The National Alliance for Musical Theatre will hold its 27th annual Festival of New Musicals on October 15 and 16 at New World Stages. We caught up with Andrea Daly (music) and Jeff Bienstoc…
Betsy Wolfe craves a challenge. Traveling from coast to coast, from Broadway to opera, and Off-Broadway, there is not a single aspect of performing she will not try to conquer, and who can b…
The National Alliance for Musical Theatre will hold its 27th annual Festival of New Musicals on October 15 and 16 at New World Stages. We caught up with Timothy Huang, whose Costs of Livi…
The National Alliance for Musical Theatre will be presenting eight musicals October 15-16Â as part of their annual Festival of New Musicals. Â Check out our interviews with the creators …
We talked to the playwrights and composers behind the shows selected for Fringe Encores, here’s Christian de Gré, the talented writer and co-director of Beware the Chupacabra! (our re…
We talked to the playwrights and composers behind the shows selected for Fringe Encores, here’s Brian Reno and Gabriel Vega Weissman, the playwrights behind Loose Canon. No Williams! B…
We talked to the playwrights and composers behind the shows selected for Fringe Encores, here’s Danny K. Bernstein, the talented composer and lyricist of Far From Canterbury (our revie…
Doctor Zhivago had the inauspicious title of being the first show to close on Broadway when the Tony nominations were announced in May. It had received no nominations and after poor notices,…
Composer Barbara Anselmi knows what it takes to sustain a career in the theater. From the ripe old age of five, Anselmi was moved by music and the magic of the orchestra and knew it had to b…
Popesical!, a musical by Adam Overett, is set during the papal conclave, the election in which cardinals vote for a new pope, and it features a motley crew of cardinals who are put through s…
Imagine if by some unorthodox studio choice, the cherubic Mickey Rooney had been assigned to perform the songs made famous by Judy Garland, and you can begin to get an idea of what a Seth Si…
Josh Grisetti is the kind of guy you can't help but root for. Not only is he talented beyond words (effortlessly funny, a great singer, a touching actor: a triple threat!), he's also so cand…
On October 1st, three short plays will be debuting as part of Manhattan Repertory Theatre’s Short Play Development Project. These three plays, with the provocative titles Swollen, Wast…
After a fifteen year hiatus, Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes is back in New York, bringing to life a rotating cast of forty characters in his new show The Daisy Theatre at the Baryshni…
From the 18th through the late 20th centuries, women and young girls deemed fallen were forced to atone for their "sins" at labor camps in Ireland known as Magdalene laundries. These wome…
When Stephanie J. Block asks me to "edit her brilliantly" at the end of our chat, I realize I'll be unable to fulfill her request; for there is not a single word I want to get rid of, or cha…
Some stories linger in the incubation stage. Patiently"or not so patiently"they wait to be told, to make their way into the public consciousness. Then, uncannily, when they finally burst int…
Magmanus, a circus duo made up of an extra-large juggler and a petit acrobat, will be opening the 2015-16 Skirball Center season on September 25 and 26 with their gravity-defying contempo…
In the year 2040, in a world without plays and cancer, there is always the ‘system’ to provide us with art and anguish. But in Max Posner’s new play Judy, that system can b…
As Hick: A Love Story moves on to the FringeNYC Encore series, StageBuddy sits down with the star of the one-woman show and playwright, Terry Baum. Hick follows journalist Lorena…
Aaron Lazar calls me from Los Angeles where he is going on auditions for TV & film, and working on developing other projects; considering what a revelation he was in City Center Encore!'…
The Dirty Blondes’ The American Play, written by Ashley J. Jacobson, pays strange and twisted homage to Bret Easton Ellis’s novel American Psycho. It tells the story of three …
Maybe Tomorrow, inspired by a true story, is a deeply touching dark comedy about what is real and what we simply learn to live with. Written by Max Mondi, the entire play is set in a bathroo…
Whitney Bashor first stole the hearts of Broadway fans with her haunting performance in The Bridges of Madison County where she played Robert Kincaid's (Steven Pasquale) ex-wife Marian. In t…
With a sold-out FringeNYC run, two Moth StorySLAM wins, and a book (Alice in Tumblr-land) published by Penguin, Tim Manley is at the top of the storytelling craft. His one-man show, Fe…