SMALLWritten and Performed by Robert MontanoDirected by Jessi HillTHE ALICE GRIFFIN JEWEL BOX THEATRE AT THE PERSHING SQUARE SIGNATURE CENTERMay 25 – July 27Tickets available here Robert Montano shares a wild autobiographical ride about the wears of childhood, family, racism, and the misunderstood life of being a jockey. Montano ignites complex and universal themes...
INTERVIEW: With Playwright Beth Kander for Contemporary American Theatre Festival
Beth Kander is a USA Today best-selling novelist and longtime dramatist. Described as a “genre-defying author and playwright” (Oxford American), her writing style blends warmth, wit, and solid punches to the gut. Her work often explores identity, transitional moments in life or society, and how worlds old and new connect—or collide. CATF: How were...
NEWS & REVIEWS: Purlie Victorious Directed by Psalmayene 24
Tickets available through the Studio Theatre here. Review by Peter Rosenstein for The Georgetown Dish May 11 Purlie Victorious premiered in1961, and wove together the aspirations of Purlie, an African American preacher, within the deeply entrenched racism of 1950s southern Georgia. It was written by the multitalented Ossie Davis, who first starred in it as...
NEWS & REVIEWS: GENE & GILDA at Detroit’s Tipping Point Theatre
GENE & GILDABy Cary GitterRuns through May 3Tipping Point Theatre, 361 E. Cady St., NorthvilleTickets are $25 – $47.www.tippingpointtheatre.com Review by Erica Hobbs for Detroit News Married couple Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner were two iconic comedic actors, but who were the people behind the laughs? Northville’s Tipping Point Theatre is exploring the relationship...
NEWS & REVIEWS: COCKROACHES by Emma Schillage Premiers at Revolution Stage Company in Palm Springs
Cockroaches runs at Revolution Stage Company, 611 S. Palm Canyon Drive, Suite 16, Palm Springs, through May 3, 2026Tickets available here Review by Darrell Spencer for Palm Springs Tribune 4/29 Written by Emma Schillage and directed by Emerson Collins, Cockroaches is a Southern Gothic dark comedy that crawls through family trauma, survival, inherited damage,...