Beyond his fascination with dead presidents, as seen in the likes of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and the workshop of Here’s Hoover! The Historic Herbert Hoover 2014 Comeback Special, composer Michael Friedman is interested in telling stories about y …Read more
In the same vein as the 2010 musical satire Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, New World Stages’ Clinton the Musical takes one of America’s most controversial presidential terms and adds singing and dancing to exaggerated caricatures of historical figures …Read more
For playwright Oscar Speace, Janka is a very personal production. Produced by Roust Theatre Company, it regards his mother, a survivor of the Holocaust, and the trials she endured in order to give him and his brother the opportunities she herself wa …Read more
It’s not exactly a logically sound rule of thumb to have, but whenever I see an overly pep filled person, I immediately assume they’ve got some severed limbs buried somewhere in their backyard. Never trust happy people! There’s always something hidin …Read more
1951 saw Broadway fall in love with Audrey Hepburn playing the innocent but oh-so-canny “Gigi” in the Anita Loos play of that title. 1958 caused a similar infatuation with Leslie Caron when the play was turned into a well-remembered movie musical. 19 …Read more
Thank heaven for Heidi Thomas; her revised book of Gigi provided the chauvinistic Lerner/Loewe musical with a much needed push into the 21st century, while preserving the frothiness that made it a delight for past generations. Thomas’ book had been a …Read more
On April 3rd and 4th the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective (SAWCC) held its bi-annual literary festival titled Emerge: New Mediums, New Voices at the Asian American Writers Workshop. Staying true to the title, the festival featured a range of S …Read more
A Broadway show about foul-mouthed hand puppets . . . could such a thing ever work? Ask the producers of “Avenue Q” (which is still running in its off-Broadway transfer). Okay, but can another show about sock puppets acting out have similar success? …Read more
Daily Life Everlasting isn’t so much a play as a collage of dance, spoken word and physical theatre. Some of it is absolutely thrilling, like a blow-out dance party complete with strobe lights and people stripping down to their skivvies. It can also …Read more
Robert Dubac is bringing his humor and talent to New York City with two crowd-pleasing one-man shows. The Male Intellect: An Oxymoron? follows Dubac’s journey figuring out what women want, while The Book of Moron seeks to find the truth in an endles …Read more