What started as a small cabaret performance in 1982 is now a theatrical institution loved by critics and audience alike. Forbidden Broadway has won numerous awards including a Tony in 2006 and continues to be one of the most anticipated shows of eve …Read more
Ted Shen, the librettist, lyricist and composer of A Second Chance which had its world premiere in 2011 is a notable theatre enthusiast who left his job on Wall Street in the late nineties to make a contribution to something he was passionate about. …Read more
When watching several short plays in succession, as I had the pleasure to do last Friday at 59E59’s annual installment of their Summer Shorts Series, it is an involuntary reflex as an audience member to try to sew together the shorts, to try to figur …Read more
“I would have called it Bill’s In The Bathroom,” my boyfriend joked as we walked out of the Jewel Box Theatre on Saturday night after a performance of Eurydice Descending, presented in conjunction with the Midtown International Theater Festival. Chuc …Read more
In reviews, as in all reporting, major pragmatic realities must be made known upfront. It is then necessary to convey right away that Daniele Scattina’s Clan Macbeth is performed in Italian. This may well discourage those not conversant in that fluid …Read more
PTP/NYC, a theater company celebrating their 28th anniversary, recently brought a revival of David Edgar’s 1998 play Pentecost to New York City’s Atlantic Theater. The New York production is directed by Cheryl Faraone, who in addition to being the co …Read more
Disney, rarely shy about touting its upcoming attractions, is very much going all-out this year; a fat, full five-month ballyhoo before its Christmas release of the filmed Sondheim/Lapine musical, Into the Woods, and a trailer out as of yesterday. Wh …Read more
Love triangles, sexual liberation, and relationship complexities abound in Micheline Auger’s Donkey Punch, in which characters challenge themselves to either live up to the person they think they are or fight for the person they want to be. The play, …Read more
You ever been curious about what happens behind the scenes in the world of stand-up comedians? Ever wondered how some of them are so flipping funny, or whether there’s something they’re all taking to make them the life of the party? Well, you might …Read more
A drag-clad tribute to the cast of Heathers the Musical was given Wednesday, August 30th at the Green Room Bar of New World Stages, the Off-Broadway Theater which houses the soon to close musical itself. Hostess Sutton Lee Seymour, winner of the past …Read more
