Openings are always important. You’ve got the audience in the seat, now how to make them excited about staying there? It seems like every other week someone will mention that contemporary musical theatre is in crisis and there are no good musicals wi …Read more
Mark Roberts’ Enter at Forest Lawn is a play that examines the darkest confines of human nature through the prism of the entertainment industry. Set inside the cavernous office of megalomaniac television producer Jack Story (Mark Roberts), the show c …Read more
Chuck Ragsdale is the star and writer of Stage 17’s Fabby Knows Best, a web series that follows a professional bon vivant who shares her knowledge on life, liberty, and the pursuit of #Fabbylous — all in the bouncy key of C. StageBuddy sat down wit …Read more
The New York Musical Theatre Festival is back, with 25 new productions, 8 concerts, 10 readings and a whole lot more. Check out our reviews and interviews below. Reviews Academia Nuts As We Lie Still Clinton Cloned! Coming of Age Der Gelbe Stern (Th …Read more
The sixth incarnation of the RULE OF series, started by playwright/actor/director Brett Epstein, is here, and the plays keep getting better and better. In Rule of 7×7, seven playwrights follow seven rules to create seven new plays presented for one …Read more
A few minutes into The Long Shrift, Robert Boswell’s new play at the Rattlestick Playwright’s Theatre, and Sarah and Henry, a middle aged couple, are in the midst of what is surely not their first argument over their son, barely out of high school an …Read more
About midway through the opening number of Academia Nuts, you will think: “It’s A Chorus Line for nerds.” Here’s a collective of kids hell-bent on giving their all to win, not a dancing gig, but a scholarship; surely the songs and confessions of pers …Read more
In Feather Gatherers, presented at The New Ohio Theatre as a part of the Ice Factory Festival, Normandy Sherwood and Craig Flanagin, along with The Drunkard’s Wife, their troupe of actors, dancers, and musicians, remind us that sometimes the best sto …Read more
Set in exotic Yucatán on the eve of the Mexican Revolution, The Mapmaker’s Opera is a dramatic adaptation (of a novel by Béa Gonzalez) that has more in common with a telenovela than with the art form mentioned in its title. Not that there is anything …Read more
We hear the notes of a piano, the clinking of glasses, the murmurs of a crowd and then a voice, “good evening ladies and gentleman, welcome to Philadelphia’s liveliest spot in South Philly: Emerson’s Bar and Grill” says the announcer, before introduc …Read more
