Halloween Special Events
The most theatrical of all holidays is just around the corner. Enjoy a spooky, funny, or musical Halloween event with your candy corn and jack-o-lantern:
Sarah Flood In Salem Mass – Location, Tickets, Reviews
Sarah Flood In Salem Mass, an unconventional play written by Obie Award winner Adriano Shaplin, is having its world premiere in New York City at The Flea. Sarah Flood is a girl from the future. She is bored with life and travels back to 17th century Salem on a mission to[…]
Revelation Readings, Red Bull Theater
Revelation Readings from Red Bull Theater is one of the more elaborate theatrical reading series in town (read: fancy participants and expensive tickets). It focuses on new plays and rarely-performed classics. Tickets range from $20 to $80.
100, Monologues by Eric Bogosian – Location, Tickets
100 is a series of monologues written and performed by Pulitzer Prize nominee, winner of three Obie Awards and a Drama Desk Award, actor, and playwright Eric Bogosian. Kicking off Labyrinth Theater Company’s 2013-2014 season, the show is a selection (different each night) of about a dozen monologues from the 100 or[…]
Big Fish, a musical – Location, Tickets, Reviews
Big Fish, one of the most highly anticipated shows of this fall’s theater season, has finally swum its way into the heart of New York. This contemporary musical centers on Edward Bloom, a traveling salesman with a penchant for telling larger-than-life stories–stories that include Edward’s encounters with a witch, a mermaid,[…]
Lady Day – Location, Tickets, Reviews
Starring Tony and Grammy Award-winner Dee Dee Bridgewater, Lady Day takes residence at Little Shubert Theatre in New York City. Featuring 28 Billie Holiday standards, this musical recalls the Jazz singer’s last stop in her Europe Tour in London, 1954. The legendary star is consumed by alcohol and drugs, her life in a[…]
Bad Jews – Location, Tickets, Reviews
Photos by Joan Marcus Bad Jews is Roundabout Theatre Company’s encore presentation of Joshua Harmon’s acerbic comedy, which debuted at the Roundabout Underground’s BlackBox Theatre last year. Now playing at the significantly larger Laura Pels Theatre just up the stairs from the Black Box, Bad Jews invites us to spend an evening[…]
Daily Digest
For theater-aficionados, -addicts, -critics, -lovers, and -professionals we offer the Maxamoo Daily Digest. It is a daily morning email of reviews and news about New York City theater collected from 20 newspapers, magazines, and respected independent blogs. Get all of the day’s theater news in one spot every morning. Enter[…]
Bike America – Location, Tickets, Reviews
Kicking off Ma-Yi Theater Company’s 25th anniversary season, Bike America is the story of a scenic cross-country journey. The heroine of the play, Penny, is a 27-year-old graduate school student seeking more adventure in her life. On a whim, she ditches her clingy boyfriend and departs Boston, where she has lived her[…]
The Film Society – Location, Tickets, Reviews
The Film Society is the Keen Company’s 25th anniversary revival of the play by Jon Robin Baitz (Other Desert Cities). The play is a story of struggle in 1970s South Africa. It is set in an all-white boys school. Following a radical teacher’s invitation to a black minister to address[…]
Nothing to Hide – Location, Tickets, Reviews
Making magic shows cool again, Nothing to Hide is taking New York by storm after a successful run in Los Angeles. Aimed at “abandoning the antiquated notions of a traditional magic show,” young, sleight-of-hand magicians Derek DelGaudio and Helder Guimarães created and perform Nothing to Hide. It is directed by TV star[…]
Brave New World Repertory Theatre
NEW WORKS hosted by Brave New World Rep is a reading series of plays by Brooklyn-based playwrights. Each play is presented in an environmentally-specific location in Brooklyn. Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lindsay-Abaire serves as advisor to the playwrights involved in the program.
WorkShop Theater Company
WorkShop Theater Company hosts a variety of events that present plays and musicals in varying stages of progress, including: Plays in Progress, a staged reading series, and Sundays@Six.
25th Annual Festival of New Musicals & SHOW OFF! Benefit Concert
The 25th Annual Festival of New Musicals will be held at New World Stages in New York City on Thursday, October 17 and Friday, October 18, 2013 for a select audience of National Alliance for Musical Theatre members, producers, and other musical theater industry professionals. The Festival presents 45-minute staged[…]
The Glass Menagerie – Location, Tickets, Reviews
The revival of Tennessee Williams’s classic, The Glass Menagerie, opened to (almost uniformly) strong reviews. Ben Brantley in The New York Times lauded the production, saying viewers should “be prepared to have the breath knocked out of you” and calling the direction “stunning” and the acting “career defining.” Scott Brown in New[…]
To Fool The Eye – Location, Tickets, Reviews
To Fool The Eye is a romantic comedy adapted from Jean Anouilh’s 1940 play Leocadia. The play is set in a country chateau in France. Prince Albert’s love interest, Leocadia, has died and the prince is devastated. When Albert’s doting aunt discovers that Amanda, a poor hat maker, looks exactly like the deceased[…]
Elevator Repair Service’s ARGUENDO – Location, Tickets, Reviews
Update: September 25, 2013 ARGUENDO from acclaimed theater company Elevator Repair Service opened Tuesday, September 24th at The Public Theater to warm reviews with loads of bad puns about nudity. The show is a verbatim performance of the U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in Barnes v. Glen Theatre, a case challenging Indiana’s ban[…]
St. Ann’s Warehouse
Founded in 1980 under the name Arts in St. Ann’s, St. Ann’s Warehouse is named after its original location at the National Historic Landmark Church of St. Ann and the Holy Trinity in Brooklyn Heights. It originally focused on classical music but has since established itself as a center for daring,[…]
Lickspittles, Buttonholers and Damned Pernicious Go-Betweens – Location, Tickets, Reviews
Johnna Adams‘ Lickspittles, Buttonholers and Damned Pernicious Go-Betweens, in a world premiere presented by Boomerang Theatre Company, is one of the hidden gems of this fall season. A comedy written (mostly) in rhyming couplets, Lickspittles tells the story of three men from the Danish court (a lickspittle, a buttonholer, and a go-between)[…]
Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 – Location, Reviews, Tickets
Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 is an electro-pop opera based on Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace. After a brief but very popular and sold out run at Ars Nova in 2012, Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 launched a commercial run in May 2013 at Kazino, a custom-built Russian supper club[…]