It takes a while for the title character to appear in the revival of Gina Gionfriddo’s play Becky Shaw. When Becky does appear, she changes the dynamics of the play. Becky is a catalyst wh…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:26PM[SHARE]Is madness inherited? Is genius inherited? Are the two connected? These are some of the questions posed in Proof, David Auburn’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony winning play in 2001. When an aging…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:54AM[SHARE]I’m a musical theater nerd and love classic Broadway musicals. Even though they may be dated now, I still have an affection for them. So when the television show called Schmigadoon aired i…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:18PM[SHARE]What is comedy? Countless books have been written describing, explaining, analyzing and dissecting the genre. Yet we know it when we see it and Fallen Angels, the Noel Coward 1952 comedy of …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:17PM[SHARE]Young girls often have BFFs (best friends) with whom they share everything. They swear to be besties forever, and sometimes they actually remain friends over the years. Through school, jobs,…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:34AM[SHARE]Triskaidekaphobia is the fear of the number 13 and one of the vocabulary words prison inmate Nick Yarris learned during the years he was on Death Row. It is also the name of his memoir – T…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:32PM[SHARE]From Off-Broadway to the West End to Broadway, the ship Titanique has traveled a long way. The musical parody of James Cameron's epic movie Titanic has delighted its audiences so much that i…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:29PM[SHARE]"Cats:The Jellicle Ball" at the Broadhurst Theatre is not your mother's "Cats," the 1981 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical based on T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. In the origina…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:54AM[SHARE]In Dog Day Afternoon, playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis has adapted a play from a movie based on an actual event. I knew nothing about the movie except that it starred Al Pacino, and nothing a…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:57PM[SHARE]Sometimes an actor gives such a commanding performance that he will always be that character. So it was with John Lithgow portraying Roald Dahl in the Olivier award- winning play Giant, rece…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:18PM[SHARE]The play Antigone (This Play I Read in High School) by Anna Ziegler is not the play you and I read in high school. Although the major characters are the same, the play, directed by Tyne Rafa…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:09PM[SHARE]In my role as a critic, I see a lot of shows. While I enjoy many of them, I rarely leave planning to buy tickets for my family. However, by the end of Every Brilliant Thing starring Daniel R…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:31PM[SHARE]We've all heard of the mythical Bigfoot. He's a huge creature covered in fur and a popular figure in American and Canadian folklore. Now we can see and hear him at New York City Center Stage…
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SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:40PM[SHARE]How do you spell " enjoyable. Definition, please -The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. The revival of the musical at New World Stages, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Tony awa…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:42AM[SHARE]The intimacy of Bug makes the revival of Tracy Lett's play moving and powerful. Waitress Agnes White (Carrie Coon) lives in a seedy Oklahoma motel. Except for a certain amount of clutter, th…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:17PM[SHARE]Tartuffe, the womanizing fraud in the eponymous comedy by Molire, is like the man who came to dinner. It's next to impossible to get him to leave. In Moliere's play, Orgon, a wealthy man, is…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:21PM[SHARE]When you have trouble getting out of bed in the morning, just think about June Squibb, the 96 year old actress onstage each night performing 8 shows a week in Marjorie Prime at The Hayes The…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:14PM[SHARE]In Sophocles' classic play, Oedipus tries to circumvent the fate the gods have ordained for him. He will kill his father and marry his mother. Tragically, he can't because he has already ful…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:03PM[SHARE]The musical Chess premiered in London in 1986 and then on Broadway two years later. Despite its gorgeous score with music and lyrics by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus (of ABBA) and Tim R…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:46PM[SHARE]Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) He's the son of the groom he has never met. She's the sister of the much-younger bride. Together they are the main characters in Two Strangers (C…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:01AM[SHARE]Picture a small blonde tornado " bursting with energy and dressed in hot pink wearing high heels. That's Kristen Chenoweth portraying the real-life Jackie Siegel in The Queen of Versailles. …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:31PM[SHARE]With only two main characters and a beige couch, Little Bear Ridge Road, a new play by Samuel D. Hunter (The Whale and FX's Emmy Award winning show Baskets) depends entirely on language, scr…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:04AM[SHARE]This Fall theater season presented two productions dealing with Archduke Ferdinand. At the end of Ragtime, he is assassinated, setting off the war to end all wars. More recently, I saw Archd…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:51AM[SHARE]In his 1975 novel Ragtime, E.L. Doctorow offers a panorama of Americana. He uses real-life personalities, including magician Harry Houdini, radical militant Emma Goldman, starlet Evelyn Nesb…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:57PM[SHARE]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 for th…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:17PM[SHARE]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 Public …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:47PM[SHARE]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 a…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:58AM[SHARE]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 04:50PM[SHARE]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 communities a…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:11PM[SHARE]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 called "The…
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