“My wife is always telling me ‘don’t act silly’” says composer Robert Waldman when we speak on the phone, but as proved in his classic musical The Robber Bridegroom, there’s nothing wrong with his unique brand of silliness. “I get up very early in th …Read more
Puffs: or, Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic begins by introducing us to a boy we’re all familiar with, an orphaned infant with a scar on his forehead, the boy who lived. It is not about that boy. Matt Cox’s gen …Read more
Obie Award-winning Canadian playwright Daniel MacIvor doesn’t disappoint in Communion, now having its American premiere at Urban Stages. In this compelling and moving drama we are witnesses to the lives of three women, each in a various stage of both …Read more
“Stranger than fiction” doesn’t even come close to describing the surreal elements of the premise for Come From Away (reviewed here), a musical which chronicles how in the days after 9/11, thousands of airplane passengers whose flights were diverted …Read more
If your theatrical preferences include sweat, exalted language, spanks, and Daddy Yankee dance breaks, look no further than One-Eighth Theaterʼs production of The Maids, now playing at INTAR. Obie-winner Jose Riveraʼs adaptation brings Jean Genetʼs p …Read more
Contaminated water endangers a community. Science denial is widespread in the face of inconvenient truths. The discomfiting idea that populism can be a dangerous thing hangs in the atmosphere. There is plenty in David Harrower’s 2013 adaptation of He …Read more
Even the most liberal of teachers would cringe at the didactic method used to teach children about slavery in Underground Railroad Game, which sees two idealistic instructors give the Civil War the immersive experience. The show opens in a classroom …Read more
With the election getting closer every day, the country’s most pressing political issues are on everyone’s minds. Theatre for the New City turns to folk music to tackle some of the biggest issues deciding today’s political climate in its new play The …Read more
On October 14th, Colin Donnell will be joining The New York Pops on their season opener, The Musical World of Lerner and Loewe, which celebrates the 60th anniversary of My Fair Lady. I had a chance to speak to Donnell about reuniting with the Pops, a …Read more
At the ripe age of 27, actor and playwright Brian Quijada has turned his personal experiences growing up as a Latino kid in suburban Chicago into an autobiographical play with his own twist. Where Did We Sit on the Bus? explores the important questio …Read more