On Monday, June 22nd, an audience of people showed up at 11:00am at the Circle in the Square Theater at 50th St. They, and I, were planning to sit there for twelve hours until past 11:00 at night in order to watch five plays by the actor and playwrig …Read more

“You ever feel like the whole decade’s gone by and you haven’t even been in it?” Such is the question posed in A Walk on the Moon, the new musical adapted from the award-winning 1999 hit film, which sees Pearl Kantrowitz (Talia Suskauer), desperate f …Read more

Farewell, chickens! You may know Moulin Rouge! The Musical is set to close the doors on its celebrated seven-year Broadway run on August 30th. But, as we all mourn its impending closing, did you also know there was one singular “sparkling diamond” wh …Read more

  Camping is the most I’ve ever cried during a play that’s set outdoors. Based on the title, I thought the show might have something to do with nature – you know, the wonderment of seeing the stars in the firmament, all that hippie-dippie, woods …Read more

No place lends itself better to see Shakespeare’s story of star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet than Central Park on a starry night. When Juliet stands on her balcony and the two young lovers profess their love, the moonlit sky behind her creates an …Read more

In playwright Catherine Weingarten’s I Wanttt a Unicorn Frappé!!!, a young woman’s craving for a limited-edition and highly caloric Starbucks beverage becomes a sharp and satirical exploration of wedding culture, romantic delirium, and the fantasies …Read more

Relationships make people crazy, and sometimes, in order to get your sanity back, you have to do something a little crazy yourself. To quote Lena Dunham from her recently released memoir: “Reader, sometimes you see two doors in life, one marked NORMA …Read more

The 2026 Tony Awards are fast approaching… and by all accounts, it promises to be a spectacular spectacle of a ceremony… packed with song, stars, and surprises aplenty!! As folks are finalizing their ballots and planning out their party menus – and P …Read more

The 2026 Tony Awards are fast approaching… and by all accounts, it promises to be a spectacular spectacle of a ceremony… packed with song, stars, and surprises aplenty!! As folks are finalizing their ballots and planning out their party menus – and P …Read more

There’s no better place to be on Tony night than the StageBuddy Scoop Shop for treats like you’ve never tasted before! That’s right — while others may be out schmoozing at Tony parties, noshing on Broadway canapés and light bites, we here are taking …Read more

You might think it’s impossible to turn a melodrama about young women, struggling with mental illness in a psychiatric facility, into musical theater. Well, yes and no. Girl, Interrupted, a musical adaptation of the 1999 film, starring now at the Pub …Read more

Though we understand their circumstances may have been a bit different, like Oliver and his clan of orphan boys, we’ve all fallen into a daze dreaming of “food, glorious food” at one point or another. After all, it’s been said that food is the great …Read more

Though we understand their circumstances may have been a bit different, like Oliver and his clan of orphan boys, we’ve all fallen into a daze dreaming of “food, glorious food” at one point or another. After all, it’s been said that food is the great …Read more

There are several different levels of writerly craft on display in New Born, a program of three monologues at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theater. Weirdly, they were all written by the same person, British playwright Ella Hickson. The monologues are perfo …Read more

At the final curtain of the revival of Arthur Miller’s classic play Death of a Salesman, Nathan Lane comes out to take a bow. He looks exhausted after giving the 3 hour award-winning performance of his life and the tumultuous applause from the audien …Read more

The lauded champion of the Great American Songbook shares his fave food spots ahead of a new evening of standards at 54 Below.  Though we understand their circumstances may have been a bit different, like Oliver and his clan of orphan boys, we’ve all …Read more

In Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, the second of August Wilson’s 10 play Century Cycle, all the action occurs in a boarding house run by Seth Holly (Cedric the entertainer) and his wife Bertha (Taraji P.Henson in an excellent Broadway debut.) The two ser …Read more

The Fallen Angels funny lady shares her fave food spots for before or after a show.  Though we understand their circumstances may have been a bit different, like Oliver and his clan of orphan boys, we’ve all fallen into a daze dreaming of “food, glor …Read more

Shows can have ornate settings and special effects like those in this season’s The Lost Boys; now playing at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in Greenwich Village, KENREX only uses an open door frame, several free-standing microphones and a mobile staircas …Read more

Y You can pick your friends, but you can’t pick your neighbors, that is unless you are Elliot Emerson (impressive Richard Thomas,) real estate agent and president of the Vernon Point Homeowners Association. Acknowledging changing demographics, he car …Read more

This week, the East Village theater scene prepares for a unique arrival. Opening May 16, 2026, “HEX: A Two Fold Play in Five Acts” promises to challenge conventional notions of drama. We sat down with writer and director Babäk Mehrabi to discuss the …Read more

When I was a kid, I listened to Broadway cast albums over and over until I knew not just the songs – their melodies and lyrics – but every intonation, breath, and pause in the performances. Those recordings were treasured possessions, like dog-eared, …Read more

What do you do when you can’t figure out what, exactly, was your dad’s problem? That’s the central question in Broken Snow, a slowly burning thriller playing at Theater 71, written by Ben Andron, directed by Colin Hanlon and starring Tony Danza – yes …Read more

From show to movie and back to show. The cult 1975 movie Rocky Horror Picture Show is on Broadway at the Roundabout Theatre Company at Studio 54. Directed by Jim Sharman, the film found its niche and as a cult favorite, has been showing somewhere in …Read more

Love transcends death. So do estates and trusts, intellectual property rights, and your grandmother’s ugly furniture. It’s just our actual bodies and consciousnesses that go kaput. (But don’t worry – Sam Altman is planning to disrupt death, as soon a …Read more

      Remember when people went on psychedelic mushroom trips as part of a spiritual journey to discover themselves? I don’t. In my zillennial world, people take mushrooms to confront their annoying roommates. That’s the premise of Lanmaoa Asiatica, …Read more

It takes a while for the title character to appear in the revival of Gina Gionfriddo’s play Becky Shaw. When Becky does appear, she changes the dynamics of the play. Becky is a catalyst who doesn’t change from beginning to end. Instead her character …Read more

“Covenant / Binding, undying, a gift and a curse / Won’t get what you desire / You’ll get what you deserve.” Such is the theme at the heart of Blood/Love, the seductive and spine-tingling new pop opera currently spooking audiences at Theater 555 thro …Read more

Is madness inherited? Is genius inherited? Are the two connected? These are some of the questions posed in Proof, David Auburn’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony winning play in 2001. When an aging parent needs help, often one child in the family assumes the …Read more

I’m a musical theater nerd and love classic Broadway musicals. Even though they may be dated now, I still have an affection for them. So when the television show called Schmigadoon aired in 2021 on Apple TV, parodying old musicals I became an enthusi …Read more