In the Moment: Interview with Stage Manager Paul D. Michnewicz
One of the questions I often receive from theater-goers surrounds the mystery of what a stage manager does for a live theater production. The...
Review: ‘Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone?’ at The WorkShop Theater
One of the early, less-familiar works by Tony Award-winning playwright and librettist Terrence McNally (famed for his highly-acclaimed Love! Valour! Compassion!, Master Class, Kiss...
Review: ‘Who’s Holiday!’ at Westside Theatre
If your fond childhood memories include Dr. Seuss
The Grinch, his dog Max, and a Ville filled with Whos
You might like a sequel from 40...
Review: ‘Office Hour’ at The Public
The playwright Julia Cho now has Office Hour on at the Public Theatre, but she has been a steady and welcome contributor to the...
Review: ‘Harry Clarke’ at Vineyard Theatre
At the core of all great theater is the art of great storytelling. Harry Clarke, a solo show with a compelling story told by...
Review: ‘What We’re Up Against’ at WP Theater
Office politics, gender-based inequality in the workplace, and self-damning outbursts of flagrant misogyny fuel the flames of Theresa Rebeck’s razor-sharp feminist comedy What We’re...
Review: ‘The Fight’ at The Storm Theatre Company in New York
Reviewed by Steve Weinstein
Stephen Sondheim had it nearly right in his lyrics to “I’m Still Here.” First, you’re a legend, then you’re camp, then...
Review: ‘Lonely Planet’ at Keen Company
The setting of Lonely Planet is a "map store on the oldest street in an American city." I assume the playwright, Stephen Dietz, wrote that...
Review: ‘Red Roses, Green Gold’ at Minetta Lane Theatre
Calling all Dead Heads! The classic songs of your favorite band have been reincarnated for the stage at Minetta Lane Theatre, in a new...
Review: ‘This One’s for the Girls’ at St. Luke’s Theatre
Sociological research project meets PPT lecture meets jukebox musical in Professor and Playwright Dorothy Marcic’s This One’s for the Girls, produced by William Franzblau...
Review: ‘Fire’ by Chatillion Stage Company at Theatre 54 at Shetler...
On March 25, 1911, fire raged through the 8th to 10th floors of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory by Washington Square Park. In less than...
Fringe Encore Series 2017 Review: ‘Turbulence!’ at SoHo Playhouse
Musical-comedy improv troupe Robot Teammate has landed in New York with an energetic hour of silly sci-fi fun in Turbulence!, now performing at SoHo...
Review: ‘The Home Place’ at Irish Repertory Theatre
Brian Friel's play, The Home Place, has taken its time to find its way to New York, where it arrived in good hands at the...
An Interview with Erik Ransom on the Development of His New...
Just back from a production of his musical GRINDR: The Opera in Florida, Erik Ransom organized a private developmental reading of his latest work...
Fringe Encore Series 2017 Review: ‘Kafka and Son’ at SoHo Playhouse
In November 1919, the 36-year-old Modernist writer Franz Kafka wrote a searing 45-page letter to his domineering father Hermann, dissecting his tyrannical attitude and...
In the Moment: ‘The Mistress Cycle’ at Creative Cauldron
Illuminating what has been in the shadows, or usually whispered about, Creative Cauldron has provided a delicately rendered musical about the harsh realities women...
Fringe Encore Series 2017 Review: ‘6 Guitars’ at SoHo Playhouse
Despite the hiatus of FringeNYC in 2017, SoHo Playhouse is presenting a full line-up for its 12th annual Fringe Encore Series in September and...
Review: ‘A Clockwork Orange’ at New World Stages
Ranked among the greatest novels of the 20th century, A Clockwork Orange – British author Anthony Burgess’s alarming vision of a dystopian future fueled...
A Recap of The 2017 New York Innovative Theatre Awards at...
It was a night filled with excitement, laughs, and unbridled passion for indie theater as the New York Innovative Theatre Foundation celebrated the outstanding...
Review: ‘Bernstein on Broadway’ at The Kennedy Center
It was a glorious evening for Leonard Bernstein and musical theater fans at The Kennedy Center. It was the exceptional, one-night-only opening to the...