Wednesday, April 19, 2017
Significant Other might have been the most refreshing show of the Broadway season, if the season was 1989. If it had opened one year after Wendy Wasserstein’s The Heidi Chronicles, to …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:08PMThe second annual Tilt Kids Festival came to a close on Easter Sunday with a performance of Cuisine & Confessions, an energetic spectacle by Montreal-based collective The 7 Fingers (best…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:20PMTuesday, April 18, 2017
It’s not déjà vu. After a hit run in London, Groundhog Day, based on the 1993 film of the same name, has made its way to Broadway. Its treatment of the source material is duly def…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:22PMLarry Kirwan’s play Rebel in the Soul tells the story of Dr. Noël Browne, a young doctor elected to the Irish Parliament in 1948. Born into poverty, Browne had a rough childhood: his …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:13PMHarold Pinter’s 1978 play Betrayal, currently playing at Hoboken’s Mile Square Theatre, was inspired by his seven-year affair with the English journalist and “thinking man’s crumpet�…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:53PMMonday, April 17, 2017
In our modern society, what does marriage add to a relationship? Nothing, argues the titular character of Primary Stages’ new play Daniel’s Husband, that can’t be got by filling out th…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:54PMIt’s not déjà vu. After a hit run in London, Groundhog Day, based on the 1993 film of the same name, has made its way to Broadway. Its treatment of the source material is duly deferentia…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:00PMIf you go to see the world premiere of Richard Maxwell’s Samara by Soho Rep. (in the Mezzanine Theatre at the A.R.T./New York Theatres), you may do a double take when the usher hands…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:09PMThursday, April 13, 2017
The Transport Group’s artistic director Jack Cummings III is revitalizing William Inge classics Picnic and Come Back, Little Sheba by having them performed in rep with an ensemble featurin…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:14PMBased on William Thackeray’s novel of the same name, Kate Hamill’s new play Vanity Fair explores the challenges of moving up in the world. Becky Sharp struggles to do so from a disadvan…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:25AMBased on William Thackeray’s novel of the same name, Kate Hamill’s new play Vanity Fair explores the challenges of moving up in the world. Becky Sharp struggles to do so from a disadvant…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:21AMTuesday, April 11, 2017
The Downtown Urban Arts Festival brings six weeks of multi-disciplinary cultural offerings to lower Manhattan, including theater, film, music and poetry. We caught up with two theater artis…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:18AMMonday, April 10, 2017
Meeting the in-laws tends to come with a fair amount of friction, and that’s never more true when religious and political opinions don’t align. That’s the focus of Zayd Dohrn’…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:32PMI recently had the pleasure of chatting with Sébastien Soldevila, Co-Founder and Artistic Co-Director of the exciting Montreal-based circus Les 7 Doigts de la Main (The 7 Fingers of the Han…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:43PMOnomatopoeia Theatre Company’s Of Mice and Men is a great production whether you know Steinbeck’s work by heart or are learning about it for the very first time. It is true to th…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:02PMIn Fragmented Frida, actress/writer Andrea Dantas takes on one of the most iconic artists of the twentieth century to tell a story about how someone who was dealt all the wrong cards, manage…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:00AMSunday, April 9, 2017
The key to unlocking Zayd Dohrn’s The Profane lies in the seemingly innocuous double casting of Francis Benhamou, the vibrant actor who plays Aisa and Dania, the former is the eldest daugh…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:00PMThursday, April 6, 2017
The threats plaguing the working class in 2017 are, unfortunately, as American as apple pie. For a nation founded on policies of liberty and justice, greed and exploitation run so rampant th…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:19PMOn his website, pastiche playwright Charles Mee says describes his characters as “people through whom the culture speaks, often without the speakers knowing it.” The New Stage Theatre Co…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:04PMFour sets of people live out their lives in the same country house but in different time periods. Talking Band’s The Room Sings, written and directed by Paul Zimet with music composed by E…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:54AMTheater Reconstruction Ensemble’s (TRE) meta-theatrical play How to Hamlet, or Hamleting Hamlet is a mind trip to the inner workings of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Four actors are unexpectedly…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:21AMEntering the space at HERE where Sara Farrington and Reid Farrington are putting the finishing touches on their CasablancaBox feels a little bit like going back in time. There are people dre…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:05AMWednesday, April 5, 2017
The dining scene of New York’s Theater District is quickly becoming one of the best of the city, and few people know it better than the actors who call the neighborhood their second home. …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:01AMTuesday, April 4, 2017
More than ten years since our favorite modern age demigod won us over, Percy Jackson is back in a deliciously dorky new musical. Playing at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, The Lighting Thief: Th…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:00PMEvery time Henri speaks in The View Upstairs, the world stops to listen. Not only because she is the woman running the bar where the show takes place, but also because she is played by the i…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:54PMMonday, 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 Glas…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:39PMSweeney Todd, arguably one of the most loved shows in the musical theater canon, has returned to New York this season in a completely revamped, immersive production, helmed by UK based Tooti…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:22PMThursday, March 30, 2017
There’s no question immigration is a hot-button issue in America today. With protesters crowding the streets of America as our President sends out executive orders left and right, it’s…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:22PMWednesday, March 29, 2017
Scott and Ralph live together but might as well be continents apart. Even when they’re sitting next to each other, they are glued to their devices: Scott to his phone on which he types fur…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:00PMTuesday, March 28, 2017
The second edition of Project Broadway takes place from March 27 to April 2 at Symphony Space. This year the theme is the art of collaboration and will include performances by the likes of A…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:39PMMonday, March 27, 2017
BroadwayHD founders Stewart F. Lane and Bonnie Comley on why they chose to stream Richard Nelson’s iconic The Gabriels trilogy. What made you want to stream The Gabriels trilogy? Bonni…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:37PM