Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Originally published on NewYork.com View this story online At these interactive shows, audiences don’t just passively watch—they’re part of the action. Whether it’s diving in…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 04:30PMTuesday, March 12, 2013
Originally published on NewYork.com View this story online It might just come from abroad. Our roundup of the most promising candidates from across the pond. Where else can a theatergoer cho…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 05:31PM6. John McCain’s Air Quotes In response to Senator John McCain speaking derisively of various political concerns, including ones related to abortion and women’s health, Bee thank…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 10:48AMMonday, March 11, 2013
Whoever says women aren’t funny hasn’t watched The Daily Show. The polarizing topic of gender and comedy was addressed Christopher Hitchen’s 2009 article in Vanity Fair, where the late…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 01:03PMFriday, March 8, 2013
The opening line of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella sets the tone for the majority of the play. When Cinderella, wandering through the misty woods, wistfully sings, “It makes you wi…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 09:59AMTuesday, March 5, 2013
A woman who dares to get onstage, naked and unapologetically confident, to talk about her life, her feelings and her body? Sign me up. Julia Wiedeman isn’t shy. And thank goodness she&…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 05:51PMIt is rare that I relate to the characters onstage as much as I did during The Madrid, Liz Flahive’s play currently in performances at City Center Stage I. Directed by Leigh Silverman and …
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 03:19PMSunday, March 3, 2013
Tina Packer wants Hamlet to go f**k himself. Well, not exactly. It’s said in jest, but there just might be some truth to the statement, Packer laughs, while sitting outside her dressing ro…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 01:52PMSaturday, March 2, 2013
Audience interaction during shows may bother some people. Fed up with inconsiderate people at the theater, I even penned an article on how to be a bad audience member a few months ago. But A…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 01:10PMThursday, February 28, 2013
“Are you f***ing kidding me?” Jon Stewart asks that question often on The Daily Show, but I don’t think it has ever seemed as applicable as when he asked it in response to the state of…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 01:15PMFriday, February 22, 2013
Many have spoken of the magic of theater, but Franco Moschetti sees a more specific kind of magic – a maternal magic. Moschetti, who has written both plays and screenplays, is the Art …
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 10:04AMWednesday, February 20, 2013
It was my first time with The Vagina Monologues. And it was fantastic. Somehow, despite my years of writing about theater, I had never seen Eve Ensler’s famous play about women, sexuality,…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 11:20AMTuesday, February 19, 2013
Playbill confirmed today that a new staging of Les Miserables will play Broadway in the spring of 2014. Following the success of the film adaptation of Victor Hugo’s novel, this is har…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 04:12PMWednesday, February 13, 2013
I want to be powerful. And what’s more, I want to be respected. Why is that such a crazy thing for me to say? As a hard-working young woman in my late twenties, striving to shape my career…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 10:17AMTuesday, February 12, 2013
With Valentine’s Day approaching, I want to know your favorite love songs from musical theater. Do you go for the classics, like “Some Enchanted Evening” from South Pacific…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 01:37PMSaturday, February 9, 2013
“It’s complacence that is the enemy, not violence,” says Mariah MacCarthy about activism in today’s culture, and she is out to fight this enemy. MacCarthy is a playwright…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 02:47PMFriday, February 8, 2013
“Why would a card-carrying feminist spend all her time with a dead white male?” Why, indeed? The answer, I am happy to report, can be found in Women of Will, Tina Packer’s exploration …
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 09:59AMThursday, February 7, 2013
“Someone else is going to be killed!” “Oh, good!” Such a devil-may-care attitude may be surprising in everyday life, but it is completely suitable for Speakeasy Dollhouse, the immers…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 12:46PMWednesday, February 6, 2013
SPOILER ALERT I didn’t have high expectations for Love Never Dies, but I still managed to be grossly disappointed. I will admit to being a passionate fan of The Phantom of the Opera wh…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 09:48AMTuesday, February 5, 2013
I’m on the phone with two influential women in the entertainment industry. The founders of the Athena Film Festival, a celebration of women and leadership that is now in its third year, Ka…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 10:03AMMonday, February 4, 2013
“Hiraeth,” a Welsh word that has no translation, provided great inspiration for playwright Melisa Annis. The word represents the feeling of being homesick and longing for one’s homelan…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 10:16AMFriday, February 1, 2013
Any show that opens with a man wearing a fanny pack, un-ironically, needs to re-think its approach. And Moose Murders, the revival of the infamous 1983 flop, boats both an un-ironic fanny pa…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 02:09PMTuesday, January 29, 2013
The philosopher Aristotle once said, “We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right matter at the right moment and for the right …
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 09:50AMSaturday, January 26, 2013
The bed’s the thing in this play. Oh, and the woman in it. That much is clear from the first moment of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, currently playing at the Richard Rogers Theater. This revival …
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 06:55PMFriday, January 25, 2013
Cole Porter wrote “Love for Sale,” but that’s not what Miranda Huba will be auctioning off in Candy Tastes Nice, her one-woman show about a young woman selling her virginity to help pa…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 09:52AMSaturday, January 19, 2013
“It’s so hot and still,” says one character in Picnic, William Inge’s 1953 drama currently in performances at the American Airlines Theater. While the character is speaking of the we…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 08:16PMFriday, January 18, 2013
We all have our secret hopes and dreams, and I wouldn’t be surprised if many of us share the same dream – to be screamed at from Patti LuPone on a Broadway stage. LuPone, who is know…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 10:40AMWednesday, January 16, 2013
Nothing is as it seems in The Other Place, the beautifully cyclical drama by Sharr White currently in performances at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater. A somber, but not sentimental, tale of a…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 05:08PMRainy days and Mondays don’t get Andrea McArdle down. The Tony-nominated actress, who has been working steadily onstage since making her Broadway debut in 1977, is returning 54 Below, the …
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 10:30AMWednesday, January 9, 2013
I think we all knew that a Fifty Shades of Grey musical was inevitable. Thank goodness the one that will premiere at the Gramercy Theater in New York is a satire. I am not a fan of the Fifty…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 11:00AMPassion and politics are often intertwined, and Your Colonel, a new play by Montgomery Sutton, explores that fusion during the American Revolution. Premiering as a part of the Metropolitan F…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 09:49AM 
