THE BROTHERS ABELSON SINCE 1946
Tuesday, February 4th, 2025
Dramatic fireworks explode when a 26-year-old New York-based graphic novelist is summoned back to the family home in Dennis Danziger’s powerful autobiographical three-hander The Brothers Abelson Since 1942, a guest production at Venice’s Electric Lodge.
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LISTING
Tuesday, January 28th, 2025
To renovate or not to renovate, that is the question when an early 20th-century architectural gem is put up for sale in Russell Brown’s Listing, an already absorbing drama when slowly but surely it reveals its true nature as one doozy of a thriller.
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SLEEPING GIANT
Saturday, January 25th, 2025
All hell breaks loose when wedding-proposal fireworks unleash monstrous horrors on a lakeside community in Sleeping Giant, the latest dark comedy treat from macabre master Steve Yockey.
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TROUBIES’ HOME ALONE-LY HEARTS CLUB BAND
Tuesday, December 10th, 2024
The Troubies are back with one of their most entertaining holiday shows ever, Troubies’ Home Alone-ly Hearts Club Band, a Troubadour Theater Company mash-up of the movie that made Macaulay Culkin a pint-sized star and the album that helped establish the Beatles as arguably the most ground-breaking band in pop music history.
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THE GODDAMN COUPLE DOWN THE HALL (OH… AND MERRY CHRISTMAS)
Sunday, December 1st, 2024
Your favorite Hallmark Christmas movie meets Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window meets the Farrelly Brothers at Theatre West in Mark Wilding’s wild-and-wacky, expectations-subverting The Goddamn Couple Down the Hall (Oh… and Merry Christmas), the appetizingly astringent antidote to all the sugar-sweet holiday fare playing around town this time of year.
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FOUR TOP
Sunday, November 24th, 2024
An initially promising hook-up gone suddenly, disastrously amiss is just the start of the romcom roundelay that is Michael B. Kaplan’s laugh-packed World Premiere Four Top, the latest winner presented Upstairs at the Group Rep.
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IT’S ALL YOUR FAULT, TYLER PRICE!
Friday, November 15th, 2024
An inspired creative team take what might seem unlikely subject matter for a musical and transform it into It’s All Your Fault, Tyler Price!, a feel-good celebration of friendship and family now entertaining and uplifting audiences at the Hudson Backstage Theatre.
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ADVENTURES IN THE GREAT BEYOND
Monday, November 11th, 2024Cute, fun, silly, and too slight to be of any major consequence, Tom Chiodo and Joe Nedder’s Adventures in the Great Beyond serves primarily as a showcase for Nedder’s catchy melodies and the World Premiere musical’s highly talented cast, in particular a charismatic 20something fivesome who reveal Grade-A vocal chops as the devotees of a quirky desert-dwelling New Age guru named Krishamarti.
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