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Little Shop of Burgers
By: Samuel L. Leiter
October 23, 2019: Pop quiz: what current Off-Broadway musical contains all the following?
A plot inspired by a cult movie.
A setting m…
By: Paulanne Simmons
October 23, 2019: Brian Friel's 1994 drama, Molly Sweeney, is so thoughtful, inspired and profound one wonders why it is not revived more often. Fortunately, Keen C…
American Premiere of Henry Naylor's potent and cautionary tale, based on the true story of two Jewish/female athletes in Hitler's Germany, is a mesmerizing account by two immensely skilled a…
Halloween Treats Abound with October releases on BroadwayHDÂ
October 20, 2019:Â BroadwayHD kicked off the month of October with a binge-worthy lineup of performances that are sure t…
By: Isa Goldberg
October 18, 2019: Director James Lloyd's revival of Harold Pinter's Betrayal embraces a chilly minimalism. As the pinnacle of this complex love triangle, Robert (To…
By: David Sheward
October 17, 2019: "My life is unhappy. I want to change it and I don't know how." That's the subtext of a lot of American drama and four productions currently on and O…
By: Isa Goldberg
October 17, 2019: The raves and buzz surrounding playwright Jeremy O. Harris are well deserved. A surprising young writer, his grasp of dramatic form, from medieval mir…
"On Broadway" directed by Oren Jacoby makes World Premiere at Hamptons International Film Festival
October 13, 2019:Â An all-star cast tells the inside story of Broadway theatre, and h…
October 14, 2019: The 27th Hamptons International Film Festival, presented by HamptonsFilm, announced their award winners at a ceremony in East Hampton. The 2019 festival was dedicated to …
By: Paulanne Simmons
October 14, 2019: As the name implies, "The Decline and Fall of the Entire World as Seen Through the Eyes of Cole Porter" is more about the times Porter lived in th…
A Conversation with Alfre Woodard @ Bay Street Theater
October 12, 2019: In celebration of one of this year's most talked about performances for her role in Chinonye Chukwu's CLEMENCY, …
By: Paulanne Simmons
October 13, 2019: Playwright Jeremy O. Harris is making his Broadway debut this season with Slave Play, which premiered last season at New York Theater Workshop. Th…
The Pass, a musical by Denise Marsa
October 11, 2019: It was 2016 and I was thinking about my life as a singer-songwriter and how it all started for me. I recalled pretending, at the age…
By: David Sheward
October 10, 2019: Robert Schenkkan provided a brilliant example of political theater with his Tony winning All the Way which played Broadway in 2014 after premiering a…
Paper Mill Playhouse Presents Young Judy Garland Chasing Rainbows: [on] The Road to OzÂ
By: Ellis Nassour
October 9, 2019: Judy Garland, maybe along with Streisand, might be the ex…
Five Reasons Why Freestyle Love Supreme is a Welcome Change for Broadway
By: Iris Wiener
           October 8, 2019: Before there was Hamilton and I…
By: Paulanne Simmons
October 7, 2019: Jack Thorne's new play, Sunday, making its premiere at Atlantic Theater Company, is about a group of 20-somethings, members of a book club, who mee…
"A Less Congenial Spot, In Cramalot" By: Samuel L. Leiter October 6, 2019: As I washed my hands in the men's room after seeing Liba Vaynberg's Round Table, a senior critic of my acquaintance…
The Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons, Inc. (ARF) announced today that its annual "Stroll to the Sea" Dog Walk presented by Chaser and The Corcoran Group will be held Saturday, October 12, …
French playwright Florian Zeller, well known in New York theater for his plays, The Father (Frank Langella) and The Mother (Isabelle Huppert), tells stories in a most outré fashion. Curren…
By: Isa Goldberg
October 2, 2019: What woman doesn't dream of having her own washing machine? Usually, however, it isn't a momentous issue " at least not in the way Lois Robbins' claims…
