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Friday, February 19, 2021

Get subversive with the “Megillah Cycle” by Pj Grisar

Beginning February 21, the Congress for Jewish Culture will bring poet Itzik Manger’s 1936 poem cycle of the Purim story to your desktop. It may not be the story you’re used to. Manger p…

SOURCE: forward.com at 12:20PM
Tuesday, November 24, 2020

A new box set of Yiddish films arrives - but only on Blu-Ray by Pj Grisar

“This is coming out strictly on Blu-Ray,” said Allen Lewis Rickman, an actor and Yiddishist who wrote subtitles for nine of the 10 films featured in “The Jewish Soul: Classics of Yiddi…

SOURCE: forward.com at 03:36PM
Thursday, July 27, 2017

What to Watch on Cennarium This August by Pj Grisar

Every month we highlight the best programming on Cennarium, a streaming service for the performing arts. StageBuddy readers receive a 15% discount on Cennarium. Use the code: st@gebuddy …

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:18PM
Thursday, July 20, 2017

Review: Arcadia by Pj Grisar

A visit to Sidley Park is never for naught. In Potomac Theatre Project (PTP/NYC)’s light-on-its feet production of Tom Stoppard’s 1993 masterpiece, Arcadia, the play proves as t…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:10PM
Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Review: Pity In History by Pj Grisar

In Pity in History, Howard Barker posits that history is a continual work-in-progress. A political satire with the feel of a parable, the play documents the travails of Gaukroger, an English…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:59PM
Thursday, June 29, 2017

What to Watch on Cennarium This July by Pj Grisar

Every month we highlight the best programming on Cennarium, a streaming service for the performing arts. StageBuddy readers receive a 15% discount on Cennarium. Use the code: st@gebuddy …

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:15AM
Thursday, June 1, 2017

What to Watch on Cennarium This June by Pj Grisar

Cennarium, a streaming service billed by many as “the Netflix of the performing arts,” launched in 2014 in Brazil, but is just now making a push to the US market. There’s a…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:13PM
Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Review: Groundhog Day by Pj Grisar

  It’s not déjà vu. After a hit run in London, Groundhog Day, based on the 1993 film of the same name, has made its way to Broadway. Its treatment of the source material is duly def…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:22PM
Monday, April 17, 2017

Review: Groundhog Day by Pj Grisar

It’s not déjà vu. After a hit run in London, Groundhog Day, based on the 1993 film of the same name, has made its way to Broadway. Its treatment of the source material is duly deferentia…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:00PM
Thursday, April 14, 2016

Interview: Leah Nanako Winkler on Family, Weddings, and Her New Play “Kentucky” by Pj Grisar

Leah Nanako Winkler is a New York-based playwright, but before that, she made a home in Kamakura, Japan and Lexington, Kentucky. Her work is consistently playful, painfully frank and delight…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:19PM
Monday, April 11, 2016

Review: The New York Pops Presents The Music of John Williams: From Spielberg to Star Wars by Pj Grisar

It’s hard to divorce the music of John Williams from the moments it underscores on screen. An evening of the composer’s music presented at the close of the New York Pops’ …

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:15PM
Sunday, September 6, 2015

Interview: Jack DiFalco on Philip Ridley’s Dystopian Play “Mercury Fur” by Pj Grisar

Once a cause célèbre for its brutal subject matter, Phillip Ridley’s electrifying Mercury Fur is celebrating its tenth year with considerably more acceptance at the New Group. One of the…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:02PM
Monday, June 22, 2015

Meet the Writers: EST Marathon of One-Act Plays, Series C by Pj Grisar

Ensemble Studio Theatre’s 35th Marathon of One-Act Plays is nearing the finish line with the opening of its third and final Series, C, last week. This leg of the race is just as varie…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:45PM
Monday, June 8, 2015

Meet the Writers: EST Marathon of One-Act Plays, Series B by Pj Grisar

This month, Ensemble Studio Theatre’s second round of one-acts, Series B, opens right as the crowd is still catching its breath from Series A. This go around features a Global Warming …

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:22PM
Sunday, May 17, 2015

EST Marathon Series A: Meet the Writers by Pj Grisar

Ensemble Studio Theatre is kicking off its 35th Marathon of One-Act Plays this week with Series A. The Hell’s Kitchen hub is, as always, chock-a-block with emerging and established tal…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:18PM
Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Scaring the Audience with Cory Finley of “The Feast” by Pj Grisar

Brooklyn-based playwright Cory Finley’s eerie domestic comedy The Feast is playing now through April 5th at The Flea Theater.  But though the play, receiving its world premiere in t…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:35PM
Wednesday, March 11, 2015

The Best (And Worst) Broadway Posters of the Season by Pj Grisar

The Great White Way and graphic design have had a long, storied love affair, from the simple lines of a Hirschfeld caricature to the show-selling broadsheets, cab toppers and streetlamp penn…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:57PM

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