There are three likely guarantees with your ticket to any show at Ars Nova’s ANT Fest 2015: (1) You will be the very first audience to see the show; (2) the show will be a fresh new fusion of comedy, music and theater; and (3) you will leave the opul …Read more
Is there anything better than working with someone that you admire? For Martin Tackel, getting the chance to collaborate with his colleague at Hunter College, Barbara Bosch, was a unique and wonderful opportunity. Both avid travelers with a passion f …Read more
This month, Ensemble Studio Theatre’s second round of one-acts, Series B, opens right as the crowd is still catching its breath from Series A. This go around features a Global Warming Comedy of Errors, a poetic meditation on contemporary America, an …Read more
June 4th through June 7th, Isle of Klezbos and Eve Sicular are restaging J Edgar Klezmer: Songs from my Grandmother’s FBI Files, a musical documentary about government surveillance, activism in during the Cold War, and hidden family secrets with a so …Read more
On Monday June 1, 2015, some of New York’s greatest entertainers got together at the Merkin Concert Hall at the Kaufman Center for the fifth edition of “Night of a Thousand Judys”, Justin Sayre’s annual Judy tribute meant to benefit The Ali Forney Ce …Read more
With credits in shows like The Mystery of Edwin Drood, The Little Mermaid and Anything Goes, Robert Creighton is certainly one of the industry’s most beloved character actors, but what he does in the title role of Cagney is something else altogether. …Read more
What makes for a good musical comedy score? I feel like too often musical comedies work on a funny book and lyrics, and miss the possibility of using musical arrangement to augment humour. Something Rotten! (with exclamation point), the new musical t …Read more
On Saturday May 30th, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra presented a show called “Broadway Spectacular” in which conductor Todd Ellison (currently seen on Broadway as the music supervisor for An American in Paris) led a program of some of his favorite …Read more
On June 12th, Xanadu star Cheyenne Jackson will present a brand new show at The Town Hall where he will be joined by special guest star, Tony winner, Laura Benanti. Last seen on Broadway in The Performers, Jackson has been busy off-stage doing work i …Read more
Leigh Silverman’s directorial trademark can be summed up in one word: bold. Her theatre credits include plays and musicals as varied as Lisa Kron’s Well, Tanya Barfield’s Blue Door and David Henry Hwang’s Chinglish, all of which have in common the st …Read more
