Upon entering the small theater space in the Access Theatre Gallery for the Everyday Inferno Theatre Company’s original production Punk as Fuck, the audience is greeted by leather- and denim-clad misfits in the middle of an apparent jam session. In b …Read more
Everyday Inferno Theatre Crompany is running a series in rep titled Punks and Provocateurs in which it presents two plays that regard misfits and social outcasts. One show is an original piece called Punk as Fuck regarding a punk rock band trying to …Read more
June 4th through June 7th, Isle of Klezbos and Eve Sicular are restaging J Edgar Klezmer: Songs from my Grandmother’s FBI Files, a musical documentary about government surveillance, activism in during the Cold War, and hidden family secrets with a so …Read more
The notion of dramatizing the story of a white kid from the suburbs turned failed NYU film student, living in a huge Manhattan apartment on his father’s dime hits me at gut level as the kind of eye rolling, self-aggrandizing “hipster” punchline that …Read more
If free choice is the most important tool we have at our disposal, how much can we really mess up our lives? In Christopher B Latro’s play Devoted Dreams, the central character, Alexander (Brandon Alan Smith), leads a life that spirals out of control …Read more
On Monday June 1, 2015, some of New York’s greatest entertainers got together at the Merkin Concert Hall at the Kaufman Center for the fifth edition of “Night of a Thousand Judys”, Justin Sayre’s annual Judy tribute meant to benefit The Ali Forney Ce …Read more
With credits in shows like The Mystery of Edwin Drood, The Little Mermaid and Anything Goes, Robert Creighton is certainly one of the industry’s most beloved character actors, but what he does in the title role of Cagney is something else altogether. …Read more
What makes for a good musical comedy score? I feel like too often musical comedies work on a funny book and lyrics, and miss the possibility of using musical arrangement to augment humour. Something Rotten! (with exclamation point), the new musical t …Read more
As a theatregoer, you know when you are in good hands and when you are not. Within minutes of any live performance, a reading-of-the-minds takes place, from spectator to performer. If the player is incompetent, we know it right away-we are in for a b …Read more
On Saturday May 30th, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra presented a show called “Broadway Spectacular” in which conductor Todd Ellison (currently seen on Broadway as the music supervisor for An American in Paris) led a program of some of his favorite …Read more