★★★★★ A Broadway award-winner looks and sounds as winning as ever with fresh leading players
About Michael Sommers
The Saviors: What Would Jesus Do?
★★★★☆ Writer Bubba Weiler and director Jack Serio offer a tender drama of faith and friendship
Broad Strokes: Death Defying Laughter
★★★☆☆ Comedian Cat Cohen finds fun in a story about the hole they found in her heart
Giulia The Poison Queen of Palermo: Jennifer Nettles brews a tasty mass murder musical
★★★★☆ Director Mary Zimmerman stages a ravishing visual production of an historic story told from a working woman’s perspective
Othello: Free As the Open Air
★★★☆☆ Nick Westrate and James Udom play alpha and beta dogs in Classical Theatre of Harlem’s outdoor staging of Shakespeare’s drama
Are You Now or Have You Ever Been: Drop that Forgotten Name
★★★☆☆ Excellent performances and design enliven a docudrama of the HUAC’s hunt for Commies in Hollywood
A Woman Among Women: Hubris and You
★★☆☆☆ LCT3 hosts a community riff on classical themes by Julia May Jonas
Girl, Interrupted: Living Under the Bell Jar
★★★★☆ Martyna Majok and Aimee Mann craft an intimate drama with songs about women existing in a 1960s psychiatric facility
Jerome: Sex and the Single Stranger
★★☆☆☆ Stephen Spinella sparks a triangular romantic drama set in a ghost town
Thornton Wilder’s The Emporium: Department Story
★★★☆☆ Candy Buckley and a bright ensemble illuminate an incomplete dark comedy by an American master