Thursday, August 7, 2014
By Byrne HarrisonTomorrow, young creatives (13+ and, with parental guidance, even younger) will get backstage and behind-the-scenes access to the famous Las Vegas stage production of the Blu…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 10:18PMWednesday, August 6, 2014
By Byrne HarrisonMost people who live in New York know that the performance scene is not limited to Manhattan. Travel to any borough and you can find outstanding shows featuring some a…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:05PMSunday, August 3, 2014
By Byrne HarrisonThe final curtain is drawing closer for the latest Blood Brothers show. The four-part series ends in October with the much ballyhooed execution of the Blood Brothers. …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 08:42PMThursday, July 10, 2014
By Rob HartmannMother Jones and the Children’s Crusade, with book, music and lyrics by Cheryl E. Kemeny, is currently in rehearsal for its run as part of the New York Musical Theatre Festi…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 04:53PMMonday, June 23, 2014
By Byrne HarrisonLast week I had a chance to interview Jennifer Conley Darling of terraNOVA Collective about their Groundworks New Play series, which runs through today. Jennifer, I'm e…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 12:16PMThursday, May 8, 2014
By Byrne HarrisonGrowing up, my parents used to play the cast album from "You Don't Have to be Jewish" quite often. One of the short plays featured a Jewish mother crying out "Oh, the …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 10:34PMMonday, April 14, 2014
By Judd HollanderPhoto by Sandrine LeeThe phrase "My mother has four noses" is not a play on words, a joke, parody or something with any major cosmic significance. Rather, it refers to somet…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 12:59PMBy Judd HollanderThey say truth is stranger than fiction. It certainly is in the case of Riding The Midnight Express With Billy Hayes, a one-man show written by and featuring Hayes, who reco…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 12:55PMSunday, April 13, 2014
54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, is expanding its popular late-night series with fresh faces and hot new performances to keep the party buzzing into the wee hours. Located just below …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 08:02PMTuesday, April 1, 2014
By Rob HartmannPhotos by Matthew MurphyA few years ago, I was sitting waiting for my flight in the gate area in a Midwestern airport during a layover. The woman next to me was reading Fifty …
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 01:02PMMonday, March 3, 2014
By Byrne HarrisonShow: Boogie Of The ApesWebsite: facebook.com/BoogieWorldPhoto credit: Dan MyersRob Matsushita is a playwright, author, actor, filmmaker and now, a podcaster,…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 01:12PMSunday, February 23, 2014
By Byrne HarrisonShow: I-DJWebsite: https://www.facebook.com/IDJFrigidFestivalPhoto credit: Warren PeaceGregg Barrios is a playwright, poet and journalist. He is a 2013 USC Annenbe…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 11:50PMBy Byrne HarrisonYou lead a normal, quiet life. A job. Friends and family. The same thing as most everyone else.But imagine if society suddenly turned its spotlight on you.…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 12:11PMTuesday, February 18, 2014
By Byrne HarrisonShow: Brownie and Lolli Go To HollywoodWebsite: www.facebook.com/brownieandlolliPhoto credit: Darlyne Cain (on her iPad)Born and raised in South Carolina, Alycya Miller came…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 11:21PMBy Byrne HarrisonShow: I Shall Forget You PresentlyWebsite: www.dysfunctionaltheatre.orgPhoto credit: Theresa UnfriedNicole Lee Aiossa has been singing, teaching, dancing, so…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 10:50PMBy Byrne HarrisonShow: Chicken-Fried Ciccone: A Twangy True Tale Of TransformationWebsite: www.jstephenbrantley.comPhoto credit: Jody ChristophersonJ.Stephen Brantley is an a…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 10:07PMMonday, February 17, 2014
By Byrne HarrisonShow: Eating My GarbageWebsite: davidmogolov.comPhoto credit: Kelly Davidson StudiosDavid Mog0lov is a Boston-based monologist. His comedies are fast-paced, unpredictab…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 11:26PMBy Byrne HarrisonThis year's FRIGID New York Festival features a number of intriguing plays. As usual, StageBuzz will be giving each show a voice by interviewing someone involved in th…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 10:53PMBy Byrne HarrisonShow: East in RedWebsite: estraña.orgPhoto credit: Peter BellEmily Tuckman has been performing for over 13 years in New York. Her favorite roles include Jackie-O…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 10:49PMHORSE TRADE THEATER GROUPPRESENTS THE8TH ANNUAL FRIGID NEW YORK FESTIVALAn Open and Uncensored Theater FestivalA CAFF Member FestivalFEBRUARY 19-MARCH 9 @THE KRAINE THEATER &a…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 10:46PMBy Judd HollanderPhoto by Rahav Segev / Photopass.comRed Bull Theater Company hits a home run with their presentation of Joe Orton's 1966 farce Loot, an absolutely side-splitting tale o…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 09:46PMFriday, February 14, 2014
By Rob HartmannWHEN WE MET, the new musical being workshopped at CAP21, seems to start off like a meet-cute romcom. Two fortyish singles - he a divorced professor, she a never-married holist…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 09:25PMMonday, February 3, 2014
By Rob HartmannAlison Fraser (alisonfraser.com) is living a double life: she’s currently starring as Madame Morrible in the Emerald City National Tour of Wicked (wickedthemusical.com) Mean…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 07:46AMReview by Mark A. NewmanThe Signature Theater in Arlington, Va., has once again debuted a new musical and, once again, the results are mixed but overall fairly positive. The premise is a bit…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 07:39AMBy Judd HollanderIn The Night Alive, playwright Conor McPherson offers a powerful look at people on the edges of society attempting to survive the best they can. All the while trying to figh…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 07:34AMBy Judd HollanderFrank Langella gives a marvelous performance as the title character in a sturdy production of William Shakespeare's King Lear. Currently at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, th…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 07:34AMBy Judd HollanderSome people will go to extreme lengths to avoid being alone while at the same time doing their best to ignore the gravity of their situation even as it comes crashing down a…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 07:26AMWednesday, December 4, 2013
By Judd HollanderPhotos by James HigginsThe Irish Repertory Theatre hits a home run with their presentation of Juno and the Paycock, a searing indictment of how far a man will go to keep the…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:48PMWednesday, November 13, 2013
By Rob Hartmann
Part rock concert, part master class, part interactive
exploration of pop music history, and part autobiography-confessional, Sheri Sanders: In Concert is a
theatrical exp…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:43PMBy Judd
Hollander
With a crash of thunder and the stirring sounds of
Tchaikovsky's music, Matthew Bourne's Sleeping
Beauty bursts wonderfully upon the City Center
stage. Drawing inspirati…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 06:37PMTuesday, October 22, 2013
By Judd Hollander
The world is ugly. So says Sue Barker (Kathryn Erbe), a buyer for a Chicago department store at both the beginning and end of William Inge's rarely-performed 1962 work Na…
SOURCE: Stage Buzz at 09:27PM 
