The National Alliance for Musical Theatre will hold its 27th annual Festival of New Musicals on October 15 and 16 at New World Stages. We caught up with Timothy Huang, whose Costs of Living is one of eight new musicals at the festival this year. Cost …Read more
The National Alliance for Musical Theatre will hold its 27th annual Festival of New Musicals on October 15 and 16 at New World Stages. We caught up with Jeff Talbott (book/lyrics) and Will Van Dyke (music/lyrics), whose musical Imagine Harry is one o …Read more
We talked to the playwrights and composers behind the shows selected for Fringe Encores, here’s Brian Reno and Gabriel Vega Weissman, the playwrights behind Loose Canon. No Williams! Brecht or Miller! How did you select what playwrights you’d be payi …Read more
We talked to the playwrights and composers behind the shows selected for Fringe Encores, here’s Danny K. Bernstein, the talented composer and lyricist of Far From Canterbury (our review). How did you end up picking Geoffrey Chaucer as the inspiration …Read more
Imagine if by some unorthodox studio choice, the cherubic Mickey Rooney had been assigned to perform the songs made famous by Judy Garland, and you can begin to get an idea of what a Seth Sikes’ show feels like. The night of September 18, the baby-fa …Read more
In NBC’s Aquarius, Gethin Anthony plays an eerily charming version of the infamous Charles Manson that makes us understand why some people found him irresistible. His fine performance modulates Manson’s explosive personality through subtle, seductive …Read more
Josh Grisetti is the kind of guy you can’t help but root for. Not only is he talented beyond words (effortlessly funny, a great singer, a touching actor: a triple threat!), he’s also so candid and open about his relationship to his work and the indus …Read more
Meet the Patels is the perfect documentary/romantic comedy hybrid, when the film opens we meet actor Ravi Patel whose face will be familiar to fans of Scrubs and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, he has just broken up with his girlfriend worried tha …Read more
When Stephanie J. Block asks me to “edit her brilliantly” at the end of our chat, I realize I’ll be unable to fulfill her request; for there is not a single word I want to get rid of, or change, from our conversation. What she describes as “talking t …Read more
When 14-year-old Leonard Pelkey disappears one day, leaving behind no clue of where he might’ve gone, his friends and family are surprised to discover the many lives he touched in their small New Jersey town. From the cranky clock store owner, to his …Read more
