31 Down's HERE AT HOME was and aurally and visually stimulating piece about the impact of war. It was Eric Bogosian meets Sarah Kane with terrific performances by D. J. Mendel and Hollis Wit…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 11:56AMSoho Rep brought us the US premiere of playwright Debbie Tucker Green with BORN BAD, a lyrical, hour-long "poem" of a play what was solidly acted by a terrific and dedicated ensemble of five…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 12:07PMTHE BARDY BUNCH was The Brady Bunch vs The Partridge Family vis a vie Shakespeare. Marcia Brady as Juliet. David Partridge as Romeo. Jan as Ophelia. Mrs. Brady as Lady Macbeth. And on and…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 08:24AMWritten and directed by Richard Nelson, SWEET AND SAD is the second of three personally-political plays set on a specific day during each of the years they are presented at The Public Theate…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 11:37AMTaylor Mac's WALK ACROSS AMERICA FOR MOTHER EARTH at LaMama was gloriously-hippy love fest!
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 07:55PMSOHO PLAYHOUSE:After Anne Frank"...though Anne Frank died before I was born, she keeps re-appearing in my life teaching me new things about being Jewish and being part of the human family.…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 01:11PMOverall Production/Play:PigPen Presents The Mountain SongThe More Loving OneOverall Production/Musical:Yeast NationPearl's Gone BluePerformance:Jennifer Barnhart (The Legend of Julie Taymor,…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 12:22PMMultimedia Artist, John Jesurun, is next up at Coffeehouse Chronicles at LaMama.Jesurun is the creator of such works as Deep Sleep, Shatterhand Massacree, the Chang in a Void Moon series and…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 05:28PMMerge Our Town with Dawn of the Dead and you have a slight idea of what happens when a small town is overrun by the undead.Best described as Our Town with zombies, with Thornton Wilder's Sta…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 08:18AMSo, now that THE NEW YORK TIMES is charging for content, Ludlow Lad has started a new blog recapping theater reviews from The Paper of Record in a new blog:THE THEATER OF THE TIMESEnjoy!
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 08:37PMThis weekend is the closing for two excellent shows that Ludlow Lad can highly recommend.31 Down's HERE AT HOME is an hypnotic and disorienting piece about war. It is expertly directed and …
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 03:40PMBeing an non-Broadway show nominated for a Drama Desk Award is sort of like being invited to Thanksgiving dinner, but being forced to sit a the Children's Table. Off Broadway shows are elig…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 12:50AMThe winners of the 2011 OBIE Awards were announced tonight at Webster Hall. And the winners are:Best New American PlayThe Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity by Kristoffer Diaz (Second Stage)L…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 11:20PMOriginally produced at the New York International Fringe Festival in 2005, Silence! The Musical! is back for a commercial run in NYC. The always-hilarious Jenn Harris is also back as Claric…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 02:29PMThe terrific Clubbed Thumb Summerworks has announced this summer's three shows:ENFRASCADA by Tanya Sarachodirected by Jerry Ruiz In which Alicia tries to make time go backward, ensnarling he…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 03:02PMOutstanding PlayThe Elaborate Entrance of Chad DeityProduced by Second Stage Theatre;Written by Kristoffer DiazOutstanding MusicalBloody Bloody Andrew JacksonProduced by The Public Theater a…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 07:15AMSo here are all the non-Broadway Drama Desk Nominees for this year:Outstanding PlayJon Robin Baitz, Other Desert CitiesAdam Bock, A Small FireSamuel D. Hunter, A Bright New BoiseOutstanding …
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 11:28AMEnsemble Studio Theatre has announced the plays for this year's (the 33rd Annual) Marathon of One Act Plays:SERIES APreviews $10: Friday, May 20 - Sunday, May 22Opening Monday, May 23 - Sat…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 02:56PM...and the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama goes to: Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park.Congratulations to Playwright's Horizons!So it's official NYC really missed the boat on this play. It's made …
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 10:52AMBathsheba Doran's KIN is a joy. It's a smart, complicated, adult play - the likes of which you've come to expect from the invaluable Playwrights Horizons and the likes of which you rarely, …
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 09:04PMThe Obie-Winning Vampire Cowboys are back with an all-new adventure!THE INEXPLICABLEREDEMPTIONOF AGENT Gby Qui Nguyendirected by Robert Ross ParkerIt’s been 10 years since Agent G has last…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 10:17AMSoho Rep's awesome Writer/Director Lab is back for 2011.Writers & Directors pairs create plays from scratch.Free. First come, first served. All readings are at 7pm at Soho Rep.FORT LEEA …
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 05:05PMAfter taking on Eugene O’Neil, Little Lord moves on to The Bible - The Book of Esther to be specific. Expect broad humor, cross dressing, irreverence, free liquor, and a lot of fun.Little…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 08:37PMLudlow Lad sees a lot of theater. Much of it isn't very good - or at least isn't work that Ludlow Lad enjoys. That is why seeing two pieces as good as The Rude Mechs' The Method Gun and Th…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 01:26PMLiz LeCompte and The Wooster Group's ongoing trek through the theatrical canon has now landed at Tennessee Williams' Vieux Carre. William's mostly-expressionistic slice of life is set in a …
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 01:23PMAccording to an article in The New York Times, Robert Lyons announced that the Ohio Theater will relocate to the Archive Building at 666 Greenwich Street in the West Village. A ten-year lea…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 11:39AMSo here, in the order in which Ludlow Lad saw them, are the top 10 Favorite Shows of 2010: #1. LEAR@ Soho Rep---#2. L'effet de Serge@ 3LD/Under The Radar Festival---#3. The Divine Sister@ Th…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 02:08PMCurrently at the Vineyard Theater, through December 5th, William Eno's MIDDLETOWN is a must-see. Like a contemporary version of Thornton Wilder's OUR TOWN, MIDDLETOWN tells universal tru…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 10:34AMLove is Like Mud is a story about the romantic misadventures between city dwellers Jon and Anne. After meeting on the subway they have an awkward first date, followed by a torrid night of…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 09:48PMTarget Margin Theater is celebrating their 20th Season this year, and kicking things off is their LAB SERIES at The Brick in Williamsburg:THE YELLOW SOUNDby Wassily KandinskyLead Artists-Kat…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 04:38PMHere are 13 shows that Ludlow Lad is excited about seeing this fall:underneathmybed: A new play by Florencia Lozano in which ghosts of a dirty foreign war haunt a family. Rattlestick Theatre…
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