370 stories from Maxamoo
All the theater festivals we know about that are happening in New York City in January 2016. American Dance Platform *American Realness Circus Now *COIL *The Exponential Festival Festival of…
Download file For the second half of our annual year-end extravaganza we take listener questions. We talk comfy seats, shows and one particularly theatrical meal that made us cry, and perfor…
Download file Our annual, year-end special with Maxamoo’s most frequent contributors. We discuss: Our favorite moments in theater, Our worst moments in theater, Our favorite non-tradit…
In the December preview episode, I highlighted Broken Bone Bathtub, a show performed in a private home in the bathroom in the bathtub. David and Shavanna, the co-hosts of the episode, had a …
Download file Previewing what’s to come, we’re joined by Lindsay, David, and our newest contributor Shavanna Calder, the founder and editor of Arts in Color, a website celebra…
Download file The work we saw this week delves into some serious issues and welcome stage representations.  Hir looks at a mother who after a lifetime of abuse chooses to live he…
Download file Isaac Butler is a friend and co-host on Maxamoo.  But in this episode he gets to share with us his project, Real Enemies, that is two years in the making.  Real Enemie…
Download file Robbie, Dave, and Nicole decided to celebrate Thanksgiving a little early this year.  We sit down to talk about all the things we are thankful for on Broadway.  We …
Download file Aurin, Jack, and Nicole discuss their picks for theater in November. Â We’ve got a bunch of shows for $25 and under. Â We’ve got new writers from the US and be…
With the New York Comedy Festival happening in November it seemed like a good time to make one of our semi-regular visits to the world of comedy and report on what we’ve seen and…
Download file This week we saw theater in a dance space, performance art in a comedy club, Hamlet in bed with his mother, and Macbeth in a shipping container.  A variety of artists and…
Download file Broadway kicks off the fall season with a wide array of musicals, plays, new work, and revivals.  Dave, Aileen, and Nicole make their picks for what they are most look…
Download file We were at maximum mispronunciation this week. Â Please remember our love of theater but forgive us our inability to say anyone’s name correctly. Â We may be stealing…
Download file Aurin, Liz, and Nicole wrestle with new plays and new trends in playwriting.  We discuss Lucas “Timberlocks” Hnath’s new play The Christians and i…
Download file David, Liz, and Jack finish out the month of August with a fringe binge at FringeNYC.  From the charming to the meditative and everything in between they share their t…
Download file Lindsay, Jack, and Liz catch a few shows at New York’s International Fringe Festival and discuss Annie Baker’s John. Fringe NYC Loose Canon (5:06) Night of th…
Download file Elise teaches Nicole about what makes comedy criticism tick. Then Elise looks at Colin Quinn’s comedy-theater show The New York Story from the stand-up lens and Nicole…
Download file This week we saw an eclectic array of artists pushing at the boundaries of traditional theater and making new and unique spaces for themselves.   We were impress…
Download file We discussed King Liz, Fernanda Coppel’s new play at Second Stage Uptown, this week on the podcast. Â After that I had the great pleasure to sit down with Coppel and ta…
Download file That Scrappy-Doo of a downtown show has moved uptown–Hamilton is back, baby and its on Broadway.  We can’t get enough of Hamilton and the creative geniuses as…
Download file It may feel like the only show actually happening in July is a little scrappy musical called Hamilton but we found a lot of other shows worth your time. Â We’ve got som…
Liz and Nicole both saw a ton of Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway work this week. Â With a vampire girl, a lady cross-dresser, a play within a play being tech'd, polyamorous entanglements…
The glitterati of New York’s Off and Off-Off-Broadway theater worlds gathered Monday night to celebrate The Village Voice 59th Annual Obie Awards. In a traditionally styled awards cere…
The Pearl Theatre Company revives The Rivals, a 1775 comedy of manners by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, directed by The Pearl’s new artistic director Hal Brooks. Carol Schultz reprises th…
Flux Theatre presents the world premiere of August Schulenburg’s Jane the Plain, a supernatural comedy that utilizes familiar high school archetypes to tell an uplifting tale of …
