StageBuddy recently had a chance to peek in on a pre-production presentation of Blank! The Musical, an improvised musical theater event set to open at New World Stages November first. Mixing old-school improvisation, big Broadway Musical theatricalit …Read more
Tom Dugan is a playwright and actor who is currently starring in Wiesenthal at Theatre Row at the Acorn Theatre. The play tells the story of Simon Wiesenthal, who brought 1,100 Nazi war criminals to justice. In our interview, Mr. Dugan talks about Si …Read more
Ghostlight Records, has released commentary for the Tony winning score of The Bridges of Madison County with composer Jason Robert Brown and star Kelli O’Hara adding commentary to each of the numbers. It’s such an interesting, and informative things …Read more
Suzan-Lori Parks is easily one of the most ambitious playwrights writing today. Using athletically poetic language, stunning imagery, and complex characterizations, she creates worlds that are visceral, hard-hitting, and indubitably theatrical. Her l …Read more
Lift, a new play by acclaimed novelist Walter Mosley, is captivating upon setting foot into 59E59 Theaters. The exposed set, designed by Andrei Onegin, defines the specificity of the situation: the elevator car of a Manhattan skyscraper. The entire a …Read more
Melissa Ritz, who would have been described years ago as a leggy blonde, is a woman on a quest. In brief, she abandoned a long and profitable career as a cocktail server in Vegas for the New York theater scene, and New York is none the worse for it. …Read more
Death by excessive force has been an issue in our American culture for generations upon generations, and in light of recent fatalities in Ferguson and throughout the country, it’s important to ask ourselves what we are doing to stop discrimination. P …Read more
Dr. Barbara Ann Teer’s National Black Theatre presents Carnaval a modern, provocative play about the sex tourism industry in Brazil, the commodification of the female body, the exploitation of the lower class and the consequences of what often happen …Read more
Buzz, that juicy, onomatopoetic word with so many meanings: insect noise, bustling activity, excited gossip. That last one might become especially apropos for Buzz, the new play by novelist and founding editor of n+1 magazine, Benjamin Kunkel. Before …Read more
James Dickey’s Deliverance, Godlight Theater Company’s world premier theatrical adaptation of Dickey’s 1970 novel, Deliverance, is a theatrical tour de force that will grab you from the moment you step into the theater and keep you in its grip well p …Read more