370 stories from Maxamoo
News of official openings, first performances, closings, and other news this week beyond Broadway in New York City theater.The post Week Beyond Broadway, March 10 – 16, 2014 appeared f…
Three people find themselves together in a locked room in hell. All three — total strangers — know that they’re dead and they know what they did to deserve this punishment,…
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Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill wrote The Threepenny Opera in 1928 as a socialist critique of corruption and capitalism. More than 80 years later, it is as relevant as ever. The Atlantic Th…
Looking for romance?Stage Kiss by Sarah Ruhl at Playwrights Horizons is a backstage/onstage romantic melodrama with lots of humor and a surprisingly saccharine ending, featuring Dominic F…
Bryan Cranston (Walter White from TV’s Breaking Bad) takes on the difficult task of portraying president Lyndon B. Johnson and speaking in a heavy Texan accent for 3 hours in his Br…
A world premiere from the Monk Parrots theater company, Bum Phillips All-American Opera is a contemporary opera based on the life of legendary football coach Bum Phillips. The Monk Parrots&#…
Chiara Atik’s Women returns for several performances at The PIT following a record-breaking run as part of The Flea Theater’s @serials series, and a successful run at The K…
We were so angry when we left this play. The frustrating characters and their poor decision-making drove us crazy. Now with a couple of days’ distance from the performance, we realize,…
Tarell Alvin McCraney takes on Shakespeare’s notoriously difficult Antony and Cleopatra with a contextual re-imagining. He transports the tragedy from the last days of the Rom…
Maxamoo’s Hot List, a preview of what’s hot beyond Broadway in New York City theater this March. Appropriate, an explosive play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is set to have itsÂ�…
Gideon Productions is performing a stage adaption of the graphic novel Kill Shakespeare by Anthony Del Col and Conor McCreery at HERE Arts Center through Wednesday, March 5th. This productio…
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…
We’re expecting a marvelous March at the theater. Lindsay, Maxamoo’s founder, Jack, a writer at Maxamoo, and Nicole, from Mildly Bitter’s Musings discuss the shows theyR…
Playwrights Horizons announced the lineup for its 2014-15 season today and we are excited. For starters, playwright Melissa James Gibson (author of This, one of our all-time favorite product…
News of official openings, first performances, closings, and other news this week beyond Broadway in New York City theater.The post This Week Beyond Broadway – March 3-9 appeared first…
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…
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Speakeasy Dollhouse is a series of immersive jazz and burlesque theatrical events developed by Cynthia von Buhler. Dressing up isn’t required but it is encouraged. The first prod…
A few years ago, Colin Summers opened a business – send him an original poem and he will produce it into a song. The business was not going very well, until Colin received an email fro…
Óscar Tango Bravo is a series of absurdist comedy sketches with an overarching storyline about conspiracy theories. It is part of the 2014 FRIGID New York theater festival. We might be m…
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…
Epic love stories come in all shapes and sizes. Some, like the recently-opened The Bridges of Madison County, require millions of dollars to produce, complex sets, and a live orchestra…
