UPDATE, February 12, 2014 Naked in Alaska announced an extension of its run through March 1, 2014 Original post, January 22, 2014 Naked in Alaska is a one-person show created and performed by Valerie Hager about her 10-year career as an exotic dancer, which followed a serious drug addiction and eating[…]
On this week’s episode Lindsay and Nicole welcome Kathryn Jones from VirtualArts.TV to chat about theatrical performance broadcasts, topics include Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller in Frankenstein, Tom Hiddleston in Coriolanus, and lots of other stuff. Subscribe to the Maxamoo Podcast on iTunes, and check out our podcasts page. Stuff we discuss: VirtualArts.TV[…]
The Who and the What is a Lincoln Center Theater production by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar. It will have its New York debut in June, following its world premiere last spring at La Jolla Playhouse in California. The Who and the What explores the rift between traditional values and contemporary life[…]
It’s Valentine’s Day. AGAIN. If you’re not a fan, may we suggest a few productions distinctly not in the hearts and roses spirit: If all you want for Valentine’s Day is to stare at some finely toned abs, you can’t do better than the Signature Theater’s Kung Fu, the story of[…]
Playwright and performer Charles Busch (The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife) wrote and stars in The Tribute Artist, a new comedy presented by Primary Stages. Jimmy (Busch) is an aging, out-of-work female celebrity tribute artist, late of Las Vegas now in Greenwich Village. His misanthropic and solitary landlady, Adriana, dies in[…]
Many excellent shows wrap up their performance schedules this week, including Maxamoo recommendations: Women, a modern comedy, at The Kraine Theater; My Daughter Keeps Our Hammer, psychological drama, at The Flea; and The Woodsman, the Tin Man’s romantic backstory, and Beertown, an interactive town hall meeting, at 59E59 Theaters. [metaslider id=8298]
Written by Swedish playwright Jonas Hassen Khemiri, author of the critically acclaimed Invasion! (2011), I Call My Brothers makes its U.S. debut with The Play Company at New Ohio Theatre this month. Khemiri developed I Call My Brothers, first a novel then the play, after a bombing in Stockholm in 2010. It is based, in part, on his experience in[…]
Chiara Atik’s Women imagines the characters of the literary classic “Little Women” through the contemporary lens of the hit HBO series “Girls.” It turns out, it’s, like, SOOO hard to be a girl in the 1860s. Nobody understands you, you can’t get your career off the ground and, like, your mom keeps[…]
Real-life wife and husband, Megan Mullally (TV: Will and Grace) and Nick Offerman (TV: Parks and Recreation) are set to take the stage together in The New Group’s Annapurna, written by Sharr White and directed by Bart DeLorenzo. Mullally, an Emmy winner and New York stage regular, and Offerman play a couple separated for[…]
Based on the writings of L. Frank Baum (author of The Wonderful of Wizard of Oz), James Ortiz’s The Woodsman is the tale of Oz’s beloved Tin Man. The story takes place in “Munchkin country,” in the eastern portion of Oz. It centers on Nick, a charming woodsman. Nick falls in[…]
Better, cheaper theater recommendations for this weekend in New York City. [metaslider id=8228]
The Secret Theatre presents Kari Bentley-Quinn’s The Unlikely Ascent of Sybil Stevens, directed by Christopher Diercksen. Sybil, a flight attendant, is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash. In The Unlikely Ascent of Sybil Stevens she struggles with that life-changing trauma, aggravated by unwanted fame. The Unlikely Ascent of Sybil Stevens is scheduled[…]
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Our intrepid panel of Lindsay (our Founder), Nicole (from Mildly Bitter’s Musings), and David (from It’s DLevy) discuss the shows they’re most excited about in the coming month. Subscribe to the Maxamoo Podcast on iTunes, and check out our podcasts page. The shows discussed: A Doll’s House – Brooklyn Academy[…]
Playwright and provocateur Thomas Bradshaw, who’s known for creating shocking and taboo-shattering plays, showcases his latest work, Intimacy with The New Group at Acorn Theatre on Theatre Row. It is full of profanity, nudity, simulated sex, bodily fluids, and racism and attempts to expose the hypocrisy that resides in America’s suburbs towards sex, pornography,[…]
Following a world premiere at the Humana Festival of New American Plays last spring, and successful runs at both the Victory Garden Theater in Chicago and the Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington D.C., the comic drama Appropriate is coming to New York City this February. Written by Residency Five member Branden Jacobs-Jenkins,[…]
FRIGID New York, a winter theater festival presented by Horse Trade Theater Group, will be held for the eighth year this February. Founded in 2007, FRIGID prides itself for being an “open and uncensored” festival that gives participating artists the utmost creative freedom. Unique to the FRIGID amongst theater festivals, 100%[…]
Our founder Lindsay Barenz, Nicole from Mildly Bitter’s Musings, and David from It’s DLevy all saw the new play Intimacy by Thomas Bradshaw and on this episode they have a few things to say about it. Subscribe to the Maxamoo Podcast on iTunes, and check out our podcasts page. The shows, theater companies,[…]
Beertown, created by the theater ensemble dog and pony dc, is an interactive theatrical event. It arrives in New York at 59E59 Theaters after a popular run in Washington, DC. The premise is as follows: Audience members are citizens of Beertown — Beertonians — and they gather to celebrate the opening[…]
Maxamoo’s Hot List, a preview of what’s hot Beyond Broadway in New York City theater this month. [metaslider id=8037]