We talked to the playwrights and composers behind the shows selected for Fringe Encores, here’s Brian Reno and Gabriel Vega Weissman, the playwrights behind Loose Canon. No Williams! Brecht or Miller! How did you select what playwrights you’d be payi …Read more

We talked to the playwrights and composers behind the shows selected for Fringe Encores, here’s Danny K. Bernstein, the talented composer and lyricist of Far From Canterbury (our review). How did you end up picking Geoffrey Chaucer as the inspiration …Read more

Doctor Zhivago had the inauspicious title of being the first show to close on Broadway when the Tony nominations were announced in May. It had received no nominations and after poor notices, and a poorer box performance, the production closed after 2 …Read more

After a fifteen year hiatus, Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes is back in New York, bringing to life a rotating cast of forty characters in his new show The Daisy Theatre at the Baryshnikov Arts Center.  Mr. Burkett is a puppeteer virtuoso and da …Read more

Popesical!, a musical by Adam Overett, is set during the papal conclave, the election in which cardinals vote for a new pope, and it features a motley crew of cardinals who are put through successively absurd tests to prove their fitness for the papa …Read more

Composer Barbara Anselmi knows what it takes to sustain a career in the theater. From the ripe old age of five, Anselmi was moved by music and the magic of the orchestra and knew it had to be a part of her future. From her early experiences music dir …Read more

On October 1st, three short plays will be debuting as part of Manhattan Repertory Theatre’s Short Play Development Project. These three plays, with the provocative titles Swollen, Wasted, and B in Oblivion were written by K. Krombie, Conor Guzman, an …Read more

From the 18th through the late 20th centuries, women and young girls deemed fallen were forced to atone for their “sins” at labor camps in Ireland known as Magdalene laundries. These women, many of whom were prostitutes, single mothers, rape victims, …Read more

When Stephanie J. Block asks me to “edit her brilliantly” at the end of our chat, I realize I’ll be unable to fulfill her request; for there is not a single word I want to get rid of, or change, from our conversation. What she describes as “talking t …Read more

Some stories linger in the incubation stage. Patiently—or not so patiently—they wait to be told, to make their way into the public consciousness. Then, uncannily, when they finally burst into daylight, they show up in multiple iterations. The tale of …Read more