Reid Farrington's A Christmas Carol returns to Abrons Arts Center this holiday season. This year, downtown legend Everett Quinton is on hand for the festivities. Farrington uses his signatu…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 10:31AMThe marvelous Transport Group will be hosting a rare personal appearance by Jonathan Franzen after the Thursday, November 15th performance of Daniel Fish's adaptation of Franzen's HOUSE FO…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 01:49PMWe are LOVING this trailer for Toneelgroep Amsterdam's production of Roman Tragedies By William Shakespeare, directed by Ivo van Hove!BAM presents Roman TragediesBy William ShakespeareToneel…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 02:03PMSoho Rep presents We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South West Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 01:23PMAustin, TX's awesome Rude Mechanicals return to NYC in November to present their faithful re-staging of The Performance Group's 1968 landmark production, itself based on The Bacchae (got tha…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 01:44PMBilled as "an electro-pop opera ripped from a scandalous slice of Tolstoy's War an Peace," Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 has the cred of Dave Malloy who wrote Beowulf – A T…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 03:14PMThe invaluable Target Margin will dedicate it's 2012-2013 season to exploring Yiddish theater. First up is their terrific TM Lab, at The Brick from October 17 - November 3, presenting n…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 11:28AMThe Flea presents A.R. Gurney's view of the near-future via-a-vie politics, religion and immaculate conception. This world premiere is directed by Flea Artistic Director, Jim Simson and the …
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 05:46PMTwo short plays, each directed by each-other’s author. The playwright-directors are Neil LaBute and Marco Calvani. Throw Estelle Parsons, Larry Pine and Craig Bierko into the mix and you�…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 10:58AMCharlie Victor Romeo is not for the faint of heart. CVR also stands for cockpit voice recorder and this show is reenactments of the final minutes of several airline disasters. Yo…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 08:03AMThe Debate Society's new play, Blood Play, will premiere at Bushwick Starr on October 3rd. Written by Hanna Bos and Paul Thureen, Blood Play is described as "a darkly comic thril…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 01:58PMThe formidable Atlantic Theater Company has a kick-ass season lined up for it's first back in their newly refurbished space. Touting three world premiers and two New York premiers, th…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 09:52AMDETROITPlaywrights Horizons(now in previews; opens 9/18)David Schwimmer and Amy Ryan headline Lisa D'Amour’s Pulitzer-finalist comedy, DETROIT. Anne Kaufman directs the NY premiere at Pla…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 08:50PMWritten by Jaclyn Backhaus and directed by John Kurzynowski, Three Seagulls or Mashamashamasha is a mash-up of the two Chekhov plays bringing together twenty-four of his characters together …
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 08:23PM1. I don't believe in outer space (William Forsythe Company @ BAM)2. KIN (by Bathsheba Doran; directed by Sam Gold @ Playwrights Horizons)3. The Method Gun (Rude Mechanicals @ Dance Theater …
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 08:54AMExtra credit always goes to the first time I discover a new company/artist for the first time, and this was the case with William Forsythe Company and I DON'T BELIEVE IN OUTER SPACE this yea…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 12:09PMBathsheba Doran's play KIN was a rich treat. The attention to detail was perfectly matched by Sam Gold's excellent production performed by a perfect ensemble. KIN unfolded across various l…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 11:36PMThe Austin-based Rude Mechanicals brought their show, THE METHOD GUN, to NYC for an all-too-brief run at Dance Theater Workshop (now New York Live Arts). To be completely honest, about…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 12:03PMAdam Bock's A SMALL FIRE was a big triumph. He took what could have been a melodramatic disease-of-the-week premise and lifted it to extensional proportions. It also didn't hurt that it wa…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 04:43PMDark and musical, Reggie Watt's RADIO PLAY at Performance Space 122 was a surreal experience; like a 1940's radio play on acid. There was no real "plot" to speak of, but Watt's and a …
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 01:09PMThe Play Company's INVASION! started off with an unforgettable bang - the kind of thing you wish would happen more often in the theater and it freaked the audience out. At the performa…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 08:20AMDavid Greenspan's GO BACK TO WHERE YOU ARE was completely delightful love note to the theater. The sheer fact that Greenspan was able to pack so much intelligence, humor and time…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 11:44AMThe awesome Vampire Cowboys took their geek aesthetic to a new level in 2011 with THE INEXPLICABLE REDEMPTION OF AGENT G. Produced with Incubators Arts Project, AGENT G introduced a more co…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 08:59AMEvery year, the excellent Clubbed Thumb presents three new works in fully staged productions for what they call Summerworks. One of this year's selections was OUR LOT co-written by Kri…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 11:20AMThere is a lot to love about Classic Stage Company's production of THE CHERRY ORCHARD: John Christopher Jones' colloquial adaptation, Dianne Wiest's innocent but radiant Ranevskaya,&nb…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 01:57PMAnother Tennessee Williams' play received an imaginative production this year, this time from director Jonathan Warman. Actually, it was the New York premiere of NOW THE CATS WITH JEWE…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 11:35PMTennessee Williams late play, VIEUX CARRÉ was tackled by The Wooster Group in 2011 with the Group's usual mix of physicality and technology. Whereas their Hamlet was Scott Shepherd's …
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 08:05AMIn May, the invaluable Target Margin presented Shakespeare's last play, THE TEMPEST, at Here Arts Center, for which they built their version of The Globe. It was a spirited and magical…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 07:01PMOriginally presented as a site-specific work performed in a church courtyard as part of the River To River Festival, 2 KILOS OF SEA was re-imagined for an all-to-brief run at Baryshnikov Art…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 05:44PMTheater doesn't get more personal than YOUR BROTHER, REMEMBER? Splicing together childhood home-made films with 80s films, Zachery Oberzan's piece for the Under The Radar festival managed to…
SOURCE: Off-Off Blogway at 10:50AM31 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…
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