We discuss cabaret in New York City, the performance genre not Cabaret the musical, with David Levy from It’sDLevy, Adam Feldman from Time Out New York, and Lindsay Barenz, Maxamoo’s founder. We discuss so many venues and performers in this episode it wasn’t practical to list every single one but we[…]
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[…]
News of official openings, first performances, closings, and other news this week beyond Broadway in New York City theater. [metaslider id=9205]
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[…]
We were so angry when we left this play. The frustrating characters and their poor decision-making drove us crazy. Now with a couple of days’ distance from the performance, we realize, wow, that was some effective playmaking. Take Me Back is the New York City premiere of playwright Emily Schwend. It[…]
Tarell Alvin McCraney takes on Shakespeare’s notoriously difficult Antony and Cleopatra with a contextual re-imagining. He transports the tragedy from the last days of the Roman Empire to 18th century Saint-Domingue on the eve of the Haitian revolution. He enlists Enobarbus, Antony’s friend and supporter, as a narrator to assist with guiding the audience through[…]
Maxamoo’s Hot List, a preview of what’s hot beyond Broadway in New York City theater this March. Appropriate, an explosive play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is set to have its New York premiere at the Signature Theatre. It hit our early buzz radar from multiple directions and is at the top of our[…]
Gideon Productions is performing a stage adaption of the graphic novel Kill Shakespeare by Anthony Del Col and Conor McCreery at HERE Arts Center through Wednesday, March 5th. This production is a lot of fun, colorful images from the graphic novel are projected onto a large screen in the middle[…]
The Open House, a new play by Will Eno at Signature Theatre, is a droll take-down of the classic Family Drama in American theater. Acerbic, depressing dramas about families who destroy each other may have brought immortality (not to mention Pulitzers) to Arthur Miller and Eugene O’Neill, but Eno has[…]
With The Happiest Song Plays Last, Quiara Alegría Hudes completes her critically acclaimed trilogy of plays, which began with Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Water by the Spoonful. This final play concludes the story of Elliot, an Iraq War veteran who struggles with the memory of his tour,[…]
We’re expecting a marvelous March at the theater. Lindsay, Maxamoo’s founder, Jack, a writer at Maxamoo, and Nicole, from Mildly Bitter’s Musings discuss the shows they’re most looking forward to seeing this month but first have a chat about a few recent productions. Subscribe to Maxamoo’s Podcast on iTunes or Stitcher. Current Productions[…]
Playwrights Horizons announced the lineup for its 2014-15 season today and we are excited. For starters, playwright Melissa James Gibson (author of This, one of our all-time favorite productions at Playwrights Horizons) will present the world premiere of her new play Placebo with her frequent collaborator, Daniel Aukin, directing (he also[…]
News of official openings, first performances, closings, and other news this week beyond Broadway in New York City theater.[metaslider id=8961]
Art and life intertwine in Stage Kiss, a play by Sarah Ruhl having its New York premiere this February at Playwrights Horizons. In the play, two actors with a personal history are chosen to play the leads in a romantic melodrama. Quickly, real life and on stage drama merge into a meta[…]
Speakeasy Dollhouse is a series of immersive jazz and burlesque theatrical events developed by Cynthia von Buhler. Dressing up isn’t required but it is encouraged. The first production in the series, The Bloody Beginning, explores a murder mystery involving the owner of a Prohibition Era speakeasy in New York City. The performance[…]