A Scythe of Time, an impressive new musical and part of the 2016 New York Musical Festival, combines expert storytelling with a musically complex score and an absolutely superb cast. Based on two short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, How to Write a Blac …Read more
The Obie-winning Ice Factory festival presents seven new works from June 29 to August 13 at the New Ohio Theatre. We spoke with playwright Eliza Bent about love and intimacy, her favorite playwrights, and her two-hander On a Clear Day I Can See To El …Read more
The Obie-winning Ice Factory festival presents seven new works from June 29 to August 13 at the New Ohio Theatre. We spoke with director Tara Ahmadinejad about collaborating with Piehole on Ski End, a play about an abandoned ski shop at the center of …Read more
In its 30th anniversary season, PTP/NYC’s (Potomac Theater Project) directors and co-artistic directors Richard Romagnoli and Jim Petosa have revived two 1981 plays from the company’s infancy, Howard Barker’s No End of Blame: Scenes of Overcoming, an …Read more
Who is the modern day equivalent of Elvis Presley? Is it Justin Bieber with his unique hairdos and sigh-inducing dance moves? Or Kanye West with his larger than life personality and hogging of the media? Is the modern Elvis actually a woman like Beyo …Read more
New Yorkers will have the chance to experience the art of Southern storytelling this summer, as Voices of the South makes their debut with Mississippi Stories – adapted from the works of the iconic Southern writer Eudora Welty. This tight-knit compan …Read more
From July 12 through July 31, several of the artists bound for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe will try out their shows on New York audiences at 59E59 Theaters. We caught up with seven of these playwrights, directors, and actors to find out more about …Read more
The Obie-winning Ice Factory festival presents seven new works from June 29 to August 13 at the New Ohio Theatre. We spoke with writer Virginia Grise about SHE SHE SHE, conceived by Carrie Heitman and created alongside director Elena Araoz, visual ar …Read more
Tennessee Williams told stories about forced migration: Blanche DuBois finds her way to New Orleans only after she’s evicted from “Belle Reve”, Brick is forced into heterosexuality by societal constraints and Maggie “the Cat”’s libido, and Baby Doll …Read more
Imagined by the same creators as Full House! The Musical! and The Saved by the Bell musical Bayside! The Musical!, comes a musical on the prowl: Katdashians! Break the Musical! Marrying two very unlikely concepts–felines and the Kardashian family–t …Read more
