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[…]
We had a hard time limiting our list of shows to recommend for February because our theater cup runneth over with interesting projects happening uptown and downtown. But we highlight a filthy musical, some exciting plays, a FRIGID festival, an international touring production that involves audience participation, and we even[…]
The January theater festivals may be over (though we review one straggler) but Off-Broadway is abuzz with shows worth talking about. This week we chat about Canadians confronting each other about privilege in Winners and Losers (01:42), an unusual family Thanksgiving in A Beautiful Day in November On the Banks of the Greatest of[…]
Once in a while, very very rarely, we see a performance that universally delights and amazes the contributors to the Maxamoo podcast. That happened this week with YOUARENOWHERE by Andrew Schneider at COIL 2015 from Performance Space 122. We loved it, we couldn’t stop talking about it and that resulted[…]
Lindsay, Jack, and Nicole have thrown themselves hardcore into the NYC January theater festivals–checking out work at COIL 2015, Under The Radar, PROTOTYPE, and Special Effects all in the first week. From Courtney Love as muse to a pantsless Adrienne Truscott to Temporary Distortion’s rock stars in a box to a David Foster Wallace giant[…]
Nicole, Jack, and Lindsay preview this year’s fantastical, experimental, wonderful January performance festival season. We discuss the shows we’re most looking forward to seeing at COIL 2015, Under The Radar, PROTOTYPE, American Realness, and SQUIRTS. We also touch on four non-festival shows we’re excited about this month: Lionboy from Complicite at[…]