88 stories by "Maya Asheri"
The Pearl Theatre Company revives The Rivals, a 1775 comedy of manners by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, directed by The Pearl’s new artistic director Hal Brooks. Carol Schultz reprises th…
Flux Theatre presents the world premiere of August Schulenburg’s Jane the Plain, a supernatural comedy that utilizes familiar high school archetypes to tell an uplifting tale of …
The Drama League Awards are presented by The Drama League. The winners will be announced at a luncheon hosted by Jesse Tyler Ferguson on May 16. For background about the Drama League Awar…
The Drama Desk Awards are presented by the Drama Desk, an organization of critics, editors, reporters, and freelance writers. The winners will be announced on June 1 at a ceremony hosted …
CollaborationTown’s Family Play (1979 to Present)Â is the result of a two-year residency at IRT and the New Ohio Theater. Family Play is composed of micro-scenes, lasting between 30 …
It’s easy to get distracted by the plot summary of Your Mother’s Copy of the Kama Sutra and miss the brilliance of its commentary on relationships, questions that linger lo…
Three Day Hangover, a company that specializes in combining alcohol and Shakespeare, has a new boozy bard theatrical event in New York City this Spring. Drunk Shakespeare, half-immersive …
Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Appropriate) adapted The Octoroon, a 1859 Abolitionist melodrama by Irishman Dion Boucicault, into a provocative, controversial, and (almost) entirely n…
Winners and nominees of the 2014 Lucille Lortel Awards, presented by the Lucille Lortel Foundation and The Off-Broadway League. The ceremony took place at The NYU Skirball Center on May 4, 2…
It’s theater awards season! Here’s our guide to distinguishing the major* awards. *Are there other awards? Yes. Have a different opinion about which awards are the major theater …
A preview of what we're looking forward to beyond Broadway in New York City theater this month. Fly By Night is a romantic musical about a melancholy sandwich maker and two sisters during th…
Every summer The Public Theater produces Shakespeare in the Park at the outdoor Delacorte Theater in Central Park. It is one of New York City's greatest traditions and, remarkably, the…
The Irish Repertory Theatre mounts Gardner McKay’s award winning play Sea Marks as the last production of its 2013-2014 season. Ciarán O’Reilly directs this revival, which …
The 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 …
Called an ”action-opera” by New York Theatre Workshop, Red-Eye to Havre de Grace outlines the strange final days of Edgar Allan Poe, who inexplicably abandoned a lecture…
Two independent theater companies – Funny…Sheesh Productions and Ivy Theatre Company — are joining forces to present two productions, one by each, set to run in repertory a…
Roundabout Theater Company revives the Tony Award winning 1998 revival of the musical Cabaret. Sam Mendes and Rob Marshall return to the director’s and choreographer’s seats (res…
The Great Immensity, a new musical from The Civilians, tackles the hot topic of climate change. It is part of The Public Theater’s Public Lab, meaning it is a work-in-progress.Â…
This week The Public Theater announced its 2014-2015 season. We were thrilled to see many of our favorite active artists on the schedule, including Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori …
Inspired by John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera from 1728 (also the source material for Brecht and Weill’s 1928 The Threepenny Opera), Little Mac, Little Mac, You’re …
Interborough Repertory Theater (IRT), established in 1986, describes its mission as supporting independent theater artists and building community through facilities, programs, and educati…
Denzel Washington returns to the New York stage for a revival of the 1959 drama A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, the cast also includes Sophie Okonedo (film: Hotel Rwanda), Anik…
New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) is the fancy theater on the Fourth Arts Block (the patch of East Fourth Street between Bowery Street and Second Avenue, which includes La MaMa and the Kraine…
Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill wrote the satirical The Threepenny Opera in 1928 as a socialist critique of corruption and capitalism. It’s set in a world filled with misery and de…
After making its world premiere to positive reviews at the Yale Repertory Theater in 2012, Will Eno's The Realistic Joneses, directed by Sam Gold, recently opened at New York City’s Ly…
