Josh Gondelman: comedian, writer, former teacher, and all around fantastic cardigan-loving guy. You may know him as the co-creator of the genius Modern Seinfeld Twitter handle. Maybe you have seen his work in esteemed publications like The New Yorker …Read more
Few festivals can stake claim to the diversity of work that Cabrini Theater’s Venus/Adonis Festival delivers. An almost altruistic championing of new work, Cabrini offers a singular playground for playwrights both emerging and established. If the six …Read more
“Remember, after rain, there’s always sunshine.” After pulling off a major heist against a rival gang, the Five, a band of misfits and provisional brothers congregate in their clubhouse to celebrate their big win. They have the easy rapport of boys w …Read more
Long Story Short, a musical pop/rock drama from Prospect Theater Company now at 59E59, relates 50 years in a couple’s life, from how they first meet and start dating, to getting married and having children, to growing old together. An adaptation of D …Read more
The Baker’s Wife is a lesser known musical written by Joseph Stein (The Fiddler on the Roof) with music by Stephen Schwartz (Pippin, Wicked) that enjoyed only a brief run in London’s West End in 1989 and has yet to be produced for a Broadway stage, t …Read more
Everyone has a favorite movie, but odds are you’re not able to reenact almost every scene of it, sprinkle in some humor and entertain a packed theater. Nick Abeel, Kyle Schaefer, and Foley artist Kelsey Didion are doing just that with Hold On To Your …Read more
Irish actor and musician Brian Fleming — a heterosexual man — became an accidental activist for LGBT rights several years ago after a photograph of him at a gay gathering happened to be printed in the now-defunct News of the World. A Sacrilegious Les …Read more
The first page of the Seeing Place’s program for Othello, the opening play of their sixth season, states: “Othello is not just a ‘black’ play…it relates to all of us today, particularly in our current climate of strained Arab-American relations.” Wha …Read more
Long before the spate of apocalyptic science fiction disaster films with movie stars like Will Smith wandering through crumbling metropolises, there was the great American dramatist Thornton Wilder’s play The Skin of Our Teeth. A theatrical mixture o …Read more
Two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster will be headlining her first solo show at Carnegie Hall on March 13. The show, titled One Night Only: Sutton Foster, will feature the New York Pops under the conduction of Steven Reineke and will see Ms. Foste …Read more
