The National Alliance for Musical Theatre will hold its 28th annual Festival of New Musicals on October 27Â and 28Â at New World Stages. Mortality Play, by Alana Jacoby (book/lyrics) and…
The National Alliance for Musical Theatre will hold its 28th annual Festival of New Musicals on October 27 and 28 at New World Stages. Soho Cinders, by Anthony Drewe (book/lyrics), …
If the subject of Sarah L. Kaufman's The Art of Grace sounds almost too subjective and ephemeral to capture, the book’s success lies not only in how it defines grace, but how it contai…
This summer, FringeNYC audiences were treated to a new twist on a classic tale with The Radicalization of Rolfe, which takes on The Sound of Music from the perspective of the young mes…
Imagine if Neil deGrasse Tyson hosted a gameshow in which reexamining the purpose of your life was the prize, and you're only starting to get a sense of what The Loon feels like. Part lectur…
In Duat Daniel Alexander Jones has created a show that truly asks you to surrender your senses upon entering the theater. Making your way to your seat, you find yourself surrounded by cabine…
After premiering his solo show at Feinstein's/54 Below this spring, Jay Armstrong Johnson will make his return — just in time for Halloween! The talented actor who has graced the scree…
It's not often that a romantic comedy picks a war as a setting, but MTC's Vietgone does just that, setting the love story between Quang (Raymond Lee) and Tong (Jennifer Ikeda) in an Arizona …
One thing is for certain: The election season has become a horrible reality show. While the future of our nation is a bit unstable, New York playwright and producer Dan Kilian provides a wel…
How many musicals in Spanish can you think of? If the answer is zero, you might be onto something. Broadway musicals often get translated into several languages, including Spanish, but the n…
As Fringe Encore is underway, the program’s co-creator Britt Lanfield told us about what makes this year special, and how the shows get selected. What goes into the process of selectin…
Jérôme Bel's provocative work has been taking the dance world by storm since he made his debut two decades ago. Working on the fringe of the field, he constantly challenges preconception…
The Classical Theatre of Harlem welcomes playwright Betty Shamieh to the main stage this fall with her new play, Fit for a Queen, a passion project that she undertook more than a decade a…
"My wife is always telling me 'don't act silly'" says composer Robert Waldman when we speak on the phone, but as proved in his classic musical The Robber Bridegroom, there's nothing wrong wi…
Puffs: or, Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic begins by introducing us to a boy we're all familiar with, an orphaned infant with a scar on his forehead,…
"Stranger than fiction" doesn't even come close to describing the surreal elements of the premise for Come From Away (reviewed here), a musical which chronicles how in the days after 9/11, t…
On October 14th, Colin Donnell will be joining The New York Pops on their season opener, The Musical World of Lerner and Loewe, which celebrates the 60th anniversary of My Fair Lady. I had a…
At the ripe age of 27, actor and playwright Brian Quijada has turned his personal experiences growing up as a Latino kid in suburban Chicago into an autobiographical play with his own twist.…
One of the true gems in the world of New York City off-off-Broadway theatre is La MaMa's bi-annual Puppet Series, which is now kicking off the company's 55th season. With a kaleidoscopic pre…
There are a number of adjectives that spring to mind when watching Bears in Space, a play currently taking part in Origin’s 1st Irish theater festival at 59E59 Theaters; words such as …
If there were a magic pill you could take to fix your relationship, would you take it? Ana Nogueira's new play, Empathitrax, directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt, explores the most complex ele…
An adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier's The Birds, by Conor McPherson is playing as part of Origin's First Irish Theatre Festival; those familiar with the plot will find it refreshed by Stefan …
As a writer, performer, and director, Winsome Brown wears a lot of hats, which works out well for her current piece, Hit the Body Alarm, a one-woman show that weaves together four stories. B…
From the simple question "can you tell me your life story?", the folks at Nature Theater of Oklahoma crafted one of the most epic enterprises in contemporary American theatre: Life and Times…
In Dancer, Academy Award-nominated director Steven Cantor points his laser-focus on one of the most awe-inspiring creatures of the ballet world: Sergei Polunin. Considered by many to be t…