There is usually a moment in all of Anna Ziegler’s plays where you, as an audience member, get the sense that the feelings onstage (or on the page if you’re reading them) had never been felt before. Whether it’s the teenagers in Life Science coming t …Read more
Entering Ars Nova for a performance of The Wildness: Sky-Pony’s Rock Fairy Tale, has all the makings of an underground rock show, rather than a traditional piece of musical theatre. Audience members are handed colored pieces of fabric that will then …Read more
Playwright and director Edward Einhorn has been fashioning his own brand of absurdism and intellectual inquiry in the New York theater for more than twenty years. His latest play, City of Glass, is a stage adaptation of Paul Auster’s celebrated 1985 …Read more
Trevor Nunn’s production of Pericles (playing at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center through March 27) has it all: shipwrecks, tragic priestesses, greedy brothel owners, fake deaths galore and refreshing musical interludes. With so much going on, the pro …Read more
The latest Stephen Sondheim compilation album immediately courts scrutiny when it announces itself as The Essential Stephen Sondheim. For, as even the most cursory of musical theatre fans know, and as the digital booklet which accompanies the two dis …Read more
Scott Siegel’s Broadway by the Year returned on February 22 for its landmark 16th season at The Town Hall, and with it came a new format, and one of the most memorable nights in 2016 musical theatre so far. The format change consists of a rather clev …Read more
In Our Mother’s Brief Affair, Greg Keller plays Seth, an obituary writer who discovers his mother Anna (Linda Lavin) had a torrid affair when he was a teenager. The discovery sends him down an introspective path along with his twin sister Abby (Kate …Read more
The one and only Charles Busch will be having his very first show at the American Songbook series presented by Lincoln Center. His show, titled The Lady at the Mic, will see him celebrate the careers of great entertainers Elaine Stritch, Joan Rivers, …Read more
After a landmark 2015 – which saw her give two of her finest stage performances to date – Kate Baldwin is starting 2016 with a residency at the renovated Sheen Center, which will see her headline three concerts, each of which will highlight the work …Read more
Canadian actor Jake Epstein has been taking the theater world by storm, with Broadway hits such as Beautiful: The Carole King Musical and Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark, as well as the national tours of Spring Awakening and American Idiot, already on …Read more
