Thursday, May 15, 2014
The Pearl Theatre Company revives The Rivals, a 1775 comedy of manners by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, directed by The Pearl’s new artistic director Hal Brooks. Carol Schultz reprises th…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 03:42PMWednesday, May 14, 2014
Flux Theatre presents the world premiere of August Schulenburg’s Jane the Plain, a supernatural comedy that utilizes familiar high school archetypes to tell an uplifting tale of self…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 12:51PMMonday, May 12, 2014
The Drama League Awards are presented by The Drama League. The winners will be announced at a luncheon hosted by Jesse Tyler Ferguson on May 16. For background about the Drama League Awards…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 05:19PMSunday, May 11, 2014
The Drama Desk Awards are presented by the Drama Desk, an organization of critics, editors, reporters, and freelance writers. The winners will be announced on June 1 at a ceremony hosted by…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 10:55PMCollaborationTown’s Family Play (1979 to Present) is the result of a two-year residency at IRT and the New Ohio Theater. Family Play is composed of micro-scenes, lasting between 30 se…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 01:17PMFriday, May 9, 2014
It’s easy to get distracted by the plot summary of Your Mother’s Copy of the Kama Sutra and miss the brilliance of its commentary on relationships, questions that linger long a…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 11:54AMTuesday, May 6, 2014
Three Day Hangover, a company that specializes in combining alcohol and Shakespeare, has a new boozy bard theatrical event in New York City this Spring. Drunk Shakespeare, half-immersive im…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 04:28PMPlaywright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Appropriate) adapted The Octoroon, a 1859 Abolitionist melodrama by Irishman Dion Boucicault, into a provocative, controversial, and (almost) entirely new…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 02:34PMWinners and nominees of the 2014 Lucille Lortel Awards, presented by the Lucille Lortel Foundation and The Off-Broadway League. The ceremony took place at The NYU Skirball Center on May 4, 2…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 12:58PMFriday, May 2, 2014
It’s theater awards season! Here’s our guide to distinguishing the major* awards. *Are there other awards? Yes. Have a different opinion about which awards are the major theater …
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 01:30PMThursday, May 1, 2014
A preview of what we’re looking forward to beyond Broadway in New York City theater this month. Fly By Night is a romantic musical about a melancholy sandwich maker and two sisters during …
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 06:02PMEvery summer The Public Theater produces Shakespeare in the Park at the outdoor Delacorte Theater in Central Park. It is one of New York City’s greatest traditions and, remarkably, the t…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 10:30AMWednesday, April 30, 2014
The Irish Repertory Theatre mounts Gardner McKay’s award winning play Sea Marks as the last production of its 2013-2014 season. Ciarán O’Reilly directs this revival, which star…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 01:49PMTuesday, April 29, 2014
The New York Neo-Futurists are reprising the innovative concept behind their Drama Desk Award nominated production The Complete & Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O’Neill, Volume …
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 03:20PMCalled an ”action-opera” by New York Theatre Workshop, Red-Eye to Havre de Grace outlines the strange final days of Edgar Allan Poe, who inexplicably abandoned a lecture tour …
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 02:19PMMonday, April 28, 2014
Two independent theater companies – Funny…Sheesh Productions and Ivy Theatre Company — are joining forces to present two productions, one by each, set to run in repertory a…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 11:46AMFriday, April 25, 2014
Roundabout Theater Company revives the Tony Award winning 1998 revival of the musical Cabaret. Sam Mendes and Rob Marshall return to the director’s and choreographer’s seats (res…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 08:54AMThe Great Immensity, a new musical from The Civilians, tackles the hot topic of climate change. It is part of The Public Theater’s Public Lab, meaning it is a work-in-progress. The …
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 08:37AMTuesday, April 22, 2014
This week The Public Theater announced its 2014-2015 season. We were thrilled to see many of our favorite active artists on the schedule, including Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks …
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 02:15PMMonday, April 21, 2014
Inspired by John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera from 1728 (also the source material for Brecht and Weill’s 1928 The Threepenny Opera), Little Mac, Little Mac, You’re the …
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 01:09PMTuesday, April 15, 2014
Interborough Repertory Theater (IRT), established in 1986, describes its mission as supporting independent theater artists and building community through facilities, programs, and education…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 05:08PMMonday, April 14, 2014
Denzel Washington returns to the New York stage for a revival of the 1959 drama A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, the cast also includes Sophie Okonedo (film: Hotel Rwanda), Anika …
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 10:43AMFriday, April 11, 2014
New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) is the fancy theater on the Fourth Arts Block (the patch of East Fourth Street between Bowery Street and Second Avenue, which includes La MaMa and the Kraine…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 02:57PMBertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill wrote the satirical The Threepenny Opera in 1928 as a socialist critique of corruption and capitalism. It’s set in a world filled with misery and destit…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 02:45PMThursday, April 10, 2014
After making its world premiere to positive reviews at the Yale Repertory Theater in 2012, Will Eno’s The Realistic Joneses, directed by Sam Gold, recently opened at New York City’s …
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 12:53PMIf you failed to follow our advice back in November and have not purchased tickets to A Raisin in the Sun, you are out of luck. Tickets to this production starring Denzel Washington are i…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 11:09AMWednesday, April 9, 2014
In January we started the Maxamoo New York City Theater Podcast, a weekly discussion with super smart theater people about the shows we are seeing and what we’re looking forward to see…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 09:29AMTuesday, April 8, 2014
Potion: A Play in Three Cocktails is an amalgam of immersive theater, site-specific performance, multimedia presentation, and spoken word opera performed at People Lounge, a bar on the Lower…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 03:32PMThe Brothers Booth is the second immersive theatrical adventure mounted in the Speakeasy Dollhouse series by Cynthia von Buhler. The first in the series, The Bloody Beginning, continues most…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 12:19PMFriday, April 4, 2014
John Van Druten wrote London Wall in 1931. At the time, it had a successful run on London’s West End but never made it to the U.S. Now, thanks to the Mint Theater Company, a company de…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 03:07PMWednesday, April 2, 2014
After a popular run at this year’s FRIGID New York Festival, STEVE: A Docu-Musical returns for a single performance at Joe’s Pub on April 19, 2014. STEVE: A Docu-Musical is a solo show p…
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