Wednesday, February 21, 2018
It isn’t hard to imagine that somewhere in Martin McDonagh’s attic there is an appallingly bad script with putrefied pages, because thus far, even his flawed work is compelling when …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:23AMTuesday, November 7, 2017
Known as the “Elephant Man,” Joseph Merrick (whom the Gallery Players’ version of the play The Elephant Man together with the David Lynch film call John Merrick), was a se…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:51PMMonday, October 23, 2017
Brian Friel’s oft-used fictional town of Ballybeg, Co. Donegal, marks a Chekhovian outline as well as the path to Friel’s own hopscotch bearings either side of the nearby Irish border. …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:19PMMonday, October 2, 2017
“What’s it gonna be then, eh?” Well well well, one scenario could be a Hi-NRG music video featuring the dancing droogs. Another, the once seen never forgotten Pacino movie Cruising. Su…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:04PMMonday, September 18, 2017
Guilty, by Icelandic playwright Hrafnhildur Hagalín, featuring as part of Theater for the New City’s Dream Up Festival and directed by August Strindberg Rep founder Robert Greer, is a one…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:53AMTuesday, August 22, 2017
Playwright Teresa Deevy is quite the enigmatic rediscovery. A native of Waterford, Ireland, Deevy achieved a rapid run of success, writing six plays for The Abbey Theatre (Ireland’s Nation…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:12PMTuesday, May 16, 2017
Enda Walsh wants to mess with your mood swings by creating non-linear, atmospheric works for you to interpret. It is entirely up to you what you make of it. Walsh will not hold himself respo…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:15PMTuesday, May 2, 2017
Larry Kirwan’s new play, Rebel in the Soul, directed by Charlotte Moore, looks at Dr. Noël Browne’s health reform mission, which ultimately brought down the First Inter-Party Government…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:48PMTuesday, April 18, 2017
Harold Pinter’s 1978 play Betrayal, currently playing at Hoboken’s Mile Square Theatre, was inspired by his seven-year affair with the English journalist and “thinking man’s crumpet�…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:53PMMonday, March 27, 2017
It’s hard to forget the 2010 news images of the BP Deepwater Horizon blowout, the pathetically sad marine life gasping for air, daubed in the viscid black oil that spilled into the Gulf of…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:31PMTuesday, February 21, 2017
In 2016’s 1st Irish Festival, Nancy Manocherian’s The Cell raised the splintering roof with Honor Molloy’s Crackskull Row, a one-act play soaked to the bone with rough and tumble memor…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:42PMMonday, November 28, 2016
An Irishman, a Slovakian and an Israeli walk into a Harold Pinter play…pauses ensue. It’s not easy being Pinteresque. Irish actor and producer Philip O’Gorman has endured the hus…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:08PMTuesday, September 27, 2016
There are a number of adjectives that spring to mind when watching Bears in Space, a play currently taking part in Origin’s 1st Irish theater festival at 59E59 Theaters; words such as …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:46PMTuesday, September 6, 2016
As a wee boy in Scotland, Alan Cumming was visited by a strange man who turned up outside his house and bestowed upon him a plastic Kodak camera that he’d won, it transpired, via a tombola…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:39PMTuesday, April 19, 2016
Irish writer Eimear McBride’s debut novel A Girl is a Half-formed Thing took a mere six months to write but a further nine years to get published, such is the struggle of the burgeonin…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:31AMSunday, February 21, 2016
From every action and decision made, there are consequences. Social psychologist Stanley Milgram, eager to understand those that assisted with or turned a blind eye to the systematic atrocit…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:37PMFriday, October 9, 2015
Interpreting the work of Samuel Beckett is for some, an undertaking as formidable and imposing as the contours of the playwright’s granite features. For others, his trademark charac…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:32PMThursday, September 17, 2015
In the year 2040, in a world without plays and cancer, there is always the ‘system’ to provide us with art and anguish. But in Max Posner’s new play Judy, that system can b…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:19PMFriday, August 28, 2015
A journalist, keen to rebuild his professional reputation, arrives at a Rwandan prison five years after the 1994 genocide to interview two Hutu Nuns who are about to stand trial for war crim…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:03PMTuesday, June 30, 2015
In ADA/AVA, an elderly woman, Ada, grieves for her twin sister Ava in the remote New England lighthouse they once shared. Then a visit to the carnival creates a ghostly opportunity for a reu…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:47PMMonday, June 15, 2015
At the beginning of the century, actress, writer and comedian Rain Pryor put together a collection of self-penned songs and spoken word that would become Fried Chicken & Latkes (the titl…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:39AM 
