Tuesday, December 28, 2021
The much anticipated 2021 revival of perennial favorite The Music Man, starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster, began preview performances on December 20th to much trumpeting and fanfare. Or…
SOURCE: www.drdrama.com at 02:14PMTuesday, June 29, 2021
The film adaptation of In the Heights, based on the 2005 Broadway musical, is an unapologetically Latine story, set in the neighborhood of Washington Heights in uptown Manhattan. This movie …
SOURCE: www.drdrama.com at 10:00AMFriday, April 30, 2021
As part of the Brain Lab series, Kalyn West and I were honored to welcome panelists Christian Lewis, L Morgan Lee, Hayley St. James, Donnie Cianciotto and Preston Allen to discuss why repres…
SOURCE: www.drdrama.com at 09:48AMMonday, April 19, 2021
This past weekend, I moderated a panel on Musicals & Mental Health during the pandemic at BroadwayCon, theater’s annual fan convention. This conversation featured Hailey Kilgore (Once …
SOURCE: www.drdrama.com at 10:34AMMonday, February 15, 2021
The pandemic has brought fresh focus onto the primacy of our mental health. As we quarantine at home, the decreased noise and distraction have allowed us to sit with our thoughts and feeling…
SOURCE: www.drdrama.com at 01:04PMSunday, February 14, 2021
Please enjoy this article about managing stage fright from Certified Life Coach, Sue Hurwitz who also happens to be my mother: As an audience member, what you usually see onstage are actors …
SOURCE: www.drdrama.com at 12:21PMWednesday, January 20, 2021
(Photo: AP) The irreverent puppet/human hybrid musical Avenue Q explored how we navigate early adulthood in contemporary times. This loving satire concluded with the song, “For Now”, rem…
SOURCE: www.drdrama.com at 07:00PMTuesday, December 29, 2020
By Ashley Kleinman Martinez, MA, RDT, LCAT, LPC I am a self-described and proud theatre nerd. This shows up in the obvious ways. For example, rarely do I feel more seen and connected with …
SOURCE: www.drdrama.com at 02:46AMFriday, September 18, 2020
One of the true and few joys of this quarantine time has been the early home release of the pro shot of Hamilton: An American Musical. We received what we have never had before: the opportun…
SOURCE: www.drdrama.com at 10:36AMTuesday, August 11, 2020
“Grow up, Heather; Bulimia is so ‘87.” – Heathers the Musical. I wish that was the case, but it seems that eating disorders and disordered eating are on the rise in every demograph…
SOURCE: www.drdrama.com at 06:03AMSaturday, April 11, 2020
This pandemic is infecting hundreds of thousands of Americans with the virus and all of us with fear. In response to dealing with the anxiety, uncertainty and isolation, I am launching a Men…
SOURCE: www.drdrama.com at 04:45PMThursday, March 12, 2020
We are living in scary times. The Coronavirus is threatening people’s health, financial stability and emotional well-being. Within our own beloved theater community, regional and community…
SOURCE: www.drdrama.com at 03:29PMMonday, March 9, 2020
(Photo: Marc Franklin) Emojiland, currently running off-Broadway at The Duke on 42nd Street, is a delight of a musical, laugh-out-loud performances with an ear-worm score. It features charac…
SOURCE: www.drdrama.com at 12:49PMSaturday, November 2, 2019
Nora Schell (Spamilton, Company at Barrington Stage Company) is a rare breed, a person on the public eye who is wholly open about her life, triumphs and struggles. On social media, Schell ha…
SOURCE: www.drdrama.com at 11:00PMThursday, October 17, 2019
Pictured above from L to R: Jewelle Blackman, Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer, Reeve Carney, and Kay Trinidad (Photo: Charles Sykes) A man is walking alone, wondering out loud if he is worthy of the …
SOURCE: www.drdrama.com at 02:06PMWednesday, October 2, 2019
