With three major Tony Awards and a 12-year run—half of it on Broadway—under its belt, Avenue Q has the credentials to make it one of the Theatre District’s most popular musicals. But the real staying power of this uproarious Sesame-Street-meets-Sex-a …Read more
Okay, so Full House! The Musical! is not Shakespeare. But given the Netflix reboot, Fuller House, slated for 2016, it’s certainly topical, and tucked away in the historic Theatre 80 on St. Marks, it can be a damn good time if you’re willing to let it …Read more
It’s impossible not to have Dames at Sea charm your sailor pants off, as it sprints, twirls and coos with the confidence of a seven year old who knows she will make it big on Broadway some day. Like the infant, the show also tries desperately to ente …Read more
There is a kind of achievable magic in theatre that only the most committed audiences will appreciate. It consists of a performer inviting us into a world that is not spectacular in the traditional sense, but intimate, vivid, and exciting. In the fir …Read more
Playwright Michael Kimmel and songwriter Lauren Pritchard gambled by setting Songbird, their adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s drama The Seagull, inside a messy nest of contemporary Nashville musicians. But the resulting work (produced in association wit …Read more
The future is a tricky thing. Though it always lies ahead, what was once the future has since become present and is now the past. But these tricky concepts lie at the heart of Futurity, a co-production by Soho Rep and Ars Nova currently playing at th …Read more
After selling out at the Bucks County Playhouse in Pennsylvania, The Hummingbird’s Tour has now begun a limited 5-week run in New York at the Theatre at St. Clement’s. This end-of-life comedy from On Your Way Home Productions delves into life, death, …Read more
Playwright Colby Day and director Andrew J. Scoville, along with the cast and crew of Kitchen Sink Experiment(s), are inviting us over for dinner…and breakfast the next morning…and all the domestic distress in between. This site-specific voyeur d …Read more
The Big Apple Circus has been entertaining children and adults for almost four decades. I have my own precious memories of seeing the circus as a child, stuffing my face with cotton candy, twirling one of those obnoxious plastic light-up toys, and ma …Read more
Musicals Tonight!’s 18th season began with a production of Ira and George Gershwin’s Oh, Kay! a delightful farce that debuted on Broadway in 1926, but has lost none of its charm. Set in the estate of womanizer Jimmy Winter (Nicolas Dromard) during th …Read more
