22 stories by "Trevor Boffone"
Does Stephen Sondheim make you want to throw ass? Does the score of Sunday in the Park with George make you want to hit the dance floor? Do Annaleigh Ashford's vocals make you want to serve …
Every day is a cunty day for Bekah Walsh. The Baltimore-based theatre nerd turned prolific #TheatreTok content creator has been hitting the campaign trail hard since August 2023. But, for Wa…
By Trevor Boffone. When utilized fully, social media can function as a critical extension of work being done onstage.
How do you market theatre on social media? What strategies can a social media manager use to promote plays and musicals? How does TikTok's trending culture influence the type of content that…
In 2019, I sat in the balcony of the Helen Hayes Theatre. My social media circles had been abuzz over the show I was about to see: What the Constitution Means to Me by Heidi Schreck. There w…
Productions of Broadway musicals have body issues. Full stop. From casting norms for Broadway choruses to the use of fat suits in Hairspray and Jennifer Holliday's well-documented struggles …
By Trevor Boffone. Trevor Boffone reviews Tus TÃas' The Invocation of Selena, a sketch comedy and cabaret-style show that begins by summoning Latine icon Selena and ends by eulogizing her.
Before there was After Midnight, before there was Smokey Joe's Cafe, and before there was Black and Blue, there was Ain't Misbehavin', the 1978 musical revue featuring the Fats Waller songbo…
By Trevor Boffone. Trevor Boffone reflects on the 2022 Latinx Theatre Commons Comedy Carnaval that convened at Su Teatro in Denver, Colorado, which was comprised of productions, readings, pan
In 2014, the Latino Theater Company (LTC) re-ignited the Latinx theatre festival tradition, a legacy that has been a mainstay of Chicanx and Latinx theatre-making in the United States for ov…
The Boy Friend. Oliver!. Cats. Blood Brothers. The Phantom of the Opera. Les Miserables. Billy Elliot. Matilda. If British musical theatre conjures images of whiteness, this is not by chance…
I have to confess something. I haven't really missed theatre since the Covid-19 pandemic forced theatres to go dark in March 2020. The last time I saw professional theatre was a whirlwind we…
In the chaotically queer third act of Fake Friends' 2020 production of Circle Jerk, the performance's trio"played by Michael Breslin, Patrick Foley, and Cat Rodriguez"erupt into a frenetic m…
"Waking up in the morning, thinking about so many things, I just wish things would get better / I'm trying to get rid of them, but nothing seems to stay the same / Woke up in the morning, do…
On March 26, 2021, ultra-famous TikTok star Addison Rae Easterling appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. During her visit, she performed popular TikTok dance trends during one …
When Rebecca Greene Udden graduated from Rice University, she decided to make Houston her permanent home and sow the seeds for a woman-centered theatre movement in Texas' largest city. In 19…
In October 2017, a group of Latinx playwrights came together in New York City to share space, build community, and grow together as theatre artists. What started out as an informal meeting a…
Strange Bird Immersive premieres its all-new immersive, virtual theatrical experience "The Strange Secret of Mr. Adrian Rook," playing through October 10, 2020 on Zoom.
The full version of …
When Benito Vasquez, Marissa Castillo, and Jorge Diaz founded TEATRX in 2018, they never could have imagined what fate had in store for the Latinx theatre company two years later. The trio l…
Welcome to the Age of the Latina Nerd! Anywhere you look"on stage, on screen, on the written page, in the Senate (hello, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez!)"Latina nerds are taking up space and offer…
How often do audiences in a given city get the chance to see a full body of work by a single living playwright in the span of just one month? When this does happen, how often is the playwrig…
By Trevor Boffone. Trevor Boffone examines Isaac Gómez's new play La Ruta, which focuses on the feminicides in Mexico, and talks about the growing canon of Latinx theatre that dramatizes …
