24 stories by "Jack Moore"
The Few is a quiet three-character play by Samuel D. Hunter (The Whale, A Bright New Boise) making its East Coast premier at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. The story of a newspap…
Woody Allen’s 1994 comedy about hapless artists and menacing mobsters coming together to put on a show has been adapted into a splashy Broadway musical. With direction and peppy cho…
The Flea is normally aptly named, a home for small theatrical gestures and chamber plays. But this Spring, The Flea gives us The Mysteries, a colossal six-hour marathon of 50 short plays, wr…
For the world premiere of his new play, Your Mother’s Copy of the Kama Sutra, Kirk Lynn, an artistic director with Austin-based Rude Mechs, returns to New York for a third time t…
Sutton Foster returns to Midtown in Violet, a musical by Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley. The story of a disfigured young woman who boards a bus from North Carolina to Oklahoma seeking the …
Act One is a stage adaptation of the memoir, Act One, by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Moss Hart (known for writing You Can’t Take It With You and The Man Who Came to D…
Following a world premiere at the Humana Festival of New American Plays in Louisville last spring, and successful runs at both the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago and the Woolly Mammoth T…
Rocky the Musical is the hotly anticipated musical adaptation of Sylvester Stallone’s classic 1976 film of the same name. The story of a third-rate South Philly boxer who gets a onc…
The Open House, a new play by Will Eno at Signature Theatre, is a droll take-down of the classic Family Drama in American theater. Acerbic, depressing dramas about families who destroy each …
With The Happiest Song Plays Last, Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes completes her critically acclaimed trilogy of plays, which began with Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue and the Pulitzer Prize-win…
Art and life intertwine in Stage Kiss, a play by Sarah Ruhl having its New York premiere this February at Playwrights Horizons. In the play, two actors with a personal history are chos…
Ode to Joy is a new play by Craig Lucas (best known for Prelude to a Kiss and the book (i.e. the spoken parts in the musical) of The Light in the Piazza). It centers on the story of…
Sotto Voce, written and directed by Pulitzer Prize-winner Nilo Cruz (Anna in the Tropics), is a small sonata of a play about loneliness, loss, and the transformative power of love. In the pl…
Kung Fu, the new play at Signature Theater by Tony-winner David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly, Chinglish) is the story of legendary martial artist and actor Bruce Lee. From his childhood in H…
The Bridges of Madison County is a new musical based on the well-known novel by Robert James Waller (it was also adapted into a 1995 movie starring Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood). Musical …
A cast of fifteen performs a seemingly endless string of short vignettes in Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information. It’s an evening of playlets that circles the idea of …
The Correspondent, a new play by Ken Urban at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, opens with Philip Graves (Thomas Jay Ryan) mourning the death of his wife of 25 years. He drinks heavily as he …
Philadelphia’s Pig Iron Theatre Company returns to New York with a loud, raucous, exuberantly fun production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. The oft-revived story of love, mis…
Chiara Atik’s Women imagines the characters of the literary classic “Little Women” through the contemporary lens of the hit HBO series “Girls.” It turns o…
Live from Gramercy Park is a new musical performance series at the historic Player’s Club (founded in 1888 by legendary actor Edwin Booth and Mark Twain, among others). The series feat…
A wild man lies still on the stage of the Claire Tow Theater at Lincoln Center. Behind him, the set is littered with enough tacky gilded knick knacks to make Liberace wince and there’s…
In Jessica Dickey’s Row After Row, three Civil War re-enactors, two men and a woman, meet in a Gettysburg bar after a long day re-staging the town’s famous battle. Cal (PJ Sosko)…
After a New York season filled with plays in repertory, The Acting Company (in association with the Guthrie in Minneapolis) presents a popular two-play combo at the Pearl – Shakespeare…
Roundabout Theatre Company makes an daring choice in reviving Machinal, a seldom-produced 1928 masterpiece by Sophie Treadwell. This dark, haunting drama follows a young woman’s …
