Past reviews, recommendations, profiles, and posts about arts and culture in New York City.
Drunk Shakespeare, half-immersive improv and half-Shakespearean tragedy, is running at Quinn’s Bar and Grill through June. It is directed by David Hudson, a member of Three-Day Hangover, a company well-known for combining Shakespeare and alcohol. Set as a meeting of the Drunk Shakespeare Society, each performance takes on a different play,[…]
Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Appropriate) adapted The Octoroon, a 1859 Abolitionist melodrama by Irishman Dion Boucicault, into a provocative, controversial, and (almost) entirely new play, An Octoroon at Soho Rep. In An Octoroon, George, the heir to his uncle’s plantation, tries to save the property (the land, materials, and slaves) from being sold to M’Closky,[…]
Winners and nominees of the 2014 Lucille Lortel Awards, presented by the Lucille Lortel Foundation and The Off-Broadway League. The ceremony took place at The NYU Skirball Center on May 4, 2014. For background on the Lucille Lortel Awards and other theater awards, click here. ** = Award recipient Outstanding[…]
It’s theater awards season! Here’s our guide to distinguishing the major* awards. *Are there other awards? Yes. Have a different opinion about which awards are the major theater awards? Let us know. We’re at @maxamoo. Who awards the award? The Tony Awards are jointly administered by The American Theatre Wing and The Broadway[…]
A preview of what we’re looking forward to beyond Broadway in New York City theater this month. Fly By Night is a romantic musical about a melancholy sandwich maker and two sisters during the Northeast blackout of 1965. It has a great cast, featuring Adam Chanler-Berat (Peter and the Starcatcher), Patti[…]
Every summer The Public Theater produces Shakespeare in the Park at the outdoor Delacorte Theater in Central Park. It is one of New York City’s greatest traditions and, remarkably, the tickets are free. Being free, the tickets are also highly in demand. Typically, the Shakespeare in the Park season runs from early[…]
The Irish Repertory Theatre mounts Gardner McKay’s award winning play Sea Marks as the last production of its 2013-2014 season. Ciarán O’Reilly directs this revival, which stars Tony Award nominee Xanethe Elbrick and Obie Award winner Patrick Fitzgerald. A simple fisherman, living on a remote island in Ireland, conducts a romantic[…]
The New York Neo-Futurists are reprising the innovative concept behind their Drama Desk Award nominated production The Complete & Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O’Neill, Volume 1: Early Plays/Lost Plays, and bringing Volume 2 to the stage. Volume 2 was also recently nominated for a 2014 Drama Desk Award (winners will be announced[…]
Called an “action-opera” by New York Theatre Workshop, Red-Eye to Havre de Grace outlines the strange final days of Edgar Allan Poe, who inexplicably abandoned a lecture tour and died a few days later. It is a collaboration between the experimental group Lucidity Suitcase International and the musical duo Wilhelm Bros. & Co. The[…]
Nominations for the 2014 American Theatre Wing’s Tony Awards® presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing.
Two independent theater companies – Funny…Sheesh Productions and Ivy Theatre Company — are joining forces to present two productions, one by each, set to run in repertory at Tada Theater, starting May 24, 2014. Funny…Sheesh’s Doubles Crossed: The Ballad of Rodrigo reimagines the film noir crime dramas of the 1940s and 1950s[…]
The Flea is normally aptly named, a home for small theatrical gestures and chamber plays. But this Spring, The Flea gives us The Mysteries, a colossal six-hour marathon of 50 short plays, written by 48 playwrights (both established and emerging and every category in between), each a short musing on[…]
Roundabout Theater Company revives the Tony Award winning 1998 revival of the musical Cabaret. Sam Mendes and Rob Marshall return to the director’s and choreographer’s seats (respectively), and Alan Cumming reprises his award winning performance as the Emcee. Oscar nominated actress Michelle Williams (film: Brokeback Mountain, Blue Valentine) plays cabaret singer[…]
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. The Great Immensity was written and directed by The Civilians’ artistic director Steve Cosson and features songs by Michael Friedman (Love’s Labour’s Lost,[…]
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, Nick Offerman (TV: Parks and Recreation) and Megan Mullally (TV: Will and Grace) as Ulysses and Emma, a divorced couple who reunite for the first time since Emma[…]
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 Mayer (Spring Awakening, American Idiot) and starring four-time Emmy Award winner Neil Patrick Harris as Hedwig. This is the first revival since its original run in 1998. Hedwig,[…]
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 this season (earlier this year the Rude Mechs were at Lincoln Center with Stop Hitting Yourself and he penned the libretto to Bum[…]
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 Parks and Obie winners Young Jean Lee and Lear DeBessonet. Tickets to the new productions will go on sale at a later date, memberships are[…]
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 healing hands of an evangelist preacher, set in 1964, Violet makes its Broadway debut via Roundabout Theater Company. It[…]
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 music and lyrics. The show is structured as a play-within-a-play, in which The Crummles Troupe, a fictional theater company,[…]