THE DANCE AND THE RAILROAD
Monday, October 5th, 2026
Tony-winning playwright David Henry Hwang combines fact, fiction, and Chinese Opera in The Dance And The Railroad, a strikingly acted, designed, and danced Artists At Play and Latino Theater Company revival of Hwang’s poignant 1981 one-act.
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INCITATION TO THE DANCE
Monday, February 16th, 2026An intriguing premise—sultry queer Millennial insinuates himself into the lives of a couple of gay married Boomers—falls flat in Theatre West’s overlong, overwrought, credibility-defying World Premiere melodrama Incitation to the Dance.
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LEAR REDUX
Monday, June 2nd, 2025
A stage-and-screen legend battles dementia and a couple of greedy offspring remarkably similar to those of a legendary Shakespearean monarch in Lear Redux, the audacious, imaginative latest from adapter-director-choreographer John Farmanesh-Bocca, now getting a stunning World Premiere at the Odyssey.
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