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Three of your shows happening off-Broadway in one season. Well, right now, Lucy Thurber has five of her shows playing simultaneously at five different West Village theaters. Pretty cool, rig…
We are living in a very competitive world -- there are so many forms of entertainment available. If we are not interesting to our group of friends and supporters, they have many other places…
The Amoralists, that outlandishly unconventional troupe that regularly appears with unusual and eyebrow-raising theatrical fare dedicated to "plumbing the depths of the social, politica…
It is an honor to be a part of this remarkable fraternity (sorority?) of dance people -- directors, managers, dancers, choreographers -- bound together by a love of dance and shared experien…
When Mary Zimmerman was announced to direct/adapt Disney's The Jungle Book, I was surprised. I never thought the production would materialize (Pinocchio, anyone?), but knew that if it did, I…
I love regional theaters and I love road trips. So every summer I try to hit the road one or more times to see regional theater in the Northeast. On a recent Sunday, I traveled to Goodspeed …
If half as much effort that is devoted to trying to fix things was devoted to fundraising, most of the problems facing the organization would disappear. In fact, rarely have I observed a bo…
Consider it my embarrassing oversight that Shlomo Carlebach was news to me when I showed up for Soul Doctor, the new musical
Consider it my embarrassing oversight that Shlomo Carlebach was news to me when I showed up for Soul Doctor, the new...
It would be a pleasant chore to report that Shakespeare in the Park's Love's Labour's Lost is an amusingly silly musical
It would be a pleasant chore to report that Shakespeare in the Park's Love's Labour's Lost is an amusingly silly musical...
For the vast majority of arts organizations, most of their audience members and donors are still employed and are enjoying strong returns on their investments. They have rising levels of di…
First Date is about -- well, you can guess. Remember your first date? Everybody has an embarrassing episode in their personal memory book, it is to be assumed, so why not turn a typically f…
Wallace Shawn's darkly sublime three-hour play--and worth every devastating minute of it--The Designated Mourner was done
Wallace Shawn's darkly sublime three-hour play--and worth every devastating minute of it--The Designated Mourner was...
Why watching the movie Fruitvale Station is an experience unlike any other.
Chad Beguelin's warm and funny Harbor is about a gay couple living in a perfectly-designed Greek revival bungalow in Sag Harbor that looks like a wedding cake.
Al said to me that if he survived he wanted to educate people. He wanted people to know the risks associated with hepatitis. He wanted them to know about liver cancer. Five years later, we'r…
Turning around arts organizations is mostly about changing the psychology of an organization. If we can get people who are closest to us to believe in our work and proceed with confidence, …
The old saw about saving the best for last is honored during Summer Shorts 2013 at 59E59. The Series A post-intermission
The old saw about saving the best for last is honored during Summer Shorts 2013 at 59E59. The Series A post-intermission,
Playwriting as therapy is hardly a new concept. It might even be a challenge to find a single work in the annals that doesn't
Playwriting as therapy is hardly a new concept. It might even be a challenge to find a single work in the annals that...
Bend in the Road highlights what we all know about the shows at NYMF -- they are not all made for New York City runs.
NYMF: BEND IN THE ROAD *** 1/2: Anne Of Green Gables and the many sequels that followed are a beloved series of books by Lucy Maud Montgomery. (Is there any other way to describe them other …
