Saturday, July 21, 2018
Though it may be somewhat unorthodox to mention the New York Times critic Jesse Green, I must concur with his final thoughts on Teenage Dick, developed by both the Apothetae and the Ma-Yi Th…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:12PMThursday, June 21, 2018
The Property, produced by New Light Theater Project and now playing at The Clurman Theatre on Theatre Row is an innocent light-hearted play with a bubbling cauldron of simmering rage just be…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:00PMThursday, May 31, 2018
Women on Fire: Stories from the Frontline, produced by Royal Family Productions, has a vibrant message to impart to young women today — vibrant, but tricky too, because it is as comple…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:07PMThursday, April 19, 2018
A great play is like a great voyage: terrifying in its vastness, simultaneously bewildering and thrilling. Such is the journey of Lindsey Ferrentino’s This Flat Earth at Playwrights Horizo…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:28PMThursday, April 12, 2018
The Barrow Group has done it again, this time delving into Lee Blessing’s brilliant two-hander, A Walk in the Woods, with a beautifully mounted, well-acted production that satisfies the se…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:37PMMonday, March 19, 2018
In Urban Stages’ solo show Dogs of Rwanda a character who was witness to the 100 days of genocide in Rwanda struggles with the isolation that such knowledge brings. With exquisite writ…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:38PMMonday, February 26, 2018
The Laramie Cycle has a devastating new production mounted by The Wandering Theatre Company here in New York City. It’s a bold, fresh take on the classic original play cycle. Company membe…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:31PMSunday, February 4, 2018
At the end of Imperfect Love, written by Brandon Cole and playing now at The Connelly Theater, the most thrilling theatrical moment of the season occurs. A writer is cured of his writers’ …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:25PMThursday, January 25, 2018
In Jericho, Michael Weller has created a provocative and disquieting expressionist narrative based on the beloved play Liliom, by Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnar. Similar in tone to Euge…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:00PMTuesday, January 23, 2018
I cannot think of a time that I’ve seen a more prescient piece of theatre than Sheila by The Associates, playing now at The A.R.T./New York Theatres. This dedicated company of players has …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:05PMMonday, January 15, 2018
Sarah Rothenberg’s exquisite A Proust Sonata: 7 Tableaux En Musique debuted January 10th at The French Institute’s Florence Gould Hall, produced by Da Camera of Houston Productions. It�…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:03PMThursday, January 11, 2018
Just when you thought you couldn’t adore John Lithgow any more after his Emmy-winning performance as Winston Churchill in The Crown, well, now you can. Lithgow is currently playing to enra…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:00PMMonday, January 8, 2018
Man is not kind in Mankind, but he’s funny, at least. Robert O’Hara, whose play is currently in residence at Playwrights Horizons, emphatically states this idea in his director’s notes…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:00PMMonday, December 18, 2017
There’s a bewitching sense of history in the magical inner workings of A Regular Little Houdini, playing now at 59E59 Theaters. Daniel Llewelyn-Williams has created an entrancing tale out …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:10PMFriday, December 15, 2017
Is self-love a really good trip on psychedelic drugs? A sweet lazy afternoon spooning on the sofa with the perfect mate? A great relationship with a therapist who knows our deepest fears? Al…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:19PMMonday, December 11, 2017
The truth hurts as they say and the devastating verbatim play De Novo, which is the inaugural production at New York Theatre Workshop’s newly renovated Fourth Street Theater, had me tearin…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:46AMMonday, December 4, 2017
Tribal gangs may rule the mean streets of New York City but Mary Shannon, a drug addicted mother of two, rules the roost in Seth Zvi Rosenfeld’s gripping family drama, Downtown Race Ri…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:47AMMonday, November 20, 2017
A Pride and Prejudice that incites the senses and decries stuffy sensibility? Bring it. Or rather, bring them. Presented by Hudson Valley Shakespeare Company and Primary Stages in a co-produ…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:15AMThursday, November 9, 2017
Solstice Party!, presented by Live Source Theatre Group, poses an interesting question over the course of its examination of true love (which never did run smooth): Is love a midsummer nigh…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:52PMThursday, November 2, 2017
With friends like these, who needs television? Friends! The Musical Parody is quick witted, good hearted, a tiny bit raunchy, and filled with laughs. At Central Perk, the players are well-…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:00PMThe House on Poe Street, playing now at the 14th Street Y, strives to create humor out of pathos. It’s a tricky piece of work, living somewhere between black and romantic comedy. The chall…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:33PMMonday, October 30, 2017
Who needs eight actors when one can do it brilliantly? If the actor in question is David Greenspan, then I bet you already know the answer. David Greenspan is revelatory in his six-hour one-…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:58PMTuesday, October 24, 2017
What if everything you believe is wrong? (I once asked this of very religious actress friend of mine.) What if there is no God? What if Jesus wasn’t the Son of God? Her answer haunts me to…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:47AMTuesday, October 17, 2017
“I think it is beautiful, what he did. I think he is brave.” That was Maria Alyokhina’s response during the interview section of the new performance piece by Belarus Free Theatre’s B…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:20PMThursday, September 28, 2017
The sets are gorgeous, the costumes are gorgeous and frankly, Annette O’Toole is really, really gorgeous, too. Oh, sure, they’ve tried to tone her down, as the acidulous and earthy Mrs. …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:00PMTuesday, September 26, 2017
Andy Halliday’s new play at Theatre for the New City, Up the Rabbit Hole, is a tale sweetly told, autobiographical in nature and well cast (kudos to David McDermott). Evenly directed by G…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:00PMTOSOS (The Other Side of Silence) was an Off-Broadway theater company run by the inimitable Doric Wilson, whose passing was felt deeply by the Off- and Off-Off Broadway theatre community he …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:31PMMonday, September 18, 2017
Missing the New York International Fringe Festival this year? Hungry for great off-off Broadway theatre? No worries, The Arctic Group at the IRT Theatre has plenty of food for thought at NY …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:24PMFlorence Foster Jenkins, speaking of her struggle to be an accomplished artist, once observed that although some people said she couldn’t sing, they could never say she didn’t sing. It�…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:39PMThursday, August 31, 2017
The first thing I can say about the ingeniously funny Small Town Confessions is summed up in three words: Phil Geoffrey Bond. Both the playwright and one of the actors in the production I sa…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:22PMMonday, August 21, 2017
The Corkscrew Theater Festival’s supernatural play All of My Blood, written by the talented Robert Zander Norman, is a fast-paced black comedy with fine dialogue and quirky upbeat c…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:46PM 
