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Playwright Chuck Blasius talks about his new Off-Off-Broadway dramedy "I Could Say More," which is in the spirit of handcrafted ensemble plays of Lanford Wilson.
An update about the progress of the holiday-themed musical comedy "Naughty/Nice," by Kenneth Jones & Gerald Stockstill, recently seen at Caroline's on Broadway and now being optioned by The …
The year 2013 ended on a positive note for the new musical Naughty/Nice, the holiday-set four-actor show that I co-wrote with composer Gerald Stockstill. A producer is picking it up, and we …
Tony Award-winning puppet designers Adrian Kohler and Basil Jones and puppeteer Jessica Krueger talk about the magic of "War Horse" on the occasion of the Detroit stop of the North American …
Folk singer-songwriter Laurelyn Dossett talks about her collaboration on a new Appalachian-set musical, "Snow Queen," inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen story, now getting its world pre…
In How I Learned What I Learned, Ruben Santiago-Hudson conjures August Wilson’s past — Late in his life, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson added a grace note to the…
Director Gordon Greenberg, co-conceiver Abigail Pogrebin and producer Daryl Roth talk about crafting their new musical "Stars of David," a revue about Jewish personalities processing their r…
As one of two national tours of "Elf" visits Detroit, songwriters Chad Beguelin and Matthew Sklar reflect on getting into the head of the title character.
At a recent matinee of the new musical Stars of David: Story to Song, now playing a limited engagement through Dec. 15 at Off-Broadway's DR2, actor Aaron Serotsky spoke the Hebrew words "l'd…
A look at how director Rob Ruggiero approached Goodspeed Musicals' current revival of Frank Loesser's "The Most Happy Fella," including trimming songs, changing the time period and adding a …
An appreciation of lyricist Dorothy Fields, whose work is heard on Philip Chaffin's new PS Classics release, "Somethin' Real Special: The Songs of Dorothy Fields." Includes reprint of Maury …
Playwright Ken Ludwig reveals details about his sequel to "Lend Me a Tenor," and discusses his Sherlock Holmes-inspired titles and his new book about teaching Shakespeare to kids.
In showstopping performances, Dee Dee Bridgewater and Adriane Lenox evoke the legends of jazz and blues — Welcome to Building Character, TDF’s ongoing series on actors and how th…
Alabama Story, the new history-inspired six-actor play by Kenneth Jones, is one of three plays announced to be presented in Pioneer Theatre Company’s inaugural Play-by-Play new-play re…
The 25th-anniversary season of Jewish Ensemble Theatre in West Bloomfield, MI, in suburban Detroit, kicked off Sept. 25 with the first performance of Wendy Wasserstein’s rueful comedy …
The idea of the kitchen-sink drama " gritty, angry plays of social realism " gets a full remodeling job in suburban Detroit this month with “The Kitchen Plays,” a world-premiere …
The first great discovery of the 2013-14 Off-Broadway season, TACT/The Actors Company Theatre’s Natural Affection by William Inge, expertly directed by Jenn Thompson, is bait for…
Theatre students in Rochester, NY, are cutting their teeth on a world-premiere collection of short comic pieces " including eight songs " by two-time Tony Award winner Greg Kotis (Urinetown)…
A blog news item about the two world-premiere titles in InterAct Theatre Company's 2013-14 season in Philadelphia.
InterAct Theatre Company, the Philadelphia troupe that produces “new and contemporary plays that explore the social, political, and cultural issues of our time,” will stage two w…
Human Race Theatre Company, the Ohio resident Equity company that gave my musical Voice of the City a workshop production, has two new musicals planned for its summer 2013 Musical Theatre…
David Caudle’s new play Damsel, a psychological drama about a husband and wife " and the husband’s interest in a needy co-worker " will be presented 7 PM June 26-27 in the New TA…
Playwright Kelli Kerslake Colaco’s new play, You Are My Sunshine, the multi-decade character study of a man of mythic American proportions whose passions and demons lead to tragedy, wi…
The July/August 2013 issue of American Theatre magazine, just out this week, has a great piece about Alabama Shakespeare Festival‘s 2013 Southern Writers’ Project Festival of New…
In a recent rainy-day exploration of the Barnes & Noble in Union Square, I came across “The Complete Lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein II” (Knopf, 2008) on the bargain shelf, for $…
