Friday, August 18, 2023
In hindsight, a show about a group of friends in NYC slowly breaking up may not have been the best thing for me to watch just a couple weeks before moving away from the city. I left David Ro…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:00PMThursday, July 20, 2023
I’m a sucker for a good ghost story. When that ghost story happens to include gorgeous folk harmonies, graceful black box intimacy, and an elusive yet inescapable meaning, consider me sold…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:40PMThursday, July 6, 2023
It’s no secret that many of the fairytales we know and love today are pretty sexist. Take Sleeping Beauty or Little Red Riding Hood: helpless heroines who need men to save them. In other s…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:17PMSaturday, June 24, 2023
A world devastated by pollution and climate change. A soulless corporation with mindless employees. A girl from the outside with dangerous ideas. Welcome to In Corpo: a new musical by Ben Be…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:29PMFriday, June 23, 2023
How far would you go to secure a date for high school prom? For Madison, Stella, and Grace—three high school seniors who have dreamed of this moment their entire lives—the answer is a re…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:48PMWednesday, June 21, 2023
Alan Freed didn’t invent Rock & Roll—in fact, he wasn’t even the first to call it that. What he did, which was arguably more challenging and more important, was to make it mainstre…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:00PMFriday, June 16, 2023
From its inception four years ago at The Kraine Theater, New Ambassadors Theatre Company’s Blurring Boundaries—comprising a lineup of short one-act plays written, performed, and directed…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:22PMWednesday, June 14, 2023
Magician Steve Cuiffo has a problem: his wife hates magic. He doesn’t know it’s a problem until his friend Lucas Hnath (the playwright behind Broadway’s radical Dana H.) asks him to c…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:00PMMonday, June 5, 2023
Having seen (read “been positively blown away by”) several of Edward Einhorn’s previous shows produced through Untitled Theater Company No. 61, and being a long-time lover of Shakespe…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:00PMKelli O’Hara, as everyone knows, is a gift to the world of theatre. Her voice is otherworldly, her acting immaculate. Now, she can add to her resume the triumph of largely carrying Days of…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:00PMThursday, May 18, 2023
Ironically, though New York City is home to more than 8 million people, it’s been called “the lonely city,” and it’s easy to see why. You could easily pass hundreds of people on your…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:18PMTuesday, May 16, 2023
Shakespeare is canceled. Don’t ask why—he just is. It might have something to do with the tremors that keep jarring the college diversity office, or then again, it might not. We’ll nev…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:20PMWednesday, May 3, 2023
I’ve seen my fair share of plays about racism, but I’ve never seen the struggle between a facist government and its oppressed citizens dramatized as a puppet show. In We, Puppets, presen…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:51PMThursday, April 20, 2023
In the 1967 film version of Camelot (a movie I adore), there comes a moment when Arthur senses that the presence of his illegitimate son, Mordred, together with the forbidden passion share…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:32PMWednesday, April 12, 2023
Émilie du Châtelet was playing around with physics more than a century before Einstein entered the scene. Her analysis of force and velocity, which she articulated as F = mv², would pave …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:28PMThursday, April 6, 2023
Most people today (myself included) have an absence of ritual in their lives, and never is this more apparent than at this time of year–when Catholics worship in specifically orchestrated …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:47PMFriday, March 31, 2023
Dance can be a powerful vehicle for storytelling, for expressing emotion, and for conveying truths that are sometimes difficult to articulate in words. If you need proof, go see J. Chen Proj…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:30PMMonday, 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 01:40PM 
