Saturday, October 31, 2020
There is something deliciously lovely about turning off all the lights in the house and listening to a horror tale on a rainy autumn night. So with the mood set, I accessed Resounding Live I…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 11:06AMMonday, September 21, 2020
The Off Broadway League today announced the election of Casey York as its new President. The organization also announced two new officers, Evan O’Brient as 2nd VP, and Steven Chaikelson as…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 10:40AMMonday, August 31, 2020
Churchill said, among a great many other things, that democracy is the worst for of government except for all the others. Playwright and doctor of political science Monica Bauer appears larg…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 05:53PMSunday, August 2, 2020
Although the pandemic has shuttered our theaters, the work of theatre goes on. Thanks to Zoom, YouTube and other platforms, digital delivery of theatrical works has blossomed. The National T…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 11:50AMTuesday, March 31, 2020
Stagebiz.com has been the beneficiary of a lot of support and plain affection from the NY theatre industry in the last few years. From the big Broadway shows to the black-box theatres to the…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 11:59AMWednesday, March 4, 2020
“The Perplexed” should be one of the events of the theatre this spring. A Richard Greenberg script directed by Lynne Meadow and presented by the Manhattan Theatre Club – what could pos…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 11:16AMWednesday, February 19, 2020
Pearl Cleage wrote “Blues for an Alabama Sky” in the mid-1990s, and it is astonishing that it has taken so long for a play set at the cusp of the Harlem Renaissance and the Great Depress…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 04:32PMSunday, December 22, 2019
One of the highlights of this year’s edition of the Annual Fringe Encore Series is Sam Chittenden’s take on Kafka’s novella, “Metamorphosis.” While the script is intriguing, the pe…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 10:58AMWednesday, December 18, 2019
I know what you are thinking. Great, yet another version of the Nutcracker at Christmas. Just what we need. Well, this one IS just the one we need. While the more traditional versions are ta…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 01:16PMWednesday, October 2, 2019
Back in elementary school, we all learned that a story has a beginning, a middle and an end. Apparently, playwright Florian Zeller was absent that day, or perhaps, he merely couldn’t be bo…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 10:26AMFriday, July 26, 2019
Choreographers have a default line in interviews that is some variant of “I tell stories through dance.” Much of the time, though, I watch their work and wonder what the story might have…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 05:59PMTuesday, July 9, 2019
Dog Man the Musical comes from the pen of one of the most banned authors in America today. Dav Pilkey is the man who gave us the “Captain Underpants” series. And as you might expect, the…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 01:50PMWednesday, June 12, 2019
Pilobolus is performing two programs during its three-weeks at the Joyce Theater this summer, and each piece is unique while being ineffably consistent with the style of the company. It is d…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 10:17AMMonday, March 4, 2019
The two hardest types of theatrical production to pull off are polar opposites in complexity. On the one hand, there is the classic Broadway musical that requires a range of talents and has …
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 09:12PMMonday, February 18, 2019
This production from The Social Club Theatre is Brechtian in its approach. We truly don’t ever get to know the characters, what their jobs are, why they are sharing an apartment – and we…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 07:08PMFriday, March 27, 2015
The one-actor show about a world historic person has proved itself a healthy genre over the years. Through this form of theatre, we have recently met the likes of Vince Lombardi and Lyndon J…
SOURCE: nytheatreguide.com at 12:35PMMonday, May 19, 2014
If you spend enough time around theatre and film people, they eventually start talking about their past glories, the failures of others, and shameful acts in general (in my experience, about…
SOURCE: Maryland Theatre Guide at 08:07PM 
