618 stories from The New York Theatre Experience
Logic vs. emotion has always ruled relationships and the battle of the sexes. Stereotypically, men are usually seen as logical and women seen as emotional. Even at the inception of a relatio…
You may have heard that the island of Crete has an older and more interesting history (and also musical tradition, culinary tradition, etc.) than the rest of Greece. The fascinating rhythms …
The play, written in 1983, takes place during the English Restoration, when Charles II returned from exile to overthrow Oliver Cromwell's Republic, which Cromwell founded through the de-crow…
Six Pakistani-American women come together to air their mental and emotional laundry in Dirty Paki Lingerie, Aizzah Fatima's one-woman show currently showing at the Abingdon Theatre Arts Com…
The Author's Note in the program for Joshua R. Pangborn's new play Don Gio, premiering at the Midtown International Theatre Festival, remarks that he's at a loss for words when asked to desc…
Bouncy, bubbly, and bright. Smart, sophisticated, and sweet. These words describe to a T the latest offering of the New Jersey Repertory Company, The Judy Holliday Story. Not coincidentally,…
I first met Sara after one of the Plays and Playwrights book launch parties when a group of folks migrated to Cafe Un Deux Trois from the Drama Bookshop. We met each other that night and bec…
Some great playwrights"Arthur Miller is one who comes to mind"spend their careers battling a set of very specific demons, building a body of work that mostly explores the same set of issues,…
My first time working with Nicole A. Watson was to jump-start my play Eli and Cheryl Jump, a long one-act which was to have its premiere at a short play festival in a basement theatre. The p…
How are directors made? In Jessica Brater's case, it happened quite by accident. As a high school student in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Jessica auditioned for the coveted role of Hermia in A Midsu…
If limited to two words to describe Coonrod's work, I would choose "space" and "time""specifically people's relationship to it, and themselves within it.
Mallory Catlett is a New York-based director and dramaturg who works with some of the most respected performance ensembles, writers, artists, and designers in collaborative development situa…
I had gone to the Ontological-Hysteric Theater to see Universal Robots (2007), inspired by Karel Capek's 1920 play, R.U.R. It was the first play I ever read as a young and impressionable sci…
In April 2011, director Tamilla Woodard sat on a Directors Panel for Working Theater and described herself as a director who is interested in "new new work." Throughout her career, she has c…
Imagine an indescribably long dinner table, and chairs"lots of chairs. The table, draped in vermillion fabric, has a space for anyone who chooses to attend, as long you don't expect to be pa…
Tracy Bersley is one of my favorite theatre directors. Whenever I see a production that she's worked on, I immediately recognize her signature"an expansiveness of vision, an acute attention …
I have known Meiyin Wang for about eight years as a director, collaborator, colleague, and friend. And besides making a mean pork dumpling, she is one of the best artists I know.
Lear deBessonet is a director I've admired for a number of years"not just for her stellar productions but also for her constant engagement with questions of audience and community with every…
Alice Reagan is a New York-based director who is best known for her movement-heavy ensemble work and aesthetic leanings toward the abstract and expressionistic. When you view an Alice Rea…
Ami Garmon is an American artist who lives and works in Berlin. She had trained as a dancer since childhood; in 1988 she left the U.S. for Paris, where she began a career that would consiste…
Julius By Design is a graceful and at times humorous examination of grief and forgiveness. Jo and Laurel are the parents of an African American teenager, Julius, who was killed by another te…
When Hair originally premiered off-Broadway in 1967 (before its eventual transfer to Broadway in 1968), it was not only an edgy and original rock musical, but it set a new course for the fut…
If you are going to see one show this summer at the Midtown International Theatre Festival, make the time to see Panicked Productions performance of Tom Stoppard's  Rosencrantz and Guilde…
Potomac Theatre Project has revived Neal Bell's cleverly written examination of death, love, and self forgiveness. The play is written in short clipped scenes, because life is like a movie. …
This is the story of Maria Callas, the legendary opera diva who fell from superstardom to become a part-time professor teaching the students at Julliard the essential points of opera and art…
