For 13-year-old Trevor (Holden William Hagelberger), the annual Lakeview Junior High talent show isn’t just a talent show: it’s a launch pad for his showbiz career. When his one-man production of Fame fails to get in, he hits on a new scheme: choreog …Read more
If you haven’t heard of Solea Pfeiffer, you will soon. With powerhouse vocals, a virtuosic range, and a natural stage rapport, she has all the ingredients for stardom. And did I mention she’s gorgeous? Ahead of starring in the upcoming Tyler Perry fi …Read more
He did warn us. When his family asks him for a ghost story, Arthur Kipps declines, on the grounds that the story he has to tell is not the type of entertaining thriller they want to hear. It’s dark, upsetting, evil. And yet, determined to finally mov …Read more
“This play is hard to watch as a socialist.” Said the young man sitting next to me at Lauren Yee’s Cambodian Rock Band: a play about the Khmer Rouge regime. That performance seems ages ago now; it was the last I saw before the theatre shutdown. But I …Read more
“Do you remember those things we used to go to? They were in expensive a** buildings? What were they called?” Ngozi Anyanwu’s new play The Last of the Love Letters, directed by Patricia McGregor at Atlantic Theater Company’s Linda Gross Theater, is a …Read more
As live, in-person theatre returns to the greatest city in the world, we’re spotlighting the NYC theatre artists who make it all happen. Today’s spotlight is on Alan Asuncion: performer and cast member of STOMP. What do you do in the theatre world? I …Read more
Anything can happen at sea. Especially on a ship helmed by a mentally unstable alcoholic whose estranged son has brought an outspoken, free-thinking young woman on board. Oh, and did I mention they’re en route to Liberia to set up a Black penal colon …Read more
In the 1970’s, Harvey Milk, a gay charismatic politican, was assassinated for being openly homosexual. Using him as a pivotal character, Jerry James, Laura I. Kramer, Ellen M. Schwartz, and Cheryl Stern created a musical entitled “A Letter To Harvey …Read more
Nothing can defeat the spunky Molly Brown – not poverty, hunger, illiteracy or even a sinking ship. She reminds us of her feisty spirit when she sings “till I leave the rear / It’s from the rear you’ll hear/ I ain’t down yet.” It has taken years, and …Read more
Romeo lives! At the end of the famous tragedy by Shakespeare, the young hero drinks poison and dies, but in “Romeo and Bernadette,“ the original Off-Broadway musical, an Amas Musical Theatre production, presented at the A.R.T. / NY Theaters, Romeo ac …Read more