The play Don’s Party premiered on August 11, 1971 at Carlton’s Pram Factory, home to the radical theatre ensemble The Australian Performing Arts Group. Established four years earlier in …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:00PMBeloved makes its United States debut at the Lion Theatre on Theatre Row with the Scandinavian American Theater Company. Written by Lisa Langseth and translated by Charlotte Barslund, Belove…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:25AMFire in Dreamland begins with Kate (Rebecca Naomi Jones), a frustrated bureaucrat working to restore Coney Island after the devastation of Hurricane Sandy, telling her story of meeting a pas…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:19PMGirls & Boys, written by Dennis Kelly and directed by Lyndsey Turner, first premiered earlier this year with the Royal Court Theatre in London and has how made its way across the pond …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:39PMGood for Otto, presented by the New Group at Signature Theater, offers a master class in acting from its impressive cast, yet the meandering plot and three-hour running time diminish the pot…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:44PMEdward Albee first wrote The Zoo Story in 1959, but feeling it could use a little more substance (particularly regarding one of the characters, Peter), decided to add on Homelife as the firs…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:12PMTerminus is an emotional tour de force, and while it benefits from the intimacy of its home Next Door at New York Theatre Workshop, it buzzes with the potential as the next great play in the…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:10AMThe Homecoming Queen marks playwright Ngozi Anyanwu’s Off-Broadway debut and long may she reign! The play is a beautiful meditation on home, alienation, love, pain, and regret. It strikes…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:12PMI’m still not sure what to make of Ballyturk, Enda Walsh’s play currently making its American debut at St. Ann’s Warehouse. I’d also maintain, however, that while there is an often f…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:10PMActually, now playing at the Studio at Stage II at New York City Center, comes at a bleak time in the landscape of sexual politics. This moment is bleak not because things like abuse or rape…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:00PMIn this time of anxiety regarding the present and uneasiness about the future, it might feel as if the arts are, at best, escapist fodder and, at worst, self-indulgent vanities. Certainly, A…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:38PMI shouldn’t be surprised that an offering at New York Theatre Workshop would be an exceptional piece of theater, but Amy Herzog’s Mary Jane directed by Anne Kauffman, transcends even the…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:59AMIf you are convinced society has progressed beyond Nathaniel Hawthorne’s vision in The Scarlet Letter, Suzan-Lori Parks has an offering to prove otherwise: Fucking A. In the program notes …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:19PMInanimate is a somewhat misleading title for such a buoyant, funny, and heartwarming journey of self-acceptance and love. Nick Robideau’s play directed by Courtney Ulrich makes its world p…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:56PMAt the 59E59 Theater’s world premiere of A Real Boy, the setting is a kindergarten classroom, but it’s clear that in Stephen Kaplan’s play, lessons of acceptance cannot be learned as e…
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