618 stories from The New York Theatre Experience
The Brick's Comic Book Theater Festival continues with a program of two short and sweet theater pieces Savior and Captain Moonbeam and Lynchpin plus an animated short "The Confetti Myth." Al…
In a 2009 study done by TDF on the state of the new American play, New Georges ranked among the top ten theatres nationwide named by playwrights as a leading producer of their plays. The Ger…
It's not Ibsen or Chekhov but if you're looking for light entertainment where you're encouraged to hit the cash bar and return with your drinks to your seats, as the folks seated next to me …
Spaceship Alexandria, an original feature presented in The Brick's Comic Book Theater Festival, is a library spaceship rock show set at the edge of the universe. The Comic Book Festival is a…
In an unnamed office, on a rainy morning, a man arrives for work, only to find that his computer won't turn on. After calling technical support, he starts rifling through his files and a cop…
Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark contains about 15 unforgettable, spectacular, thrilling minutes of stunning theatricality the likes of which you have almost certainly never experienced before. …
Our Greatest Year is a sweet, wistful, and poetic new play by Robert Attenweiler, making its debut in the somewhat unlikely surroundings of the Brick's Comic Book Theater Festival. I say som…
In 2008, Michael Weller introduced us to Adam and Jan, a fairly well-to-do New York couple whose already fragile marriage disintegrated even further when it was discovered that he was having…
Watching Aviary, Brendan Regimbal and Samara Naeymi's creation at the Incubator Arts Project, is an incredibly and surprisingly sensual experience. As you enter the theater, the air is perfu…
Robert Lyons is best known as the artistic director of the Ohio Theatre which had its home in Soho for many years. He is also a playwright and director. He has written and directed many pl…
Currently running as a part of the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, Loose Women of Low Character is a series of vignettes and monologues that explore women's relationships to each other…
I love the title of the play Our Lot, by Kristin Newbom and W. David Hancock in Clubbed Thumb's Summerworks series. According to the dictionary, a "lot" can mean the drawing of objects (like…
Savage Radio Plays is an ambitious show. It is a veritable fountain of creativity, inventiveness, and talent. The performance is indeed an impressive feat to watch with all the action coming…
There is no silver bullet, obviously; but there are proven techniques and strategies to help artists and producers bring their shows from a festival environment to the next level of producti…
I watched the Tony Awards last night on TV. And as I did, I found myself really bothered by something happening on the telecast. But first–I know you are all curious about how I did as…
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Memory, both sweet and painful, triggers engaging drama in each of the five plays of Ensemble Studio Theatre's 33rd Marathon of One-Act Plays (Series B). It is a thin thread weaving togethe…
Fish Eye, a new play by Lucas Kavner and directed by Colt Coeur artistic director Adrienne Campbell-Holt, explores the age-old intersection of young love and creative ambition. By opening th…
"He's Jewish, She's Black, He's 50, She's 20, It's 1953," reads the titillating tagline of this new play by Paul Manuel Kane. The program promises an "edgy comedy" about "people who never co…
Judy Gold looks at her life through the lens of the classic sitcoms of her youth.—Save $20
Talk about diverse programming: this collection of three original one-acts contains work so different from each other that it's hard to imagine who the target audience might be. The bill is …
Planet Connections Theatre Festivity tallies another wonderful work with the Movement Workshop Group's new dance theatre piece Wanderlust. This is the final in a series of four full-length w…
Jean Anouilh wrote Cecile, or the School for Fathers in 1954. The February Company's production at the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity is translated and directed by Victoria Crutchfield…
If Moises Kaufman's production proves anything, it's that "One Arm," which is one of Tennessee Williams's finest short stories, probably doesn't belong in any other medium. The ways that Wil…
