Monday, March 20, 2023
What kind of person can laugh amid the jaws of hell? One who knows his survival depends on it. In Cabaret in Captivity, we become those imprisoned in the Terezin Camp as, in commemoration—…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:06PMIdentity is a tricky, complicated thing. That was the main idea I pondered as I left the theatre after Karl O’Brian Williams’ The Black That I Am: a pastiche of monologues, scenes, and m…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:59PMFriday, March 3, 2023
Though it seemed a little counterintuitive to leave my Harlem apartment and trek down to the Lower East Side to watch a play about Harlem, I’m glad I did. In She’s Got Harlem on Her Mind…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:19PMWednesday, February 22, 2023
“You have no control who lives, who dies, who tells your story.” If Calamity Jane was a character in Hamilton, I have to think she’d agree with General Washington—probably very vocal…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:17PMThursday, December 15, 2022
‘Tis the season for one-person Dickens shows. While Jefferson Mays performs a one-man version of A Christmas Carol on Broadway, Eddie Izzard is performing her solo version of Great Expecta…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:00PMMonday, December 12, 2022
Michael Urie is always a delight to watch, so it should come as no surprise that he’s also a delight to talk to. While his most recent Broadway credit was the uproarious comedy Chicken &a…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:46PMFriday, December 9, 2022
It was the second week of October, and Mack Wilberg, Music Director of the world-renowned Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square, had just been given the green light to proceed with the annual Ch…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:11PMMonday, December 5, 2022
Between 1910 and 1940, San Francisco’s Angel Island processed somewhere around 250,000 Chinese immigrants. Often detained in a prison-like environment for weeks, months, or even years, …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:00PMMonday, November 21, 2022
It’s probably safe to say that mime theatre is an underappreciated art form. But if you want to see modern miming at its best, look no further than Broken Box Mime Theater. The company’s…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:15PMSaturday, November 12, 2022
Halloween may be over, but as long as Radiotheatre’s The Haunting of 85 East 4th Street is playing at The Kraine Theater, spooky season is emphatically not. Written by Dan Bianchi, this su…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:31PMThursday, November 10, 2022
On Sunday, The Lion King celebrates its 25th Broadway anniversary. That will also be a milestone for Ray Mercer, who’s been with the show for 20 years, making him one of the longest-runnin…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:57PMWednesday, November 2, 2022
Every now and then, between revivals, jukebox musicals, movie-based musicals, and productions hellbent on making a statement, you come across that increasingly rare thing in theatre: an orig…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:00PMMonday, October 31, 2022
What–or should we say who–makes a monstress monstrous? This is the question raised by Hunger & Thirst Theatre’s bluegrass musical Monstress, written by Emily Kitchens with origina…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:54PMThursday, October 27, 2022
Sometimes horror works best in short, self-contained stories. Such is the case with the New Ambassadors’ short horror-themed play festival, FEARfest 2022, at Tada! Theater. Seven short p…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:40PMMonday, October 24, 2022
When a young musician returns to Turkey to care for her troublesome father, she gets a lot more than she bargained for–and so does the audience. Produced by Ars Nova and PlayCo at Greenwic…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:00PMMonday, October 17, 2022
In The Anthropologists’ Artemisia’s Intent, written and directed by Melissa Moschitto, 17th-century Italian painter Artemisia, played by Mariah Freda, returns to share her insights and…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:17PMThursday, October 13, 2022
In honor of Halloween and Dia de los Muertos, FRIGID New York and Something From Abroad present the first-ever Days of the Dead Festival. Running October 20 through November 1 at The Kraine …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:25PMWednesday, October 12, 2022
Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune is one of those often overlooked women from America’s past whose story not only deserves, but needs to be told. At TheaterLab, a cast directed by Kathleen Brant tak…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:18PMMonday, October 10, 2022
Rob Rokicki’s Monstersongs is possibly the greatest (and definitely the funnest) Halloween album of all time. Released by Broadway Records back in 2017, the graphic novel rock album recent…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:52PMWednesday, October 5, 2022
When aspiring young actress Tig Kennedy is raped by her would-be producer, she faces a wrenching choice: expose the wrongdoing and turn her back on a promising career in Hollywood? Or brush …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:10PMSaturday, October 1, 2022
Storytelling, on perhaps its most basic level, is a means of transmitting memories and messages from one generation to the next. As such, it becomes a sort of ritual. By sharing our stories …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:42PMTuesday, September 20, 2022
Gertrude Stein’s Four Saints in Three Acts is, to put it bluntly, nonsensical. An avant-garde opera with a libretto by Stein and a score by Virgil Thomson, it’s more word-driven than pl…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:23PMFriday, September 16, 2022
A CIA newbie with orders to remove the Chilean President walks into a bombed out palace. What could go wrong? In Mark Wilding’s delightful comedy Our Man in Santiago, loosely inspired by …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:42PMThursday, September 8, 2022
Gertrude Stein once said of her own writing: “if you enjoy it, you understand it.” If that’s true, then I suppose I understood My Onliness: a world premiere musical about a mad king an…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:50PMThursday, August 25, 2022
What’s it like to work at a job that’s slowly sucking the life and soul out of you–and is it worth it? That seems to be one of the questions asked by Alexander Perez in his dark comedy…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:28PMSunday, August 21, 2022
“There’s no reality in which I don’t fall in love with you.” So says a nervous but excited bride on her wedding day, as she and her husband-to-be wait for their civil ceremony. A 10-…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:01PMFrom time to time, a play can take you by surprise. That was the case with Chain Theater’s macbitches, written by Sophie McIntosh and directed by Ella Jane New. While intrigued by the prem…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:00PMFriday, August 19, 2022
Eartha Kitt was described by Orson Welles as “the most exciting woman in the world.” Yet for 10 years, she was blacklisted from work in the United States. Why? Because she spoke her mind…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:35PMFriday, August 12, 2022
What makes a play queer? Is it simply a queer cast? A queer aesthetic? Or something more? Billed as a queer and gender-blind, abridged and I quote “hilarious version of this beloved classi…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:46PMWednesday, August 10, 2022
A year ago, I had the opportunity to review Alexander Perez’s dark comedy Randy’s Dandy Coaster Castle, which follows a team of overworked, underpaid employees at a rundown amusement par…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:23PMFriday, August 5, 2022
Scene: the Sakha Republic, Siberia. Some time in the future, a genetically engineered mammelephant (half mammoth, half elephant) has an existential crisis in a man-made park created to solve…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:08PM 
