Presidential Crowd Work in ‘FDR’s Very Happy Hour’
Regan Linton reimagines Roosevelt as an openly disabled role model in an immersive new play, now running at Denver Center for the Performing Arts.
Category Archives: Front and Center
Rural Tenderness in ‘Horsegirl & Cowdaddy’
DJ Hills takes inspiration from their own upbringing in rural Appalachia in this world premiere tackling the intersections among queerness, transness, class, and geography.
When Misha Met Ronnie: Dallas Theater Center’s ‘Reykjavik86’
Opening Dallas Theater Center’s season of all new work is a play about President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev’s fateful peace talk to scale down nuclear weapons.
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.
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.
