88 stories by "Maya Asheri"
If you failed to follow our advice back in November and have not purchased tickets to A Raisin in the Sun, you are out of luck. Tickets to this production starring Denzel Washington…
In January we started the Maxamoo New York City Theater Podcast, a weekly discussion with super smart theater people about the shows we are seeing and what we’re looking forward to see…
Potion: A Play in Three Cocktails is an amalgam of immersive theater, site-specific performance, multimedia presentation, and spoken word opera performed at People Lounge, a bar on the Lower…
The Brothers Booth is the second immersive theatrical adventure mounted in the Speakeasy Dollhouse series by Cynthia von Buhler. The first in the series, The Bloody Beginning, continues most…
John Van Druten wrote London Wall in 1931. At the time, it had a successful run on London’s West End but never made it to the U.S. Now, thanks to the Mint Theater Company, a company de…
After a popular run at this year's FRIGID New York Festival, STEVE: A Docu-Musical returns for a single performance at Joe's Pub on April 19, 2014. STEVE: A Docu-Musical is a solo show perfo…
Maxamoo's Hot List, a preview of what we’re looking forward to seeing beyond Broadway in New York City theater this April. Brits Off-Broadway is an annual festival of British the…
Hellman v. McCarthy is a world premiere play at Abingdon Theatre Company by Brian Richard Mori. It is based on real events. In 1980, literary critic Mary McCarthy appeared on The Dick Cav…
 If you know the movies you like, but can’t find your way in the vast world of New York theater, may we suggest: If you like the imaginative and surreal world of Lewis Carroll's …
Fly by Night is a new musical written by Kim Rosenstock, Will Connolly, and Michael Mitnick. It begins performances at Playwrights Horizons in May. It premiered at TheatreWorks in Palo Al…
Signature Theatre announced eight new productions for its 2014-2015 season, including two plays by A.R. Gurney and two plays by Naomi Wallace, as well as plays by Charles Mee, Sam Shepard, A…
Many time award-winning playwright Samuel D. Hunter (The Whale, A Bright New Boise) reunites with his frequent collaborator Davis McCallum (The Whale, A Bright New Boise) on The …
Acclaimed Lebanese artists Rabih Mroué and Lina Saneh created 33 RPM and a Few Seconds as an experimental theatrical piece about the moments immediately following death. It comes to New …
The Civilians (Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Show), one of our favorite New York City-based theater companies, will present The Great Immensity, a New York premiere at The Public Theater in Apr…
59E59 Theaters announced a new series of five plays to be present at Theater A, the largest venue at the theater complex. The series is thusly titled the 5A Season. As part of the new sea…
Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (whose play Appropriate, which we loved, just got extended at Signature Theater) has another play opening in New York City this Fall. An Octoroon i…
The politics of America’s past are litigated in two separate and very different plays running in New York City right now. Branden Jenkins-Jacobs' Appropriate at the Signature …
Concrete Temple Theater presents the world premiere of Alone in Triptych, a dark drama composed of three intertwining monologues with the shared themes of abuse, isolation, and violence. …
Labyrinth Theater Company is hosting a new festival of staged readings of Pulitzer Prize winning plays, Pulitzer Fest 2014. Academy Award winning actress Ellen Burstyn and Obie Award winning…
Clubbed Thumb, a theater group dedicated to “funny, strange, and provocative new plays by living American writers,” announced the lineup for the 19th season of Summerworks —…
Bum Phillips All American Opera is a new contemporary opera about Bum Phillips, the legendary football coach of the Houston Oilers in the 1970s. Luke Leonard of the Monk Parrots theate…
Get beyond Broadway this weekend with these three recommendations. Move over Avenue Q, there's a new puppet star in town and his name is Tyrone.In the hilarious Hand to God by Ro…
This week the Public Theater announced PUBLIC STUDIO, a new program dedicated to staging plays by emerging writers. This Spring the program will stage two new plays, in repertory, for ten…
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 1…
Classic Stage Company (CSC) is a theater company located in the East Village in New York City dedicated to re-imagining classic plays for modern audiences. It recently announced its 2014-201…
