It may feel like the only show actually happening in July is a little scrappy musical called Hamilton but we found a lot of other shows worth your time. We’ve got some out-of-town recommendations as well as local NYC tips. We find musicals, plays, performance art, and theater-themed walks for all[…]
Liz and Nicole both saw a ton of Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway work this week. With a vampire girl, a lady cross-dresser, a play within a play being tech’d, polyamorous entanglements, and a work-place comedy that is anything but feel-good, there’s a lot of excellent work happening beyond Broadway. In all the[…]
Although theater typically slows down in the summer in New York City, we found a ton of shows worth checking out in the month of June. We recommend some musicals in town and not far out-of-town. We talk about some great inexpensive theater festivals offering fun, adventurous, and unusual shows. There are also a few[…]
Sometimes we don’t spot a theme until we sit down to talk about the shows we’ve seen. This week we happened to discuss a number of plays written by women focused on characters who are contemplating how they’ve ended up where they are and the challenges of moving forward, moving on,[…]
After last week’s suuuuuuper-long episode we promise this week is a little more bite-sized. We do a quick check in on what we’ve seen around town. Lindsay returned for a visit because she won tickets to attend the season finale of Saturday Night Live. We weigh in on that experience–hey, it’s[…]
We turn our attention to Broadway fully this week with a look at the 2015 Tony nominees. Broadway experts Dave and Aileen lead Nicole (the non-expert) through the major awards. We speculate on who we think will win and the politics behind those choices. It’s a lot of snark, gossip,[…]
Our Tony nominations talk went really long but we could not leave this mini-discussion on the cutting room floor. We pride ourselves on our equality discussions and here we shed light on a certain sex act we’d like to see more of on stage. Honestly, if have you seen this sex act[…]
This week we spotlight the world of geek theater. From Vampire Cowboys and their wonderful use of Sheldon Best in Six Rounds of Vengeance, to the Dragonball Z-y universe of Kapow-i GoGo, to Romeo and Juliet and Zombies (R&J&Z), we’ve gotten quite a taste of the high-flying, bloody, raucous, and colorful[…]
Something was in the air this week because David and Jack serenade us A LOT on this episode. And yet we were previewing mostly plays and not musicals in May. Some of our favorite artists have work opening soon including Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Annie Baker, Robert Askins, Bruce Norris, Simon Stephens, and[…]
With the constant stream of new shows opening in New York, we take the unusual step of looking backwards rather than forwards. Liz had the brilliant idea to focus an episode on long-running shows we’ve never seen. We visited plays and musicals that had been around from 10 to 40[…]
With the Tony deadline fast approaching, Broadway is chockablock with new shows opening including a ton of musicals. We dedicate a full episode to some of the musicals we’ve seen lately. There are screen-to-stage adaptations, book-to-stage adaptations, and just plain old-fashioned new-new musicals. There are revivals to mention as well.[…]
April tends to be all about Broadway openings but we’ve found some Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway options that might be of interest. From cowboys to zombies, musicals to dance shows, Shakespeare to emerging writers, we’re excited about some idiosyncratic options in April. In fact someone was so excited they burst into[…]
The prodigal founder of Maxamoo, Lindsay Barenz, returned from Utah for a special appearance on this week’s podcast. We discuss some plays and readings we checked out this week. Naturally we get overexcited about some podcast favorites including an artist we finally met in person this week. We saw work[…]
This week we saw a lot of challenging theater. Our discussion drifts into issues of underrepresented voices on stage, audiences resistance to certain work, and the politics of Broadway. At times things get emotional. We dig into aspects of race and feminism on stage. We solve nothing. But we think[…]
Elise Czajkowski joins us for a check-in on the comedy scene. We see an eclectic array of comedy this month including big shows at large venues with headliners Margaret Cho, Craig Ferguson, and Demetri Martin. We revisit old favorites including Whiplash and a showcase of UCB improv teams. I indulge[…]
With a topic that is near and dear to our hearts at Maxamoo we talk with Cusi Cram about the issues facing women in theater. Cram began her career as a teen model and an actress. She later became a playwright, screenwriter, and film director. Her plays include Dusty and[…]
Maxamoo goes mostly British for one week as we report on theater we saw in London. We fawn over James McAvoy in The Ruling Class, marvel at the magic of Shakespeare’s Globe, gush about Ivo van Hove’s A View from the Bridge (again) and even go to hell and back[…]
As the Broadway season kicks into high gear we have a lot of new shows to preview this month with a heavy emphasis on the goings-on uptown. Puppets, bottoms, porn, and Bambi all figure into this sometimes naughty preview. The Nether (2:00) Fun Home (6:30) 3 Plays from the Kilroys[…]
We managed to coordinate schedules this week and see a couple of shows all together. Team Maxamoo unite! We packed snacks for the epic The Iceman Cometh (1:30). We were taken in by the machinations of Rasheeda Speaking (20:30) We were scared by the vampires of Let the Right One In (39:10). So[…]
We are nothing if not eclectic in the shows we see and review and this week is no exception. We finally check out Hamilton (10:50) which was still in previews but the buzz was so unbearable we could not wait any longer. We visit with our favorite investigative theater group The Civilians to[…]