Tuesday, May 13, 2014
The Few is a quiet three-character play by Samuel D. Hunter (The Whale, A Bright New Boise) making its East Coast premier at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. The story of a newspaper w…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 02:04PMMonday, May 12, 2014
Woody Allen’s 1994 comedy about hapless artists and menacing mobsters coming together to put on a show has been adapted into a splashy Broadway musical. With direction and peppy chore…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 03:28PMFriday, April 25, 2014
The Flea is normally aptly named, a home for small theatrical gestures and chamber plays. But this Spring, The Flea gives us The Mysteries, a colossal six-hour marathon of 50 short plays, wr…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 01:56PMTuesday, April 22, 2014
For the world premiere of his new play, Your Mother’s Copy of the Kama Sutra, Kirk Lynn, an artistic director with Austin-based Rude Mechs, returns to New York for a third time this …
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 03:08PMMonday, April 21, 2014
Sutton Foster returns to Midtown in Violet, a musical by Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley. The story of a disfigured young woman who boards a bus from North Carolina to Oklahoma seeking the …
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 04:20PMFriday, April 18, 2014
Act One is a stage adaptation of the memoir, Act One, by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Moss Hart (known for writing You Can’t Take It With You and The Man Who Came to Dinner). …
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 02:41PMMonday, March 17, 2014
Following a world premiere at the Humana Festival of New American Plays in Louisville last spring, and successful runs at both the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago and the Woolly Mammoth T…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 07:59AMThursday, March 13, 2014
Rocky the Musical is the hotly anticipated musical adaptation of Sylvester Stallone’s classic 1976 film of the same name. The story of a third-rate South Philly boxer who gets a once-…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 11:11PMTuesday, March 4, 2014
The Open House, a new play by Will Eno at Signature Theatre, is a droll take-down of the classic Family Drama in American theater. Acerbic, depressing dramas about families who destroy each …
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 02:05PMWith The Happiest Song Plays Last, Quiara Alegría Hudes completes her critically acclaimed trilogy of plays, which began with Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue and the Pulitzer Prize-winning…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 01:56PMMonday, March 3, 2014
Art and life intertwine in Stage Kiss, a play by Sarah Ruhl having its New York premiere this February at Playwrights Horizons. In the play, two actors with a personal history are chosen t…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 12:03PMFriday, February 28, 2014
Ode to Joy is a new play by Craig Lucas (best known for Prelude to a Kiss and the book (i.e. the spoken parts in the musical) of The Light in the Piazza). It centers on the story of a dep…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 01:32PMSotto Voce, written and directed by Pulitzer Prize-winner Nilo Cruz (Anna in the Tropics), is a small sonata of a play about loneliness, loss, and the transformative power of love. In the pl…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 12:49PMTuesday, February 25, 2014
Kung Fu, the new play at Signature Theater by Tony-winner David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly, Chinglish) is the story of legendary martial artist and actor Bruce Lee. From his childhood in Hon…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 01:24PMFriday, February 21, 2014
The Bridges of Madison County is a new musical based on the well-known novel by Robert James Waller (it was also adapted into a 1995 movie starring Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood). Musical …
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 12:52PMThursday, February 20, 2014
A cast of fifteen performs a seemingly endless string of short vignettes in Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information. It’s an evening of playlets that circles the idea of “…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 02:22PMFriday, February 14, 2014
The Correspondent, a new play by Ken Urban at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, opens with Philip Graves (Thomas Jay Ryan) mourning the death of his wife of 25 years. He drinks heavily as he …
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 05:43PMThursday, February 13, 2014
Philadelphia’s Pig Iron Theatre Company returns to New York with a loud, raucous, exuberantly fun production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. The oft-revived story of love, mista…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 08:14AMFriday, February 7, 2014
Chiara Atik’s Women imagines the characters of the literary classic “Little Women” through the contemporary lens of the hit HBO series “Girls.” It turns out, …
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 03:13PMWednesday, January 29, 2014
Live from Gramercy Park is a new musical performance series at the historic Player’s Club (founded in 1888 by legendary actor Edwin Booth and Mark Twain, among others). The series feat…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 12:13PMTuesday, January 28, 2014
A wild man lies still on the stage of the Claire Tow Theater at Lincoln Center. Behind him, the set is littered with enough tacky gilded knick knacks to make Liberace wince and there’s…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 01:38PMFriday, January 24, 2014
In Jessica Dickey’s Row After Row, three Civil War re-enactors, two men and a woman, meet in a Gettysburg bar after a long day re-staging the town’s famous battle. Cal (PJ Sosko)…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 03:43PMTuesday, January 21, 2014
After a New York season filled with plays in repertory, The Acting Company (in association with the Guthrie in Minneapolis) presents a popular two-play combo at the Pearl – Shakespeare…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 06:04PMFriday, January 17, 2014
Roundabout Theatre Company makes an daring choice in reviving Machinal, a seldom-produced 1928 masterpiece by Sophie Treadwell. This dark, haunting drama follows a young woman’s slow…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 12:20PM 