TW: This article contains discussion of the Holocaust and pictures of white nationalists and Nazi Germany. As I prepared to interview sage actor and writer Alexandra Silber (Fiddler on the R…
SOURCE: www.drdrama.com at 02:30PMMonday, September 23, 2019
Badia Farha plays many roles in her life, including wife, mother, actor, and singer, so taking on multiple characters in the recent Joe Iconis off-Broadway musical, Broadway Bounty Hunter, w…
SOURCE: www.drdrama.com at 04:24PMSunday, August 11, 2019
I had the honor and privilege to speak with the delightful Kirsten Wrinkle. We talked about musicals, mental health, and the power of live theater. Take a listen (link below) to hear all of …
SOURCE: www.drdrama.com at 09:54AMThursday, August 1, 2019
Producers Scott Rudin, Barry Diller, and David Geffen recently announced casting for an intriguing revival of West Side Story helmed by visionary director Ivo Van Hove. Among the talented ca…
SOURCE: www.drdrama.com at 04:05PMFriday, May 10, 2019
We have witnessed it frequently as of late, Broadway audience members vocally complaining about actors, with their ire focused “missing” shows (aka, having prior engagements or attending…
SOURCE: www.drdrama.com at 10:17AMThursday, April 11, 2019
What do you get when you cross humility, talent, dedication, spirituality, and humanity? You get an actor who can move audiences in performance as Martin Luther King, Jr., Coalhouse Walker, …
SOURCE: www.drdrama.com at 06:26AMTuesday, February 26, 2019
Loved co-hosting this episode of the OnStage Blog podcast Movie Musical Shakedown about Sweeney Todd. We talked about the psychology of obsession, the empty motivation of revenge, the relati…
SOURCE: www.drdrama.com at 06:44PMMonday, February 11, 2019
If you want to see theater that will leave you indelibly changed, dive into the immersive theatrical experience of The Hidden Ones. This 90-minute, limited dialogue show, interactive piece i…
SOURCE: www.drdrama.com at 08:20AMMonday, January 28, 2019
I am pleased to share this piece from a new collaboration with Shrink Tank (“If psychology and pop culture had a baby…”) exploring Alexander Hamilton and Bipolar Disorder. …
SOURCE: www.drdrama.com at 09:56AMTuesday, January 8, 2019
Dr. Drama will be presenting at the following BroadwayCon panels this year (see below or click on the link for the Con schedule: http://www.broadwaycon.com/schedule/.) Hope to see you there!…
SOURCE: www.drdrama.com at 12:07PMWednesday, November 28, 2018
Alex Newell & Hailey Kilgore in Once on this Island (Photo: Joan Marcus) The recent news of the January 6th twin closing notices of audience darlings Head Over Heels and Once on this Isl…
SOURCE: www.drdrama.com at 06:18PMFriday, November 2, 2018
(Photo: Nina Westervelt) Imagine the surprise of my patients when I tell them that the most important part of my job as their psychologist is my own self-care. The natural confusion comes fr…
SOURCE: www.drdrama.com at 10:02AMThursday, October 25, 2018
Few events are more incomprehensible and profoundly disorienting than the loss of a child. In Hamilton: An American Musical, we bear witness to Alexander and Eliza Hamilton dealing with th…
SOURCE: www.drdrama.com at 06:17AMSaturday, September 15, 2018
Death is among the most challenging of realities that we as humans are ever challenged to process. When someone in our sphere passes away, we are forced to grapple with our own mortality and…
SOURCE: www.drdrama.com at 08:56PMThursday, September 6, 2018
It’s Dr. Drama’s one year anniversary! We launched on September 6, 2017 and it’s been a year filled with insightful conversations, engaging with audiences, and exploration …
SOURCE: www.drdrama.com at 08:34AM(Photo: Emilio Madrid-Kuser) Jelani Alladin made his Broadway debut this year in the eagerly anticipated musical, Frozen. He plays Kristoff, the ice-selling, reindeer-talking, argument-engag…
SOURCE: www.drdrama.com at 05:54AM 
