Out-of-town guests to entertain? Date to plan? Looking for something fun to do? We surveyed our staff, associates, and expert critics to compile a master list of the best shows in town for every occasion. We picked one musical, one play, and one additional “wildcard” option in every category. Have[…]
The Patron Saint of Sea Monsters, a world premiere play at Playwrights Horizons written by Marlane Meyer and directed by Lisa Peterson, features Laura Heisler as Aubrey, an innocent and awkward romantic. She is also very religious, socially conservative, and in love with Calvin Little, her high school crush turned womanizing alcoholic.[…]
Founded in 1989, Ma-Yi Theater Company is a not-for-profit theater company based in New York City. It is an incubator for new works that give voice to Asian American experiences. The name “Ma-Yi” is the ancient Chinese term for the modern day Philippines. Ma-Yi was awarded a Special Drama Desk Award for Excellence in 2010 “for[…]
A Night With Janis Joplin has finally come to New York City after touring the country for two years. Adapted from the memoir of Janis Joplin’s sister Laura Joplin, the show largely takes the form of an imagined Joplin concert with references between songs to her childhood, life, and loves. Instead[…]
The Abingdon Theatre Company’s Page2Stage Reading Series is a two-step process. First, the First Reading is a basic reading that provides a playwright the opportunity to hear his or her work read aloud. Select plays are then given a Staged Reading with more rehearsal time and expanded staging and directing.[…]
The most theatrical of all holidays is just around the corner. Enjoy a spooky, funny, or musical Halloween event with your candy corn and jack-o-lantern:
Sarah Flood In Salem Mass, an unconventional play written by Obie Award winner Adriano Shaplin, is having its world premiere in New York City at The Flea. Sarah Flood is a girl from the future. She is bored with life and travels back to 17th century Salem on a mission to[…]
Revelation Readings from Red Bull Theater is one of the more elaborate theatrical reading series in town (read: fancy participants and expensive tickets). It focuses on new plays and rarely-performed classics. Tickets range from $20 to $80.
100 is a series of monologues written and performed by Pulitzer Prize nominee, winner of three Obie Awards and a Drama Desk Award, actor, and playwright Eric Bogosian. Kicking off Labyrinth Theater Company’s 2013-2014 season, the show is a selection (different each night) of about a dozen monologues from the 100 or[…]
Big Fish, one of the most highly anticipated shows of this fall’s theater season, has finally swum its way into the heart of New York. This contemporary musical centers on Edward Bloom, a traveling salesman with a penchant for telling larger-than-life stories–stories that include Edward’s encounters with a witch, a mermaid,[…]
Starring Tony and Grammy Award-winner Dee Dee Bridgewater, Lady Day takes residence at Little Shubert Theatre in New York City. Featuring 28 Billie Holiday standards, this musical recalls the Jazz singer’s last stop in her Europe Tour in London, 1954. The legendary star is consumed by alcohol and drugs, her life in a[…]
Photos by Joan Marcus Bad Jews is Roundabout Theatre Company’s encore presentation of Joshua Harmon’s acerbic comedy, which debuted at the Roundabout Underground’s BlackBox Theatre last year. Now playing at the significantly larger Laura Pels Theatre just up the stairs from the Black Box, Bad Jews invites us to spend an evening[…]
For theater-aficionados, -addicts, -critics, -lovers, and -professionals we offer the Maxamoo Daily Digest. It is a daily morning email of reviews and news about New York City theater collected from 20 newspapers, magazines, and respected independent blogs. Get all of the day’s theater news in one spot every morning. Enter[…]
Kicking off Ma-Yi Theater Company’s 25th anniversary season, Bike America is the story of a scenic cross-country journey. The heroine of the play, Penny, is a 27-year-old graduate school student seeking more adventure in her life. On a whim, she ditches her clingy boyfriend and departs Boston, where she has lived her[…]
The Film Society is the Keen Company’s 25th anniversary revival of the play by Jon Robin Baitz (Other Desert Cities). The play is a story of struggle in 1970s South Africa. It is set in an all-white boys school. Following a radical teacher’s invitation to a black minister to address[…]
Making magic shows cool again, Nothing to Hide is taking New York by storm after a successful run in Los Angeles. Aimed at “abandoning the antiquated notions of a traditional magic show,” young, sleight-of-hand magicians Derek DelGaudio and Helder Guimarães created and perform Nothing to Hide. It is directed by TV star[…]
NEW WORKS hosted by Brave New World Rep is a reading series of plays by Brooklyn-based playwrights. Each play is presented in an environmentally-specific location in Brooklyn. Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lindsay-Abaire serves as advisor to the playwrights involved in the program.
WorkShop Theater Company hosts a variety of events that present plays and musicals in varying stages of progress, including: Plays in Progress, a staged reading series, and Sundays@Six.
The 25th Annual Festival of New Musicals will be held at New World Stages in New York City on Thursday, October 17 and Friday, October 18, 2013 for a select audience of National Alliance for Musical Theatre members, producers, and other musical theater industry professionals. The Festival presents 45-minute staged[…]
The revival of Tennessee Williams’s classic, The Glass Menagerie, opened to (almost uniformly) strong reviews. Ben Brantley in The New York Times lauded the production, saying viewers should “be prepared to have the breath knocked out of you” and calling the direction “stunning” and the acting “career defining.” Scott Brown in New[…]