Sunday, August 11, 2019
Any budding young artistic directors dreaming of starting a theatre that nurtures and produces new work should be required to meet and hang out with Joe Brancato, founding artistic director …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:45AMSaturday, August 10, 2019
Certainly Passageways: Songs of Connection, Abnormal & Sublime, a theater piece of original songs, mixed media art, dance and storytelling created, written and performed by Amy Oestreich…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:52AMThursday, July 19, 2018
In the opening scene of the revival of John Wulp’s The Saintliness of Margery Kempe at The Duke on 42nd Street, Andrus Nichols comes barreling on stage in a red dress as the title characte…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:30PMTuesday, July 10, 2018
The United States leads the world in incarceration by a hefty margin, according to the International Centre for Prison Studies; there are over 2.2 million people imprisoned and it is not nec…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:39PMMonday, May 28, 2018
Operation Crucible by Kieran Knowles (who is also a cast member, playing the affable Tommy) is part of the Brits Off Broadway series at 59E59 Theaters. Alternating between harrowing and ch…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:11PMSunday, May 20, 2018
The prolific English playwright and director Alan Ayckbourn is back at 59E59 Theaters. His funny and poignant new comedy A Brief History of Women is part of Brits Off Broadway 2018, with a c…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:51PMStarting off her sprightly one woman show A Good Girl Doesn’t by pulling a drugstore paternity test out of a plastic bag, writer and performer Abby Stokes sets up the journey she’ll take…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:07PMThursday, April 26, 2018
If you missed The Lion, acclaimed singer, songwriter and guitarist Benjamin Scheuer’s beautiful solo show, when it was here in New York a few years ago at Manhattan Theater Club and then a…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:29AMMonday, April 16, 2018
Theater director Maria Mileaf is back at Primary Stages for a third time with the production Feeding the Dragon, written and performed by theater and television veteran Sharon Washington. Fe…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:47AMThursday, April 12, 2018
International theater director Karin Coonrod has a fierce commitment to whatever text she is working with, whether it is the drama of Shakespeare, the stories of Flannery O’Connor or the p…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:12PMThursday, February 22, 2018
Award-winning British actress Melody Grove has been a bit of a New Yorker lately — first with the downtown hit The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (The National Theater of Scotland) …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:08PMMonday, January 22, 2018
The opera-requiem IYOV fuses Biblical and liturgical texts with an extraordinary exploration of musical ideas from classical to folk to jazz, rock and electronics and practically all the sou…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:22PMBelgian indie band Dez Mona and Flemish B.O.X. (Baroque Orchestration X) wound up the 2018 Prototype Festival with an encore performance, bringing back their theatrical song cycle Sága aft…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:50PMMonday, January 15, 2018
Playwright Lucy Kirkwood’s vivid, thought-provoking West End hit The Children has also made a big impact in New York. Now playing on Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club with the original Br…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:36PMPolitics. Sex. Love. Secrets. Intrigue. Power. Betrayal. All elements you’d find in a good spy thriller are also to be found in the new opera Fellow Travelers, receiving its New York prem…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:08PMMonday, January 8, 2018
Three extraordinary women are the visionary producers behind the Prototype Festival: Beth Morrison (Beth Morrison Projects), Kristin Martig (Artistic Director, HERE) and Kim Whitener (Produc…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:07PMFriday, December 15, 2017
Perched in the back row of Classic Stage Company’s (CSC) bare brick wall theater a couple hours before a preview performance I speak with Jessie Austrian, actress, director and one third o…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:15PMMonday, November 27, 2017
Director Amanda Dehnert pairs up with playwright and actress Kate Hamill for a production of Pride and Prejudice at Primary Stages that is ridiculously fun, intoxicatingly spirited and deepl…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:47PMThe quandary. You are an established playwright with a great new play you’d like to share with New York audiences, showcase to New York industry people and use New York talent, but no es…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:19PMThursday, September 28, 2017
In John Doyle’s pared down As You Like It, opening Classic Stage Company’s 50th season, the forest of Arden is not filled with trees but rather a grove of globe-shaped lights hanging f…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:15PMMonday, September 18, 2017
It’s a guarantee you will learn something new when talking with actor Mark Shanahan, currently playing Walt Disney in Frederick Stroppel’s play Small World: a fantasia at 59E59 Theater…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:17PMTake a new play by two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony Award nominee Sarah Ruhl, add a cast of seasoned New York actors including the great Kathleen Chalfant, let innovative theater di…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:21PMThursday, September 7, 2017
Japan Society celebrates its 110th anniversary and its newly renovated theater with the North American premiere of Four Nights of Dream, a chamber opera by composer Moto Osada; the opera w…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:25PMMonday, January 30, 2017
Up-and-coming English actress Jade Anouka, who plays Ariel in the Donmar Warehouse’s acclaimed production of The Tempest at St. Ann’s Warehouse, graciously allowed me to chat with her on…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:27PMMonday, October 31, 2016
It’s been said it takes five to ten years to get a musical produced, which obviously makes writing a musical a genuine labor of love. I was fortunate to experience a few of these labor…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:00AMSunday, September 18, 2016
Jessi Blue Gormezano, a dedicated and passionate theater artist, is attracted to powerful subject matter that reverberates with up-to-the-minute social issues. Last summer I interviewed Ms…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:57PMTuesday, July 26, 2016
Having a conversation with internationally renowned theater artist and activist Lisa Wolpe is a feast for the mind and imagination. A lover of words and their power and a fierce passionate…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:08PMMonday, April 11, 2016
I had the privilege of seeing mezzo-soprano Hai-Ting Chinn’s astounding performance as Brother in The Scarlet Ibis, a new American opera by Stefan Weisman produced at HERE for the 2015 Pro…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:41PMMonday, February 8, 2016
Phrases, hashtags and statistics abound about gender and racial parity in the American theater today. Theater artist Nandita Shenoy, a multi-talented petite powerhouse, doesn’t just talk a…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:19PMMonday, February 1, 2016
Lawrence Edelson, founder and producing artistic director of American Lyric Theater (ALT) wears many hats in the opera world and beyond. For the past nine years, ALT’s Composer Libretti…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:34PMMonday, January 25, 2016
Recently, I had the pleasure of talking about the new play I and You by Lauren Gunderson, having its New York premiere Off Broadway at 59E59, and the process of developing new work with thea…
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