The Quotable Dr. Joycelyn Elders, Now Onstage In Little Rock
Arkansas Rep artistic director Steve H. Broadnax III has written a new show about a local hero who went from a sharecropper’s farm to the heights of state and federal government.
Category Archives: Front and Center
Phamaly’s ‘504: The Musical’ Makes a Sit-In Sing
A vital yet often-overlooked disability-rights protest in San Francisco in 1977 is musicalized at Denver’s Phamaly Theatre Company.
Puppet Confidence in Creede Rep’s ‘Eureka’
CRT’s latest KID Show, with the help of Dragoncillo puppetry troupe, aims to help students come out of their shells.
Brave Onstage, Quiet at Home
MILCK’s first musical at La Jolla Playhouse this summer can’t keep quiet, telling the story of an Asian American singer/songwriter with some unresolved trauma.
Life After Left Eye In ‘CrazySexyCool’
A new bio-musical at Arena Stage throws it back to the ’90s with the groundbreaking girl group TLC.
‘Eugene’ Holds a Picking Party
Sarah Gancher’s hootenanny-inspired, Arkansas-set adaptation of ‘Eugene Onegin’ gets the Rachel Chavkin immersive treatment at TheatreSquared.
A Slam Play in ‘Brown Face’
Participating in poetry is key in Carissa Atallah’s new play about a DACA college student that takes inspiration from spoken-word competitions.
AGUARDIENTE, a Sensory Experience
GALA Hispanic’s new musical celebrating friendship and art aims to immerse audiences in the languages, rhythms, and smells of Latine and Caribbean homes.
Family Cuts: Inside ‘Seng’s Hair Salon’
One of three plays in InterAct Theatre Company’s Philly Cycle, ‘Seng’s Hair Salon’ blends salon life, unaddressed trauma, and inspiration from Philly’s Southeast Asian communities.
You’ll Never Walk Alone: The Immigrant Solidarity of ‘No llegamos aquí solos’
Yosimar Reyes’s new play at Teatro Visión in San Jose explores the inter-generational defenses of Latine folks targeted by ICE raids.
