The New York International Fringe Festival will bring 200 shows to NYC from August 12-28. We spoke with writer David Baird about his musical comedy Girl Versus Corinth. What was the first musical that made you want to make musicals? My senior year of …Read more
The New York International Fringe Festival will bring 200 shows to NYC from August 12-28. We spoke with Lily Ali-Oshatz (book/lyrics) about the musical The Extraordinary Fall of the Four-Legged Woman. What was the first musical that made you want to …Read more
The New York International Fringe Festival will bring 200 shows to NYC from August 12-28. We spoke with writer Lila Rubin about The Fall. What was the first musical that made you want to make musicals? To clarify, The Fall is a play with music, not a …Read more
Alice Austen (1866-1952), the fascinating subject of Alice in Black and White currently playing at 59E59 Theaters, was a woman ahead of her time. Born during an era and in a society when there were not many options for women besides becoming a wife a …Read more
The Gold sounds like the kind of thing Oscar dreams are made of: it has boxing, decades-spanning melodrama and Nazis, but what’s remarkable is that despite all of these elements it’s a rather sophisticated piece of storytelling that goes beyond being …Read more
“It’s tiresome acting like something you’ve never been” says Abraham (Adrian Blake Enscoe) to Angelina (Elizabeth A. Davis), and even though he’s making a personal confession in the hopes of finally becoming free, he might as well have been talking a …Read more
Just like its extremely long title, The First Church of Mary, the Repentant Prostitute’s FIFTH ANNUAL!!! Benefit Concert, and Pot Luck Dinner, turns out to be a little too much. The show is set in an evangelical church in Nashville where service is p …Read more
Who would have imagined that one of the summer’s freshest musicals would be a Yiddish operetta first seen in 1923? That’s what the creative folks at National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene have achieved with The Golden Bride, a richly detailed, endlessly …Read more
The National Theatre of Ireland, Dublin’s Abbey Theatre, has a history that, other than a bit of infamous seat-tearing, was instrumental in the country’s vast political changes in the first quarter of the 20th century. In its newest transatlantic off …Read more
The initial concept of Joshua Young’s Who Mourns for Bob the Goon? is intriguing enough in and of itself to entice the audience into its labyrinthine plot: Bob (Alex Teachy) believes that he is Bob the Goon, one of the Joker’s henchmen from 1989’s Ba …Read more
