331 stories from Pataphysical Science
Thank you, Daniel Radcliffe. If it weren't for you, The Cripple of Inishmaan probably wouldn't be on Broadway right now. Martin McDonagh's plays have been produced on Broadway before without…
Should I start with the good news or the bad news? The good news is that if you like big Susan Stroman dance numbers, Bullets Over Broadway has plenty of them. The other good news is that th…
Any evening with talented Broadway stars performing Rodgers & Hammerstein is going to be a good one. Especially when those stars are Jonathan Groff (Frozen), Mandy Gonzalez (In The …
Do you want to see Kerry Butler in a new off-Broadway play? I'm giving away a pair of tickets to Under My Skin at the Little Shubert Theatre. It's about an eligible bachelor and a singl…
In 2004, Stephanie D'Abruzzo was nominated for a Tony for Avenue Q. Now she's starring in the unimaginative Greed: A Musical for Our Times at New World Stages.Photo credit: Carol Rosegg…
Tonight, How I Met Your Mother ends after nine seasons. A sitcom's ending hasn't been this significant to me since Friends, so I wanted to take a moment to reflect on what this show has mean…
If you think Shakespeare is hard to understand, it could be because you haven't seen a Theatre For A New Audience production. The company's simple new production of King Lear, directed by Ar…
First thing's first: Allison Scagliotti, best known as Mindy, Josh's girlfriend from Drake & Josh, is co-starring in Jasper in Deadland. I say this because I had no idea before the show …
Theater fans often look down on jukebox musicals, but as grateful as I am for musicals that are ambitious and original, I also don't care what the source material is if the show is entertain…
If I had to pick one production that I'm most looking forward to this spring, it would be The Cripple of Inishmaan. I love Martin McDonagh, this play (I saw it at the Atlantic Theatre Compan…
During a recent Shabbat dinner conversation with my friend Emily (@Stagemaven on Twitter), the topic of the best bar mitzvah episodes of television shows came up. She mentioned that someone …
Craig Lucas's new play Ode to Joy should maybe come with a warning for those, like me, who are easily nauseated. If the sight of blood, vomit, or people fainting makes you queasy, you s…
Time for another contest! I'm giving away a pair of tickets to Defying Gravity: The Music of Stephen Schwartz and Eric Whitacre at Avery Fisher Hall on Sunday, March 30, at 2 p.m. Accom…
Ken Urban's new play, The Correspondent, now open at Rattlestick, is one of those plays that you'll probably feel the need to talk about after, trying to unravel what you saw. You will also …
Happy Presidents' Day! What better way to celebrate than with a ticket contest. I'm giving away a pair of tickets to Bikeman at BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center. Tom Flynn, a producer for…
I've done ticket contests in the past, but for the first time, I'm giving away a pair of tickets to a Broadway invited dress rehearsal. It's your chance to go to an industry event and see Th…
Dancing in light suits may be gimmicky, but it's a really cool-looking gimmick, now on display in iLuminate at New World Stages.Photo credit: Carol RoseggThe show, seen previously …
Before Loot, I had never seen a play by Joe Orton, so I am grateful to Red Bull Theater for making the introduction. Orton, considered heir to Oscar Wilde, was arrested and imprisoned for st…
I've been a fan of Transport Group since I saw the company's site-specific revival of The Boys in the Band. Now the company is producing the first New York revival of Almost, Maine, about lo…
I sometimes feel bad that you have to live in or near New York to enter my contests, but now I have an opportunity for those of you who live far away. (Those who live close can enter as well…
This winter has been pretty brutal, so why not cheer yourself up with a musical comedy? I'm giving away a pair of tickets to see Joe Kinosian and Kellen Blair's Murder for Two at N…
When my friend and I took our seats at Lyrics & Lyricists, a series at 92Y celebrating the American Songbook, the women next to us remarked that we were probably the youngest people ther…
My friend Sarah Taylor Ellis and her songwriting partner Lane Williamson are going to have a concert of their music at 54 Below next Thursday night. If you want to see them before they're fa…
Halley Feiffer is a talented actress and her play How To Make Friends and Then Kill Them, now playing at Rattlestick, proves that she is one to watch as a playwright as well.Photo credit: Ha…
One of the biggest off-Broadway success stories right now is Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812. David Malloy's immersive musical based on War and Peace started out a…
