The opera-requiem IYOV fuses Biblical and liturgical texts with an extraordinary exploration of musical ideas from classical to folk to jazz, rock and electronics and practically all the sounds the human voice can make. Part of the 2018 Prototype Fes …Read more
Belgian indie band Dez Mona and Flemish B.O.X. (Baroque Orchestration X) wound up the 2018 Prototype Festival with an encore performance, bringing back their theatrical song cycle Sága after its great success in the 2016 Festival. Titled after Sága, …Read more
StageBuddy’s Dave Jay takes us on a trip to Forbidden Planet NYC, New York’s premier spot for comic books, collectables, and all things geeky.
Access Theater in Tribeca welcomes you to the rundown social club Caballeros Divinos in Spanish Harlem. Here you will find its proprietor is a petty criminal, and its regular customers are a down-and-out dreamer and a washed up ex-major league baseba …Read more
British playwright Stanley Houghton’s Hindle Wakes (currently at the Mint Theater Company) was written and first performed in the era when Sigmund Freud’s ideas on sexuality were becoming known, and when the question of women’s suffrage was on people …Read more
The Train Theater brings a puppet show based on the beloved, Caldecott-winning children’s book A Sick Day for Amos McGee by Philip C. Stead, now playing at the New Victory Theater. Every day Morris McGee gets up and takes the No. 5 bus to the zoo whe …Read more
Directed by Lori Petty in her New York debut, Trial opens with a young woman in a stark white room, who is overly enthusiastic when another woman briefly joins her before being whisked away to meet with some unseen “management”. It turns out the whit …Read more
“What do we want to be?” This is the central question asked by the character Runt in Enda Walsh’s Disco Pigs. Runt was born in the same hospital at the same time as her best friend, Pig, with whom she has through childhood built an inseparable bond—i …Read more
Kyoung H. Park’s PILLOWTALK centers on Buck (JP Moraga) and Sam (Basit Shittu), interracial newlyweds who are trying to find their space in a society where their existence is still a political matter. One night after work they find themselves negotia …Read more
New Year’s Eve, 1969. Jimi Hendrix and the Band of Gypsies, an electric psychedelic blues trio, play a legendary show at the Fillmore East in New York City. The Hendrix Project, an experimental performance much like Hendrix’s own music, is an homage …Read more