Michael John LaChiusa, known for musicals such as Hello Again, Marie Christine, The Wild Party, and See What I Wanna See, first brought First Lady Suite, a chamber musical about …
The title creatures in author Greg McGoon’s children’s book The Tanglelows feed off negativity and distress, they get absolute pleasure out of provoking self-doubt and questionin…
Those in the West may not be familiar with the work of Indian stalwart Mahesh Dattani, but for decades he has been one of the leading theatre minds in the South Asian subcontinent. As a play…
Imani Uzuri is redefining the concept of world music by following the great tradition of female African American musicians like Bessie Smith, and adding a cosmopolitan flavor that doesn't on…
"Don't worry. I may have my quirks but I'm not an animal. …or am I?" Martin McDonagh's first new play in five years, Hangmen, is currently enjoying a very successful run in London's West E…
Steve Martin and Edie Brickell deliver the brilliant gift that is Bright Star to audiences this spring, a new musical about how we choose to tell our stories. Set in the southern…
The 2015-2016 theatre season saw us witnessing the fifth Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof. This means it is now proceeded by Show Boat, The Threepenny Opera and Porgy & Bess as th…
Lyricist Sheldon Harnick is a bona fide Broadway legend, having created over a dozen musicals, many of which (particularly his collaborations with composer Jerry Bock) became part of the the…
The central character in Olivier Letellier’s Oh Boy!, a young man by the name of Barthélémy, finds himself suddenly becoming father figure to three recently orphaned children, who…
There is usually a moment in all of Anna Ziegler's plays where you, as an audience member, get the sense that the feelings onstage (or on the page if you're reading them) had never been felt…
StageBuddy shot the 31st annual Bistro Awards and here is Grammy winner Kurt Elling performing a fantastic Jon Hendricks song. Hendricks was then brought up on stage for his lifetime achieve…
Entering Ars Nova for a performance of The Wildness: Sky-Pony’s Rock Fairy Tale, has all the makings of an underground rock show, rather than a traditional piece of musical theatre. Au…
A terrific night was had by all as awards were given out at this years Bistros. 94 year old Jon Hendricks (of Lambert, Hendricks and Ross) was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award…
Playwright and director Edward Einhorn has been fashioning his own brand of absurdism and intellectual inquiry in the New York theater for more than twenty years. His latest play, City of Gl…
Trevor Nunn's production of Pericles (playing at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center through March 27) has it all: shipwrecks, tragic priestesses, greedy brothel owners, fake deaths galore and r…
The latest Stephen Sondheim compilation album immediately courts scrutiny when it announces itself as The Essential Stephen Sondheim. For, as even the most cursory of musical theatre fans kn…
Scott Siegel's Broadway by the Year returned on February 22 for its landmark 16th season at The Town Hall, and with it came a new format, and one of the most memorable nights in 2016 musical…
In Our Mother's Brief Affair, Greg Keller plays Seth, an obituary writer who discovers his mother Anna (Linda Lavin) had a torrid affair when he was a teenager. The discovery sends him down …
The one and only Charles Busch will be having his very first show at the American Songbook series presented by Lincoln Center. His show, titled The Lady at the Mic, will see him celebrate th…
After a landmark 2015 – which saw her give two of her finest stage performances to date – Kate Baldwin is starting 2016 with a residency at the renovated Sheen Center, which will…
Canadian actor Jake Epstein has been taking the theater world by storm, with Broadway hits such as Beautiful: The Carole King Musical and Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark, as well as the …
From every action and decision made, there are consequences. Social psychologist Stanley Milgram, eager to understand those that assisted with or turned a blind eye to the systematic atrocit…
New York Theatre Ballet premieres Legends and Visionaries next week at New York Live Arts. In addition to stagings of Jerome Robbins’ Antique Epigraphs and Richard Alston’s…
Broadway by the Year has become one of the most beloved musical traditions in the New York theatre scene, for 16 years now, lovers of musical theatre gather to listen to selections from Broa…
Known for her dazzling performances in James Joyce's The Dead, Billy Elliot, The Full Monty and her Tony-nominated work in Side Show, Emily Skinner has had one of the most impressive stage c…