La MaMa is often credited as the birthplace of “Off Off Broadway” theater. Its founder, Ellen Stewart, opened the La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, or La MaMa E.T.C, or, just, La MaMa, in a tiny Lower East Side basement in New York City in 1961. Stewart dedicated the space to[…]
The Machine is a multimedia, theatrical spectacle that dramatizes the 1997 man versus machine chess competition between Gary Kasparov and IBM’s Deep Blue computer. Written by Matt Charman and helmed by Donmar Warehouse Artistic Director Josie Rourke, it is staged in the round at New York’s vast Park Avenue Armory. Dominating the stage are[…]
Monologist Mike Daisey performs 29 monologues on 29 consecutive nights at Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater. The monologues are a mix of first and third person storytelling, sometimes drifting into the fantasy genre. Daisey describes the monologues as each a stand alone piece but also connected to the others by[…]
Photos by Russ Rowland The Cheaters Club refers to three siblings who go on an annual vacation for the purpose of cheating on their spouses. This year, with a new recruit, they travel to Savannah, Georgia, also known as “the most haunted city in America.” Although they are eager to add[…]
Vienna was the cultural and intellectual center of the world at the dawn of the 20th century, it also gestated many seeds of evil that plagued this era. This is the premise behind Final Analysis, which depicts a series of encounters among prominent figures from the days before the first[…]
HERE Arts Center is a performance art space in New York’s Soho neighborhood. It hosts two theaters and a small cafe. Founded in 1993, HERE is also a producing organization that supports artists creating innovative, multidisciplinary work. HERE and the work presented at HERE have garnered multitude of awards, including 16[…]
Everything Is Ours at HERE Arts Center is theater company Colt Coeur’s fourth world premiere production. In this play a young couple, Mitchell and Sara, have every material comfort thanks to their innovative web-based businesses. But then their content, bourgeois life tumbles into chaos when a child in need of care-taking unexpectedly arrives at[…]
The Fall theater schedule in New York City is packed with staged readings from some amazing artists at the Lark Play Development Center, MCC Theater, WorkShop Theater Company, 1st Irish Festival, & Amas Musical Theatre. Send announcements of additional readings to lindsay at maxamoo.com. 20th Annual Playwrights’ WeekDuring the Lark Play[…]
In The Awake nightmares mix with reality: Nate is kidnapped, interrogated and forced to start life anew; Gabrielle, a foreign actress, catches fire and then finds herself serving as a housewife in America; and Malcolm floats on a bed in a flooded world only to awake at his mother’s bedside where she is in[…]
FringeNYC Encore Series provides another opportunity to see some of the most critically-acclaimed and crowd-pleasing shows from the 2013 New York International Fringe Festival. Solo and group shows are presented separately. Click here for the solo shows. GROUP SHOWS PeninsulaIn Absentia ProductionsWriter: Nathan Wright / Director: Nadia FoskolouBest Ensemble winner at FringeNYC[…]
FringeNYC Encore Series provides another opportunity to see some of the most critically-acclaimed and crowd-pleasing shows from the 2013 New York International Fringe Festival. Solo and group shows are presented separately. Click here for the group shows. SOLO SHOWS Melting in MadrasOvercoat Theater (Boston, MA)Writer: H.R. Britton / Director: Rajeev VarmaA[…]
Alvin Gordon, played by comedian Bruce Vilanch, is a bitter out-of-work comedy writer in his 50s. In RUBBLE, Alvin is asked to write a pilot for a sitcom (which he hates) at a large network (which he also hates). At a meeting to discuss the offer an earthquake strikes and Alvin[…]
Listen… Can You Hear Me Now? is an autobiographical, one woman show by Gloria Rosen about her life growing up as a hearing child in a deaf home. Gloria is not only a fantastic storyteller but also able to embody herself as a character. In the show, she describes her[…]
Romance is certainly a popular topic in the theater. It’s hard to create something in the genre that is not clichéd, which makes Another Evening of Awkward Romance all the more remarkable. It stands out as a unique and fun new look at love and romantic encounters. In the show writer[…]
In Bradley Cole, a musical at the FringeNYC 2013 festival, Ian Maxwell is an anti-social, nerdy nobody. He knows computers better than he knows people, which is how he built Bradley Cole, his fictional online persona. As Bradley Cole, Ian pretends to be rich and glamorous and soon acquires a cult-like[…]
In Killer Therapy, a dramatic comedy at this year’s FringeNYC Festival, a pacifist psychologist is en route to her afternoon spin class, natch, when a notorious assassin in full midlife crisis comes looking for answers, not those kind of answers, the meaning of life kind of answers. What follows is[…]
The Drama Desk Award winning 59E59 Theaters (conveniently named after its location) is an upscale complex of three theaters and a bar that serves drinks and snacks, located near the southeast corner of Central Park in New York City. It was built by the nonprofit organization The Elysabeth Kleinhans Theatrical Foundation[…]
Matt Graham is an international Scrabble champion. His love of the game inspired his new solo show The Great iii Am, in which the morose Graham teaches the audience a few Scrabble tricks and by extension a few lessons about life and God. Graham improvises a lot in this production, so[…]
In The Accidental Hamlet, two wannabe actors — the pompous Frederick and the goofy John — take on the difficult task of performing Hamlet all on their own. The theater-within-theater premise provides the framework for a comedy which weaves scenes from the great Shakespearean tragedy with bits of slapstick: John demands[…]
Emily has reached the point in life where all of her friends are getting married. And as if that’s not bad enough, one of those friends is Emily’s ex, Michael. So Emily and her gay best friend, Alex, embark on a trip (that goes horribly awry, of course) for the wedding, and[…]