When 14-year-old Leonard Pelkey disappears one day, leaving behind no clue of where he might’ve gone, his friends and family are surprised to discover the many lives he touched in their small New Jersey town. From the cranky clock store owner, to his …Read more
In the year 2040, in a world without plays and cancer, there is always the ‘system’ to provide us with art and anguish. But in Max Posner’s new play Judy, that system can be as unreliable and sensitive as the dysfunctional basement dwelling family me …Read more
As Hick: A Love Story moves on to the FringeNYC Encore series, StageBuddy sits down with the star of the one-woman show and playwright, Terry Baum. Hick follows journalist Lorena Hickok and first lady Eleanor Roosevelt’s romantic relationship, which …Read more
Woodshed Collective’s newest immersive theatre piece, Empire Travel Agency, is a bizarre and exhilarating quest through the streets of Lower Manhattan. This theatrical experience takes four people at a time on a “Hidden City Excursion” to various sit …Read more
Aaron Lazar calls me from Los Angeles where he is going on auditions for TV & film, and working on developing other projects; considering what a revelation he was in City Center Encore!’s production of A New Brain, where he starred opposite Jonat …Read more
It is rare in theater these days that you feel enthralled by the pull of auteur. Though Theatre for a New Audience’s presentation of New York City Players’ Isolde may at first feel like a tough fit, somehow awkward or strained, take comfort in the kn …Read more
The Dirty Blondes’ The American Play, written by Ashley J. Jacobson, pays strange and twisted homage to Bret Easton Ellis’s novel American Psycho. It tells the story of three college students pushed to extremes, and a protagonist who finds himself co …Read more
On paper, Pondling is a very accessible piece of theater. The one-woman show – written and performed by Genevieve Hulme-Beaman, directed by Paul Meade, and being presented at 59E59 Theaters as a part of Origin’s 1st Irish Festival 2015 – is about Mad …Read more
“I wasn’t cut out for the undertaking business,” says singing undertaker Mossey Burke, who, having reluctantly inherited his father’s line of work, yearns for a better suited career in the hotel or catering industry. Burke regales us with tales of a …Read more
Never Odd or Even, a play from title:point productions at the Brick Theater, questions and challenges what madness is and what our minds can make sense of. Five performers, who each portray a number of undefined characters, create a world where every …Read more