By Byrne Harrison Antonia Lassar is a performer currently based in New York, by way of Boston, Cape Town, and Hogwarts. She is a 2012 graduate of the Boston University School o…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 09:26AMBy Byrne Harrison Name: Kirsten Stephens Show: iMime, There's An App For That Website: LaughingNomadProductions.com Kirsten Stephens studied for three years with world-renowned Mar…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 07:32PMBy Judd Hollander Photo by Joan Marcus The Encores! series at New York City Center goes back to its beginnings with a production of Fiorello! (book by Jerome Weidman and George Abbott,…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:54PMBy Judd Hollander Photos: Sean Dooley Lawrence Jansen asGonko The Clown Godlight Theatre Company goes for a wild run to the dark side with their unsettling and rather macabre pre…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:51PMBy Judd Hollander Photos: Monique Carboni The New Group presents a powerful look at one man's hedonistic descent into self-destruction with Clive, now at Theatre Row Studios. Based …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:43PMBy Judd Hollander It's not easy to combine the intimate with the epic, but playwright Paula Vogel has done just that with A Civil War Christmas, now at New York Theatre Workshop. Set in a…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:28PMBy Byrne Harrison Nick Lawson is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and a long-time member of The Amoralists. He studied Commedia Dell’Arte, Burlesque and Vaudeville in F…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:55PMBy Mark A. Newman Another year has passed into posterity and since everyone else has been making “Best of” lists, I thought I would get into the act. Thankfully, 2012 saw more hits th…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 12:31AMBy Byrne Harrison I was lucky enough to have attended the first Poetic License Festival and was amazed both by the creativity of the participants, and the way they integrated poetry into th…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 10:43AMBy Judd Hollander Selective childhood memories and hints of something horrible are explored in Amy Herzog's riveting drama The Great God Pan, now at Playwrights Horizons. Jamie (J…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 04:26PMBy Mark A. Newman Full disclosure: I’m already a fan of this young Broadway stalwart and have been since I first saw him in the revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Pacific Overtures in 2004. …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:12PMBy Judd Hollander Photo by Jeremy Daniel Actress Carolee Carmello is nothing short of stupendous as the lead role in the Broadway musical Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Sempl…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 08:28AMBy Mark A. Newman Photos by Christopher Mueller Many people whom I respect in the world of theatre cite Dreamgirls as one of their favorite shows if not their all-time favorite. This is …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:16PMBy Judd Hollander Tasting like a delicious farcical soufflé, with a side offering of ribald humor and heaping helpings of tongue twisters and circular logic tossed in, The Pearl Theatre …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 08:24PMBy Judd Hollander Photos by Joan Marcus Guilt, despair, the malicious sting of unsubstantiated gossip, the fine line between comedy and pathos, and the endless boredom of a never-changin…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 08:22PMBy Judd Hollander Photo by Carol Rosegg Playwright Bran Friel offers a resounding indictment against oppression, misinterpretations by the media and the excessive use of force by those i…
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SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 02:12PMBy Byrne Harrison If there can be said to be a theatrical equivalent of sitting around the campfire telling ghost stories, it is RadioTheatre's latest production, "The Haunting of St. Mark'…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 07:03PMBy Mark A. Newman I’ve always found John Lithgow to be a wily sort of actor: self-possessed with patrician dignity but not too proud to turn himself into a braying jackass at a moment�…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 04:54PMBy Rob Hartmann At its best, the art of cabaret represents the peak of the storyteller’s craft. From a simple beginning, the yarn-spinner draws you in to a tale which takes you places yo…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:52PMBy Judd Hollander The changing times, the lack of a feeling of "community" in the present-day suburbs and the dangers of keeping secrets are the underlying themes in Lisa D'Amour's dramat…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:40PMBy Judd Hollander The Actors Company Theatre opens its 20th season with a pair of one-act works by Brian Friel about life, love, and second chances. Presented under the umbrella title of …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:25PMBy Byrne Harrison Photo by Ben TrivettHandsome Brad, Cherry Pitz I love "Doctor Who." I also love New York's fulsome burlesque scene. Thanks to Joe the Shark, Cherry Pitz a…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:41PMBy Byrne Harrison Photo by Isaiah Tanenbaum I know Pete Boisvert and Patrick Shearer, the actors who portray the Blood Brothers in Nosedive Productions' annual gore fest. I see th…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:12PMBy Byrne Harrison On Monday, September 24th, the New York Innovative Theatre Awards celebrated the best of Off-Off Broadway at their annual award ceremony. The ceremony featured comed…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 05:22PMBy Mark A. Newman Despite a game cast and charming design, the Signature Theatre’s production of late 1970s chestnut, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas makes for a dull night at the theat…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 04:51PMBy Byrne Harrison It's amusing to me that my favorite play in the Tennessee Williams Festival wasn't written by Tennessee Williams. "Gift of an Orange," Charlene A. Donaghy's play i…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 12:32PMBy Byrne Harrison Sometime the thing that makes a production is finding the right company for the play. In the case of "Ten Blocks on the Camino Real," the right company is Beau Jest …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 11:38AMBy Byrne Harrison David Kaplan is curator and co-founder of the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival and the author of the book Tennessee Williams in Provincetown. He is…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 11:07AMBroadway regular (and two-time Tony nominee) Alison Fraser, starring in The Tennessee Williams Songbook at the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival, discusses her year of Tennessee Willi…
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