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The Great Immensity, a new musical from The Civilians, tackles the hot topic of climate change. It is part of The Public Theater’s Public Lab, meaning it is a work-in-progress.Â…
The New Group presents the New York premiere of Annapurna after a popular run at the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble in Los Angeles in 2013. Annapurna features real life husband and wife,�…
Lindsay, Maxamoo’s founder, and Nicole, from Mildly Bitter’s Musings, chat about the latest goings on in New York City theater, what was great, what was awful, and what we …
The cult rock musical Hedwig And The Angry Inch by John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask returns to New York with a new production directed by Tony Award winner Michael Maye…
For the world premiere of his new play, Your Mother’s Copy of the Kama Sutra, Kirk Lynn, an artistic director with Austin-based Rude Mechs, returns to New York for a third time t…
This week The Public Theater announced its 2014-2015 season. We were thrilled to see many of our favorite active artists on the schedule, including Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori …
Sutton Foster returns to Midtown in Violet, a musical by Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley. The story of a disfigured young woman who boards a bus from North Carolina to Oklahoma seeking the …
Theater for the New City presents Nicholas Nickleby, a new musical based on the classic Charles Dickens novel of the same name. Robert Sickinger wrote the book and Alaric Jans wrote the musi…
Inspired by John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera from 1728 (also the source material for Brecht and Weill’s 1928 The Threepenny Opera), Little Mac, Little Mac, You’re …
Act One is a stage adaptation of the memoir, Act One, by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Moss Hart (known for writing You Can’t Take It With You and The Man Who Came to D…
Lindsay, Nicole, and new guest host Isaac Butler chat about their latest outings to the theater in New York City, what was great, what was awful, and what we’re looking forward t…
Interborough Repertory Theater (IRT), established in 1986, describes its mission as supporting independent theater artists and building community through facilities, programs, and educati…
The double bill at Brits Off Broadway of Clean and A Respectable Widow Takes to Vulgarity comes from the celebrated Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland. Orla O’Loughlin, the artist…
Official openings, first performances, closings, and other news this week beyond Broadway in New York City theater.The post This week beyond Broadway – April 14-20, 2014 appeared first…
Denzel Washington returns to the New York stage for a revival of the 1959 drama A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, the cast also includes Sophie Okonedo (film: Hotel Rwanda), Anik…
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New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) is the fancy theater on the Fourth Arts Block (the patch of East Fourth Street between Bowery Street and Second Avenue, which includes La MaMa and the Kraine…
Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill wrote the satirical The Threepenny Opera in 1928 as a socialist critique of corruption and capitalism. It’s set in a world filled with misery and de…
After making its world premiere to positive reviews at the Yale Repertory Theater in 2012, Will Eno's The Realistic Joneses, directed by Sam Gold, recently opened at New York City’s Ly…
If you failed to follow our advice back in November and have not purchased tickets to A Raisin in the Sun, you are out of luck. Tickets to this production starring Denzel Washington…
Brian Lobel (Website, Twitter) is a performance artist based in the U.K. He is best known for two performance series, one based on his experience having testicular cancer and the other on th…
In January we started the Maxamoo New York City Theater Podcast, a weekly discussion with super smart theater people about the shows we are seeing and what we’re looking forward to see…
Potion: A Play in Three Cocktails is an amalgam of immersive theater, site-specific performance, multimedia presentation, and spoken word opera performed at People Lounge, a bar on the Lower…
The Brothers Booth is the second immersive theatrical adventure mounted in the Speakeasy Dollhouse series by Cynthia von Buhler. The first in the series, The Bloody Beginning, continues most…
Lindsay, Nicole, and David chat about their latest outings to the theater in New York City, what was great, what was awful, and what we’re looking forward to seeing this week.…
