A cynical loner meets her match. A young couple discovers a dangerous artifact. An eccentric bride tries to pick up the pieces of her life.And it’s all on Zoom. Eden Theater Company’s new series The Room Plays presents original, 10-minute pieces writ …Read more
The statistics are staggering and heartbreaking. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, 1 out of 7 children was food-deprived. Now it is estimated that 1 out of 4 children is going hungry. With schools closed, an estimated 850,000 NYC kids are missing meals e …Read more
This article has nothing to do with Theater, other than the fact that New York City is the home of Broadway and more. And we heard about a restaurant in the East Village that’s going way beyond the call in helping out. But instead of us talking abou …Read more
In an effort to help the theater community, StageBuddy shares this message from the Tank! Now for the first time …Read more
Now you can listen to a new musical! it was performed live in theaters and is now a Podcast. Here’s a direct link to listen at the Broadway Podcast Network: BPN.FM/BleedingLove And the Website: https://bleedinglovemusical.com/ Just as BLEEDING LOVE …Read more
Leila Sales has created a new choose-your-own-adventure game specifically designed for the lockdown: Ada and the Lost Horizon. It’s a scavenger hunt within the confines of your own home; a real-world Ready Player One experience; and a community-orien …Read more
As a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Beat by Beat Press has introduced the world’s first virtual children’s musical, …Read more
What do you do when the show you are working on goes on hiatus and you are self-quarantined? If you are a member of a theater union like Theatrical Wardrobe Union Local 764 IATSE or United Scenic Artists Local USA 829, you may find yourself with lots …Read more
Theatre production company Parity Productions is aiming to update New Yorkers with what productions have been postponed …Read more
New York: The Nominating Committee of the Off Broadway Alliance has announced important dates for the 10th Annual Off B …Read more
NEW YORK — Wynn Handman, the famed New York acting teacher and Artistic Director of The American Place Theatre, died at …Read more
Nothing can defeat the spunky Molly Brown – not poverty, hunger, illiteracy or even a sinking ship. She reminds us of her feisty spirit when she sings “till I leave the rear / It’s from the rear you’ll hear/ I ain’t down yet.” It has taken years, and …Read more
Theatre production company Parity Productions has released its monthly list of Qualifying Productions for March —their p …Read more
Not-for-profit History Matters/Back to the Future has announced its winner for this year’s Judith Barlow Prize. The Annu …Read more
Even seemingly well-adjusted families can be messy. In the new play “Grand Horizons,” by Bess Wohl (“Small Mouths,” “Make Believe,”) a retired librarian, Nancy (the wonderful Jane Alexander) and her husband Bill (James Cromwell) have recently moved t …Read more
Are there warning signs? Does it take a certain strength to go through with it (or not go through with it)? Afterward, how do those left behind cope with what has happened? These are just a few of the questions Charly Evon Simpson poses in her play J …Read more
“I’m going to a mime performance. I have no idea what to expect.” Such were my parting words to my roommate as I left my apartment and traveled downtown to Theatre Row. “Should be interesting,” she’d replied, admitting that she’d never seen a mime pe …Read more
Romeo lives! At the end of the famous tragedy by Shakespeare, the young hero drinks poison and dies, but in “Romeo and Bernadette,“ the original Off-Broadway musical, an Amas Musical Theatre production, presented at the A.R.T. / NY Theaters, Romeo ac …Read more
Sometimes the smallest venues/shows/casts pack the biggest punch. This was the case on Wednesday, January 15th at Dixon Place with the one-night-only performance of Marathon, a one-act play beautifully acted by Chiara Cimmino and Kimberly DiPersia an …Read more
A simple railroad or subway ride leads you right to Madison Square Garden for top-notch children’s entertainment. Shows are varied with appeal to youngsters and, often, even their parents. Some of the upcoming shows at the Hulu Theater at Madi …Read more
I am intrigued by mentalists and mediums and always excited about a play that uses spiritualism as its theme. Even more so when the playwright is Lucas Hnath (A Doll’s House, Part 2, and Hillary and Clinton.) The Thin Place is a total departure from …Read more
It opens in a whirlwind of activity. The chef chops, minces, slices and dices, rushing between stove and counter. He throws in spices, tastes, then adds sauces, all to the jazz playing in the background. Like a skilled performer in a well-choreograph …Read more
Full transparency: I wasn’t sure what to expect from The Listening Room at the New Ohio Theatre. But here’s what I got: a high stakes, edge-of-my-seat, thrilling yet somehow poetic dystopian drama. Inhabiting a space somewhere between The Giver and t …Read more
It’s easy to understand why some people suffer from Coulrophobia (fear of clowns) especially when their clown faces are hidden under greasepaint, false noses and perpetually dour expressions.These clowns rarely speak, using mime and exaggerated gestu …Read more
Theatre production company Parity Productions has released its monthly list of Qualifying Productions for December —thei …Read more
Wow! What a performance not to be missed! One of the most beautiful renditions of the classic Rogers and Hammerstein song “You’ll Never Walk Alone” you’ll ever hear is in the video below. We caught up with the sisters giving a press performanc …Read more
Ironically, Tennessee Williams, a gay playwright, wrote some of the most iconic roles for women in theater. He created parts such as Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire, Maggie in A Cat on A Hot Tin Roof and Amanda in Glass Menagerie. These are serio …Read more
Macbeth is a play that can easily get out of hand. Witches, murders, and a semi-psychotic title character can quickly devolve into a blood bath starring a raging tyrant, with a side show of Satanic rituals. But that’s not the approach John Doyle take …Read more
A new musical by Anton Dudley and Michael Cooper, Marguerite tells the inspiring true story of Marguerite Bourgeoys, Canada’s first female saint. On a mission to “uncloister” women in the Catholic Church, Marguerite helps found an open religious comm …Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DKTrhbNLDI&feature=youtu.be In the video above,Brian Stokes Mitchell performs a song not from a Broadway show – but as he told Stagebuddy, it’s a song he found while surfing the internet and it’s written by Nikko …Read more
