A piece of musical theater trivia that I learned several years ago is that the first Broadway musical with book, music, and lyrics written b...

"The world is filled with people who could ruin me with love." So says a character in  The (curious case of the) Watson Intellig...

Fans of meaningful, relevant, timely theater - rejoice! Last year's smash hit new play with music, Nina Simone: Four Women , is back...

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink li...

I know next to nothing about jazz singer and Civil Rights activist Nina Simone  (other than the recent controversy about casting for the n...

In By the Way, Meet Vera Stark , now playing at Penumbra Theatre as part of their " Womansong " season, the title character is a...

Great news, my theater-loving friends - Penumbra  is back!! One of the nation's top African-American theater companies (they've pr...

Red  is my kind of play. More about character and ideas than plot or action, it's a feast for the ears and the mind. And the eye, with...