Thursday, July 11, 2013
By Byrne Harrison
After reading about the upcoming Little Rock Nine Project, I spoke with Red Shirt Entertainment's Producing Artistic Director Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj to find out more.
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SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 09:46PMWednesday, July 10, 2013
This is the kind of news we love to hear. A high school drama club from Alice, Texas visits New York, sees some shows, including Peter and the Starcatcher, Newsies and Matilda.
D…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 10:46PMRed Shirt Entertainment, in association with Camp AmeriKids, Be.Do.Fly! and the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, is announcing a new concert piece entitled “The Little Rock Nine Project.” The event…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 10:21PMTuesday, July 9, 2013
City Center's Encores! series to tackle Off-Broadway musicals.
After staffing changes, John Pollano's Small Engine Repair to open Off-Broadway this fall. Jon Bernthal (The Walking Dea…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 04:49PMThe Public Theater announced today that, for the first and only time, Sting will perform songs from his new album, The Last Ship, for 10 concerts to benefit The Public Theater in their intim…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 03:07PMPhoto courtesy of The Art House
Varla Jean Merman (aka Jeffery Roberson) has been the acknowledged entertainment Queen of P-town for the past decade. Each summer brings the anticipated pre…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 01:10PMWell-Strung: the Singing String Quartet will return to Provincetown’s Art House theater this season. Since the group’s 3-month run at the venue last summer, they’ve been on a roll - wi…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 01:07PMMonday, July 8, 2013
Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College announces its 59th season of music, dance, theater, and family programming reflecting the multicultural diversity of Brooklyn.&nbs…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 11:02PMJoe Franklin, who invented the television talk show format in 1950, relives some of the magic of the Golden Age of Television in a unique stage show at the Metropolitan Room, 34 West 22nd&nb…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 10:31PMNew Jersey artists featured in this year's New York Musical Theatre Festival.
American Ballet Theater presents Sleeping Beauty.
Playwright Snoo Wilson dies at 64.
Today in theatre history…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 08:02PMSunday, July 7, 2013
Batman '66 launches. DC Comics does a retrospective of the highlights of '66 including "It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's Superman!" which opened that year.
Julee Antonellis and P…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 11:01PMHot Summer Nights: Naked Boys Improvising
The Improvisation News Team Presents:
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SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 04:51PMThe Midtown International Theatre Festival (MITF) presents their Fourteenth Anniversary Season LAUNCH PARTY on Sunday, July 7, 2013 at 8pm at Gonzalez y Gonzalez, 192 Mercer Street, NYC (bet…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 12:41PMBy Jose Solis
Whenever trying to turn issues into compelling drama, artists usually tend to take the preachy route and forget all notions of nuance. The postcard and synopsis for Velve…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 09:59AMSaturday, July 6, 2013
By Jose Solis
In Catch the Spider, playwright Sara Ilyse Jacobson intends to weave a complex relation between memory, unrequited love and Celtic mythology, but the results end up having…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 09:57PMTheater for the New City has announced the upcoming production of a new musical adaptation of Henry Fielding's novel, "Tom Jones," written and composed by John Taylor Thomas (Pride and Preju…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 05:49PMShelly Watson & Thirsty Girl Present
CLASSICAL TASSELS
An Evening of Live Chamber Music, Art, Songs, Opera, Ballet & Burlesque!
Friday July 12
@ The Cutting Room
Featuring:…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 04:43PMBy Byrne Harrison
It's nearly time for another trip to the Home for Wayward Girls and Fallen Women. Hotsy Totsy Burlesque is ready for their next evening of salacious strippers and …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 04:23PMFriday, July 5, 2013
The New York Times profiles the mermaid shows at the Newton Perry Underwater Theater in Weeki Wachee Springs, Florida.
New book "Afrocentric Theatre" by Carlton W. Molette and Barbara J. M…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 08:12PMWednesday, July 3, 2013
By Byrne Harrison
Luke Leonard (center) withBum and Debbie Phillips
Luke Leonard is a director and artist living in New York. He is a founding member and the Producing Artistic Direc…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 05:24PMSaturday, June 29, 2013
By Byrne Harrison
Photo courtesy of WNET
John Godfrey Saxe once talked about laws and sausages and how it's best never to see how either is made. Now me, I find such things fascinatin…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 08:27PMBy Byrne Harrison
Mac Rogers' latest production, Frankenstein Upstairs, is a retelling of Mary Shelley's classic horror tale. Rogers, whose adaptation of Karel Capek's R.U.R. (…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:55PMMonday, June 24, 2013
By Judd Hollander
Photos by Joan Marcus
While the new rock musical Venice (book by Eric Rosen, music by Matt Sax, lyrics by Matt Sax and Eric Rosen, additional music by Curtis Moore) isn�…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 10:55PMSaturday, June 22, 2013
By Byrne Harrison
Today is the 31st Annual Mermaid Parade in Coney Island. I know many members of the NYC theatre community who participate in this annual event (any excuse to show of…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 09:57AMFriday, June 21, 2013
By Mark A. Newman
Photos by Scott Suchman
After a 2012 – 2013 season that got off to a less-than-stellar start with Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, all is forgiven after Signature Theat…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 09:31PMBy Byrne Harrison
Last night's benefit performance of "Street Theater" was a fitting and touching tribute to playwright and TOSOS founder Doric Wilson. Wilson, who passed away in 2011…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 08:19AMWednesday, June 19, 2013
By Byrne Harrison
Immigration, gay marriage and privacy are very hot topics right now, with very vocal advocates and critics of each flooding the media with their opinions. Whil…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 11:49PMTuesday, June 18, 2013
On Thursday, June 20th at 7:30 PM, TOSOS and the LGBT Center will present a a special presentation of Doric Wilson's award-winning satire about Stonewall, Street Theater.
A participant in…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 11:47PMMonday, June 17, 2013
By Byrne Harrison
Robbie Robertson is a playwright and screenwriter and a graduate of both the University of South Carolina and UCLA’s professional program in screenwriting. Robertson…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 10:21PMSunday, June 16, 2013
By Byrne Harrison
Photo of Roi Escudero by Valentin Ewan
Production photo by James Ewan
Name: Roi Escudero
Show: Artaud...mon mômo
Relationship to production: Producer/performer/writer/des…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 11:46PMBy Byrne Harrison
Name: Balint Varga
Show: Dangersparkle and the Lion
Relationship to production: Music Director/Music Arranger
Website: www.balintvarga.com
Balint Varga is a compos…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 09:56PM 
