Disaster! is a crazy, fast-paced, musical that lovingly spoofs 1970s disaster movies. It features the greatest musical hits of the decade in hilarious, often literal interpretations. All-in-all it’s an unhinged fun-fest. In the summer of 1979, the first casino in Manhattan opens on a ship on the Hudson River. A wide[…]
The Apple Family Plays are a series of four plays by Tony Award winner Richard Nelson. The plays focus on the Apples, a fictional, liberal family in Rhinebeck, New York. Each play is set on a significant date* and is a conversation amongst the family members that touches on the[…]
We don’t want to be alarmist but we do want to inform you that tickets have gone on sale for Denzel Washington in A Raisin in the Sun coming to New York City. Now you might be thinking that sounds interesting and at some point in the future I’d like to get[…]
Musicals Tonight! is an OBIE Award winning New York City theater company dedicated to the revival of “neglected musicals.” Now in it’s 16th season Musicals Tonight! has revived over 70 musicals as staged concerts. Musicals Tonight! hosts staged musicals and a concert series called “At This Performance” at which standbys and understudies in currently[…]
Life on the Mississippi explores the life of Sam Clemens, a boy who wanted to be a steamboat pilot and grew up to become Mark Twain, one of America’s greatest writers. It is based on Twain’s memoir of the same name. The musical is set on the Paul Jones, a[…]
The Castillo Theatre and The New Federal Theatre’s joint production of the play In The Wine Time is a revival by Ed Bullins, an influential African American playwright. Set in the 1950s, In The Wine Time is a poignant portrait of the plight of African Americans at the time. It follows Lou, Cliff, and Lou’s[…]
Julie Taymor, the endlessly inventive magician of the theater, returns to the New York stage with Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the inaugural production of Theatre for a New Audience’s new home in Brooklyn. The first production in a sleek new theater should feel celebratory, seminal, or at least alive.[…]
There are so many good shows in New York this November it’s hard to prioritize. Do not let this month go by without getting yourself to the theater as many times as possible and at the very least once. Here are the 13 shows we’re most excited about: Maxamoo’s November[…]
Written by Lucile Lichtblau and directed by Carl Wallnau, The English Bride, a new production at 59E59 Theaters, was inspired by real events. In April 1986, a man attempted to place a bomb on an El Al flight departing from London. The incident was nicknamed the Hindawi Affair, after Nezar Hindawi,[…]
Written in 1924 by the great Irish playwright Sean O’Casey, Juno and the Paycock at the Irish Repertory Theatre is the tragic tale of a poor family living in difficult times. Set during the bloody Civil War that ravaged Ireland in the 1920s, the play tracks the downward spiral of the[…]
The Flea Theater was founded in 1996 by director Jim Simpson, playwright Mac Wellman, and designer Kyle Chepulis — all renowned artists — with a mission to create “a joyful hell in a small space.” Nestled in the heart of TriBeCa, The Flea Theater is now an award-winning incubator for “non-institutional and resolutely noncommercial”[…]
Fresh from a super hot run at La MaMa, The Foundry Theatre transfers its production of the Good Person of Szechwan to The Public Theater. It stars Taylor Mac, the legendary actor, singer, cabaret performer, and performance artist and includes original, folky-indie-rock music from César Alvarez with The Lisps. Regarding the production at La MaMa, the New York[…]
One of the best ways to get discounted tickets to the theater in New York City is membership in the Theatre Development Fund (better known as TDF). Membership in TDF costs $30 for one year BUT with Maxamoo’s discount code for $5 off, you can join TDF for $25. The[…]
Bill Bowers is an acclaimed multi-disciplinary artist. His shows combine music, monologues, and mime. Bowers is performing his autobiographical one-man show Beyond Words as part of the 2013 All For One Theater Festival for solo performances. In a collection of vignettes from Bowers’ early life, Beyond Words combines mime, monologues, and sound effects to[…]
Praised by Time Out New York as “easily the most fun you can have Off-Off Broadway without being arrested for possession or assault”, Alice In Slasherland is a gory, geeky fairytale by Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company. This play tells the story of Lewis Park, a high school nerd, and his bloody adventure with[…]
UPDATE – December 3, 2013 If you missed Eric Dufault’s Year of the Rooster before it closed in November, we were gonna feel bad for you, but you’ve been given a second chance. This hilarious, aggressive, and moving new play is returning to Ensemble Studio Theatre on January 9th for an extended run[…]
Salesmen: a Meditation on Masculinity and the American REAL! by Theater Reconstruction Ensemble is presented as part of the 2013 SubletSeries at HERE Art Center. Amongst several talented performers, Salesmen features 2013 New York Innovative Theatre Awards winner Nick Smerkanich. With no explicit storyline, Salesmen assembles a group of eight men, whose identities and relationships[…]
LUCE, a play, is part of Lincoln Center Theater’s LCT3 program that produces “new artists for new audiences.” In the play, a teacher finds illegal fireworks in the locker of a charming, high achieving student. This leads to an uncomfortable parent-teacher conference and lots of hand-wringing. It does not lead[…]
Upon entering the performance space for The Downtown Loop at the 3-Legged Dog Art + Technology Center, you’re offered a hot dog (a vegetarian option is available) and beverage. That’s your first hint that this is not going to be a typical night at the theater. Then you climb a flight[…]
The Irish Repertory Theater presents an evening of three plays by Irish master Samuel Beckett – all of them short, all of them weird, and all of them decidedly geared toward the avant-garde among us. A Mind-Bending Evening of Beckett consists of “Act Without Words,” cleverly yet awkwardly performed with puppets,[…]