The genie is out of the bottle. Aladdin has returned to the stage, and he’s riding his magic carpet from Broadway to the Hollywood Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles. The hit Broadway musical…
If you think John Lithgow is old now, wait until you see him roll out his ancestors. The veteran of stage and screens big and small brings the dead to life, and not…
The colors and surrealism of Mexican cultural and pop art are in vogue these days. Disney and Pixar have scored a massive hit with “Coco,” and now Cirque Du Soleil returns with a…
The Hudson Theatre production of “The Parisian Woman” has all the makings of a perfect storm in political theater. Previews began at the start of the “#MeToo” movement…
John Leguizamo has been teaching Spanish since he corrected pronunciations at the bar at The First Amendment improv comedy theater. He honed his lessons in educational one-man shows like “Mambo Mouth” and “Spic-o-Rama,”…
Mentalist magic is all in your head. The art form encourages mind over matter because the mind doesn’t matter, and if you asked it, matter wouldn’t mind. But the mind actually matters quite…
Good old fashioned pie and mash has never tasted this good. The secret ingredient? You don’t want to know. Stephen Sondheim’s famous psychopathic barber has journeyed from the gloomy industrial smog of…
The Tony-nominated musical “Something Rotten!” is a lighthearted jab at William Shakespeare and the times that made him. Directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw, with music and lyrics by…