Have you ever lamented the fact that you live in the greatest cultural city in the world, where artists create gorgeous art that you could see for virtually nothing today but tomorrow will be unattainably expensive and in demand, and yet you never take advantage? In the spirit of remedying[…]
Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind is the signature show of the funky theater group New York Neo-Futurists. It is a hectic sprint of creativity and energy as the actors aim to perform 30 plays in 60 minutes. The show takes place every Friday and Saturday night, 50 weeks a[…]
What’s It All About? Bacharach Reimagined, a tribute to the celebrated singer, songwriter, composer, and producer Burt Bacharach, is having its world premiere at the New York Theatre Workshop. Conceived by Kyle Riabko and David Lane Seltzer, What’s It All About? Bacharach Reimagined is a 90-minute fast-paced, soulful concert performed by a[…]
Christmas is almost here, and with it come many Christmas-themed shows (for a full list check out this special feature). One of these shows is How LTR Stole Christmas, an original variety show by theater company Less Than Rent (LTR). How LTR Stole Christmas is an umbrella title for three different shows[…]
If you are a fan of winter holiday cheer, you’re in luck, December is packed with Christmas, Hanukkah, and winter-y enthusiasm themed theater. Within this narrow category there are some surprisingly diverse options. Hate the holidays? We’ve got lots of non-winter-holiday-themed theater recommendations over here. Christmas Smackdown […]
Daniel Kitson is a British comedian and monologuist, and bonafide St. Ann’s Warehouse royalty but his most recent show there, Analog.Ue, has been controversial. Kitson is well-known for telling non-linear, humorous, intricate, sometimes romantic stories that often end with a twist. In Analog.Ue the twist comes at the beginning: Kitson[…]
Leah Nanako Winkler’s Death for Sydney Black, directed by Kip Fagan, is part of terraNOVA Collective’s terraNOVA Rx series. Death for Sydney Black is a raunchy, dark parody of the classic teen movie troupe in which an awkward girl (who, with a simple makeover, is actually extremely attractive) battles the popular, perfect[…]
Animals Commit Suicide is part of the terraNOVA Rx series, presented by terraNOVA Collective, running in repertory with Death For Sydney Black. Opening on World AIDS Day, Animals Commit Suicide tells the story of Chance, a 29-year-old who has everything going for him but is nonetheless weary and restless. He embarks on a[…]
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical had a well-received run in San Francisco earlier in 2013 and is premiering in New York City now. This biographical musical tells the story of chart-topping music legend Carole King and her rise to stardom from a teenage songwriter in Brooklyn. It features hits by King and her various collaborators, including[…]
Twelfth Night and Richard III, from Shakespeare’s Globe in London, are now running in repertory at the Belasco Theatre. These versions of Twelfth Night and Richard III offer a production loyal to the Bard’s time, including an all-male cast, period costumes, and audience seats surrounding the stage on three-sides. Both productions are directed by Tim Carroll[…]
Sonnet Repertory Theatre presents its take on Jean Genet’s 1947 French noir play, The Maids. The story revolves around Solange and Claire, two sisters employed as servants to a wealthy woman simply known as “Madame.” Feeling powerless in their stagnant, lowly existence, the two housemaids perform sadistic play-acts in their master’s[…]
The script of Terrence McNally’s And Away We Go might as well be a love poem to theater, written on the back of your playbill. It begins with members of the Pearl Theatre Company taking the stage to introduce themselves and talk about their favorite roles. Then, using only our[…]
59E59 Theaters presents the U.S. premiere of Towards The Moon, a folk-rock musical written by Scotsman Andrew McGregor. Bobby, a guy from a small town in Scotland, becomes a big-time writer in New York after an out-of-body experience. But his success proves to be short-lived, as inspiration runs out and he struggles[…]
Family Furniture, one of the 13 shows on Maxamoo’s November hot list, is running at The Flea Theater through December 22, 2013. Written by veteran playwright A.R. Gurney, Family Furniture is having its world premier at the Flea. The play is about the turmoil of an upper class family in the early 1950s Buffalo. Nick suspects[…]
From the late August Wilson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpieces Fences and The Piano Lesson (among others), comes a rarely performed solo show written just before Wilson’s death. In How I Learned What I Learned, now playing that Signature Theatre, Wilson recounts his early years in Pittsburgh, sketching the people[…]
A pair of theater legends are starring in a pair legendary plays this fall at the Cort Theatre. Sir Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings trilogy) and Sir Patrick Stewart (Star Trek: the Next Generation) together appear in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land on[…]
Shakespeare. Shaw. Four actors. Two plays, each over three hours long, in repertory. Alternating performances of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Shaw’s Saint Joan is the daunting task Bedlam Theatre, the tiny yet mighty ensemble, has undertaken. This production originally appeared at Access Theater in 2012. It was celebrated there and Bedlam is re-staging it at[…]
Tony Award-winning director Jack O’Brien has filled Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theatre with the colors of fear – deep blacks, harsh whites and blood reds – to stage Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Like many Shakespeare productions this season, this Macbeth is high on concept. Whirring sets, blinding spotlights, and a ubiquitous pounding score[…]
The iconic 1976 film Rocky, about an underdog boxer, is coming to New York as a BIG stage musical. The first incarnation of this boxing musical opened in Germany last year and it was a hit. The New York edition has quite the team behind it: director Alex Timbers (Peter and[…]
Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Charles Fuller’s new play, One Night… — a co-production of Cherry Lane Theatre and Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre — courageously takes on the plight of combat zone veterans, with a special focus on the experience of female soldiers. Alicia (the excellent Rutina Wesley, TV: True Blood) is a military[…]