Don (Steve Isom) is the kind of Little League coach that intimidates kids and their parents both. At first glance, it does seem that, to Don, winning really is the only thing. He’s a middle-aged guy who drinks beer, acts like an adolescent about women, and still remembers a baseball game he played at 12 as the highlight of his life.

Paul Rudnick’s The New Century is a funny play with an agenda—on paper. In Max and Louie’s production, it has its moments, but is disappointing overall.

It occurs to me now and then that creating theatre is a kind of magic trick. The performers are the magicians and the patrons pay to be transported to another world, a different kind of life “for an hour, two hours,” says Jacob Shemerinsky, acclaimed actor in the Yiddish Theatre.

If ever a show were more elevated by its direction/choreography and performances, I haven’t seen it.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre /The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; /Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere /The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst /Are full of passionate intensity.

The Winter’s Tale experience starts promisingly when audience members are issued necklace badges instead of tickets to enter, which are examined by a couple of sober, black-clad guards using laser pointers.

Once upon a time, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was an automatic death sentence for anyone who contracted it.* There was no known cure and the progress of a patient from its diagnosis or its precursor, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) was unstoppable.

They brought it, all right. The whole package. Singing, dancing, and of course, "Bring It On"’s raison d’être, cheerleading.

Leo Greshen (Peter Mayer) sets up a kind of private Yom Kippur on Benny Silverman’s (Bobby Miller) lavish deck overlooking Malibu. But while it’s clear from Miller’s performance that Benny was once a great comic actor, he’s not much of a Jew.

“You’re just two wonderful people who happened to fall in love and happened to have a slight pigmentation problem,” said the concerned dad played by Spencer Tracy.