Sunday, April 26, 2026
What is comedy? Countless books have been written describing, explaining, analyzing and dissecting the genre. Yet we know it when we see it and Fallen Angels, the Noel Coward 1952 comedy of …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:17PMFriday, April 24, 2026
Young girls often have BFFs (best friends) with whom they share everything. They swear to be besties forever, and sometimes they actually remain friends over the years. Through school, jobs,…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:34AMMonday, April 20, 2026
Triskaidekaphobia is the fear of the number 13 and one of the vocabulary words prison inmate Nick Yarris learned during the years he was on Death Row. It is also the name of his memoir – T…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:32PMSunday, April 19, 2026
From Off-Broadway to the West End to Broadway, the ship Titanique has traveled a long way. The musical parody of James Cameron’s epic movie Titanic has delighted its audiences so much…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:29PMFriday, April 17, 2026
“Cats:The Jellicle Ball†at the Broadhurst Theatre is not your mother’s “Cats,†the 1981 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical based on T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum�
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:54AMThursday, April 9, 2026
In Dog Day Afternoon, playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis has adapted a play from a movie based on an actual event. I knew nothing about the movie except that it starred Al Pacino, and nothing a…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:57PMFriday, April 3, 2026
Sometimes an actor gives such a commanding performance that he will always be that character. So it was with John Lithgow portraying Roald Dahl in the Olivier award- winning play Giant, rece…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:18PMThursday, March 26, 2026
The play Antigone (This Play I Read in High School) by Anna Ziegler is not the play you and I read in high school. Although the major characters are the same, the play, directed by Tyne Rafa…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:09PMSunday, March 15, 2026
In my role as a critic, I see a lot of shows. While I enjoy many of them, I rarely leave planning to buy tickets for my family. However, by the end of Every Brilliant Thing starring Daniel R…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:31PMFriday, March 6, 2026
We’ve all heard of the mythical Bigfoot. He’s a huge creature covered in fur and a popular figure in American and Canadian folklore. Now we can see and hear him at New York Cit…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:56PMTuesday, February 24, 2026
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SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:40PMMonday, February 23, 2026
How do you spell – enjoyable. Definition, please -The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. The revival of the musical at New World Stages, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the T…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:42AMSaturday, February 14, 2026
The intimacy of Bug makes the revival of Tracy Lett’s play moving and powerful. Waitress Agnes White (Carrie Coon) lives in a seedy Oklahoma motel. Except for a certain amount of clut…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:17PMMonday, December 29, 2025
Tartuffe, the womanizing fraud in the eponymous comedy by Molire, is like the man who came to dinner. It’s next to impossible to get him to leave. In Moliere’s play, Orgon, a w…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:21PMFriday, December 19, 2025
When you have trouble getting out of bed in the morning, just think about June Squibb, the 96 year old actress onstage each night performing 8 shows a week in Marjorie Prime at The Hayes The…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:14PMThursday, December 4, 2025
In Sophocles’ classic play, Oedipus tries to circumvent the fate the gods have ordained for him. He will kill his father and marry his mother. Tragically, he can’t because he h…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:03PMSunday, November 30, 2025
The musical Chess premiered in London in 1986 and then on Broadway two years later. Despite its gorgeous score with music and lyrics by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus (of ABBA) and Tim…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:46PMTuesday, November 25, 2025
Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) He’s the son of the groom he has never met. She’s the sister of the much-younger bride. Together they are the main characters in Tw…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:01AMThursday, November 20, 2025
Picture a small blonde tornado – bursting with energy and dressed in hot pink wearing high heels. That’s Kristen Chenoweth portraying the real-life Jackie Siegel in The Queen o…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:31PMTuesday, November 18, 2025
With only two main characters and a beige couch, Little Bear Ridge Road, a new play by Samuel D. Hunter (The Whale and FX’s Emmy Award winning show Baskets) depends entirely on langua…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:04AMWednesday, November 12, 2025
This Fall theater season presented two productions dealing with Archduke Ferdinand. At the end of Ragtime, he is assassinated, setting off the war to end all wars. More recently, I saw Archd…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:51AMWednesday, November 5, 2025
In his 1975 novel Ragtime, E.L. Doctorow offers a panorama of Americana. He uses real-life personalities, including magician Harry Houdini, radical militant Emma Goldman, starlet Evelyn Nesb…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:57PMFriday, October 10, 2025
Is it Gah-Doh or GOD-dot? That was my first question upon receiving the invitation to see the revival of Samuel Becket’s classic play, “Waiting for Godot.†Director Jamie …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:17PMWednesday, October 8, 2025
Hispanics comprise about 20.0% of the total U.S. making up the largest ethnic minority in the US. Yet, in the new drama “The Other Americans†written by John Leguizamo playing at…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:47PMTuesday, October 7, 2025
My friend’s daughter had a 10 year old named Serena with long curly hair who wore frilly dresses like her older sister. One day she showed up at school with short hair and wearing ove…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:58AMWednesday, October 1, 2025
Years ago the fictional TV journalist Murphy Brown (played by Candy Bergen) showed her contempt for pretentious modern art lovers by sneaking a picture drawn by her toddler onto the wall of …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:50PMWednesday, September 24, 2025
Rishi Varma, playwright of the new Off-Broadway show “Sulfur Bottom†has an important message to deliver to his viewers. Factories that promised to bring jobs and prosperity to c…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:11PMMonday, September 22, 2025
What makes you laugh? For me, it’s often recognizing a familiar situation that ends with a surprise twist. I wasn’t familiar with the work of comedian Jeff Ross, except that he…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:33PMThursday, September 4, 2025
According to magician Jamie Allan in Amaze Magic, New York, his transplanted show from London’s West End, there are two types of people when it comes to magic -dreamers and skeptics. …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:21PMTuesday, August 5, 2025
Four men gather in a small Irish pub. One is the young owner and the other three are regulars with a long history together. Jack (an impressive Dan Butler) regrets choices he made as a young…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:04AMFriday, August 1, 2025
JOY A New True Musical The story of Joy Mangano, a single mom from Long Island who through her tenacity and ingenuity, becomes a millionaire, is inspirational. She created household products…
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