Past reviews, recommendations, profiles, and posts about arts and culture in New York City.
Kung Fu, the new play at Signature Theater by Tony-winner David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly, Chinglish) is the story of legendary martial artist and actor Bruce Lee. From his childhood in Hong Kong and bumpy road to stardom in Los Angeles, Kung Fu traces Lee’s unlikely journey using traditional drama, Chinese opera,[…]
Petunia and Chicken at the 2014 FRIGID New York theater festival is a marvel. It’s creators and performers, Carrie Brown and Karim Muasher of Animal Engine theater company, paint scenic vistas, portray numerous characters, and create a soundtrack of music and sound effects to tell a beautiful story inspired by the[…]
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Presented as part of the 2014 FRIGID New York theater festival, Key of E by the Orlando-based Dark Side of Saturn theater company is described as “an apocalyptic rock musical.” Ethan is a bitter, drunk musician who can’t wait for the world to end so humanity can shed its dead weight and start[…]
It’s 1997, and Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are not yet the comedy powerhouse we know and love. In fact, they’re two broke nobodies, living as roommates in a dingy apartment in Chicago. Not for long, though – Saturday Night Live just hired Tina as a junior writer, and it’s her[…]
In Drag Queen Stole My Dress, part of the FRIGID New York 2014 theater festival, writer and performer Gillian English recounts the story of her broken engagement to be married and subsequent journey to empowerment. The one-woman performance is part standup, part theater, and part storytelling. The events are clearly a[…]
The Paradise Factory re-opens this month after a 2-year renovation with the world premiere of Tom Noonan’s new play The Shape Of Something Squashed. Noonan, performer, playwright, and director, wrote the play after he turned down the job to help Jennifer Lawrence practice her lines for the mega-hit The Hunger Games. It tells the[…]
The Bridges of Madison County is a new musical based on the well-known novel by Robert James Waller (it was also adapted into a 1995 movie starring Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood). Musical theater notables make up the creative team – Marsha Norman (‘Night Mother) adapted the book, Jason Robert Brown[…]
A cast of fifteen performs a seemingly endless string of short vignettes in Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information. It’s an evening of playlets that circles the idea of “information” – what it is, how it’s used, and how it defines every kind of human relationship. Straight from its well-received run at London’s Royal[…]
During Off Broadway Week (two weeks actually, February 17 – March 2, 2014) you can buy two tickets for the price of one at 56 different Off Broadway shows. Discounted tickets to many of Maxamoo’s recommended shows are available through the special, including Saint Joan, Disaster, and Buyer & Cellar. Also interesting are[…]
Buy 2 tickets for the price of 1 to select Off Broadway theater productions through March 2, 2014. Off-Broadway Week (which conveniently lasts for two weeks) features 56 shows. To take advantage of this special deal when purchasing tickets use the appropriate promo code listed on Off Broadway Week’s official[…]
Boasting the tagline “A Comedy with Consequences,” InViolet Repertory Theater’s Branched, written by Erin Mallon and playing at HERE Arts Center, is just that: a dark satire about a serious subject matter. The uptight Tamara Jenkins rules her family with an iron fist. Her husband Martin wears a permanent smile and[…]
The Public Theater announced Much Ado About Nothing and King Lear as the productions for the 52nd annual season of Shakespeare in the Park, the annual summer festival of outdoor theater at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. Much Ado About Nothing will feature Lily Rabe as Beatrice and Hamish Linklater[…]
Located in the Long Island City neighborhood in Queens, The Secret Theatre is a multipurpose, performance complex. It hosts theater performances, music concerts, film screenings, art exhibitions, and classes and workshops, including regular productions by the Queen Secret Improv Club, an indie improv comedy collective; the Secret Children’s Theatre, Saturday afternoon[…]
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Trish Harnetiaux’s new play If You Can Get To Buffalo, presented by the Incubator Arts Project, looks at the dark side of the early days of the Internet. Inspired by Julian Dibbell’s 1993 article A Rape in Cyberspace, the play takes us to LambdaMOO, the original online social network from the early[…]
The Correspondent, a new play by Ken Urban at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, opens with Philip Graves (Thomas Jay Ryan) mourning the death of his wife of 25 years. He drinks heavily as he picks apart their final moments, wallowing in regret. In desperation he hires a terminally ill young woman[…]
Celebrating its tenth season, Brits Off Broadway is an annual festival of British theater in New York City presented by 59E59 Theaters. It has a reputation for bringing over strong work by emerging and veteran British artists and prides itself for being host to “the UK’s most innovative and provocative theater in New York[…]
Names usually associated with film and TV are joining forces at The Public Theater this spring: Oscar and Emmy-winning director Steven Soderbergh (film: Traffic, Erin Brockovich, Ocean’s Eleven) will direct the world premiere of The Library, written by Scott Z. Burns (film: Side Effects, Contagion, The Bourne Ultimatum), starring Chloë Grace Moretz (film: Hugo, Carrie, Kick Ass). The drama centers on Caitlin[…]