382 stories from Carey Purcell
Following the publication of the article “Being a Bridesmaid is Driving Me Into Bankruptcy,” I was invited to discuss the article on Good Morning America. Watch the video below. …
It’s not for a lack of trying. Bullets Over Broadway, the latest screen to stage musicalization to hit the Great White Way, certainly tries. It’s bright, sparkling and loud. The …
Originally published on Alternet.org View this story online My phone rings at 8 AM on a Saturday morning. I groggily look at the caller ID and see that it's one of my good friends from high …
Politics are most definitely personal in The City of Conversation, the new play by Anthony Giardina in performances at Lincoln Center. Directed by Doug Hughes and starring an elegant and imp…
As an avowed fan of “Downton Abbey,” I was very intrigued by the idea of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, a musical that had been described as “Downton Abbey” …
In Violet, a musical about changing how a person sees herself, Sutton Foster allows the audience a completely new way to see her. Foster, a two-time Tony Award winner for Thoroughly Modern M…
Willkommen back, Cabaret. We’re happy to see you, indeed. In a season awash with revivals, the return of Sam Mendes’ and Rob Marshall’s Tony Award-winning production to its…
I found myself pleasantly surprised by Beautiful – The Carole King Musical. Admittedly, not often a fan of jukebox musicals, which I have found to be formulaic and predictable, I was b…
"It's all the right things in all the wrong places," Gerrard Lobo said of the play Liliom, a tragic love story of a carousel barker and a small-town girl who are doomed to not reach a happy …
The dark, grim and gritty production of Machinal, Sophie Treadwell's 1928 play about the confines of society, is currently shining a much-needed light on our culture. Treadwell's work, inspi…
I've written about the TV show "Pretty Little Liars" before on this blog. Many of my friends have expressed surprise that I watch the ABC Family drama about teenage girls being harassed by a…
We've all read at least one of the Buzzfeed blog posts about how old we're getting – "30 Signs You're Almost 30," "Your Early Twenties vs. Your Late Twenties," or "A Twentysomething Pa…
The blessing and burden that is motherhood is on display at City Center, where Taking Care of Baby, the intriguingly uncomfortable play by Dennis Kelly, is making its American debut. Present…
I used to love watching the film Love Actually. I saw it for the first time in the winter of 2003 and watching the movie quickly became a ritual for me during the holiday season. An admitted…
It all sounds like something from a play. A nonprofit theatre is being harassed with a flood of online bullying, which they suspect might be coming from a colleague in the theatre industry. …
Theatregoers, consider yourself warned. Long after exiting the Booth Theatre, where the achingly beautiful revival of The Glass Menagerie is currently in performances, this play will stay wi…
An interview with Sara Montgomery, founding member of The New Ateh Theater Group, and Francesca Day and Marta Kuersten, co-founders of Cake Productions, whose theatre companies are teaming u…
When Lauren LoGuidice met Greta Garbo, it was a match made in Heaven. LoGuidice, an actor, writer and producer, had recently completed performing one solo show titled Queens Girl and wasn't …
Love is many things in this musical adaptation of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost – a gun, a game and most of all, a puzzlement. Written and directed by Alex Timbers and composed by…
I’m not a big fan of sitcoms – I don’t subscribe to cable or get any TV stations at my apartment – so I was a little disappointed in finding a combination of a sitcom…
When did being busy become such a bad thing? Ever since I got my driver’s license and could get around on my own, I have been busy. In high school, I was busy with school, an internshi…
“Together/Far Apart showcases 3 pairs of poets and their journey together as they navigate a myriad of relationships while negotiating art-making, time, family, space and dreams. Can t…
I’m just going to say it: I don’t care about the royal baby. I’m glad the baby and his mother are healthy in the context that I’m impersonally happy that any baby and…
I was so motivated after seeing The Future Has Spoken: A Celebration of Emerging Young Artists at Women Center Stage. Featuring the talents of Girl Be Heard, viBe Theater Experience and Urba…
Dominique Fishback performs Subverted, a one-woman show of spoken word, by the poet and first time playwright. Subverted portrays the destruction of Black identity through the eyes of Eden. …
