Tuesday, September 20, 2022
Gertrude Stein’s Four Saints in Three Acts is, to put it bluntly, nonsensical. An avant-garde opera with a libretto by Stein and a score by Virgil Thomson, it’s more word-driven than pl…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:23PMFriday, September 16, 2022
A CIA newbie with orders to remove the Chilean President walks into a bombed out palace. What could go wrong? In Mark Wilding’s delightful comedy Our Man in Santiago, loosely inspired by …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:42PMThursday, September 8, 2022
Gertrude Stein once said of her own writing: “if you enjoy it, you understand it.” If that’s true, then I suppose I understood My Onliness: a world premiere musical about a mad king an…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:50PMThursday, August 25, 2022
What’s it like to work at a job that’s slowly sucking the life and soul out of you–and is it worth it? That seems to be one of the questions asked by Alexander Perez in his dark comedy…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:28PMSunday, August 21, 2022
“There’s no reality in which I don’t fall in love with you.” So says a nervous but excited bride on her wedding day, as she and her husband-to-be wait for their civil ceremony. A 10-…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:01PMFrom time to time, a play can take you by surprise. That was the case with Chain Theater’s macbitches, written by Sophie McIntosh and directed by Ella Jane New. While intrigued by the prem…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:00PMFriday, August 19, 2022
Eartha Kitt was described by Orson Welles as “the most exciting woman in the world.” Yet for 10 years, she was blacklisted from work in the United States. Why? Because she spoke her mind…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:35PMFriday, August 12, 2022
What makes a play queer? Is it simply a queer cast? A queer aesthetic? Or something more? Billed as a queer and gender-blind, abridged and I quote “hilarious version of this beloved classi…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:46PMWednesday, August 10, 2022
A year ago, I had the opportunity to review Alexander Perez’s dark comedy Randy’s Dandy Coaster Castle, which follows a team of overworked, underpaid employees at a rundown amusement par…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:23PMFriday, August 5, 2022
Scene: the Sakha Republic, Siberia. Some time in the future, a genetically engineered mammelephant (half mammoth, half elephant) has an existential crisis in a man-made park created to solve…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:08PMWednesday, July 27, 2022
Kathy Ng’s Happy Life, directed by Kat Yen at Walkerspace, is not a show for everyone. Nor is it a show for the faint of heart. But if kinky, morbid humor is your thing, well guess what, i…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:26PMTuesday, June 7, 2022
10-year-old Sarah Silverman has one big, big problem. Well, to be honest, she has more than one problem. Her parents are newly divorced, her mother hasn’t left her bed in weeks, and her ol…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:15PMFriday, May 27, 2022
I’ve seen some weird stuff lately, but I’m very glad I took a chance on French playwright/director David Lescot’s Dough. A Compagnie du Kairos production presented by Villa Albertine a…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:09PMThursday, May 26, 2022
In the name of liberty, four robbers are hatching a plot to steal everyone’s phones. They’re dressed in gray uniforms that sort of resemble pajamas, and black felt bandit masks that seem…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:30PMMonday, May 23, 2022
Maya Angelou’s 1969 memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings has already been adapted for both film and stage, but New York City Children’s Theater’s world-premiere production at Theatr…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:52PMFriday, May 20, 2022
What does it mean to be a Jew today? That’s the main question asked in Michael Takiff’s clever if convoluted solo show Jews, God, and History (Not Necessarily in That Order), currently p…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:12PMTuesday, May 17, 2022
“Poetry is what gets lost in translation,” said Robert Frost. And after watching Anchuli Felicia King’s engrossing and poetic Golden Shield, I’m inclined to add “as is love.” Dir…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:00PMFriday, May 6, 2022
“I want to write something so Black that God can’t ignore me.” Playwright and performer Kareem M. Lucas speaks these words while standing on a huge wooden cross enshrined in a massive …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:05PMThursday, May 5, 2022
From time to time, to quote my favorite song from Dear Evan Hansen, “words fail.” At the moment, words fail as I search for a way to describe (and adequately praise) a show whose gentle …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:38PMFriday, April 29, 2022
“Whether on stage in front of an audience, or over the phone to a friend – we need to tell our stories. When we tell our stories, we give others permission to do the same. This is how w…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:04PMThursday, April 28, 2022
Mary Todd Lincoln: misunderstood First Lady, bereft mother, obsessive widow–and now, the unlikely subject of a trippy piece of experimental theatre. In american vicarious’ new work Shoo…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:17AMTuesday, April 26, 2022
Playwright Adam Kraar is interested in cross-cultural, cross-generational stories. His latest work, The Karpovsky Variations, follows one young woman’s search for her scattered, elusive fa…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:24PMWednesday, April 13, 2022
I was hooked from the title. As someone who loves folk music and was largely raised on “songs about trains,” I was pretty sure I was going to love it before I even stepped into the thea…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:46PMThursday, March 31, 2022
Much has been written (and, especially lately, staged) about marginalized people’s troubled relationships with the non-marginalized. But what about the relationships of different marginali…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:00PMWednesday, March 30, 2022
Take Shape, Broken Box Mime Theater’s newest devised show, explores ten stories about emergence and transformation. It’s the company’s first Mainstage show in three years, and to cele…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:43AMFriday, March 25, 2022
Women have really been getting screwed over from the beginning. That was one of my takeaways from #SoSadSoSexy, presented by Tapestry Collective at The Tank. Written and created by Emily Co…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:45PMFriday, March 11, 2022
If you’re a Shakespeare aficionado who wants to laugh out loud for two hours straight and doesn’t mind a touch of bawdy humor, then Jane Anger is for you. The Jennifer Campos Production…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:56PMThursday, March 10, 2022
In my experience, any production that includes Steve Earle on its creative team is sure to have at least a few good things going for it. In the case of Coal Country, Audible Theater’s new …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:00PMMonday, March 7, 2022
In 1965, James Baldwin and William F. Buckley Jr. faced off at the University of Cambridge, on live tv and in front of an overly packed house, on a question that, 57 years later, is no less …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:08PMWednesday, February 9, 2022
In 1927, my great-great grandfather wrote a letter home from Germany. With admirable wit and evident pleasure, Nathan Low writes about visiting his father’s cousins in Ludwigshafen. Though…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:42PMMonday, February 7, 2022
One of New York’s biggest (and best) theatre festivals is back. The 16th Annual FRIGID Festival brings together artists from across the Indie Theatre Community, with plenty of fun, excitin…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:07PM 
