Sunday, March 3, 2024
While theater is an art form with a shelf life — sometimes a show outlives its closing. Such is the story with Bliss Street, an Off-Broadway show at Theater for the New City th…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 07:32PMFriday, December 22, 2023
The redemption tale of
Ebenezer Scrooge, and how he discards his miserly ways after a few spectral
visitations has enchanted audiences since Charles Dickens published the novella
in 1843. Ju…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 12:02PMSaturday, June 3, 2023
Well, it is that time of year again. The 76th Tony Awards will recognize theatrical achievements on Broadway for the 2022-23 season. Who will win? Below are Show Showdown's guesses.
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SOURCE: Show Showdown at 12:32AMThursday, March 12, 2020
Company XIV cast of Seven Sins. Photo by Mark Shelby Perry.
Seven Sins by Company XIV, their most cohesive production to date, tells the story of Adam and Eve’s fall from grace and the i…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 12:48PMMonday, December 16, 2019
Sven Ratzke; Photo by Hanneke Wetzer
Dutch-German performer Sven Ratzke is the best kind of David Bowie fan. When he sings his Ziggy Stardust songs, he closes his eyes, softens his face and …
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 02:48AMThursday, December 12, 2019
Ashley Dragon. Credit: Mark Shelby Perry
Even when Company XIV produces a problematic show, it’s vastly entertaining. While the Nutcracker Rouge’s version of this well-known holiday t…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 02:54PMWednesday, October 9, 2019
The cast; Photo by Katie Walenta
While much of Tonya Pinkins' Truth and Reconciliation: Womyn Working it Out, a collective of nine 10-minute plays and songs about women and oppression per…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 06:36PMThursday, August 15, 2019
Ian Spring and LEXXE as Alice. Photo: Mark Shelby Perry
This burlesque journey down the rabbit hole transforms Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland into a circus-tinged, sex…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 05:12PMMonday, July 22, 2019
Sometimes the plot in Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoots Macbeth by Tom Stoppard, first produced in 1979, runs too close to home. But some background first:In Dogg's Hamlet, practically everyone speaks…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 01:48AMTuesday, July 2, 2019
Kristen Egenes, Laura Hall, Kathleen Culler, Kelly Berman, Gia Mongell, Timmy Hays, Emma Vielbig, Lucy Anders, Brittany Rodin, Emily Kersey, Mandy McDonell. Photo: Shoshana Medney
The Bach…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 12:54PMFriday, June 28, 2019
Andre De Shields
Donna Walker-Kuhn
Inspiring others was the theme at the League of Professional Theatre Women 2019 Leadership Luncheon celebrating the inaugural Rachel Crothers Leadership…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 07:12PMThursday, June 6, 2019
Nathan Lane
The 75th Theatre World Awards celebrated the debut of promising Broadway and Off-Broadway actors on June 3 in a sweet ceremony full of touching stories, even though it ran more t…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 09:06PMFriday, May 31, 2019
Mentalist and magician Gary Ferrar
Mentalist and magician Gary Ferrar’s open-ended run and residency of Nothing Here is Real at The Cocktail Lounge Below Oxbow Tavern is not glitzy with…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 04:42PMWednesday, April 10, 2019
Tanyamaria. Background - Elizabeth Kenny, Marisela Grajeda Gonzalez, C. Bain.Photo credit: Jody ChristophersonA fresh take on the Old Testament’s tale of King David and Bathsheba, April Ra…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 04:45PMMonday, December 24, 2018
Cooper Bates PhotographyBurt Grinstead and Anna Stromberg wore many hats during Blanket Fort Entertainment’s New York premiere of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde from Dec. 6-16 at the Soho Playh…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 11:12AMTuesday, October 16, 2018
Salome dances for the tetrarch. Laura Butler Rivera (Salome); Background: Anthony Simone (Tigellin), Ross Cowan (Soldier), Marty&n…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 03:12AMFriday, July 27, 2018
Brecht on Brecht takes the work of dramatist Bertolt Brecht, a polarizing post-war Germany writer whose work criticized anti-Semitism and fascism, and compiles a provocative grouping of his …
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 07:18PMTuesday, July 17, 2018
When David Hare's The Blue Room with Nicole Kidman was on Broadway in 1998, it seemed a thin and cliched story about sexual encounters. The Bridge Production Group at The WhiteBox Art Galler…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 03:32PMMonday, May 14, 2018
Richard Ridge and Chita RiveraChita Rivera may be known primarily as an actress and a dancer, but she knows how to choreograph a punchline. She provided plenty of laughs as she spoke about h…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 11:42AMSunday, December 31, 2017
Here's seven of my 2017 favorites. Why seven? Well, in many cultures seven is considered sacred, both beneficial and protective for its bearer.Honestly? Seven is all I got. I probably saw ab…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 11:06PMThursday, November 30, 2017
"Meteor Shower" by Steve Martin is perfectly cast and great fun, but it's not much of a play. The nonlinear plot makes little sense, the characters aren't compelling - except in their q…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 05:33AMThursday, November 9, 2017
Don't Feed the Indians - A Divine Comedy Pageant has inflated its title a bit. The La MaMa world premiere of Safe Harbors Indigenous Collective Projects was created and features an all Nativ…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 02:48PMMonday, July 24, 2017
Just twice in four decades of theatre have I bought the show's script duringintermission, and Tom Stoppard's Arcadia in 1995 was one of them (Shadowlands byWilliam Nicholson was the other). …
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 02:06AMWednesday, June 7, 2017
JW Guido and EnsemblePhoto: Nina WurtzelFive years in the making, Our Voices' world premiere of Soot and Spit at the Ohio Theatre tells the story James Castle, a profoundly deaf man born in …
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 11:54PMMonday, May 29, 2017
Mieko Gavia as Lou Salome. Photo credit: Jody Christopherson.More than 100 black and white copies of photos and letters, adhered on black stock, suspend from the rafters and hang on the wa…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 10:48PMFriday, March 17, 2017
The Sam Gold-helmed version of The Glass Menagerie isn't for everyone (as you can see by reviews here and here ), but this stripped-down version of Tennessee William…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 07:36PMFriday, December 23, 2016
Jay and his mentor--from The Royale. Photo by Charles Erickson I marvel at how many shows Wendy and Liz saw last year. I come in under two dozen--and, even then, I am still playing catc…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 07:06PMTuesday, November 15, 2016
Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 is a puzzle to me. Because the show is invigorating, original, and evocative and, yet, also overbearing in its intensity. Based on 70-pages of L…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 02:54AMThursday, April 21, 2016
There must be something in the water ... at least, in Padua. The first of two productions of The Taming of the Shrew featuring an all-female cast opened on April 16 at the Wild Pro…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 02:01PMWednesday, December 30, 2015
This wasn’t my favorite theater season. Yes, it had the sublime Fun Home, but more often I felt mixed about the just-under two-dozen shows I saw. I enjoyed parts, but not always the whole …
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 02:27AMMonday, November 2, 2015
I saw something I've never seen when I went to an October evening preview of Allegiance: a 69-question survey taped to my seat. From queries about story lines and characters to why you chose…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 02:15PM 
