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University administrator and teacher by day, theater and arts critic by night.

Unchanged for Good: DF Considers the National Tour of Wicked (for Parterre Box)

No show should last for 20 years.

It sounds like a bad joke, but Beth Wohl’s riveting Camp Siegfried–superbly done by Theatre Exile–is rooted in reality.

In this vulgar world, there is no situation that can’t be limned with a power ballad.

Another year, another strong group of AVA artists give us careers to look forward to.

A beautiful, funny, disquieting study by an artist whose mastery of understatement is nonpareil.

If only good intentions were good theater!

Wanna feel old? Hair, “The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical,” has its 56th birthday this month.

Despite some stunning stage images, this adaptation of The Pianist remains stubbornly literary and often inert.

The writers of the Box and James’s friends are saddened to announce the death of the inimitable founder of Parterre Box.

Director Terry Nolen’s second production of this Sondheim work is an intriguingly different take on the piece.