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 …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:49PMAs 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 …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:47PMTony 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, thril…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:52PMWhat’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 Theat…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:47PMAfter 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 06:44PMWhat 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 pain…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:38PMBefore 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 br…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:28PMThe 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 10:31PMBeau 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 beginn…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:12AMAn 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 Anniver…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:18PMFor 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 screwball,…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:19PMPerhaps 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 betw…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:45PMIt’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,…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:30PMThough 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 — whe…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:27PMFrom 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 04:45PMNow 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 03:11PMIn 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 Gr…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:45PM“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 02:57PMSignature 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 Em…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:13AMLet’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 lust…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:48PMYou’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 bound…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:52AMAnne 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. To …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:30PMAt 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 …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:29PMHow 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 02:22PMMultiple 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 01:56PMHir, 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 w…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:33PMAs 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 04:43PMPerez 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 cult…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:28PMAccording 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 01:37PMMichael 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 04:50PMAnnie Golden’s career had fairytale beginnings. Performing at the legendary venue CBGB with her punk band The Shirts, she was spotted by director Miloš Forman, who gave her a role in his …
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