Friday, August 16, 2024
They say you never forget your first time and one of the first shows I ever saw was “Once Upon a Mattress” starring comedienne Carol Burnett. It was unforgettable! Incomparable! For me, …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:07PMFriday, August 9, 2024
Jane makes me uncomfortable. Maybe it’s her nervousness and twitching. Maybe it is the gun she is brandishing as the play JOB begins. According to Anton Chekhov, if a writer includes a gun…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:02PMThursday, August 1, 2024
Orthodox Jews won’t work on the Sabbath. Work includes simple tasks, such as turning on air conditioners and lights. Over the years they have enlisted the aid of a Shabbos Goy, a non-Jew w…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:16PMMonday, July 15, 2024
What can the audience learn from the new production “Empire: The Musical” directed by Cady Huffman? The building was originally supposed to be named after former governor Alfred E. Smith…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:48AMFriday, July 5, 2024
I had a stressful week and was really hoping to see a lighthearted play, certainly not one about politics. However, “N/A,” the new play by Mario Correa, was next in the queue. Correa com…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:29PMWednesday, June 19, 2024
Cephus Miles never wanted to leave his home in Crossroads, North Carolina. The central figure of the beautiful revival of Samm – Art Williams’s “Home” presented at Roundabout’s Tod…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:16AMSunday, June 9, 2024
Can two extremely talented female performers overcome their history of unhappy relationships and learn to love again? Zoe Sarnak and Rachel Bonds’s rock musical, The Lonely Few, is a lesbi…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:25PMMonday, June 3, 2024
Brian Friel’s play “Molly Sweeney” directed by Charlotte Moore is staged in the simplest form imaginable. The three major characters are seated in chairs on stage. They speak directly …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:26AMMonday, May 27, 2024
It’s estimated that there are over 5 million people who belong to book clubs and 80% of the participants are women. Some of the clubs are organized and have a paid leader while others are …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:39PMTuesday, May 21, 2024
The NYTW production of “Here There Were Blueberries” in a co-production with Tectonic Theater Project, begins with a single object onstage. It is a Leica camera and the narrator explains…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:51AMThursday, May 16, 2024
Imagine you are the fly on the wall in a recording studio. One of your favorite groups is scheduled to record its latest album. It’s the 1970’s, and the group has an album on The Billboa…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:57PMMonday, May 13, 2024
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The revision of “Uncle Vanya” at Lincoln Center is notable for two reasons. One is that it has been modernized by Heidi Schreck (“What the Constitution Means to Me”) making it more r…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:09AMTuesday, May 7, 2024
As we approach Mother’s Day, it was fitting that two of the plays I saw this week had mothers as central characters, and they could not have been more different. “Mary Jane” is loving,…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:08AMThursday, May 2, 2024
Fans of “The Crown” written by Peter Morgan may flock to see “Patriots,” his new Broadway play but they will discover a very different historical drama. However, the trip is worth it…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:27PMTuesday, April 30, 2024
One problem with revivals is that creatives often feel a need to change things up. So they might use a different time, setting, storyline and sometimes even remove music. The recent revival …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:17AMFew film actors can easily transition from film to the stage with live audiences and no do-overs. Yet Rachel McAdams makes a splendid Broadway debut in the revival of Amy Herzog’s play “…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:41AMFriday, April 26, 2024
In 2002, Long Island Reads initiated a program designed to bring together readers in Nassau and Suffolk Counties to discuss a Long Island-related book. Unsurprisingly, the first book was the…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:20AMTuesday, April 23, 2024
Years ago, I taught the book The Outsiders to classes of teenagers. My students were intrigued by the two warring gangs separated by economic circumstances: the Socs, wealthy kids in madras …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:18PMThursday, April 18, 2024
Adaptations are common in theater and often popular shows are revised and modified to reach different audiences. Shakespeare is a favorite source of material.“Hamlet” inspired “Fat Ham…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:36AMWednesday, April 10, 2024
“The Who’s Tommy” The music from “The Who’s Tommy” is part of the fabric of my life. I grew up singing it, hearing it and loving it. Snatches of songs immediately evoke images an…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:12AMSunday, March 31, 2024
I was 14 years old when i went to the circus for the first time. I don’t recollect any of the acts, but I can remember the sideshow and even bought a souvenir ‘giant’ size ring. Overal…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:43PMTuesday, March 26, 2024
It’s good to know that classical theater continues to be relevant. Although “An Enemy of the People” by Henrik Ibsen was written in 1882, it feels pertinent today, and as I sat in the …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:57PMSaturday, March 23, 2024
Creating a musical from a successful book and movie is a mixed bag. The upside is that the material already has thousands of loyal fans. At the same time, it attracts audiences with expectat…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:49AMTuesday, March 19, 2024
If you ever watched “The Office” (and is there anyone who hasn’t?) you know Holly Flax, the HR person who becomes Michael’s girlfriend. Played by Amy Ryan, she is always smiling, opt…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:42AMFriday, March 8, 2024
The latest musical by Jason Robert Brown about working and fact-checking is set at a famous New York magazine in the late 1990’s before the term “fake news” became so popular. Those of…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:07PMSaturday, March 2, 2024
There’s a scene in a dark version of Cinderella where the stepsisters, anxious to make the glass slipper fit, cut off their own toes. They will do anything they can to cram their feet in �…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:36AMTuesday, February 20, 2024
Who is Jonah? Is he the awkward, bumbling sweet young man infatuated with Ana (Gabby Beans) or is he symbolic of something more? During the first part of the Roundabout Theatre Company’s p…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:40PMSunday, February 11, 2024
Towards the end of “A Prayer for The French Republic,” the latest play by Josh Harmon, Grandpa Pierre (played by Richard Masur) asks his family “Why do they hate us?” Then follows a …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:36AMThursday, February 1, 2024
Every family has its baggage but the Layayette family seems to have more than most. Secrets, resentment, and anger all surface with the death of the patriarch of the family as the three sibl…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:36PMSaturday, January 27, 2024
It’s the 1950’s, and the Cuban revolution is heating up outside, but the music inside the Buena Vista Social Club is even hotter. While the social club is defunct, the Cuban music remain…
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