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Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Review: Irish Rep’s ‘Disco Pigs’ by J. C. Wright

“What do we want to be?” This is the central question asked by the character Runt in Enda Walsh’s Disco Pigs. Runt was born in the same hospital at the same time as her best friend, Pi…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:52PM
Thursday, May 18, 2017

Review: Derren Brown: Secret by J. C. Wright

In the beginning of Secret, illusionist Derren Brown tells you that he will lie to you. He also tells you that he is neither magic nor psychic. By the end of the show you may be forgiven fo…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:50PM
Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Review: Entertaining Mr. Sloane by J. C. Wright

There is a particular prop set up in Joe Orton’s Entertaining Mr. Sloane that vividly distills both the essence of the play and the essential spirit of the playwright. One of the character…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:18PM
Thursday, March 16, 2017

Review: Sam and Dede, or My Dinner with André the Giant by J. C. Wright

Probably the most important thing to realize about Gino Dilorio’s Sam and Dede, or My Dinner with André the Giant is that it is really quite a lot of fun. This is a great service to the f…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:52PM
Friday, March 10, 2017

Review: Fjeldfuglen (The Mountain Bird) by J. C. Wright

In what turned out to be a double-treat at La MaMa on March 2, the Grusomheten Teater company made its North American debut with their production of Henrik Ibsen’s unfinished romantic oper…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:54AM

Review: Fjeldfuglen (The Mountain Bird) by J. C. Wright

In what turned out to be a double-treat at La MaMa on March 2, the Grusomheten Teater company made its North American debut with their production of Henrik Ibsen’s unfinished romantic oper…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:54AM
Thursday, September 29, 2016

A Conversation About The La MaMa Puppet Series with Curator Denise Greber by J. C. Wright

One of the true gems in the world of New York City off-off-Broadway theatre is La MaMa’s bi-annual Puppet Series, which is now kicking off the company’s 55th season. With a kaleidoscopic…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:51AM
Thursday, September 15, 2016

Interview: Patrick O’Kane the Abbey Theatre’s Acclaimed Production of “Quietly” at Irish Rep by J. C. Wright

Owen McCafferty’s play Quietly depicts a highly charged confrontation between two men on opposite sides of a violent past in their shared city of Belfast. An Abbey Theatre production, Qu…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:25PM
Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Interview: Lisa Dwan on Her Acclaimed Beckett Trilogy by J. C. Wright

On the centennial of his birth, Samuel Beckett’s Not I, a notoriously difficult work for any actor, will be presented alongside two other Beckett shorts, Footfalls and Rockaby at N…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:00AM
Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Interview: Irish Rep’s Charlotte Moore on Directing Seamus Heaney’s Iraq War-inspired Adaptation of “Antigone” by J. C. Wright

Seamus Heaney’s The Burial at Thebes, a translation of Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone, was written as a response to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Telling the story of one woman who dares t…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:26PM
Monday, November 2, 2015

Interview: Aleks Merilo on “The Widow of Tom’s Hill”, A Play about the Flu Pandemic of 1918 by J. C. Wright

The Widow of Tom’s Hill, currently onstage at 59E59 Theaters, tells the story of an increasingly dangerous encounter between two people, a young widow and a sailor, set against the worst p…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:18PM
Wednesday, October 28, 2015

An Actor’s Identity: A Review of Tony Roberts’ Memoir “Do You Know Me?” by J. C. Wright

Perhaps the most interesting aspect of Tony Roberts’ new memoir Do You Know Me? is that suggested by the title itself; that is to say, the parts of the narrative that have to do with p…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:01PM
Thursday, September 24, 2015

K. Krombie Discusses SWOLLEN and the Manhattan Repertory Theatre’s Short Play Development Project by J. C. Wright

On October 1st, three short plays will be debuting as part of Manhattan Repertory Theatre’s Short Play Development Project. These three plays, with the provocative titles Swollen, Wast…

SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:14PM

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards