Sunday, November 26, 2023
HELL’S KITCHEN, a new musical at The Public Theater set in New York’s iconic, eclectic Midtown West neighborhood, is a coming-of-age story about a typical teenager dealing with quintesse…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 02:21PMWednesday, November 1, 2023
Combine elements of Rocky Horror Picture Show and Beetlejuice with The 39 Steps and Mel Brooks’s Young Frankenstein, add a quick-witted, fast-paced, farcical script, mix in five phenomenal…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 02:07AMMonday, October 30, 2023
Ideals like those proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence, including “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” may be considered “self-evident” to the Founding Fathers of …
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 01:27AMTuesday, September 5, 2023
Though hurricanes, the stormy skies and the trail of destruction they bring raged across America at the tail end of summer, all was calm and serene as professional artists and community p…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 02:34PMMonday, July 10, 2023
If last year was “The Summer of Richard III,” with numerous productions worldwide and varying portrayals of the “poisonous bunch-backed toad,” including The Public Theater’s Free S…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 02:12PMFriday, May 12, 2023
Americans are bombarded by tragedies every day; mass shootings, police brutality, and natural disasters like fires, floods, tornadoes and hurricanes. People become numbers, and their stories…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 02:52PMSaturday, January 28, 2023
Lovers of avant-garde, cutting-edge performing arts in tune with the current pulse rejoice! The Public Theater’s annual theater festival, Under the Radar, is back after a hiatus since its …
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 02:00AMThursday, November 10, 2022
Theatre-maker Madeline Sayet straddles many identities that often contrast and sometimes conflict. She’s half Mohegan (on her mother’s side) and half Jewish (on her father’s side). Say…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 01:59PMWednesday, November 9, 2022
How does one describe the foreboding feeling of the calm before the storm? What might you witness if you peeked into the homes of a small community before a raging tempest transpired? In the…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 12:51PMFriday, September 2, 2022
The 60th anniversary of The Public Theater’s Free Shakespeare in the Park series was memorable. It opened with risk and ended with a reward. The first of the two productions for summer 202…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 12:22PMSaturday, August 6, 2022
Adaptations are tricky. The best ones manage to cover the key points and honor the tone of the source material without getting bogged down by too many narrative details. These elements must …
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 02:07PMThursday, July 14, 2022
It’s important, if not essential, for theatre makers to be ambitious and take risks. Equally crucial, especially in today’s climate, is considering diversity and inclusion when casting. …
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 01:57PMSaturday, June 25, 2022
(For the Full List of 2022 CHITA RIVERA AWARD WINNERS and Red Carpet Photos, see below) The stars with the highest kicks, swishiest hips, dynamite tap skills, and the slickest moves were out…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 02:12PMThursday, June 23, 2022
Anyone who has tended a garden (even on a rooftop or fire escape) or owned a houseplant knows that a living thing needs proper care, time, nourishment, and nurturing to grow, flourish and re…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 05:15PMWednesday, June 8, 2022
For a play premiering on Memorial Day weekend, what could feel more festive than a family gathering at a backyard barbecue served with a side of Shakespeare, a heaping portion of pop cult…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 04:53PMMonday, March 21, 2022
The year is 1993: Bill Clinton becomes president of the US; the World Trade Center is bombed by Islamic Fundamentalists; the FBI raids Branch Davidians, a religious cult in Waco, TX; Russia …
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 02:32AMMonday, March 7, 2022
OUT OF TIME, a collection of five brand-new monologues by five award-winning Asian American playwrights could have been titled “Long Overdue.” Now playing at the Public Theater through S…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 12:46AMMonday, February 28, 2022
There are moments when music can break down all borders and boundaries to touch something deep within the soul. Those rare experiences make an individual recognize their place in their colle…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 03:50PMThursday, December 2, 2021
The transcendent Black Queer Artist Daniel Alexander Jones (aka DAJ) puts his “slashes” to good use. The multi-hyphenated artist is having a very busy 2021. He’s had a book release, a …
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 01:10PMWednesday, November 24, 2021
Buck Gooter was formed in 2005 by multigenerational bandmates Terry Turtle and Billy Brett. The duo met in Harrisonburg, Virginia while working at the Little Grill Collective (known for host…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 03:45PMSaturday, November 20, 2021
Though her time in the spotlight began as a member of the UK-based dance group, Hot Gossip, soprano superstar Sarah Brightman’s career launched on the global stage when she originated t…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 05:21PMSaturday, November 6, 2021
There comes the point in life when one embarks on a Hero’s Journey toward self-discovery and finding the meaning of life. In the case of SHEEP #1, now playing at Japan Society through Nove…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 12:43AMTuesday, January 12, 2021
It’s 2021. We made it. Now what? For those of us fortunate enough to have survived (though not without scars) the year that no one could have imagined, we enter the new year less naive and…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 03:46PMFriday, November 20, 2020
Over a weekend and one bonus day, 103 theater professionals from Broadway, the USA, and worldwide assembled virtually for the most well-attended Theater Makers Summit in the event’s histor…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 10:53PMTuesday, March 3, 2020
The Rubin Museum of Art has a knack for making their exhibitions of both ancient and contemporary art from the Himalayan region — and the philosophies and practices that inspired and infor…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 03:13PMFor as many adaptations and interpretations as there are of the classic gothic horror novels Frankenstein and Dracula, it is hard to imagine two more creative, unique, radical and timely wor…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 01:38PMWednesday, January 22, 2020
When the lights come up, one immediately observes what could only be a silverback gorilla. The gait, the strut, the way he pounds his chest and paces the stage — anyone who has seen a natu…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 05:14PMFriday, August 2, 2019
The triumphant, masterful production of The Black Clown—that performed its New York City premiere from July 24-27th as part of the 2019 annual Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival—o…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 02:27AMTuesday, July 30, 2019
Swords whizzed past heads close enough to cut their opponents’ hair; dancers dropped from or rose to the sky like celestial beings dangling on a mere thread; acrobatic action scenes shifte…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 07:09PMSunday, July 21, 2019
I first encountered A Strange Loop in 2015 at the Musical Theatre Factory when it was still located in a gay porn video warehouse above (the original) Drama Bookstore just around the corner …
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 06:30PMWednesday, May 8, 2019
The stormy start to May has served as a fitting setting for the debut of The Public Theater’s Mobile Unit production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, that washed up on its home shores near …
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 03:58PM 
