Cady McClain and Sophie Moshofsky in a play that's a virtual chemistry class when it comes to performances. There’s a famous saying that if there’s a gun in a play, it better go off. It’s a kind of promise of drama.  And it creates a kind of inevitable, unavoidable sense of foreboding. We know what will happen, just not how. Even before actors take the stage in The Slide is the Negative, a new play by Jake Shore, as a collaboration between Axial Theatre, JCS Theater Co. and O

. Plays are written, or used to be written, on paper, although today they start with letters more like shadows on a screen. They’re written by arranging alphabets that look something like the shadows of the shapes of letters. Some plays, though, have a pulse. They are very much not only acted, but alive on stage, flesh, blood and feeling. And some plays have a heart, a beating, burning heart. Their characters are full of passion, navigating elevated emotions. These plays, tr

A musical titled “Waitress” is going to evoke all sorts of expectations. It will tell the story of a working girl, under appreciated,...

Btanden Jacobs-Jenkins gives us a family that is high functioning and highly dysfunctional.

Frank Lloyd Wright once said to make a great building, you need a great client. He was probably right, or at least that seems to have...

There’s a moment in “The American Dream,” a play written by Juan Ramirez, when the coyote, or smuggler, played by Ramirez, tells the...

"Garside’s Career" is a beautifully written, witty, heartfelt, hopeful play about a man who rises in politics.

"When Gold Turns Black” is a fitting companion to that iconic photograph that blends just the right amount of personal and political.

When did Elvis become “Elvis?” It’s a question that, really, helps us understand who he was and who we are, who he became as well as his...

We get a heartfelt meditation on life, loss, death and, most important, love.

It is a truly hilarious skewering of politically correct parenting.

We find ourselves admiring the realistic, yet artistic portrayals of the two actors, and the poetic realism of the writing.

In “What Came Up from Mason's Hole,” a new play by Rick Rocha (TEETH and Stallions) and Patches Aloha (Chapo Trap House, Podcast About...

Staged as part of the Science in Theater Festival (SIT), The Last Word is based on the latest breakthroughs in cell engineering. 

A long time ago in an interview, Alan Alda was asked about lines he remembered, specific pieces of dialogue that stood out after so many...

There’s a famous saying that “All drama must remain on the stage,” and that’s certainly true in Austin Pendleton’s play “Orson’s Shadow”...

(Photo credit: Bob Johnson) (Artwork credit: Bob Johnson) A farmhouse murder and a wacky blind date are the subjects of these one-act...

A couple are split up forever, when one is killed riding a motorcycle with the other. A soldier’s wife loses her wedding ring when she...

In "Walden," we get a space age soap opera with two sisters interested in one man.

We soon realize that his drug of choice is denial and he chooses comedy over cure, setting the scene for a drama.