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Allen Barton’s “Years to the Day” and Anthony Meindl’s “The Year We Disappeared”: Years and years and years and . . . FEATURESLatestNEW REVIEWSNotes From ArdenREVIEWSTop 10

Allen Barton’s “Years to the Day” and Anthony Meindl’s “The Year We Disappeared”: Years and years and years and . . .

Allen Barton's Years to The Day, and Anthony Meindl's The Year We Disappeared Years and…

Steven MorrisNovember 5, 2025

Can Our Theater Meet This Moment?: Roger Guenveur Smith and Towne Street Theatre’s “In Response” FEATURESLatestNEW REVIEWSNotes From ArdenREVIEWSTop 10

Can Our Theater Meet This Moment?: Roger Guenveur Smith and Towne Street Theatre’s “In Response”

Can Our Theater Meet This Moment? Roger Guenveur Smith’s in honor of jean-michel basquiat and…

Steven MorrisOctober 23, 2025

Remembering Murray Mednick: A Playwright of Borscht Belt Majesty FEATURESINTERVIEWS AND ESSAYSLatestNotes From Arden

Remembering Murray Mednick: A Playwright of Borscht Belt Majesty

Image: Parksville, New York: Heart of the Borscht Belt Remembering Murray Mednick A Playwright of…

Steven MorrisOctober 18, 2025

Pants on Fire: Robey Theatre Company’s “The Great Lover” LatestNEW REVIEWSNotes From ArdenREVIEWSTop 10

Pants on Fire: Robey Theatre Company’s “The Great Lover”

CJ Obilom, Tiffany Coty-Goines, and Jenny Cadena (Photo by Jermaine Alexander) Pants on Fire Robey…

Steven MorrisOctober 14, 2025

The Age of Dracula: theatre dybbuk’s Rendition of Bram Stoker’s Novel FEATURESLatestNEW REVIEWSNotes From ArdenREVIEWS

The Age of Dracula: theatre dybbuk’s Rendition of Bram Stoker’s Novel

The Age of Dracula theatre dybbuk’s take on Bram Stoker’s novel When I was a…

Steven MorrisOctober 8, 2025

Inherit the Dearth: Darryl Vinyard’s “Right” and Jonathan Spector’s “Eureka Day” FEATURESINTERVIEWS AND ESSAYSLatestNEW REVIEWSNotes From ArdenREVIEWS

Inherit the Dearth: Darryl Vinyard’s “Right” and Jonathan Spector’s “Eureka Day”

The certainty of Jake in "Right": Mitch Rosander (Photo courtesy of the The Whitefire Theatre)…

Steven MorrisSeptember 23, 2025

Ten Guiding Principles for Theater Leaders: The World According to Ken Brecher FEATURESINTERVIEWS AND ESSAYSLatestNotes From Arden

Ten Guiding Principles for Theater Leaders: The World According to Ken Brecher

Ten Guiding Principles for a Theater Leader The World According to Ken Brecher For many…

Steven MorrisSeptember 5, 2025

L.A. Theater History Keeps Rhyming: Legacies From UCLA and Theatre of NOTE FEATURESINTERVIEWS AND ESSAYSLatestNEW REVIEWSNotes From ArdenREVIEWSTop 10

L.A. Theater History Keeps Rhyming: Legacies From UCLA and Theatre of NOTE

Carl J. Johnson as Professor Melnitz, and Julianna Robinson as Professor Samantha Albert in "Tune…

Steven MorrisAugust 19, 2025

“The Reservoir” at the Geffen, and “Lear Redux” at The Odyssey: The Fine Art of Losing One’s Mind INTERVIEWS AND ESSAYSLatestNEW REVIEWSNotes From ArdenREVIEWS

“The Reservoir” at the Geffen, and “Lear Redux” at The Odyssey: The Fine Art of Losing One’s Mind

Lee Wilkof, Liz Larsen, Geoffrey Wade and Jake Horowitz in The Reservoir at Geffen Playhouse…

Steven MorrisJuly 1, 2025

The comfort of A Detective Who Knows What He’s Doing; and the cautionary tale of a tabloid editor with a vendetta against Elton John FEATURESLatestNEW REVIEWSNotes From ArdenREVIEWS

The comfort of A Detective Who Knows What He’s Doing; and the cautionary tale of a tabloid editor with a vendetta against Elton John

The Comfort of A Detective Who Knows What He's Doing, at Laguna Playhouse; and the…

Steven MorrisJune 24, 2025