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

Australian funny man Tim Motley’s many talents include working an audience, delivering lightning-fast one-liners in a Humphrey Bogart a la Casablanca sort of way and performing tongue-in-cheek, comically rubbish magic tricks. From the moment he steps …Read more

Doctor Zhivago had the inauspicious title of being the first show to close on Broadway when the Tony nominations were announced in May. It had received no nominations and after poor notices, and a poorer box performance, the production closed after 2 …Read more

Theaterlab’s Wildwood Flowers, created and choreographed by Reut Shemesh, is a gripping, edgy, and evocative movement piece. This piece, which premiered in Cologne earlier this year, has now been reimagined by Shemesh with New York performers, trying …Read more

Who said becoming a Chinese stand-up comedian was easy?  Stand-up may be a relatively new thing in China, but Des Bishop is propping up the door for others to put a foot in, even if he does have to apply to the censor for permission before every show …Read more

Fate is a funny thing, causing people — strangers, even — to be drawn mysteriously towards one another emotionally and physically.  It is this energy that united two young circus academy students, Magnus Bjøru and Manu Tiger. As they tell it, they …Read more