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Thursday, May 18, 2023

Review: storytime with What Will the Neighbors Say? by Erin Kahn

Ironically, though New York City is home to more than 8 million people, it’s been called “the lonely city,” and it’s easy to see why. You could easily pass hundreds of people on your…

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Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Review: College Fun by Erin Kahn

Shakespeare is canceled. Don’t ask why—he just is. It might have something to do with the tremors that keep jarring the college diversity office, or then again, it might not. We’ll nev…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:20PM
Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Review: We, Puppets by Erin Kahn

I’ve seen my fair share of plays about racism, but I’ve never seen the struggle between a facist government and its oppressed citizens dramatized as a puppet show. In We, Puppets, presen…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:51PM
Thursday, April 20, 2023

Review: One More Seat at the Round Table by Erin Kahn

In the 1967 film version of Camelot (a movie I adore), there comes a moment when Arthur senses that the presence of his illegitimate son, Mordred, together with the forbidden passion share…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:32PM
Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Review: Emilie: La Marquise du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight by Erin Kahn

Émilie du Châtelet was playing around with physics more than a century before Einstein entered the scene. Her analysis of force and velocity, which she articulated as F = mv², would pave …

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:28PM
Thursday, April 6, 2023

Review: A Passion by Erin Kahn

Most people today (myself included) have an absence of ritual in their lives, and never is this more apparent than at this time of year–when Catholics worship in specifically orchestrated …

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:47PM
Friday, March 31, 2023

Review: AAPI Heroes: Myths and Legends by Erin Kahn

Dance can be a powerful vehicle for storytelling, for expressing emotion, and for conveying truths that are sometimes difficult to articulate in words. If you need proof, go see J. Chen Proj…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:30PM
Monday, March 20, 2023

Review: ‘Cabaret in Captivity’ by Erin Kahn

What kind of person can laugh amid the jaws of hell? One who knows his survival depends on it. In Cabaret in Captivity, we become those imprisoned in the Terezin Camp as, in commemoration—…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:06PM

Review: ‘The Black That I Am’ by Erin Kahn

Identity is a tricky, complicated thing. That was the main idea I pondered as I left the theatre after Karl O’Brian Williams’ The Black That I Am: a pastiche of monologues, scenes, and m…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:59PM
Friday, March 3, 2023

Review: She’s Got Harlem on Her Mind by Erin Kahn

Though it seemed a little counterintuitive to leave my Harlem apartment and trek down to the Lower East Side to watch a play about Harlem, I’m glad I did. In She’s Got Harlem on Her Mind…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:19PM
Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Review: Untitled Calamity Jane Play by Erin Kahn

“You have no control who lives, who dies, who tells your story.” If Calamity Jane was a character in Hamilton, I have to think she’d agree with General Washington—probably very vocal…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:17PM
Thursday, December 15, 2022

Review: Eddie Izzard in ‘Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations’ by Erin Kahn

‘Tis the season for one-person Dickens shows. While Jefferson Mays performs a one-man version of A Christmas Carol on Broadway, Eddie Izzard is performing her solo version of Great Expecta…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:00PM
Monday, December 12, 2022

Interview: Michael Urie by Erin Kahn

Michael Urie is always a delight to watch, so it should come as no surprise that he’s also a delight to talk to. While his most recent Broadway credit was the uproarious comedy Chicken &a…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:46PM
Friday, December 9, 2022

A Christmas Miracle: Megan Hilty and Neal McDonough share holiday traditions and the joy of performing with The Tabernacle Choir by Erin Kahn

It was the second week of October, and Mack Wilberg, Music Director of the world-renowned Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square, had just been given the green light to proceed with the annual Ch…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:11PM
Monday, December 5, 2022

Review: ‘The Far Country’ by Erin Kahn

  Between 1910 and 1940, San Francisco’s Angel Island processed somewhere around 250,000 Chinese immigrants. Often detained in a prison-like environment for weeks, months, or even years, …

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:00PM
Monday, November 21, 2022

Review: A BKBX Frankenstein by Erin Kahn

It’s probably safe to say that mime theatre is an underappreciated art form. But if you want to see modern miming at its best, look no further than Broken Box Mime Theater. The company’s…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:15PM
Saturday, November 12, 2022

