Wednesday, 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…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 02:21PMTuesday, April 1, 2014
Maxamoo’s Hot List, a preview of what we’re looking forward to seeing beyond Broadway in New York City theater this April. Brits Off-Broadway is an annual festival of British theat…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 01:38PMSunday, March 30, 2014
Hellman v. McCarthy is a world premiere play at Abingdon Theatre Company by Brian Richard Mori. It is based on real events. In 1980, literary critic Mary McCarthy appeared on The Dick Cavet…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 10:35PMSaturday, March 29, 2014
If you know the movies you like, but can’t find your way in the vast world of New York theater, may we suggest: If you like the imaginative and surreal world of Lewis Carroll’s Al…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 01:31PMThursday, March 27, 2014
Fly by Night is a new musical written by Kim Rosenstock, Will Connolly, and Michael Mitnick. It begins performances at Playwrights Horizons in May. It premiered at TheatreWorks in Palo Alto…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 04:56PMSignature Theatre announced eight new productions for its 2014-2015 season, including two plays by A.R. Gurney and two plays by Naomi Wallace, as well as plays by Charles Mee, Sam Shepard, A…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 04:38PMWednesday, March 26, 2014
Many time award-winning playwright Samuel D. Hunter (The Whale, A Bright New Boise) reunites with his frequent collaborator Davis McCallum (The Whale, A Bright New Boise) on The Few this…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 04:46PMAcclaimed Lebanese artists Rabih Mroué and Lina Saneh created 33 RPM and a Few Seconds as an experimental theatrical piece about the moments immediately following death. It comes to New Yo…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 03:19PMTuesday, March 25, 2014
The Civilians (Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Show), one of our favorite New York City-based theater companies, will present The Great Immensity, a New York premiere at The Public Theater in Apr…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 02:05PM59E59 Theaters announced a new series of five plays to be present at Theater A, the largest venue at the theater complex. The series is thusly titled the 5A Season. As part of the new seaso…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 01:53PMSunday, March 23, 2014
Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (whose play Appropriate, which we loved, just got extended at Signature Theater) has another play opening in New York City this Fall. An Octoroon is a wo…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 12:51PMFriday, March 21, 2014
The politics of America’s past are litigated in two separate and very different plays running in New York City right now. Branden Jenkins-Jacobs’ Appropriate at the Signature Thea…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 10:52AMConcrete Temple Theater presents the world premiere of Alone in Triptych, a dark drama composed of three intertwining monologues with the shared themes of abuse, isolation, and violence. …
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 12:57AMThursday, March 20, 2014
Labyrinth Theater Company is hosting a new festival of staged readings of Pulitzer Prize winning plays, Pulitzer Fest 2014. Academy Award winning actress Ellen Burstyn and Obie Award winning…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 05:46PMTuesday, March 18, 2014
Clubbed Thumb, a theater group dedicated to “funny, strange, and provocative new plays by living American writers,” announced the lineup for the 19th season of Summerworks —…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 12:50PMSunday, March 16, 2014
Bum Phillips All American Opera is a new contemporary opera about Bum Phillips, the legendary football coach of the Houston Oilers in the 1970s. Luke Leonard of the Monk Parrots theater co…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 10:03AMFriday, March 14, 2014
Get beyond Broadway this weekend with these three recommendations. Move over Avenue Q, there’s a new puppet star in town and his name is Tyrone.In the hilarious Hand to God by Robert A…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 10:15AMThursday, March 13, 2014
This week the Public Theater announced PUBLIC STUDIO, a new program dedicated to staging plays by emerging writers. This Spring the program will stage two new plays, in repertory, for ten d…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 06:44PMThe 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 1…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 02:35PMTuesday, March 11, 2014
Classic Stage Company (CSC) is a theater company located in the East Village in New York City dedicated to re-imagining classic plays for modern audiences. It recently announced its 2014-201…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 07:14PMWe are very excited for Your Mother’s Copy of the Kama Sutra, a new play written by Kirk Lynn of the Austin, Texas-based Rude Mechanicals (Stop Hitting Yourself) and directed by Anne …
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 06:04PMAfter a successful run at the Ensemble Studio Theater in 2011, Hand to God, a comedy by Robert Askins is back. MCC Theater gathered many from the original team to produce a new production o…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 02:45PMMonday, March 10, 2014
New York City Center announced the line-up for the second year of Encores! Off-Center – a series of staged concerts dedicated to landmark Off-Broadway musicals. The Artistic Directo…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 07:17PMThree people find themselves together in a locked room in hell. All three — total strangers — know that they’re dead and they know what they did to deserve this punishment,…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 06:46AMFriday, March 7, 2014
Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill wrote The Threepenny Opera in 1928 as a socialist critique of corruption and capitalism. More than 80 years later, it is as relevant as ever. The Atlantic Thea…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 02:47PMLooking for romance?Stage Kiss by Sarah Ruhl at Playwrights Horizons is a backstage/onstage romantic melodrama with lots of humor and a surprisingly saccharine ending, featuring Dominic Fum…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 11:59AMBryan Cranston (Walter White from TV’s Breaking Bad) takes on the difficult task of portraying president Lyndon B. Johnson and speaking in a heavy Texan accent for 3 hours in his Broa…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 11:46AMThursday, March 6, 2014
A world premiere from the Monk Parrots theater company, Bum Phillips All-American Opera is a contemporary opera based on the life of legendary football coach Bum Phillips. The Monk Parrots&#…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 05:43PMChiara Atik’s Women returns for several performances at The PIT following a record-breaking run as part of The Flea Theater’s @serials series, and a successful run at The Krain…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 05:33PMSunday, March 2, 2014
Speakeasy Dollhouse is a series of immersive jazz and burlesque theatrical events developed by Cynthia von Buhler. Dressing up isn’t required but it is encouraged. The first producti…
SOURCE: Maxamoo at 12:12PMFriday, February 28, 2014
A few years ago, Colin Summers opened a business – send him an original poem and he will produce it into a song. The business was not going very well, until Colin received an email fro…
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