StageBuddy recently had the opportunity to interview Morgan Stevenson, the writer and director of If We Don’t Get It, Shut It Down – A Play About the Baltimore Uprising, a piece of documentary theater with the vast majority of the dialogue and situat …Read more

Tony nominee Tovah Feldshuh is a true New York institution. After making her Broadway debut at age 20 in Cyrano, she has never left the stage and has charmed audiences with riveting performances in shows like Irena’s Vow, Pippin and Golda’s Balcony,  …Read more

There are three things you need to know about Wrestling Jerusalem: (1) On the night I attended, the show was stopped twice due to technical issues at 59E59; (2) once the show was finally resumed for good, the sound cues had to be omitted entirely; an …Read more

I had the privilege of seeing mezzo-soprano Hai-Ting Chinn’s astounding performance as Brother in The Scarlet Ibis, a new American opera by Stefan Weisman produced at HERE for the 2015 Prototype Festival.  Ms. Chinn is back at HERE with a new opera-t …Read more

Set in the 1980s, the hilarious comedy of errors Daddy Issues, now playing at the Davenport Theatre, tells the story of family dysfunction, loyal friendship, denial, and placating to the extreme. Donald Moscowitz (Stephen Millett standing in for Yuva …Read more

On April 8th and 9th, the Abrons Arts Center housed the US debut of the raucous and celebrated Skin Me, by Hungarian choreographer-performers Viktória Dányi, Csaba Molnár, and Zsófia Tamara Vadas. A show that balances itself on the heels of the pendu …Read more

“At the bottom, all wars are the same because they involve death and maiming and wounding, and grieving mothers, fathers, sons and daughters.” Tim O’Brien Theatre, like all art, is at its most intense when the boundary between fiction and real life i …Read more

Amy Virginia Buchanan does not make “pretty” theatre, and she is not interested in painting a delicate, agreeable, carefully-worded picture of what it is like to live with Michael, her brother with down syndrome. The Michael Show, Amy’s one-woman pie …Read more

It’s hard to divorce the music of John Williams from the moments it underscores on screen. An evening of the composer’s music presented at the close of the New York Pops’ season went a bit further, contending that Williams’ collaborations with Steven …Read more

Happily After Ever, now playing at 59E59 Theaters, is a story about the newly married Darren (Jeffrey Bryan Adams) and Janet (Molly-Ann Nordin) who desperately desire to build the fairytale life together; but when their first child is born with both …Read more