Monday, 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…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:26PMWednesday, January 20, 2016
Invigorating fun best describes an early Sunday afternoon conversation with theater director Sean Daniels in the empty 59E59 theater, where Friday night I’d just seen the first preview of …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:16PMThursday, January 14, 2016
Brooklyn-based Canadian librettist Royce Vavrek is a very busy man these days, and New York audiences are very lucky! This month, the 2016 Prototype Festival features two of his operas, An…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:06PMWednesday, December 23, 2015
Deep into the process of rehearsing and shaping their new musical theater piece The Good Swimmer, a First Look Presentation at the 2016 Prototype Festival, librettist Donna Di Novelli a…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:48PMTuesday, November 24, 2015
After seeing Fellowship for Performing Arts’ moving adaptation of C.S. Lewis’ profound novel The Great Divorce, playing at The Pearl Theater, I had the chance to speak with Max McLe…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:46AMWednesday, September 23, 2015
After a fifteen year hiatus, Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes is back in New York, bringing to life a rotating cast of forty characters in his new show The Daisy Theatre at the Baryshni…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:01PMTuesday, August 18, 2015
You’ve probably heard of the New York International Fringe Festival, which is now in its 19th year. But have you ever heard of FringeJR? FringeJR is part of FringeNYC and features …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:08PMThursday, July 30, 2015
It seems apropos to meet up with dedicated theater artists Jessi Blue Gormezano and KJ Sanchez in a slightly battered second floor theater space off of 10th Avenue on 52nd Street; the kind o…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:22PMThursday, June 25, 2015
Playwright Catherine Filloux possesses a calming presence amidst the cacophony of a bus load of tourists eager to munch pastries and slurp cappuccinos at Amy’s in midtown Manhattan. Fortun…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:02PMMonday, June 22, 2015
On a rainy Tuesday afternoon, I meet up with Jasper Grant, artistic director of B-Side Productions for a chat at Amy’s Bakery in Hell’s Kitchen. Although it is gloomy outside, sitting at…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:57PMTuesday, January 13, 2015
Composer and sound artist Ellen Reid, whose opera Winter’s Child is part of the 2015 Prototype Festival produced by Beth Morrison Projects, is keenly observant. As we meet up at Amy’s on…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:09PMThursday, November 6, 2014
Baruch Performing Arts Center’s theater is buzzing with activity; people are scurrying above me on catwalks focusing lights and drills buzz on the stage as the production crew assemble the…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:50AM 
