Saturday, June 2, 2018
Long before Nas rapped the line, "Life's a bitch and then you die," Edward Albee percolated on similar sentiments, resulting in his Pulitzer Prize winning work Three Tall Women, which was fi…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:49PM[SHARE]Monday, May 28, 2018
As a former 13 year old girl myself, I was struck by "Dance Nation," Clare Barron's brash, bittersweet ode to the brief and awkward period of life that tends to have a profound impact on who…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:47PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 3, 2018
Tony Kushner's two-part, Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is an ordeal. A play to be wrestled with. It is funny, disturbing, thrilli…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:52PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 6, 2018
What's fate without a little push? Certainly nowhere near as a funny as Stiff, Dallas playwright Jeff Swearingen's zippy, big-hearted black comedy, now onstage at Manhattan's TBG Theater. Th…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:47PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 4, 2018
After nearly a decade away, Adrienne Kennedy reasserts herself as a singular, seminal voice in the American theatre with He Brought Her Heart Back, now onstage at Polonsky Shakespeare Center…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:44PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 21, 2017
What could be more festive than a Christmas feast among the dead? In "The Dead," the concluding tale in James Joyce's 1914 short story collection, Dubliners, the seminal modernist paints the…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:38PM[SHARE]Friday, December 15, 2017
Before we begin our scheduled programming " a review of SpongeBob Squarepants The Musical, now onstage at Broadway's Palace Theatre for its New York City premiere " pardon me a very brief po…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:28PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 10, 2017
The highs are high and the lows are low, but what else is to be expected on the coke-fueled gay wedding weekend in Palm Springs? At the risk of being self-deprecating, Bright Colors and Bold…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:31PM[SHARE]Monday, December 4, 2017
Beau Willimon, the writer and four-season showrunner of Netflix's House of Cards, brings his signature brand of dark humor to a new politically-minded show, The Parisian Woman, just beginnin…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:12AM[SHARE]Monday, November 27, 2017
An Edward Hopper painting I couldn't quite place stuck in my mind when I watched David Cale's new, one-man play, Harry Clarke " the first show of The Vineyard Theatre's 35th Anniversary S…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 19, 2017
For their first foray into Shakespeare, Elevator Repair Service, New York's stalwarts of experimental theatre, tackle Measure for Measure at the Public Theatre. ERS delivers a screwbal…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:19PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 12, 2017
Perhaps one mark of a great play is that it transforms not only the audience, but its actors as well. Only a few months after its world premiere at Yale Rep, Mary Jane, a collaboration be…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:45PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 30, 2017
It's tempting to want to distance yourself from the main character of Max Posner's new play, The Treasurer. Referred to only as the Son, he's a hardworking geologist, a loving husband, and a…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 14, 2017
Though director and educator Les Waters hails from across the pond, he's made quite a splash in the American theatre scene in the past several decades, bouncing from the west coast " where h…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:27PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 30, 2017
From drunken fools to mistaken identities, there’s something Shakespearean about Hamish Linklater’s new play, The Whirligig, presented by the New Group at the Pershing Square Sig…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:45PM[SHARE]Monday, May 1, 2017
Now through its new, extended close of July 2, the Manhattan Theatre Club mounts the fifth Broadway production of Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:11PM[SHARE]In advance of the April 18 premiere of Indecent at Broadway's Cort Theater, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel spoke to the New York Times about her long-overdue debut on the Grea…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:45PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 23, 2017
“Today, when the foundations of our democracy are under assault, we want to reconsider the promise and peril of radical activism and dissent.” Taking note of the political climat…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Signature Theatre's world premiere production of Wakey, Wakey, written and directed by Will Eno, is an overwhelmingly joyous, moving, and unpredictable treatise on, well, death. Michael Emer…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:13AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 14, 2016
Let’s play a little game of word association. Quick, what's the first thing you think of when you hear the word lingerie? Sex, maybe? Victoria’s Secret Angels sprawled out lustil…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 13, 2016
You've already found your way to StageBuddy (good for you!), so you know as well as I do that the theatre is a magical place. It's a place of exploration, fearlessness, honesty and boundary …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:52AM[SHARE]Monday, April 4, 2016
Anne Washburn’s latest commission for Playwrights Horizons, Antlia Pneumatica, roots, or perhaps uproots, itself in the innate and intimate sense of mystery that surrounds death.Â�…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 11, 2016
At first, Utility, Emily Schwend's new play with the Amoralists now onstage at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, doesn't feel particularly earthshaking. There are no explosions, no fits of…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:29PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 10, 2016
How do you speak up when language does not belong to you? How do you move through the world with agency when your body does not belong to you? SLUT is not an easy play to watch, or even to n…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:22PM[SHARE]Monday, December 21, 2015
Multiple murders at the Players Club! At first glance, a headline that could prove to be the final nail in the coffin for a historic social club dogged in recent years by financial controver…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:56PM[SHARE]Monday, December 14, 2015
Hir, Taylor Mac's new play, now extended again at Playwrights Horizons, is sending critics and audiences into a frenzy, and it isn't hard to understand why. With crackling humor, razor wit, …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:33PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 2, 2015
As a critic, Night Is A Room, Naomi Wallace’s new play now on stage at the Signature Theater, is somewhat of a challenge to write about. There isn’t too much that can be revealed…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:43PM[SHARE]Monday, November 2, 2015
Perez Hilton is what you might call a Jack of All Trades for the Internet age. A pioneer in the world of blogging through his eponymous dot com, he's been supporting and skewering pop cultur…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:28PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 20, 2015
According to Deborah Zoe Laufer, being a playwright is about staring into the sun. And by that I mean asking life’s biggest questions and not just expecting, but knowing that you won&#…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:37PM[SHARE]Monday, June 22, 2015
Michael Zegen has found himself in the heart of millennial territory. From Girls and Rescue Me to Frances Ha and Adventureland, the talented young actor has crafted an impressive career span…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:50PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Annie Golden's career had fairytale beginnings. Performing at the legendary venue CBGB with her punk band The Shirts, she was spotted by director MiloÅ¡ Forman, who gave her a role in his …
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