Krista Garver

Broadway Rose's production of Disney's NEWSIES, directed by Lyn Cramer and choreographed by Amy Reynolds-Reed, is a dance-stravaganza, full stop. With a cast of 29, including eight dancers brought in from New York, this production moves. In the reverse of how these things usually happen, NEWSIES began its life in 1992 as a movie starring then-teen-hearthrob Christian Bale.

To start her new solo show, THE ONE, Andrea Parson walks on stage in a white dress and veil, bouquet in hand, as if she’s walking down the aisle. She realizes she can’t go through with it, tries to escape, trips, and asks an audience member for help. It’s an ingenious opening that immediately gets the entire room on her side before she dives into her quest to find "the one," or even just to figure out what the heck that even means and how she'll know if she's ready for it.

Part interactive, part clowning, part not-so-distant dystopian future imagining, Julia Bray’s new solo show LOBOTOMOMMY, performed as part of the 2026 CoHo Residency Program, is dark comedy at its sharpest. Rachel Johnson is a new mom struggling with typical new-mom problems, like lack of sleep. When she sees an ad for a tech-funded institute that surgically installs AI into mothers' brains, suppressing the inconveniences of their emotions and optimizing them for domestic life, she signs up.