The young and incredibly talented Claudia Schreier will present her choreography on August 8-9Â at the Ailey Citigroup Theater with an amazing cast of dancers from some of the top ballet c…
Ashley Bouder, a principal dancer with New York City Ballet known for her daring musicality and breathtaking technique, has a rich and varied repertoire with the company.  She’…
One of theater's greatest gifts is that it can externalize the internal, connecting people by articulating emotions that are impossible to convey in ordinary life with ordinary language. Joh…
Unless you've been hiding under a rock far away from the theater district, you're aware that next week brings the Broadway opening of Hamilton, the much-anticipated musical from In the Heigh…
It seems apropos to meet up with dedicated theater artists Jessi Blue Gormezano and KJ Sanchez in a slightly battered second floor theater space off of 10th Avenue on 52nd Street; the kind o…
Now in its 24th season, the National Asian-American Theater Company (NAATCO) is presenting Awake and Sing!, Clifford Odets' Depression-era play about the Bergers, a Jewish family, living in …
Tziporela, a highly inventive comedy troupe from Israel is currently appearing in Odd Birdz at The Players Theater in Manhattan. Who is Tziporela and what is Odd Birdz? Stagebuddy chased dow…
Since making her Broadway debut in 2001, theatregoers have been lucky enough to see Nikki M. James onstage almost every year (in fact she's currently starring in Preludes at Lincoln Center T…
In May 1965 the first Kander and Ebb musical premiered on Broadway. Flora the Red Menace, despite a lovely score, was not too long for the Great White Way. It scored a Tony for Liza Minnelli…
You may not know this. In fact, there's no particular reason for you to know it, but July 24th is "Tell an Old Joke Day." Yes, a day apparently exists that is devoted to recounting quips tha…
Taking over from a performance that won another actor a Tony must not be easy, and yet Chilina Kennedy does it with flair, while leaving a mark all her own, eight times a week as she plays t…
Perhaps the marking of a great stage actor is that when you meet them in real life, it takes you a second or two to realize they're the same person you saw on stage just a few nights before.…
You know Kelly AuCoin, you may just not know it yet. A true character actor, he's been leaving his mark on stage as well as in television and films for over two decades, with appearances in …
In SeaWife, audiences are transported to a 19th century tavern where they attend the tale of the brave Percy, who following in the footsteps of his father decides to conquer ocean's most eni…
Ruby Preston's third novel, Starstruck, to be released by Dress Circle Publishing on July 14th, gets real about what happens behind the flash of the bright lights of Broadway. The characters…
Ciarán O'Reilly is a founding member of The Irish Repertory Theatre, the only company in North America dedicated to bringing Irish and Irish-American works to the stage. He is also the…
As they do every so often, stories of audience members behaving insufferably at the theater become newsworthy"usually making the papers because some actor or fellow playgoer finally pushes b…
The storied journey of The Visit to Broadway has been recounted many times, in 2015, fourteen years after its first planned tryout, The Visit finally made it to Broadway. It was a short …
Rashid and Leila, a young Egyptian-American couple, sit propped up in bed together. They smoke fake cigarettes while they analyze their own psyches and behavior. (It's something one imagines…
By now it's common knowledge that brothers Wayne and Karey Kirkpatrick achieved the unthinkable by having their very first musical skip out-of-town previews and open successfully on Broadway…
Co-artistic directors of Ballet NY (and married couple) Judith Fugate (Répétiteur) and Medhi Bahiri (Choreographer) have created a small, yet substantial company of accomplished dancers wh…
In ADA/AVA, an elderly woman, Ada, grieves for her twin sister Ava in the remote New England lighthouse they once shared. Then a visit to the carnival creates a ghostly opportunity for a reu…
From the opening of the New Broadway Cast Recording of On the Twentieth Century it’s clear to lovers of the show that they have little to worry about. Among many things On the Twentiet…
In the face of multiple two person theatre shows I'll admit a bit of a penchant for the mid nineties John & Jen, for no reason other than my own sibling relationships making me thrilled …
Playwright Catherine Filloux possesses a calming presence amidst the cacophony of a bus load of tourists eager to munch pastries and slurp cappuccinos at Amy's in midtown Manhattan. Fortunat…