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A scene from Alabama Story, Kenneth Jones‘ fact-inspired play set in “the Deep South of the imagination,” is included in the annual collection “2015 The Best Men̵…
Quick Silver Theater Company, devoted to artists of diverse heritage, will stage "Proof" in a co-pro with Classics in Color: A Theatre Company. An interview with QSTC's co-founder Tyrone Hen…
Proof, David Auburn‘s Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a college-age math whiz who may have inherited the mental illness of her mathematician father, gets a fresh production featuring…
"Love On Ice," a musical tale about love preserved by "cryonics," gets Manhattan readings Aug. 24 and 31. The creators share their process.
Love On Ice, a new musical comedy about May-December lovers who consider preserving their relationship for eternity with the help of cryogenic suspension, will be introduced to Manhattan aud…
A look at the collaboration between director Sean Daniels and singer-songwriter Benjamin Scheuer, whose one-man musical "The Lion" is now on a tour of resident theatres.
I spoke with director Sean Daniels and singer-songwriter Benjamin Scheuer about the creation of the one-man musical The Lion, an Off-Broadway favorite now making the rounds of American regio…
Everything you wanted to know about the summer's hot trapeze-swinging shark movie parody, now at Dixon Place. John Behlmann and Wes Grantom are interviewed.
Fight or Flight Theater Company, the group of New York City actors devoted to melding text with trapeze, is taking a swing this summer at a stage version of “Jaws” " yes, that &#…
Broadway actress and voice teacher Ann Arvia teams with director Linda Brovsky to run classes for musical theatre performers in New York. They explain their goals.
Broadway actress and voice teacher Ann Arvia and critically acclaimed director Linda Brovsky, longtime music-theatre colleagues respected for their work on a range of projects, are hanging o…
New theatre-pop songwriting team of Will Van Dyke & Jeff Talbott (2015 NAMT Festival of New Musicals) will release an album followed by a 54 Below concert. Billy Porter, Kate Baldwin, Jonath…
Broadway stars Kate Baldwin, Jonathan Groff and Billy Porter are among performers giving voice to the pop and theatre songs of the new songwriting team of Will Van Dyke and Jeff Talbott on a…
Actress and playwright Julia Gibson, of Playmakers Rep, will hear her new play "105 Bank Street, or The Joanna Play," in a Manhattan reading this week. Tisch School alumni populate the priva…
Julia Gibson, the playwright, actress and director who is also a company member of Playmakers Repertory Company in North Carolina, will hear an exploratory reading of her new tenement-set dr…
The titles and dramatists of the revamped Festival of New Works, running Aug. 7-8 at Ohio's Human Race Theatre Company, have been announced.
The Human Race Theatre Company in Dayton, Ohio, is combining its separate programs devoted the development of new plays and musicals into one annual Festival of New Works, bowing for the fir…
A Q&A with playwright Melissa Ross, whose "Of Good Stock" " a tale of three sisters " is now at Off-Broadway from Manhattan Theatre Club.
In Of Good Stock, the new play by Melissa Ross now at Manhattan Theatre Club‘s Off-Broadway home at New York City Center Stage I, the sisters Stockton " Jess, Amy and Celia " are reuni…
Writers and titles for the eight musicals in the National Alliance for Musical Theatre's Festival of New Musicals have been announced.
Fault Line Theatre's Off-Broadway world premiere of Michael Perlman's "At the Table" at HERE Arts Center conjures culturally eclectic conversation among a group of characters in their thirti…
An interview with Seattle playwright Vincent Delaney, whose new history-inspired play is getting a reading in Manhattan June 24-25.
Liz Thaler talks about working out the kinks of creating her new play "Happy," about a professional dominant who falls for a feminist gender studies professor, now at The Brick Theater in Br…
Playwright Joe Tracz talks about collaborating with composer Joe Iconis to bring the late Ned Vizzini's YA novel, "Be More Chill," to life as a musical.
Fresh from its Geva Theatre Center premiere, "The Road to Where," the folk-tinged musical memoir by actress-writer Cass Morgan, gets a "listen" in Manhattan prior to a run Weston Playhouse i…
