Magician Dan White, who has served as a consultant to David Blaine, David Copperfield and Kanye West, spent a year and a half preparing his own very special show, simply called The Magician. The show is performed for small audiences in a suite at the …Read more
Children’s theatre in New York City seems to vacillate between being an embarrassment of riches and being a quagmire of treacle. Rock n’ Roll Mother Goose!, a high-energy one-woman performance created and performed by Judi Lewis Ockler, is one of the …Read more
Tziporela, a highly inventive comedy troupe from Israel is currently appearing in Odd Birdz at The Players Theater in Manhattan. Who is Tziporela and what is Odd Birdz? Stagebuddy chased down Tziporela members Gal Friedman, Ben Perry and Efrat Aviv t …Read more
In a secluded little parlor in a beautiful midtown hotel there is perhaps the finest, most intimate magic show I’ve seen since Ricky Jay & His 52 Assistants cast its spell over New York City back in the 1990s. This is no small claim; parlor magic …Read more
When Penn & Teller arrived on the scene in the early 1980s they quickly earned a reputation as magical vandals. It wasn’t just the brash attitude, the violence and the sick sense of humor they employed (remember the thousands of cockroaches skitt …Read more
It’s been said that if William Shakespeare had written no other play other than A Midsummer Night’s Dream he still would be one of the most admired and often-performed playwrights in the world. This is a testament to the beauty and sheer entertainme …Read more
Grand Opera doesn’t get grander than Aida, Verdi’s epic love story set in the ancient city of Memphis during the “time of the Pharaohs”. And there is no grander opera house in the world than New York’s Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center. Anyone who …Read more
The current Metropolitan Opera production of Mozart’s masterpiece Don Giovanni has had a troubled existence. When it debuted in 2011, some of the words critics used to describe it were “timid” and “dreary”. New York Times music critic Zachary Woolfe …Read more
Shakespeare Off-Broadway, a new company seeking to offer “evocative, affordable productions of William Shakespeare’s classic plays in an ongoing format,” makes its debut with one of Shakespeare’s best and most popular works, the romantic comedy Twelf …Read more
“Existence is illusory and it is eternal.” ― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays Three composers, one opera. This is the latest bold undertaking by Experiments in Opera, New York City’s highly unusual, composer-driven initiative. Matt …Read more
