Mark E. Leib

It’s got the songs and letters — but the history is missing.

Here are the best plays opening in the coming months.

Interplanetary travel has seldom been so exasperating.

An ingenious and beautifully produced pageant that has no contemporary pertinence.

Two fine performances and top design mark Innovocative Theatre’s first mainstage offering.

An unremarkable love story for the digital age.

In this journey through a splintered psyche, form and content brilliantly coincide.

A moderately interesting play with one fascinating idea.

When a play has so much going for it, does it matter that it doesn’t add up?

It’s gripping, alright, but isn’t it 70 years late?

Local artists shone brightly in a festival that boded well for the future.

Nicole Jeannine Smith’s one-character play shows the shards of a woman’s life.

A stunning performance in a powerful play.

In this comic musical, the inspired and the humdrum somehow must hang together.

An icon flames out — but who lit the fire?

A musical that’s shrewdly and entertainingly subversive.

An ambitious, exotic take on a Shakespeare standard.

Terri Weagant is remarkable, but the human train wrecks she portrays are hardly the stuff of comedy.

A local actor gives a great performance in an almost-satisfying play.

A brilliant young scientist reads the genome but misses the rest.