There’s a time and a place for Serious Theater, ponderous and esoteric… and then there’s time for the kind of ecstatic, transportive experience that Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 serves up on a gilded platter with a vodka chaser. Dave M …Read more

I tend to turn my nose up at physical humor, making it all the tastier to eat my words at Theater for a New Audience at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center’s production of The Servant of Two Masters, which proved that a text from the 18th century can go …Read more

Some time between the coleslaw and the dancing gnomes I decided it was a fool’s errand to try to overthink Now Is The Time. Now Is The Best Time. Now Is The Best Time Of Your Life., the latest “junk spectacular” (their words) by Brooklyn based theate …Read more

Call me old-fashioned, but when it comes to Shakespeare I’m a bit of a purist. I think the texts hold their own just fine, thank you, without the frills and over-the-top gimmicks many modern directors decide to pile on. When I saw that a theater comp …Read more

This year marks the 10th anniversary of 59E59 Theaters’ Summer Shorts series, bite-size bits of theater for the warm weather that year after year prove to be every bit as provocative, touching and funny as their full length counterparts, thanks in la …Read more

Look, I’m as gung-ho as one could be when it comes to immersive theater. All right, so I’ve historically cringed at the “do we have any volunteers in the audience?” question, but I’ve always been the first to suggest a murder mystery dinner party, an …Read more

Let’s play a little game of word association. Quick, what’s the first thing you think of when you hear the word lingerie? Sex, maybe? Victoria’s Secret Angels sprawled out lustily? Does the word make you smile? Blush? Does it make you uncomfortable? …Read more

You’ve already found your way to StageBuddy (good for you!), so you know as well as I do that the theatre is a magical place. It’s a place of exploration, fearlessness, honesty and boundary pushing in all ways imaginable. But it’s not always a place …Read more

Often, the best tributes aren’t those that labor to copy precisely, but those that choose instead to capture some deeper essence of the subject matter. Starman, European entertainer Sven Ratzke’s homage to the late David Bowie, debuting in New York w …Read more

Currently onstage at Soho Rep for its U.S. Premiere, Alice Birch’s Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. could perhaps be best described as exposure therapy — an uncomfortable, infuriating and brilliant indictment of a patriarchal world that has always po …Read more