Monkey: Journey to the West
In Monkey: Journey to the West a classic Chinese tale gets a Cirque du Soleil-style makeover with music from the creators of Gorillaz, a popular rock band.
Game Play 2013
For the fifth year in a row, The Brick theater combines elements of live performance, video games, and modern technology in Game Play, a cutting-edge summer festival. From July 5th through 28th, multiple theater companies are bringing their technologically-inspired performance pieces to this small theater in the Williamsburg neighborhood in[…]
Andrew Barrett
Andrew Barrett Playwright
Ethan Angelica
Ethan Angelica Actor
Forever Tango
Forever Tango returns to New York for a limited 10-week engagement, beginning July 9, 2013. Through music and dance Forever Tango tells the story of this epic, sensuous form of dance, from birth in Buenos Aires, Argentina to its spread across Europe and global popularity. LOCATION Walter Kerr Theatre219 West 48th[…]
Naked Darrow
Naked Darrow is a one-man play that follows an aging Clarence Darrow, the famous defense lawyer in the Monkey Scopes trial, at the beginning of the end of his life. It examines Darrow’s personal and legal lives, highlighting the moments that meant the most to him, including two marriages, the births[…]
The Explorer’s Club
It’s 1879 and The Explorer’s Club is in crisis. Its President has proposed to admit a woman to this prestigious club. Gasp! All the while, the club members can’t get past their horrible bartender, who sports a lot of body paint, and they just need a good drink!
Choir Boy
A Maxamoo recommendation In Choir Boy, Pharus, an intellectually gifted young man with an angelic tenor range, challenges conventions of race and sexuality at the Charles R. Drew Prep School for Boys, a school dedicated to creating strong, ethical black men. The production is laced with gorgeous gospel music sung a[…]
Murder For Two
Murder For Two from Second Stage Theatre is a musical comedy with a dash of whodunit mystery. Everyone is suspect when houseguests are completely unfazed by the appearance of a dead body. Two actors do all of the work in this play, one investigates and the other plays the houseguests,[…]
Shun-kin
Inspired by the provocative and beautiful writings of Jun’ichiro Tanizaka, this play follows a blind musician and her servant lover in 19th-century Japan and features classic Japanese puppetry. Performed in Japanese with English supertitles. LOCATION Rose TheaterColumbus Circle, Broadway and West 60th Street RUNNING TIME One hour and forty minutes, no[…]
Brecht in the Park
Elephant Run District presents this performance of three of Bertolt Brecht plays: The Elephant Calf, In Search of Justice, and The Exception and the Rule.
Annie
Classic little orphan Annie musical with Jane Lynch as Miss Hannigan.
Rantoul and Die
Rantoul and Die, from hot, young, fearless theater company The Amoralists, is a tense drama about a broken relationship in a deteriorating town. Theater this intense and risky doesn’t usually earn a lot of favor with critics but this show defied the odds. It’s a New York Times critic’s pick this[…]
Maxamoo Interview: Lila Rose Kaplan
In our Maxamoo Interview with playwright Lila Rose Kaplan, we discuss her play Bureau of Missing Persons now showing at 4th Street Theater and she shares a few of the experiences that led her to playwriting. Maxamoo attended Bureau of Missing Persons over the weekend. It is a delicate, whimsical story dotted with tragedy and humor. It[…]
Indie Theater in NYC Maxamoo Meetup #2
Bring a blanket,relax outside, & enjoy 3 brief Brecht plays. Saturday, July 20th4 PMCentral Park The Elephant Calf (1926), In Search of Justice (1938), & The Exception and the Rule (1929) Total approx run time: 70 minutes $10 suggested donation Presented by Elephant Run District RSVP HERE
Thank you Maxamoo Meetup #1
Thank you to everyone who joined Maxamoo last night for our inaugural Indie Theater in NYC Maxamoo Meetup. The show was great, your company the best. We are very excited to announce our next meetup in Central Park for a production by the very talented Elephant Run District.
Phoebe In Winter
Part of Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks (the theater company’s annual festival of new plays), Phoebe In Winter is the story of war and its impact on family. A father anxiously awaits the return of his three sons from war, when suddenly a woman from the war zone (the eponymous Phoebe) barges in and[…]
Gibraltar
Gibraltar follows a day in the life of Leopold Bloom, the character from James Joyce’s tome Ulysses. As such, the play is comprised of extended monologues and personal musings from Bloom and Molly, his wife, as they mourn the death of their son. Gibraltar is the human experience stripped bare. It is laced[…]
Macbeth
Alan Cummings plays all of the characters in this manic version of Shakespeare’s Macbeth set in an insane asylum.
After The Beginning . Before The End. By Daniel Kitson
Daniel Kitson, an actor/storyteller/standup comedian from the UK, is doing 7 performances of a standup-like show this summer at Barrow Street Theater. Kitson has a rabid following and these shows will definitely sellout, indeed, the Friday and Saturday performances already are.