Ta-Tynisa Wilson, Adrian Galante, John Pagano, Hilary Kole (Photo: Russ Rowland) Going Bacharach: The Songs of an Icon By Julia Polinsky on January 13, 2026 If you have a memory for pop tunes that spans more than a decade, you’ve heard the songs of Burt Bacharach. In a career that lasted over 70 years, Bacharach’s…
The Ensemble (Photo: Matthew Murphy) Picnic at Hanging Rock By Joel Benjamin on January 6, 2026 In 1967 Australian writer Joan Lindsay wrote a disturbingly eerie novel, Picnic at Hanging Rock. Lindsay’s novel created a scenario that resonated with the public so strongly that most people believed it was a true story, bolstered by the…
Amber Gray, Matthew Broderick (Photo: Marc J. Franklin) Tartuffe By Fern Siegel on December 26, 2025 Tartuffe, Moliere’s 17th-century farce about wealthy French people easily deluded by a religious hypocrite and moral reprobate, speaks to every age. Lucas Hnath’s new adaptation, now off-Broadway at New York Theater Workshop, utilizes more modern language, but the message…
Michelle Williams (Photo: Julieta Cervantes) Anna Christie By Deirdre Donovan St. Ann’s Warehouse revives Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Anna Christie with Michelle Williams inhabiting one of the most formidable roles in the American canon, under the assured direction of Thomas Kail. Set against the Brooklyn waterfront and supported by a distinguished ensemble including Tom Sturridge,…
Paloma Garcia-Lee, Jess Leprotto (Photo: Bjorn Bolinder) Gotta Dance! with American Dance Machine By Matthew Rolandon December 5, 2025 “The time to sing is when your emotional level is just too high to speak anymore, and the time to dance is when your emotions are just too strong to only sing about how you feel.”…
Patrick Page, Jason Sanchez, Adrien Rolet, Jake Berne, Kristin Nielsen (Photo: Joan Marcus) Archduke By Fern Siegel on December 2, 2025 The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in 1914 had cataclysmic results — Austro-Hungary declared war on Serbia — and unleashed the carnage known as WWI. The assassination was carried out by 19-year-old Gavrilo Princip, aided…
The cast of Initiative (Photo: Joan Marcus) Initiative By Deirdre Donovan on December 2, 2025 Initiative sweeps through four tumultuous years in a nowhere town on the California coast, where seven teenagers cling to one another as they stumble into friendship, first love, and the aching question of who they’re allowed to become. Guided with…
Ariana Debose, Scott Bakula and the Ensemble (Photo: Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman) The Baker’s Wife By Marc Miller on November 19, 2025 The pretty young woman is erotically drawn to the sexy young stud, but for plot reasons she’s committed to the much less attractive older man, and after a tryst with the young…
The company (Photo: Ben Arons) Oratorio for Living Things By Deirdre Donovan on November 18, 2025 Signature Theatre launches its newest residency with Heather Christian’s Oratorio for Living Things, an immersive, in-the-round explosion of sound and spirit that bridges science, memory, and cosmic wonder. Under the direction of Lee Sunday Evans, the celebrated ensemble—many returning…
Synnøve Karlsen, Carson Elrod and Mark Evans (Photo: Carol Rosegg) Pygmalion By Fern Siegel on November 17, 2025 Sometimes, less is more. Theater aficionados know George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion as the inspiration for the Lerner and Loewe musical “My Fair Lady.” What’s less known is that Shaw based his work on a Greek myth. An…