Tuesday, January 31, 2012
By Byrne Harrison
January has completely gotten away from me, thanks to the day job. So it seems I'm only now giving credit where credit is due for the wonderful title photo from Janu…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 11:33PMBy Judd Hollander and Cynthia LeathersPhotos by Jacob J. Goldberg
The Pearl Theatre Company presents an enjoyable look at the battle of the sexes with a staging of Bernard Shaw's play The Ph…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 11:10PMBy Judd Hollander
Instinct is a play with a lot of potential but sadly ends up feeling like a speed read through an epidemiology text, with playwright Matthew Maguire trying to hit way too m…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 10:54PMBy Greg Waagner
“What in the world do you do on Cape Cod in the winter?”
It’s the question year-rounders hear more than any other, perhaps, and there are almost as many answers: &…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 10:43PMBy Rob Hartmann
Actress and writer Cindy Cheung's solo show, SPEAK UP CONNIE, is hilarious, thought-provoking and touching. The sold-out run at Stage Left Studio has been extended for five m…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 10:23PMReview by Mark A. Newman
Baltimore is reborn with newfound glee (allusion intended) on the stage of the Signature Theatre in Arlington, Va., with the rollicking new production of Hairspray, …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 10:03PMWednesday, January 25, 2012
By Byrne Harrison
Photo by Deborah Alexander
In today's world, where instant gratification is the norm, it is deliciously frustrating to know that there are some things you just have to wai…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 11:39PMFriday, January 20, 2012
By Judd Hollander
If Daniel Kitson is not an actor, as he notes in the beginning of his one-man show It's Always Right Now, Until It's Later - now having its American premiere at St. Ann's W…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:23PMWednesday, January 18, 2012
Puerto Rico-themed One Woman Show plays limited engagement in NYCHonor & Fidelity: The Ballad of a BorinqueneerJanuary 7th – 21st at The Drilling Companywith live classical g…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 09:44PMMonday, January 16, 2012
Grammy nominated recording artist and Broadway performer, Marty Thomas (Xanadu, Secret Garden, Wicked) prepares to redefine the nightclub scene with his new act Marty Tho…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 02:14PMSunday, January 15, 2012
By Rob Hartmann
I spoke to Rachelle Rak by phone. She’s having a busy month: she premieres a new video at Marty Thomas Presents: Diva at Industry Bar on January 16th, and her one-woman sho…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 04:45PMWednesday, January 11, 2012
By Byrne Harrison
Underground is an exciting and vibrant look at the people that we see, or choose not to, on the subway every day. Some are familiar - the homeless, the candy kids, t…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:58PMBy Byrne Harrison
Is war really hell, or is it the abandonment of one's moral code during a time of war that is the true hell; the one that can never be outrun? Takeo Rivera takes on …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:34PMSaturday, January 7, 2012
By Byrne Harrison
Samantha Toh is a recent graduate from Stanford University. Despite her degrees in International Relations and East Asian Studies, she believes she actually has the soul o…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 05:00PMFriday, January 6, 2012
Review by Mark A. Newman
Unfortunately, I write this review with a heavy heart as only last night it was announced that Lysistrata Jones would end its Broadway run after less than a month a…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:11PMBy Byrne Harrison
With several years experience in the domestic violence field, Zoë Flowers is the founder of Highest Good Consulting (HGC). HGC provides training and program management fo…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 05:51PMThursday, January 5, 2012
By Byrne Harrison
Joanna Hoffman is a spoken word poet originally from Silver Spring, MD and now living in Brooklyn. In 2006, she was on the DC/Baltimore National Poetry Slam team whi…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:18PMBy Byrne Harrison
Eboni Hogan is an award winning performance poet, author and teaching artist, who often moonlights as a Vargas girl, albeit a heavily tattooed one. Born in the Bronx to an…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:05PMWednesday, January 4, 2012
By Byrne Harrison
ShadoKat is "rapidly becoming a leading force in the spoken-word world" (Home News Tribune, 2007).
A New Jersey Native, ShadoKat has exploded upon the spoken word scene…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 10:16PMReview by Mark A. Newman
The cast of Godspell is going to hell.
That is, they would if there was a commandment that stated “Thou shalt not upstage thy Lord and savior” because they all d…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 09:57PMTuesday, January 3, 2012
By Byrne Harrison
Shadrack Boakye was born in Liberia, Africa during a crippling civil war that took the lives of over 200,000 citizens in the early 1990s. Along with his mother, Shadrack w…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 10:46PMBy Byrne Harrison
Caroline Rothstein is a New York City-based performance poet and nonfiction writer. A regular performer at the Nuyorican Poet’s Café and a member of their 2010 slam tea…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 10:04PMBy Byrne Harrison
Darian Dauchan is an accomplished solo performer and actor who has appeared on both Broadway (Twentieth Century starring Alec Baldwin and Anne Heche) and Off-Broadway thea…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 09:51PMBy Byrne Harrison
Nabil Vinas is a first generation Dominican American, a graduate of CCNY, and co-founder of The Seven Collective Theatre Company. He is currently developing several film p…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 09:34PMBy Byrne Harrison
Kelly Zen-Yie is a Chicago-born, Brooklyn-based, Chinese Taiwanese American spoken word artist who has performed at over 500 venues worldwide including three seasons on "R…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 07:58AMFriday, December 23, 2011
Following up on the popularity of her appearances at “Fag Bash,” “Showgirls,” and other festive events in P’town last summer, Tawny Heatherton will arrive this yuletide season to d…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 03:57PMFriday, December 16, 2011
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Review by Judd HollanderPhoto by Richard Termine
Absurdly simple, yet remarkably complex, Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape shows the preciousness and fleetness of life. Starring John H…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 09:48PMReview by Judd Hollander and Cynthia Leathers
Titus Andronicus is perhaps the ultimate Shakespeare morality tale – and indeed, the bloodiest and most violent – about the repayment of pas…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 09:36PMOur Christmas-themed title photo comes from A Molly Jolly Christmas featuring Andrea Alton as Molly "Equality" Dykeman. The photo is by Ron Lasko.
The show's final performance is Dece…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 02:05PMBy Byrne Harrison
On December 17th, Hunter Auction Galleries will be holding an auction made of the items from various estates. Included in the auction are items from Rue McClanahan's…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 11:11AM 
