Article by A. A. Cristi for Broadway World Denver Nov. 4, 2025 The Denver Center Theatre Company has announced playwrights, dates, and details for the 2026 Colorado New Play Summit (CNPS). The 20th annual festival will take place over one weekend on February 14-15, and feature readings of new plays by Bonnie Antosh, DCPA commissioned playwright Isaac Gómez, Alyssa Haddad-Chin, and Tony Meneses. You Should...
NEWS & REVIEWS: TARTUFFE Directed by Keaton Wooden and Starring André De Shields
Review by Dan Rubins for Theatre Mania Oct 20, 2025 Director Keaton Wooden’s adaptation of Ranjit Bolt’s 2003 translation has literally been retitled André De Shields Is Tartuffe. When Tartuffe enters, first singing “Feelin’ Good” and then a facetiously pious “Ave Maria,” De Shields is accompanied by a prompter dressed in clergyman’s attire and...
NEWS & REVIEWS: FDR’S VERY HAPPY HOUR by Regan Linton and M. Graham Smith
News by A. A. Cristi from Broadway World 10/16/2025 HIGH HARD HEAT has announced a national tour of FDR’s Very Happy Hour. The immersive new play is conceived by Regan Linton and M. Graham Smith, written and performed by Linton, and directed by Smith. The tour will follow its world premiere at Actors Theatre of...
NEWS & REVIEWS: ALABASTER Written by Audrey Cefaly at the Town Hall Theatre, San Francisco
Article by Lily Janiak for the San Francisco Chronicle 8/23/2025 “Alabaster” isn’t stereotypical community theater fare, starting with the fact that it’s written by a living female playwright, Audrey Cefaly, who isn’t a household name. In “Alabaster,” a connection doesn’t have to be happily ever after to be life-giving, and we don’t have to...
NEWS & REVIEWS: OPEN Directed by Jessi D. Hill
A spellbinding story of love, loss, and the impossible—Open takes the stage Off-Broadway July 8–27 as a recipient of the WP Space Program. Presented by Midnight Theatricals, this electrifying production is produced in association with The Tank and Flying Carpet Theatre Company. Open is a New Georges Supported Production, with further support from the...