Past reviews, recommendations, profiles, and posts about arts and culture in New York City.
Following a world premiere at the Humana Festival of New American Plays in Louisville last spring, and successful runs at both the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago and the Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington D.C., Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ comic drama Appropriate arrives in New York, once again under the direction of Liesl Tommy.[…]
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Bum Phillips All American Opera is a new contemporary opera about Bum Phillips, the legendary football coach of the Houston Oilers in the 1970s. Luke Leonard of the Monk Parrots theater company conceptualized and directed the production. Peter Stopschinski of the Rude Mechanicals theater company composed the music and Kirk Lynn, also from[…]
Get beyond Broadway this weekend with these three recommendations. Move over Avenue Q, there’s a new puppet star in town and his name is Tyrone. In the hilarious Hand to God by Robert Askins, now showing at the Lucille Lortel Theater, the phenomenal Steven Boyer plays Jason, a timid Christian teen, and his out-of-control[…]
Rocky the Musical is the hotly anticipated musical adaptation of Sylvester Stallone’s classic 1976 film of the same name. The story of a third-rate South Philly boxer who gets a once-in-a-lifetime chance at glory is translated to the stage by composer Stephen Flaherty (Ragtime) and director Alex Timbers (Here Lies Love,[…]
This week the Public Theater announced PUBLIC STUDIO, a new program dedicated to staging new plays. This Spring the program will stage two new plays, in repertory, for ten days. Tickets are only $10. The productions are more than staged readings, less than fully staged productions. The first play, The Urban Retreat by[…]
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. The Neos are best known for their weekly sketch show Two Much Light[…]
After appearing in over 30 international festivals and venues all over Europe, The House, a puppet, comedy, thriller created and performed by Danish puppeteer Sofie Krog and Spanish artist David Faraco, is now in New York City for a 5-day limited engagement at HERE Arts Center. The House is billed as appropriate for[…]
Classic Stage Company (CSC) is a theater company located in the East Village in New York City dedicated to re-imagining classic plays for modern audiences. It recently announced its 2014-2015 season: The season kicks off in October 2014 with Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1947 musical Allegro. Tony-winner and CSC Associate Director[…]
We are very excited for Your Mother’s Copy of the Kama Sutra, a new play written by Kirk Lynn of the Austin, Texas-based Rude Mechanicals (Stop Hitting Yourself) and directed by Anne Kauffman. Its world premiere is this Spring at Playwrights Horizons. Kama Sutra is described by Playwrights Horizons as a “tough-love comedy”[…]
After a successful run at the Ensemble Studio Theater in 2011, Hand to God, a comedy by Robert Askins is back. MCC Theater gathered many from the original team to produce a new production of Hand to God at the Lucille Lortel Theater in the West Village. Moritz von Stuelpnagel again[…]
The Pig or Václav Havel’s Hunt for the Pig is a joint production of 3-Legged Dog (3LD) Art & Technology Center and Untitled Theater Company #61. It is billed as a “theatrical-musical-technological-gastronomic experience” and we think that’s a pretty apt description. Václav Havel was a fascinating man. He was a[…]
New York City Center announced the line-up for the second year of Encores! Off-Center — a series of staged concerts dedicated to landmark Off-Broadway musicals. The Artistic Director of this series is Jeanine Tesori, the composer of Fun Home and Violet. Encores! Off-Center is a recent addition to City Center’s acclaimed[…]
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Three people find themselves together in a locked room in hell. All three — total strangers — know that they’re dead and they know what they did to deserve this punishment, but they are a little taken aback by hell itself. As they tensely wait to see what torture will[…]
Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill wrote The Threepenny Opera in 1928 as a socialist critique of corruption and capitalism. More than 80 years later, it is as relevant as ever. The Atlantic Theater Company is reviving The Threepenny Opera with English translation by Marc Blitzstein, directing and choreography by Martha Clarke,[…]
Looking for romance? Stage Kiss by Sarah Ruhl at Playwrights Horizons is a backstage/onstage romantic melodrama with lots of humor and a surprisingly saccharine ending, featuring Dominic Fumusa and Jessica Hecht. Outside Mullingar by John Patrick Shanley is about two awkward neighbors in rural Ireland struggling with a long-standing dispute between their[…]
Bryan Cranston (Walter White from TV’s Breaking Bad) takes on the difficult task of portraying president Lyndon B. Johnson and speaking in a heavy Texan accent for 3 hours in his Broadway debut, All the Way, a political drama by Robert Schenkkan. All the Way traces the first year of Lyndon[…]
A world premiere from the Monk Parrots theater company, Bum Phillips All-American Opera is a contemporary opera based on the life of legendary football coach Bum Phillips. The Monk Parrots’ artistic director Luke Leonard conceived and directed the production; Kirk Lynn, founder and co-artistic director of the Rude Mechs, wrote[…]
Chiara Atik’s Women returns for several performances at The PIT following a record-breaking run as part of The Flea Theater’s @serials series, and a successful run at The Kraine Theatre. Women imagines the characters of the literary classic “Little Women” through the contemporary lens of the hit HBO series “Girls.” It turns[…]