Friday, October 10, 2025
Is it Gah-Doh or GOD-dot? That was my first question upon receiving the invitation to see the revival of Samuel Becket’s classic play, “Waiting for Godot.” Director Jamie Llloyd opted …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:17PMWednesday, October 8, 2025
Hispanics comprise about 20.0% of the total U.S. making up the largest ethnic minority in the US. Yet, in the new drama “The Other Americans” written by John Leguizamo playing at The Pub…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:47PMTuesday, October 7, 2025
My friend’s daughter had a 10 year old named Serena with long curly hair who wore frilly dresses like her older sister. One day she showed up at school with short hair and wearing overalls…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:58AMWednesday, October 1, 2025
Years ago the fictional TV journalist Murphy Brown (played by Candy Bergen) showed her contempt for pretentious modern art lovers by sneaking a picture drawn by her toddler onto the wall of …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:50PMWednesday, September 24, 2025
Rishi Varma, playwright of the new Off-Broadway show “Sulfur Bottom” has an important message to deliver to his viewers. Factories that promised to bring jobs and prosperity to communiti…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:11PMMonday, September 22, 2025
What makes you laugh? For me, it’s often recognizing a familiar situation that ends with a surprise twist. I wasn’t familiar with the work of comedian Jeff Ross, except that he’s calle…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:33PMThursday, September 4, 2025
According to magician Jamie Allan in Amaze Magic, New York, his transplanted show from London’s West End, there are two types of people when it comes to magic -dreamers and skeptics. I am …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:21PMTuesday, August 5, 2025
Four men gather in a small Irish pub. One is the young owner and the other three are regulars with a long history together. Jack (an impressive Dan Butler) regrets choices he made as a young…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:04AMFriday, August 1, 2025
JOY A New True Musical The story of Joy Mangano, a single mom from Long Island who through her tenacity and ingenuity, becomes a millionaire, is inspirational. She created household products…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:52PMTuesday, July 29, 2025
Rolling Thunder :A Rock Journey How do you describe the horrors of war to an audience through the music of its time? Australian journalist and writer Bryce Hallett undertook the difficult ta…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:45AMFriday, July 18, 2025
Four privileged young men from an elite school are about to participate in the most important debate of their high school career. They will be competing against the girls from their own scho…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:24PMSunday, July 13, 2025
I rarely go to see a show without having a good sense of what it’s about. Yet that’s exactly what happened recently when I saw the revival of “Heathers The Musical” at New World Stag…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:49PMSunday, June 22, 2025
At the end of Season 4 of “Hacks,” there’s a rumor that Debra Vance (played by the incredibly funny, talented Jean Smart) is dead. I’m here to report that she isn’t dead. In fact, …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:19PMThursday, June 19, 2025
When we first meet Ralph, the main character in “Angry Alan,” the 85 minute play by Penelope Skinner at the intimate Studio Seaview, he isn’t angry. Portrayed by John Krasinski who pla…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:10PMTuesday, June 3, 2025
Comedy is an art, and it isn’t easy. What some find amusing, others barely snicker at. Humor comes from wordplay and language, action, innuendo and exquisite timing. We can all agree on th…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:08AMWednesday, May 21, 2025
It’s December 17, 1957, and we are in the audience for the taping of the last Nat King Cole show. Cole was the first African-American to host a variety show and it was groundbreaking. Alth…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:17PMFriday, May 16, 2025
“Old Friends” is the perfect musical for lovers of Stephen Sondheim music. The show is a tribute to Sondheim who died in 2021, leaving behind an unparalleled musical legacy. There are mo…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:01AMTuesday, May 13, 2025
Sometimes I attend a show with preconceived ideas, having heard or read about it. However, I knew nothing about “Real Women Have Curves,” never having read Josefina Lopez ‘ novel or se…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:35AMThursday, May 8, 2025
Photo by Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman I am unabashedly a Jonathan Groff fan and enjoyed his work in “Spring Awakening,” “Merrily We Roll Along,” “Little Shop of Horrors,” an…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:51PMSunday, May 4, 2025
John Proctor is the Villain At the end of Arthur Miller’s classic play, “The Crucible,” protagonist John Proctor refuses to lie, even to save his own life. Overwhelmed by what he is be…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:43AMThursday, May 1, 2025
In 1890, Oscar Wilde wrote a story about a young handsome man who has his portrait painted. He then makes a Faustian bargain, trading his soul for the picture to age, wrinkle and grow ugly i…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:57PMTuesday, April 29, 2025
Set in a struggling barbershop in Harlem,in the 1950’s, “Ceremonies in Dark Old Men” by Lonnie Elder III focuses on the family of Russell B. Parker (a fine Norm Lewis) and his adult ch…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:57AMMonday, April 28, 2025
Floyd Collins “Truth is stranger than fiction” goes the old expression, and some of the most intriguing stories come directly from the headlines. In the early 1920’s many men explored …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:13PMMonday, April 21, 2025
If you are expecting one of your favorite TV shows, complete with its competitive divas and love stories in the new version of SMASH at the Imperial Theatre, you might be disappointed since …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:18PMThursday, April 17, 2025
Broadway is always looking for a family friendly musical, one with kid and tourist appeal, and this season the musical is “Boop! The Musical.” Few young people know Betty Boop, the anima…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:26AMMonday, April 14, 2025
If producers ever had any doubt of a celebrity’s effect on the box office, they need only look at this current theater season to see ticket prices. Popular movie star George Clooney is pac…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:49PMMonday, April 7, 2025
If you’ve seen the original David Mamet play or the movie version of “GlenGarry Glen Ross,” forget it and approach this revival with a fresh mind. Don’t compare the present cast to A…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:48PMThursday, April 3, 2025
The phrase “the sins of the father are visited upon the son” suggests that parents’ actions can severely impact their children. In the new adaptation by Mark O’Rowe of Henrik Ibsen�…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:08AMThursday, March 20, 2025
Composer-lyricist Jonathan Larson died before achieving success. He posthumously received three Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his groundbreaking musical “Rent”. The mu…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:05PMSunday, March 9, 2025
How would you react after a terrible personal tragedy? Would you slip into a deep depression? In the new musical “Redwood” directed by Tina Landau at the Nederlander Theater, Idina Menze…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:01AMMonday, February 24, 2025
It’s hard to imagine our mothers’ lives when they were young women. What were their plans, goals, dreams? Do they have regrets? This is the premise of Bess Wohl’s new play, Liberation,…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:53PM 
