Our intrepid co-host Nicole from Mildly Bitter’s Musings packed 10 shows into six days in London, we chat about her favorites and related-upcoming productions in New York City and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Lindsay and new guest host Aurin Squire (playwright and contributor at New York Theatre Review) discuss[…]
A Fable, a new play by David Van Asselt, the artistic director at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, is celebrating a world premiere at Cherry Lane Theatre. A Fable is a joint production of Rattlestick, piece by piece productions, and Rising Phoenix Repertory. It is directed by Daniel Talbott, the literary manager at Rattlestick.[…]
Sam Hunter’s plays explore the existential crisis thoughtful people live through every day. His plays are quiet until they’re loud, devastating until they’re sneakily joyful, and simple until they’re suddenly complicated. The Few, a new play by Hunter at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in the West Village, is set in the office[…]
The number one question we get at Maxamoo is where can I find discount theater tickets? On this episode of Maxamoo’s New York Theater Podcast, three frequent theatergoers, Lindsay, David, and Jack, share their hints, tips, and secrets for finding discount theater tickets in New York City. The market for[…]
The glitterati of New York’s Off and Off-Off-Broadway theater worlds gathered Monday night to celebrate The Village Voice 59th Annual Obie Awards. In a traditionally styled awards ceremony at Webster Hall, The Village Voice awarded Obies for performance, playwrighting, design, and direction for productions in New York’s medium (100-499 seats)[…]
The Pearl Theatre Company revives The Rivals, a 1775 comedy of manners by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, directed by The Pearl’s new artistic director Hal Brooks. Carol Schultz reprises the role of Mrs. Malaprop, an elderly woman who prides herself on having advanced language skills, but continuously butchers idioms. It’s a[…]
Flux Theatre presents the world premiere of August Schulenburg’s Jane the Plain, a supernatural comedy that utilizes familiar high school archetypes to tell an uplifting tale of self-discovery and social conflict. Jane the Plain yearns for Scotty the Hottie, the popular but oblivious Quarterback of Plainview High School. The two hookup and[…]
Playwright and performer Edgar Oliver (Helen & Edgar at this year’s Under the Radar Festival) and director Randy Sharp join forces for In The Park, a new solo show performed at Axis Theatre in the West Village. Axis Theatre previously presented East 10th Street also by Oliver and Sharp. It won an Edinburgh Fringe First[…]
The latest in New York City theater with Lindsay and David, we chat about audience outrage at Irma La Douce at Encores! at City Center, the brilliance of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ An Octoroon at Soho Rep, and Cher and Cyndi Lauper on tour together. Subscribe to Maxamoo’s Podcast on iTunes or Stitcher. Shows discussed: Irma La Douce[…]
The Few is a quiet three-character play by Samuel D. Hunter (The Whale, A Bright New Boise) making its East Coast premier at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. The story of a newspaper written for long-haul truck drivers passing through a lonely Idaho stretch of I-80, whose founder returns after mysteriously disappearing for[…]
The Drama League Awards are presented by The Drama League. The winners will be announced at a luncheon hosted by Jesse Tyler Ferguson on May 16. For background about the Drama League Awards and other theater awards, click here. Outstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Play All That Fall 59[…]
Woody Allen’s 1994 comedy about hapless artists and menacing mobsters coming together to put on a show has been adapted into a splashy Broadway musical. With direction and peppy choreography by Susan Stroman and a score of early jazz numbers, Bullets Over Broadway is Allen’s first stab at a stage musical.[…]
Samuel D. Hunter is a New York City-based playwright. He is best know for his award winning plays The Whale (2013 Lucille Lortel Award, Best Play, 2013 Drama Desk Special Award for Significant Contribution to Theatre, 2013 GLAAD Media Award, Outstanding New York Theatre) and A Bright New Boise (2011 Obie Award[…]
The Drama Desk Awards are presented by the Drama Desk, an organization of critics, editors, reporters, and freelance writers. The winners will be announced on June 1 at a ceremony hosted by Laura Benanti at Town Hall. For background on the Drama Desk Awards and other theater awards, click here. Outstanding[…]
CollaborationTown’s Family Play (1979 to Present) is the result of a two-year residency at IRT and the New Ohio Theater. Family Play is composed of micro-scenes, lasting between 30 seconds and two minutes, in which a cast of six alternates between numerable nameless roles and relationships – parents and children, partners[…]
59E59 Theaters present the U.S. premiere of David Rudkin’s The Lovesong of Alfred J. Hitchcock, a stage version of Rudkin’s award-winning radio play for the BBC. This production is part of the Brits Off Broadway Festival. The Lovesong of Alfred J. Hitchcock explores the famous filmmaker’s dreams, desires, and frustrations. It introduces Hitchcock as a man “imprisoned[…]
It’s easy to get distracted by the plot summary of Your Mother’s Copy of the Kama Sutra and miss the brilliance of its commentary on relationships, questions that linger long after the performance: Can you ever truly know another person and what responsibility comes with knowing another’s secrets? The plot: a couple[…]
An all-comedy performances, all-lady hosts episode from Lindsay, Nicole, and Elise. Hear the tale of Lindsay and Nicole’s harrowing bus ride to Boston and subsequent run-in with Wyatt Cenac on the subway. We chat about standup at The Comedy Cellar, Highline Ballroom, The Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival, Whiplash at UCB in Chelsea,[…]
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,[…]