Show Ratings and Reviews

Welcome to our show ratings and reviews page.  We will be adding shows as we review them.

We hope that teachers and community theatre’s will use this resource to help them evaluate the shows under consideration for their programs.

Synopses are taken from the royalty holder’s websites, and are the official descriptions of the plays.

Ratings are determined by the Live Arts rating system. You can learn more about it here.

*BIPOC playwright
+Female identifying playwright
^ Musical

A

An Act of God – Javerbaum
American Moor – Cobb*
American Son- Demos-Brown
Annapurna – White
Anne Frank & Me- Bennett+
Around the World in 8 Plays-  Greene & Pizzarello
The Art of Remembering- Ruskin+
At the Table- Perlman
At the Wedding- Turner+
August: Osage County-Letts
Autumn – Wesley*

B

Barbecue- O’Hara*
Biloxi Blues- Simon
Blackbird- Harrower
Blue Door- Barfield*+
Blues for an Alabama Sky- Cleage*+
The Book Club Play- Zacarias*+
The Book of Will- Gunderson+
Bootycandy- O’Hara*
The Boys in the Band- Crowley
The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon- Zolidis
By the Way, Meet Vera Stark- Nottage*+

C

Cabaret (1998)- Masteroff, Kander, Ebb^
Cadillac Crew- Sampson*+
The Cake- Brunsetter+
Caught- Chen*
Change- Slade
Chicken & Biscuits- Lyons*
Children of Eden- Caird, Schwartz^
Choir Boy- McCraney*
A Christmas Carol: The Radio Play- Landry, Connors
Christmas Over the Tavern- Dudzik
Church & State – Williams
Cloud Nine- Churchill+
Company- Furth, Sondheim^
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Abridged/Revised- Long, Singer, Winfield
CQ/CX- McKinley

D

Dance Nation- Barron+
Dead Mans Cell Phone- Ruhl+
Deer Play- Fazio+
Detroit 67- Morrisseau*+
Disgraced- Akhtar*
A Dog’s House- Schraft
A Doll’s House, Part 2- Hnath
Don’t Drink the Water- Allen
Dorothy Meets Alice- Robinette, Jurman^
Dot- Domingo*
Dracula- McNulty
Drag Queens on Trial- Gilbert

E

Elemenopea- Metzler+
End of the Rainbow- Quilter
Eureka Day- Spector
Evelyn in Purgatory- Payne

Everything is Wonderful- Marcantel+
Evita- Webber, Rice^

F

Fahrenheit 451- Bradbury
The Father – Zeller
Feeding Beatrice- Greenidge*+
The Few- Hunter
Fiorello- Abbott, Weidman, Bock, Harnick^
Five Women Wearing the Same Dress- Ball
The Foreigner- Shue
The Four of Us- Moses*
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair De Lune – McNally

G

Gloria- Jacobs-Jenkins*
Goodnight Desdemona, Good morning Juliet- MacDonald+
Goodnight, Tyler- Tindal*
Grand Concourse- Schreck+
A Great Wilderness- Hunter
Greater Tuna- Williams, Howard, Sears

H

Harriet Tubman: An American Moses- Monteverde+
The Headlands- Chen*
A Heart Divided- Bennett, Gottesfeld+
High School Confidential- Ahearn, Reed, Kaplan, Wordsworth+^
Honky- Kallares
The Hot L Baltimore- Wilson

I

Imogen Says Nothing- Kapil*+
The Importance of Being Earnest- Wilde
An Infinite Ache- Schulner
In Love and Warcraft- Shekar*+
The Inheritance- Lopez*
It’s a Wonderful Life: The Radio Play- Landry

J

Joe Turners Come and Gone- Wilson*
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat- Webber, Rice^

K

Kimberly Akimbo- Lindsay-Abaire

L

The Language Archive- Cho*+
The Last 5 Years- Brown^

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot- Guirgis*
The Late Wedding- Chen*
Laughs in Spanish- Scheer*+
Leading Ladies- Ludwig
The Lifespan of a Fact – Karekem, Murrell, Farrell
The Light- Webb*+
Love Alone- Smith+
Love, Sex, and the I.R.S- Milmore, Van Zandt

M

Making God Laugh- Grennan
Marie Antoinette- Adjmi*

Meteor Shower- Martin
Morningside- Payne
The Motherf@*&er with the Hat- Guirgis*
Mothers and Sons- McNally
Mud Row- Morisseau*+

N

The Nether – Haley+
The Niceties- Burgess+
Night of the Living Dead: Live- Bond, Boyer, Martin
No Child- Sun*+
The Normal Heart- Kramer
A Number – Churchill+

O

An Octoroon- Jacobs-Jenkins*
Office Hour- Cho*+
Oleanna- Mamet
Othello- Shakespeare
The Other Place- White
Outside Mullingar- Shanley

P

Painting Churches- Howe+
Paradise Blue- Morrisseau*+
Parfumerie- Dowdall
A Particle of Dread- Shephard
People, Places and Things- Macmillian
Pocatello- Hunter
POTUS (Or Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying To Keep Him Alive)- Fillinger+
Private Lives- Coward
Puffs: Or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic- Cox

Q

R

Ragtime- McNally, Ahrens, Flaherty+^
Red- Logan
ReEntry- Ackerman, Sanchez+
Relationship Autopsy- Summerour
Rest- Hunter
The Roommate- Silverman+
Rumplestiltskin- Neary

S

Sea Wall- Stephens
Second Samuel- Parker+
Secrets Every Smart Traveler Should Know- Multiple+^

Seven Methods of killing Kylie Jenner- Lee-Jones*+
Significant Other – Harmon
Skeleton Crew- Morrisseau*+
Skylight- Hare
Smart People- Diamond*+
Sojourners- Udofia*+
The Sound Inside – Rapp
The Spoon River Project- Andolora
Stealing Home- Cook
Straight White Men- Lee*+

T

The Taming- Gunderson+
This Bitter Earth- Rivers*
The Tin Woman- Grennan
Tiny Beautiful Things- Vardalos+
Trouble in Mind- Childress*+
Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992- Smith*+

U

V

Venus in Fur- Ives

W

Water by the Spoonful- Hudes*+
What the Constitution Means to Me- Schreck+
The Whipping Man- Lopez*
Whistle Down the Wind- Knop, Edwards, Webber, Steinman^
White- Ijames*
White Christmas- Ives, Blake, Berlin^
Wolves- Yockey

X

Y

Z

Zastrozzi: The Master of Discipline- Walker

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20th Century Blues- Miller+
26 Pebbles- Ulloa
410[Gone]- Cowhig*+