Review: The Haunting of 85 East 4th Street by Erin Kahn

Halloween may be over, but as long as Radiotheatre’s The Haunting of 85 East 4th Street is playing at The Kraine Theater, spooky season is emphatically not. Written by Dan Bianchi, this su…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:31PM
Thursday, November 10, 2022

Interview with Ray Mercer by Erin Kahn

On Sunday, The Lion King celebrates its 25th Broadway anniversary. That will also be a milestone for Ray Mercer, who’s been with the show for 20 years, making him one of the longest-runnin…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:57PM
Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Review: Where the Mountain Meets the Sea by Erin Kahn

Every now and then, between revivals, jukebox musicals, movie-based musicals, and productions hellbent on making a statement, you come across that increasingly rare thing in theatre: an orig…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:00PM
Monday, October 31, 2022

Review: Monstress by Erin Kahn

What–or should we say who–makes a monstress monstrous? This is the question raised by Hunger & Thirst Theatre’s bluegrass musical Monstress, written by Emily Kitchens with origina…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:54PM
Thursday, October 27, 2022

Review: FEARfest 2022 by Erin Kahn

Sometimes horror works best in short, self-contained stories. Such is the case with the New Ambassadors’ short horror-themed play festival, FEARfest 2022, at Tada! Theater. Seven short p…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:40PM
Monday, October 24, 2022

Review: HOUND DOG by Erin Kahn

When a young musician returns to Turkey to care for her troublesome father, she gets a lot more than she bargained for–and so does the audience. Produced by Ars Nova and PlayCo at Greenwic…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:00PM
Monday, October 17, 2022

Review: ‘Artemisia’s Intent’ by Erin Kahn

In The Anthropologists’ Artemisia’s Intent, written and directed by Melissa Moschitto, 17th-century Italian painter Artemisia, played by Mariah Freda, returns to share her insights and…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:17PM
Thursday, October 13, 2022

Interview: Martha Preve by Erin Kahn

In honor of Halloween and Dia de los Muertos, FRIGID New York and Something From Abroad present the first-ever Days of the Dead Festival. Running October 20 through November 1 at The Kraine …

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:25PM
Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Review: ‘Bethune, Our Black Velvet Rose’ by Erin Kahn

Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune is one of those often overlooked women from America’s past whose story not only deserves, but needs to be told. At TheaterLab, a cast directed by Kathleen Brant tak…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:18PM
Monday, October 10, 2022

Interview: Rob Rokicki by Erin Kahn

Rob Rokicki’s Monstersongs is possibly the greatest (and definitely the funnest) Halloween album of all time. Released by Broadway Records back in 2017, the graphic novel rock album recent…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:52PM
Wednesday, October 5, 2022

Review: Complicity by Erin Kahn

When aspiring young actress Tig Kennedy is raped by her would-be producer, she faces a wrenching choice: expose the wrongdoing and turn her back on a promising career in Hollywood? Or brush …

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:10PM
Saturday, October 1, 2022

Review: ‘Let Me Cook For You’ by Erin Kahn

Storytelling, on perhaps its most basic level, is a means of transmitting memories and messages from one generation to the next. As such, it becomes a sort of ritual. By sharing our stories …

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:42PM
Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Review: David Greenspan performs ‘Four Saints in Three Acts’ by Erin Kahn

Gertrude Stein’s Four Saints in Three Acts is, to put it bluntly, nonsensical. An avant-garde opera with a libretto by Stein and a score by Virgil Thomson, it’s more word-driven than pl…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:23PM
Friday, September 16, 2022

Review: ‘Our Man in Santiago’ by Erin Kahn

A CIA newbie with orders to remove the Chilean President walks into a bombed out palace. What could go wrong? In Mark Wilding’s delightful comedy Our Man in Santiago, loosely inspired by …

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Thursday, September 8, 2022

Review: ‘My Onliness’ by Erin Kahn

Gertrude Stein once said of her own writing: “if you enjoy it, you understand it.” If that’s true, then I suppose I understood My Onliness: a world premiere musical about a mad king an…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:50PM

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