Friday, May 19, 2017
According to program notes for Mint Theater Company's new production of A.A. Milne's 1922 play The Lucky One, the British playwright (and, of course, creator of the "Pooh" books) had a dista…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Monday, May 1, 2017
In her new play, The Antipodes, at Signature Theatre, Annie Baker once again uses the trappings of naturalism to tell a contemporary story that veers at times into the realm of magical reali…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:00PM[SHARE]Monday, April 3, 2017
William Inge's Come Back, Little Sheba (1950) seems to owe much to the plays of his friend and mentor (and probable sex partner) Tennessee Williams"and in particular to 1944's The Glass Mena…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:39PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 21, 2017
In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel, Tennessee Williams's 1969 one-act (two scene) play, is such a dark, bitter work that it would seem wrong to call seeing it a "rare treat." But the current produc…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:27PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 11, 2015
New York Animals, a "play with music" produced by Manhattan's Bedlam theatre company, takes a look at a collection of New York beasts of various stripes and spots"people whose lives i…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:37AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 10, 2015
At age 10 Avi Hoffman (born Avrum Ber, in 1958) made his theatrical debut in a Yiddish Folksbiene Theater production called Bronx Express. In the decades that followed, the performer, a son …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Some stories linger in the incubation stage. Patiently"or not so patiently"they wait to be told, to make their way into the public consciousness. Then, uncannily, when they finally burst int…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:51PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 7, 2015
Rashid and Leila, a young Egyptian-American couple, sit propped up in bed together. They smoke fake cigarettes while they analyze their own psyches and behavior. (It's something one imagines…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:00PM[SHARE]Monday, May 25, 2015
Back Stage talked with some students recently about their experiences in several of New York's musical theater training programs.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM[SHARE]For many of us, our lifelong love affair with the theater first blossomed in summer. Summer theaters provide on-the-job training for young actors.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Actors often talk about "dream roles," but when Richard Kent Green says he's longed for years to portray legendary thinker Albert Einstein, he's not whistling "She Blinded Me with Science."
SOURCE: simply-showbiz.com at 11:48AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 11, 2012
The Mobile Shakespeare Unit's 90-minute condensation of Shakespeare's "Richard III," at the Public Theater, has Ron Cephas Jones as the murdering monarch.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 8, 2012
Suave-voiced musical theatre actor Max von Essen is a hard worker with a string of impressive credits. He has appeared in productions in regional theaters (The Baker's Wife, Mame). He's play…
SOURCE: simply-showbiz.com at 08:02AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 26, 2012
The composer of “Leap of Faith,” which opens on Broadway on Thursday, has three Main Stem shows this season. Here’s how to approach singing his songs.
SOURCE: Backstage at 10:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Actors and directors flock to summer theater programs and camps, such as Stagedoor Manor and Idyllwild Arts Summer Program.
SOURCE: Backstage at 04:40AM[SHARE]Monday, March 28, 2011
The proliferation of film work in Boston has greatly benefited area stage actors, many of whom have been quietly toiling in theater companies for years.
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