Tennessee Williams' classic play The Glass Menagerie (1945), certainly his most personal work and, perhaps, his best, is not known for skidding off the rails. But 4th Wall Theatre Company's production careens dangerously close to the edge. I have ...

It should come as no surprise that late 19th-century Teutonic teens were just as randy and angsty as our Gen Zs. Raging hormones know no century. Smartly adapted from German playwright Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening, his 1891 experimental and s...

Giacomo Puccini's verismo-fueled Tosca (1900) runs on opera's highest octane – sex and violence. It speeds along, no time for detours, spinning its tale with a breakneck pace. Co-librettist Giacoso complained to the composer that there was nothing...

If you ever wanted to see moonlight on stage, go to Catastrophic Theatre and bask in the light that Jayden Key throws off as The Witness in Will Eno's absurdist, existential comedy, Tragedy: a Tragedy. Key is one of five characters caught up in an...

At first glance, the title of Jocelyn Bioh's gentle and warm School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play says it all. A lot of Mean Girls, some Heathers, maybe a bit of Legally Blonde. Then it gets interesting. Set in an all-girls boarding schoo...

All hail Bohemia! Alley Theatre's handsome production finally catches sunshine when it moves to the exotic land far away from dour Sicilia, where the play begins. Officially Act IV in Shakespeare's radiantly transparent yet complex fairy tale, The...