As West Side Story and The Lion King demonstrate, Shakespeare-inspired musicals can work wonderfully — but only when done right. Happily, Boomerang Theatre Company’s Loveless Texas, a new musical by Henry Aronson and Cailin Heffernan, gets it exactl …Read more
Tony winner Norbert Leo Butz is back at Feinstein’s/54 Below with a new version of his show Memory & Mayhem. We caught up with him to discuss songwriting, working with Sam Shepard, and why he wants to do a comedy next. What does this new version …Read more
Art and desire are the heart and driving force of the Scandinavian American Theater Company’s production of The Baroness, written by Thor Bjørn Krebs, directed by Henning Hegland, and translated by Kim Dambæk. That, and a protagonist who claims she’s …Read more
Our favorite place to catch live performance from your own laptop is having a festival of their own. Cennarium’s Promenade is a 10-day digital global performing arts festival, running September 15-24. Here are some highlights. Groupo Galpão’s Romeo a …Read more
Japan Society celebrates its 110th anniversary and its newly renovated theater with the North American premiere of Four Nights of Dream, a chamber opera by composer Moto Osada; the opera will also be performed in Tokyo at the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan perfo …Read more
The American family drama gets a contemporary and creative spin in a very nice new play, The Itch, written by Alexandra Zelma-Doring and directed by Theresa Buchheister. A smart and well developed structure facilitates a textured and poignant relatio …Read more
With its combination of camp, rock, and pinball, Ken Russell’s Tommy redefined the movie musical in the mid 70s. Based on the concept album by The Who, the film centered on the life of the title character, a blind, deaf and dumb young man who becomes …Read more
The dining scene of New York’s Theater District is quickly becoming one of the best of the city, and few people know it better than the actors who call the neighborhood their second home. In this installment of thEATer, we chatted with Angel Reda, wh …Read more
How do you write the perfect constitution for a new government? That’s merely one of the questions Mickaël de Oliveira’s play The Constitution asks. Perhaps even more central than the question of the constitution is the idea of love: what it means to …Read more
At the top of Act II of William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, when the audience first glimpses the Forest of Arden, the banished Duke Senior (who is hiding out there) pronounces life in the wood to be “exempt from public haunt.” That’s certainly not …Read more
