The Thespis Theater Festival is held in New York City each summer. This year’s incarnation – which was held at the Hudson Guild Theater – contained over sixty productions. Of those, only six were chosen as finalists. They were each given encore prese …Read more
Radical Evolution’s The Golden Drum Year, directed by Simón Adinia Hanukai, will appeal to everyone who has ever loved New York but suspected the city didn’t love them back. The play opens on the eve of 2011. Eugene (Allan K. Washington) has just mov …Read more
“I have striven for perfection, it has always eluded me, but I surely had an obligation to make one more try.” Giuseppe Verdi The Metropolitan Opera has debuted its new production of Verdi’s masterpiece Otello, based upon the great tragedy by William …Read more
If you happen to be strolling in Brooklyn down McKibbin Street and hear an aggressively passionate sound arising from a graffitied crate junkyard… step inside, you won’t soon regret it. Contained within a petite, abandoned shipping crate are the fi …Read more
The National Alliance for Musical Theatre will hold its 27th annual Festival of New Musicals on October 15 and 16 at New World Stages. We caught up with Jeff Talbott (book/lyrics) and Will Van Dyke (music/lyrics), whose musical Imagine Harry is one o …Read more
The National Alliance for Musical Theatre will be presenting eight musicals October 15-16 as part of their annual Festival of New Musicals. Check out our interviews with the creators below: Timothy Huang on Costs of Living Andrea Daly and Jeff Biens …Read more
Origin Theatre’s 1st Irish Festival is the only festival outside of Ireland that is dedicated solely to Irish playwrights. In The Quare Land, currently playing at Union Square’s DR2 Theatre, playwright John McManus and director Ciarán O’Reilly (co-f …Read more
We talked to the playwrights and composers behind the shows selected for Fringe Encores, here’s Brian Reno and Gabriel Vega Weissman, the playwrights behind Loose Canon. No Williams! Brecht or Miller! How did you select what playwrights you’d be payi …Read more
In The Daisy Theatre, Ronnie Burkett reinvents the one-man show — with the help of about 40 marionettes. This production of the Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes at the Baryshnikov Arts Center is a variety show where all of the usual larger-than …Read more
We talked to the playwrights and composers behind the shows selected for Fringe Encores, here’s Danny K. Bernstein, the talented composer and lyricist of Far From Canterbury (our review). How did you end up picking Geoffrey Chaucer as the inspiration …Read more