Tuesday, June 3, 2014
For me, the highlight of theater award season is the Theatre World Awards ceremony. It recognizes twelve actors making a significant, reviewable Broadway or Off-Broadway debut. The recipient…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 03:19PMFriday, May 9, 2014
It's hard for me to talk/write about Samuel D. Hunter's work because I have such a strong emotional response that feels very personal to me. So I suggest you stop reading right now and just …
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 03:44PMTuesday, May 6, 2014
The new musical The Anthem is described as "Hunger Games meets Ayn Rand in a world where individuality is illegal." Some cool things about this show: it features an aerial and circus environ…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 11:00AMMonday, May 5, 2014
The last show of the Broadway season has opened, the Tony nominations are out, and there's only one thing left before the season can officially come to a close: Forbidden Broadway has to spo…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 02:13PMOnce again, 92Y's Lyrics & Lyricists series educates and entertains. Instead of a composer or lyricist, the topic for the latest installment was a performer--Fanny Brice.My knowledge of …
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 12:01AMFriday, May 2, 2014
I don't know what they fed those kids over on the Harry Potter set, but they all seemed to have turned into such hardworking and talented adults. Harry Melling, who played Harry's cousin Dud…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 12:20PMTuesday, April 29, 2014
One of my favorite days of the year is Tony nomination day. And my favorite part of the day is writing this blog post. Because I have no power to decide who is nominated, I can at least expr…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 01:24PMMonday, April 28, 2014
Need a place to watch the 2014 Tony nominations tomorrow morning? How about right here. Come back to this post tomorrow at 8:30 a.m. (or a few minutes earlier so you don't miss a second of t…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 06:53PMNick Offerman and Megan Mullally's sitcom training comes in handy in Sharr White's Annapurna. Though the topics in the play are serious in nature (it deals with alcoholism and domestic …
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 06:51PMThank you, Daniel Radcliffe. If it weren't for you, The Cripple of Inishmaan probably wouldn't be on Broadway right now. Martin McDonagh's plays have been produced on Broadway before without…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 05:24PMFriday, April 11, 2014
Should I start with the good news or the bad news? The good news is that if you like big Susan Stroman dance numbers, Bullets Over Broadway has plenty of them. The other good news is that th…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 03:40PMMonday, April 7, 2014
Any evening with talented Broadway stars performing Rodgers & Hammerstein is going to be a good one. Especially when those stars are Jonathan Groff (Frozen), Mandy Gonzalez (In The …
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 03:00PMDo you want to see Kerry Butler in a new off-Broadway play? I'm giving away a pair of tickets to Under My Skin at the Little Shubert Theatre. It's about an eligible bachelor and a singl…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 10:00AMIn 2004, Stephanie D'Abruzzo was nominated for a Tony for Avenue Q. Now she's starring in the unimaginative Greed: A Musical for Our Times at New World Stages.Photo credit: Carol Rosegg…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 01:01AMMonday, March 31, 2014
Tonight, How I Met Your Mother ends after nine seasons. A sitcom's ending hasn't been this significant to me since Friends, so I wanted to take a moment to reflect on what this show has mean…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 10:28AMSunday, March 30, 2014
If you think Shakespeare is hard to understand, it could be because you haven't seen a Theatre For A New Audience production. The company's simple new production of King Lear, directed by Ar…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 05:47PMThursday, March 27, 2014
First thing's first: Allison Scagliotti, best known as Mindy, Josh's girlfriend from Drake & Josh, is co-starring in Jasper in Deadland. I say this because I had no idea before the show …
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 05:12PMSaturday, March 22, 2014
Theater fans often look down on jukebox musicals, but as grateful as I am for musicals that are ambitious and original, I also don't care what the source material is if the show is entertain…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 08:09PMWednesday, March 5, 2014
If I had to pick one production that I'm most looking forward to this spring, it would be The Cripple of Inishmaan. I love Martin McDonagh, this play (I saw it at the Atlantic Theatre Compan…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 10:33AMMonday, March 3, 2014
During a recent Shabbat dinner conversation with my friend Emily (@Stagemaven on Twitter), the topic of the best bar mitzvah episodes of television shows came up. She mentioned that someone …
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 03:52PMSunday, March 2, 2014
Craig Lucas's new play Ode to Joy should maybe come with a warning for those, like me, who are easily nauseated. If the sight of blood, vomit, or people fainting makes you queasy, you s…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 01:30PMMonday, February 24, 2014
Time for another contest! I'm giving away a pair of tickets to Defying Gravity: The Music of Stephen Schwartz and Eric Whitacre at Avery Fisher Hall on Sunday, March 30, at 2 p.m. Accom…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 11:45AMMonday, February 17, 2014
Ken Urban's new play, The Correspondent, now open at Rattlestick, is one of those plays that you'll probably feel the need to talk about after, trying to unravel what you saw. You will also …
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 01:39PMHappy Presidents' Day! What better way to celebrate than with a ticket contest. I'm giving away a pair of tickets to Bikeman at BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center. Tom Flynn, a producer for…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 12:45PMMonday, February 10, 2014
I've done ticket contests in the past, but for the first time, I'm giving away a pair of tickets to a Broadway invited dress rehearsal. It's your chance to go to an industry event and see Th…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 10:00AMSaturday, February 1, 2014
Dancing in light suits may be gimmicky, but it's a really cool-looking gimmick, now on display in iLuminate at New World Stages.Photo credit: Carol RoseggThe show, seen previously …
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 05:26PMBefore Loot, I had never seen a play by Joe Orton, so I am grateful to Red Bull Theater for making the introduction. Orton, considered heir to Oscar Wilde, was arrested and imprisoned for st…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 05:19PMThursday, January 30, 2014
I've been a fan of Transport Group since I saw the company's site-specific revival of The Boys in the Band. Now the company is producing the first New York revival of Almost, Maine, about lo…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 11:38AMWednesday, January 29, 2014
I sometimes feel bad that you have to live in or near New York to enter my contests, but now I have an opportunity for those of you who live far away. (Those who live close can enter as well…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 12:02PMMonday, January 27, 2014
This winter has been pretty brutal, so why not cheer yourself up with a musical comedy? I'm giving away a pair of tickets to see Joe Kinosian and Kellen Blair's Murder for Two at N…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 09:30AMMonday, January 13, 2014
When my friend and I took our seats at Lyrics & Lyricists, a series at 92Y celebrating the American Songbook, the women next to us remarked that we were probably the youngest people ther…
SOURCE: Pataphysical Science at 12:33AM 
