Magmanus, a circus duo made up of an extra-large juggler and a petit acrobat, will be opening the 2015-16 Skirball Center season on September 25 and 26 with their gravity-defying contemporary circus, Attached. The contemporary circus performers Magnu …Read more
When 14-year-old Leonard Pelkey disappears one day, leaving behind no clue of where he might’ve gone, his friends and family are surprised to discover the many lives he touched in their small New Jersey town. From the cranky clock store owner, to his …Read more
In the year 2040, in a world without plays and cancer, there is always the ‘system’ to provide us with art and anguish. But in Max Posner’s new play Judy, that system can be as unreliable and sensitive as the dysfunctional basement dwelling family me …Read more
As Hick: A Love Story moves on to the FringeNYC Encore series, StageBuddy sits down with the star of the one-woman show and playwright, Terry Baum. Hick follows journalist Lorena Hickok and first lady Eleanor Roosevelt’s romantic relationship, which …Read more
Aaron Lazar calls me from Los Angeles where he is going on auditions for TV & film, and working on developing other projects; considering what a revelation he was in City Center Encore!’s production of A New Brain, where he starred opposite Jonat …Read more
The Dirty Blondes’ The American Play, written by Ashley J. Jacobson, pays strange and twisted homage to Bret Easton Ellis’s novel American Psycho. It tells the story of three college students pushed to extremes, and a protagonist who finds himself co …Read more
Maybe Tomorrow, inspired by a true story, is a deeply touching dark comedy about what is real and what we simply learn to live with. Written by Max Mondi, the entire play is set in a bathroom, where the lives of Gail and Ben unfold as Gail slips into …Read more
Whitney Bashor first stole the hearts of Broadway fans with her haunting performance in The Bridges of Madison County where she played Robert Kincaid’s (Steven Pasquale) ex-wife Marian. In the bossa nova infused “Another Life” she evoked precisely an …Read more
With a sold-out FringeNYC run, two Moth StorySLAM wins, and a book (Alice in Tumblr-land) published by Penguin, Tim Manley is at the top of the storytelling craft. His one-man show, Feelings, weaves together the uneasy years in his twenties when he c …Read more
Bubbleheads, a one-act play at Theater for the New City’s Dream Up Festival, offers audiences a dreamlike experience of divorce and remarriage through the eyes of a child. We spoke with director Heather Chamberlain about the challenges of bringing th …Read more
