Tony-winner Len Cariou is the rare actor who has mastered both Shakespeare and Sondheim, his love for musical theatre and the Bard coming together in a delightful show titled Broadway and th…
Polished. That's the first word that comes to mind when I think of the New Broadway Recording of The Color Purple, which opened in theatres a few weeks ago. This revival holds an interesting…
Matt Doyle will release his first album Uncontrolled on February 26, featuring music and lyrics by Doyle, and composer Will Van Dyke, the album is a compilation of new material, and covers o…
At first, Utility, Emily Schwend's new play with the Amoralists now onstage at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, doesn't feel particularly earthshaking. There are no explosions, no fits of…
How do you speak up when language does not belong to you? How do you move through the world with agency when your body does not belong to you? SLUT is not an easy play to watch, or even to n…
To celebrate the release of his album Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs the Tony-winning showman held a concert at the legendary Carnegie Hall, which at one point saw him singing an Adele/Lady …
Celebrated actor Ed Asner, known for his performances as Lou Grant and the voice of the old man in Disney/Pixar’s Up, talks with Evan Seplow of StageBuddy about his history, opinion…
The Dance on Camera Festival, co-presented by Dance on Films and the Film Society of Lincoln Center, celebrates dance in all its cultural diversity, explores the history of dance in the US a…
Phrases, hashtags and statistics abound about gender and racial parity in the American theater today. Theater artist Nandita Shenoy, a multi-talented petite powerhouse, doesn't just talk abo…
Company XIV's dark and dramatic production of Snow White takes the stage this season with its signature XIV flair. Hilly Bodin, a newcomer not just to Company XIV, but to the New York dance …
If you're familiar with the Oxygen network’s All the Right Moves, you'll be familiar with the name Kyle Robinson. The reality TV show chronicled the 2012 creation of Shaping Sound, …
Funnyman and theatre geek extraordinaire Ben Cameron is back with an all new season of Broadway Sessions (Thursday nights at The Laurie Beechman Theatre), after a successful hosting appearan…
Lawrence Edelson, founder and producing artistic director of American Lyric Theater (ALT) wears many hats in the opera world and beyond. For the past nine years, ALT's Composer Libret…
With an impressive résumé that includes hits such as Emma and Jane Eyre, the award-winning lyricist, composer, and librettist Paul Gordon takes great pride in shining a spotlight on the cl…
The Japanese taiko drum and dance sensation Drum TAO is slated to premiere its new show, Drum Heart, in February at the NYU Skirball Center. At the center of the New York City-only productio…
The first thing that strikes you about Bianca MarroquÃn is her light. If she were performing in a darkened room, she would make it brighter through sheer force of will. Her megawatt smile…
Seamus Heaney's The Burial at Thebes, a translation of Sophocles' tragedy Antigone, was written as a response to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Telling the story of one woman who dares to …
Recently, I had the pleasure of talking about the new play I and You by Lauren Gunderson, having its New York premiere Off Broadway at 59E59, and the process of developing new work with thea…
Invigorating fun best describes an early Sunday afternoon conversation with theater director Sean Daniels in the empty 59E59 theater, where Friday night I'd just seen the first preview of La…
Four friends become entangled in a game of deception and seduction in Brendan Gall's Wide Awake Hearts, an erotically charged work making its New York City debut at 59E59. Two actors, a dire…
A writer, activist and co-founder of Open Clasp Theatre Company, Catrina McHugh has been working for decades to bring the voices of women who need to be heard the most to audiences and commu…
“Alive and Kicking!” could be a theme of the APAP (Association of Performing Arts Presenters) conference and its closing speaker: Rita Moreno, 84-year-old multi-award winning …
Brooklyn-based Canadian librettist Royce Vavrek is a very busy man these days, and New York audiences are very lucky! This month, the 2016 Prototype Festival features two of his operas, …
Acrobatic Conundrum, Seattle’s premier contemporary circus arts company, will be performing The Language of Chance at the NYU Skirball Center on January 14th as part of Circus Now 2016…
In Yellow Day, Drew Seeley plays a man whose worldview is changed during the title day; time during which god reveals himself to people in need. The faith-based film is set in real life Camp…