Pearl Cleage wrote “Blues for an Alabama Sky” in the mid-1990s, and it is astonishing that it has taken so long for a play set at the cusp of the Harlem Renaissance and the Great Depress…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 04:32PMOne of the highlights of this year’s edition of the Annual Fringe Encore Series is Sam Chittenden’s take on Kafka’s novella, “Metamorphosis.” While the script is intriguing, the pe…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 10:58AMI know what you are thinking. Great, yet another version of the Nutcracker at Christmas. Just what we need. Well, this one IS just the one we need. While the more traditional versions are ta…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 01:16PMBack in elementary school, we all learned that a story has a beginning, a middle and an end. Apparently, playwright Florian Zeller was absent that day, or perhaps, he merely couldn’t be bo…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 10:26AMChoreographers have a default line in interviews that is some variant of “I tell stories through dance.” Much of the time, though, I watch their work and wonder what the story might have…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 05:59PMDog Man the Musical comes from the pen of one of the most banned authors in America today. Dav Pilkey is the man who gave us the “Captain Underpants” series. And as you might expect, the…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 01:50PMPilobolus is performing two programs during its three-weeks at the Joyce Theater this summer, and each piece is unique while being ineffably consistent with the style of the company. It is d…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 10:17AMThe two hardest types of theatrical production to pull off are polar opposites in complexity. On the one hand, there is the classic Broadway musical that requires a range of talents and has …
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 09:12PMThis production from The Social Club Theatre is Brechtian in its approach. We truly don’t ever get to know the characters, what their jobs are, why they are sharing an apartment – and we…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 07:08PMThe one-actor show about a world historic person has proved itself a healthy genre over the years. Through this form of theatre, we have recently met the likes of Vince Lombardi and Lyndon J…
SOURCE: nytheatreguide.com at 12:35PMIf you spend enough time around theatre and film people, they eventually start talking about their past glories, the failures of others, and shameful acts in general (in my experience, about…
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