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 discussion of The Public Theater’s forthcoming Shakespeare in the Park season by Lindsay, Maxamoo’s founder, and Nicole, from Mildly Bitter’s Musings. Subscribe to Maxamoo’s Podcast on iTunes or Stitcher.
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[…]
From swooning over Sam Barnett’s performance in Twelfth Night to speaking frankly about the homogeneity of critics, Lindsay, Maxamoo’s founder, and Nicole, from Mildly Bitter’s Musings, rant and rave about theater in New York City. Subscribe to Maxamoo’s Podcast on iTunes or Stitcher. Specifically, we: Celebrate the final performance of Twelfth Night on Broadway;[…]
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[…]
News of official openings, first performances, and closings this week beyond Broadway in New York City. [metaslider id=8539]
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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[…]
This spring Drama Desk nominee Ed Sylvanus Iskandar directs The Flea Theater’s The Mysteries, a radical interpretation of the Bible. The six-hour long epic is a collaboration among 48 writers commissioned by artistic director Jim Simpson and producing director Carol Ostrow. The playwrights include Tony Award and Academy Award winners and nominees David Henry[…]
Looking for a romantic show that’s not too expensive? Three excellent options: We’re not going to say a single mean thing about Mark Rylance’s Twelfe Night on Broadway. It’s wonderful. But if you don’t already have tickets, you’re not getting them now, unless you’re willing to pay big bucks on the secondary[…]
Philadelphia’s Pig Iron Theatre Company returns to New York with a loud, raucous, exuberantly fun production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. The oft-revived story of love, mistaken identities, and trickery is given new life here with hipster beards, pratfalls, an on-stage slide, and one hell of a brass band. Though decidedly contemporary,[…]
Written by John Cariani, Almost, Maine is the most staggeringly popular play you’ve never heard of (or maybe you have, we’re split 50/50 on the issue). It is currently the most produced play in North American high-schools. That fact notwithstanding, the show did not fare well at its New York premiere[…]
In The Unlikely Ascent of Sybil Stevens, a flight attendant, the eponymous Sybil, survives a devastating commercial plane crash. She is the sole survivor. Sybil is pulled from the wreckage by a friendly Wyoming emergency medical technician (EMT), who helps her recover until she is well-enough to return home to[…]