip Glass, but the play never feels relevant to today.
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Six men cruising a public bathroom in a park in an unnamed American city share with us their reasons for being there and how they feel about being gay.
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Stanton Wood's updating of Voltaire's novella is trenchant, canny, a series of lacerations directed toward the American right wing.
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"A Streetcar Named Desire" is Tennessee Williams' greatest and most performed play. It's also the hardest to get right.
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A few weeks before his death in 1939, Sigmund Freud received a visit from an Oxford professor at his home in London. The identity of the caller is lost to history, but playwright Mark St. Germain imagines that it was C.S. Lewis, prior to his fame as a religious ...
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A funny, sexy campfest that traffics in beefcake and drag divas in equal measure while sending up 1950s sci-fi movies.
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It's amazing that this inept show was produced at all, much less on the scale with which it is presented here.
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Gutter Star: The Paperback Musical
Bloated at less than 60 minutes, Jack Dyville’s book strains hard for easy laughs in his wink-wink pulpy story of a closeted lesbian girl-next-door movie star in 1950s Hollywood.
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Milly, a young novelist-to-be, breaks into the home of her idol Wallace Trumbull, who wrote a novel 50 years before and then seemed to disappear. Why does she break in?
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Baby Wants Candy: The Completely Improvised Full Band Musical
The delightful, off-the-wall "A Scotsman in Thailand," performed by Baby Wants Candy, a Chicago-originated improv ensemble, was one night only.
