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 Andrea Daly (music) and Jeff Bienstock (book/lyrics) about Legendale, one of eight new musicals a …Read more
We talked to the playwrights and composers behind the shows selected for Fringe Encores, here’s Christian de Gré, the talented writer and co-director of Beware the Chupacabra! (our review). Just how many times did you watch King Kong before and durin …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 Timothy Huang, whose Costs of Living is one of eight new musicals at the festival this year. Cost …Read more
In the 90 minutes of Ken Jaworowski’s Believers, the playwright packs a whole lifetime, opening up the past and present of what could be any couple living right here, right now. In this Workshop Theater production, directed by Alex Dmitriev, two sets …Read more
In its seventh annual celebration of horror master H.P. Lovecraft, RadioTheatre puts on another series of staged readings in the style of ’40s radio dramas. As part of New York’s FRIGID Festival, for two weekends RadioTheatre will be honoring the lat …Read more
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
