Friday, August 5, 2022
Scene: the Sakha Republic, Siberia. Some time in the future, a genetically engineered mammelephant (half mammoth, half elephant) has an existential crisis in a man-made park created to solve…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:08PMWednesday, July 27, 2022
Kathy Ng’s Happy Life, directed by Kat Yen at Walkerspace, is not a show for everyone. Nor is it a show for the faint of heart. But if kinky, morbid humor is your thing, well guess what, i…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:26PMTuesday, June 7, 2022
10-year-old Sarah Silverman has one big, big problem. Well, to be honest, she has more than one problem. Her parents are newly divorced, her mother hasn’t left her bed in weeks, and her ol…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:15PMFriday, May 27, 2022
I’ve seen some weird stuff lately, but I’m very glad I took a chance on French playwright/director David Lescot’s Dough. A Compagnie du Kairos production presented by Villa Albertine a…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:09PMThursday, May 26, 2022
In the name of liberty, four robbers are hatching a plot to steal everyone’s phones. They’re dressed in gray uniforms that sort of resemble pajamas, and black felt bandit masks that seem…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:30PMMonday, May 23, 2022
Maya Angelou’s 1969 memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings has already been adapted for both film and stage, but New York City Children’s Theater’s world-premiere production at Theatr…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:52PMFriday, May 20, 2022
What does it mean to be a Jew today? That’s the main question asked in Michael Takiff’s clever if convoluted solo show Jews, God, and History (Not Necessarily in That Order), currently p…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:12PMTuesday, May 17, 2022
“Poetry is what gets lost in translation,” said Robert Frost. And after watching Anchuli Felicia King’s engrossing and poetic Golden Shield, I’m inclined to add “as is love.” Dir…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:00PMFriday, May 6, 2022
“I want to write something so Black that God can’t ignore me.” Playwright and performer Kareem M. Lucas speaks these words while standing on a huge wooden cross enshrined in a massive …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:05PMThursday, May 5, 2022
From time to time, to quote my favorite song from Dear Evan Hansen, “words fail.” At the moment, words fail as I search for a way to describe (and adequately praise) a show whose gentle …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:38PMFriday, April 29, 2022
“Whether on stage in front of an audience, or over the phone to a friend – we need to tell our stories. When we tell our stories, we give others permission to do the same. This is how w…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:04PMThursday, April 28, 2022
Mary Todd Lincoln: misunderstood First Lady, bereft mother, obsessive widow–and now, the unlikely subject of a trippy piece of experimental theatre. In american vicarious’ new work Shoo…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:17AMTuesday, April 26, 2022
Playwright Adam Kraar is interested in cross-cultural, cross-generational stories. His latest work, The Karpovsky Variations, follows one young woman’s search for her scattered, elusive fa…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:24PMWednesday, April 13, 2022
I was hooked from the title. As someone who loves folk music and was largely raised on “songs about trains,” I was pretty sure I was going to love it before I even stepped into the thea…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:46PMThursday, March 31, 2022
Much has been written (and, especially lately, staged) about marginalized people’s troubled relationships with the non-marginalized. But what about the relationships of different marginali…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:00PMWednesday, March 30, 2022
Take Shape, Broken Box Mime Theater’s newest devised show, explores ten stories about emergence and transformation. It’s the company’s first Mainstage show in three years, and to cele…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:43AMFriday, March 25, 2022
Women have really been getting screwed over from the beginning. That was one of my takeaways from #SoSadSoSexy, presented by Tapestry Collective at The Tank. Written and created by Emily Co…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:45PMFriday, March 11, 2022
If you’re a Shakespeare aficionado who wants to laugh out loud for two hours straight and doesn’t mind a touch of bawdy humor, then Jane Anger is for you. The Jennifer Campos Production…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:56PMThursday, March 10, 2022
In my experience, any production that includes Steve Earle on its creative team is sure to have at least a few good things going for it. In the case of Coal Country, Audible Theater’s new …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:00PMMonday, March 7, 2022
In 1965, James Baldwin and William F. Buckley Jr. faced off at the University of Cambridge, on live tv and in front of an overly packed house, on a question that, 57 years later, is no less …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:08PMWednesday, February 9, 2022
In 1927, my great-great grandfather wrote a letter home from Germany. With admirable wit and evident pleasure, Nathan Low writes about visiting his father’s cousins in Ludwigshafen. Though…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:42PMMonday, February 7, 2022
One of New York’s biggest (and best) theatre festivals is back. The 16th Annual FRIGID Festival brings together artists from across the Indie Theatre Community, with plenty of fun, excitin…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:07PMWednesday, January 5, 2022
Erin Cronican seems to be unstoppable. The actor, producer, and director is currently starring in a new production of Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning WIT at The Seeing Place Theat…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:09PMThursday, December 16, 2021
Sometimes less is more, and in One Christmas Carol at The Chain Theatre, less is much more. Adapted from Charles Dickens’ classic by Douglas H. Baker, and performed by him in multiple stat…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:47PMTuesday, December 14, 2021
Playwright, director, and actor Sara Fellini’s work has been described by the New York Times as “darkly humorous, deliciously ghoulish.” spit&vigor, of which Fellini is the artisti…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:30PMMonday, December 13, 2021
For Harry Hadden-Paton, the chance to do a new musical (and one written by James Lapine, no less) was a dream come true. The British actor who made his Broadway debut in Lincoln Center’s …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:09PMFriday, December 10, 2021
When COVID struck, conductor Mack Wilberg knew the Tabernacle Choir’s annual Christmas concert couldn’t go on as usual. But he and his colleagues wanted to keep the tradition alive. So t…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:17PMTuesday, November 30, 2021
John Patrick Shanley’s new play Candlelight is sort of like West Side Story–but with 10-year-olds, Jim Henson-esque demons, and a scantily clad fairy. Directed by Lori Kee, Candlelight, …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:17PMThursday, November 25, 2021
The holiday season is upon us, and that means a slew of holiday theatre is headed your way. At the Lucille Lortel Theatre, Tinsel: A Global Holiday Celebration will feature a lineup of joyf…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:16PMMonday, November 22, 2021
Anyone who’s a fan of the Oxford comma has my approval, but even if Faith Salie hadn’t mentioned this in her delightful show Approval Junkie, based on her memoir of the same name, her wh…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:45PMThursday, November 11, 2021
José Rodriguez fell in love with horror stories at a young age. Now, he’s presenting Metanoia, a collection of short horror-themed plays, at Jersey City Theater Center on November 14. Met…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:13PM 
