The work we saw this week delves into some serious issues and welcome stage representations. Hir looks at a mother who after a lifetime of abuse chooses to live her life by a new philosophy and her genderqueer teen is along for the ride. Her older son returns from war to the chaos of[…]
Isaac Butler is a friend and co-host on Maxamoo. But in this episode he gets to share with us his project, Real Enemies, that is two years in the making. Real Enemies is a multimedia music piece created in collaboration with Butler, jazz composer and bandleader Darcy James Argue, and video artist[…]
Robbie, Dave, and Nicole decided to celebrate Thanksgiving a little early this year. We sit down to talk about all the things we are thankful for on Broadway. We make a list of people we think don’t get enough attention both on stage and off (and we provide their twitter handles below so[…]
Aurin, Jack, and Nicole discuss their picks for theater in November. We’ve got a bunch of shows for $25 and under. We’ve got new writers from the US and beyond. We’ve got classic authors with lesser known works. We’ve got award-winning writers doing interesting new things. We’ve got[…]
With the New York Comedy Festival happening in November it seemed like a good time to make one of our semi-regular visits to the world of comedy and report on what we’ve seen and what we recommend in October and November. Where we’ve seen an act recently and they have upcoming shows[…]
This week we saw theater in a dance space, performance art in a comedy club, Hamlet in bed with his mother, and Macbeth in a shipping container. A variety of artists and companies are exploring form and playing with context in the work they are doing. It’s always a good reminder[…]
Broadway kicks off the fall season with a wide array of musicals, plays, new work, and revivals. Dave, Aileen, and Nicole make their picks for what they are most looking forward to. A whole lot of new talent will be debuting on Broadway this season. We love the diverse stories and performers[…]
We were at maximum mispronunciation this week. Please remember our love of theater but forgive us our inability to say anyone’s name correctly. We may be stealing Jack’s trick and using nicknames for everyone. Nevertheless we have a ton of shows from Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway to recommend that are[…]
Aurin, Liz, and Nicole wrestle with new plays and new trends in playwriting. We discuss Lucas “Timberlocks” Hnath’s new play The Christians and it’s approach to a crisis of faith. We wonder about Max Posner’s new play Judy and if this style of experimentation is a new direction American theater is going. We are[…]
David, Liz, and Jack finish out the month of August with a fringe binge at FringeNYC. From the charming to the meditative and everything in between they share their thoughts on: Your Love, Our Musical (2:00) Jellybean (14:26) The American Play (21:06) Creative License (26:59) The Broken Record (32:16) Ferry Play (38:17) (with Nicole’s[…]
Lindsay, Jack, and Liz catch a few shows at New York’s International Fringe Festival and discuss Annie Baker’s John. Fringe NYC Loose Canon (5:06) Night of the Living (13:10) Solina (20:01) Little One (28:37) Reviews John (32:10) Upcoming Jellybean (48:29) Your Love, Our Musical (48:40) Informed Consent (49:55) The Ensemblist & The Bowery Boys Live Show (51:45) Subscribe to Maxamoo’s[…]
Elise teaches Nicole about what makes comedy criticism tick. Then Elise looks at Colin Quinn’s comedy-theater show The New York Story from the stand-up lens and Nicole reviews the same show as theater. We discuss Trevor Noah’s ascension as the new host of The Daily Show and see his recent performance[…]
This week we saw an eclectic array of artists pushing at the boundaries of traditional theater and making new and unique spaces for themselves. We were impressed by the talented Asian-American cast in Clifford Odet’s Awake and Sing! We were puzzled by the Iggy Pop-meets-Euripides approach to Karaoke Bacchae. Nicole spent three hours mesmerized by Philippe Parreno’s light, sound, and film[…]
We discussed King Liz, Fernanda Coppel’s new play at Second Stage Uptown, this week on the podcast. After that I had the great pleasure to sit down with Coppel and talk about King Liz, Chimichangas and Zoloft (her first New York production), the mentors who have supported her in her[…]
That Scrappy-Doo of a downtown show has moved uptown–Hamilton is back, baby and its on Broadway. We can’t get enough of Hamilton and the creative geniuses associated with the show. Our co-hosts have an extended conversation about some of our favorite aspects of the show and we point out some things that[…]
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[…]