When a play wins an award, yay for the play! When a play wins every award that counts, sign us up for opening night! This week, you’ll want to catch Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, a comedy that won every major Best Play Award of the 2012-13 season,…
We’ve been oh-so-patient and the day we’ve been waiting for is finally upon us: This Friday, we get the miniature electric mixer with Mrs. Patmore action figure to complete our Downton Abbey Season 4 reproduction kitchen! So to celebrate, we’ll be hitting the Kalita Humphreys Theater for Broadway Our Way,…
If there’s one play to take your right-wing, fundamentalist Christian family members to this holiday season, it’s NOT The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told. Or maybe they’ll leave with a different view on homosexuality after seeing the Uptown Players production of this hilarious biblical satire from Paul Rudnick. It really…
Not sure about you, but we’d far prefer to have a passionate make-out session with Spider-MAN, but that doesn’t make us any less excited to see what Uptown Players does with the Tony Award-winning Kiss of the Spider Woman when it opens this Friday. The gritty tale of persecution, poisoning,…
They stare at each other with steely gazes, hearts racing as they anticipate their opponents’ next moves. A hush falls over the scene as it becomes clear that not everyone here will survive to tell the tale. Somebody’s going to get hurt. Somebody’s going to bleed. But most importantly, somebody’s…
If there’s one reason to go to live theater, it’s for the chance at witnessing a little nudity. At Uptown Players, they always bring the naked in a big way. So we’re anxious to check out Hello Again, an adult musical opening tomorrow. Cha-ching! The 2012 season closer is inspired…
Swastikas and chorus girls. What could possibly be wrong with that? Get your fill of Nazi humor, over-the-top dialogue and outrageous lyrics as only Mel Brooks could conceive. That’s right, the super-duper thespians at Uptown Players are proudly presenting the outrageous musical that took Broadway by storm – The Producers.…
We just love nuns. After all, being married to God can’t be easy. And if Hollywood has gotten it right all these years, this holiest of matrimonies sure does seem to make the ladies of the cloth sing, dance and get involved in all sorts of holy shenanigans when presented…
It puts the lotion on its skin. And then it heads to the Uptown Players ridiculously funny drag parody, The Silence of the Clams. Like the original Lamb version, the Clam one features a butch FBI agent who turns to a serial killer for help in solving another series of…
You don’t have to sit so close to the stage that you’re in the Patti LuPone spittle splash zone to have an enjoyable, authentic Broadway experience. Just be warned that instead you may be groped by Paul J. Williams. It’s all part of the hilarious variety show from Uptown Players:…