Playhouse

We already knew a remaster of Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse was on its way from Skunkape Games, but now we have a release window. It will arrive Spring 2024. Technically, this is a delay, but the announcement of a 2023 timeframe never happened. It was just a shared hallucination. Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse was the last of Telltale’s revival of the Sam & Max license and also sort of the last traditional point-and-click adventure that they want you to remember before the formula changed with The…

Pasadena Playhouse will receive the 2023 Regional Theatre Tony Award, becoming only the second Los Angeles institution to earn the honor and continuing its triumphant streak after years of turbulence. The prize, which includes a $25,000 grant, will be presented at the 76th Tony Awards on June 11 in New York. The Tony Awards Administration Committee made the announcement, on the recommendation of the American Theatre Critics Assn., on Tuesday, a week after the Writers Guild of America agreed to not picket the event,…

We’re off again, lil’ buddy Skunkape Games has announced that it has begun development of Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse Remastered, following on from its previously released remasters of Telltale Games classics Sam & Max Save the World Remastered and Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space Remastered. This latest retread will launch on unannounced platforms later in 2023. First released on PC and PS3 way back in 2010, The Devil’s Playhouse was the third of Telltale Games’ Sam & Max adventures, and sees…

Hats off to the Geffen Playhouse for pulling off with exquisite panache a most difficult double-header in “The Inheritance,” Matthew López’s two-part, Tony-winning gay drama. This marathon undertaking, roughly 6½ hours long, is broken up into two plays. Forget about fast-food theater: This is a full-course dramatic meal. An epic that had its world premiere in London in 2018, “The Inheritance” follows a group of gay men — friends, lovers and exes — as they piece together their intergenerational story. While grappling with…