FRIGID New York Announces the 2013 FRIGID Hangovers Schedule
By Byrne HarrisonThe FRIGID New York Festival has announced it FRIGID Hangover schedule. Featuring the best of the festival, Hangover lets audiences catch some of the shows they may have missed the...
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Interview with Scott Casper, Artistic Director of taxdeductible theatre
By Byrne HarrisonScott Casper is a playwright, actor and Artistic Director of taxdeductible theatre. Through The Dare Project (an evening of ten minute plays, written on a dare), he has written,...
View ArticleAlbum Release Party - What Time Is It, Mr. Fox?
What Time Is It, Mr. Fox? will perform at Dixon Place for a CD release musical circus will include boylseque, animation, trapeze, and videos all illustrating the lyrics and meanings behind the songs,...
View ArticleLimited Number of Tickets Available for Tonight's "Broadway Backwards"
BROADWAY BACKWARDSOFFERS DAY-OF RUSH TICKETSSELECT SEATS ONLY $20ONE-NIGHT-ONLY EVENTBENEFITS BROADWAY CARES/EQUITY FIGHTS AIDSAND THE CENTERMONDAY, MARCH 18 AT 8 PMAT BROADWAY’S PALACE THEATRE (302...
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Interview with Joan Kane - Director of "I Know What Boys Want"
By Anthony HostJoan Kane was named one of 2011 People of the Year in indie theatre by nytheatre.com. She directed “Play Nice!” Off-Broadway at the 59E59 Theaters, “Aliens with Extraordinary Skills” by...
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“It's a Bird....It's a Plane...It's Superman” - Soaring High
By Judd HollanderPhoto by Joan Marcus More than four decades before everyone's favorite wall-crawler debuted on the great white way, another comic book character did the same thing in 1966's It's A...
View Article“Passion” - Passion and Problems
By Judd Hollander There is a fine line between love, hate, obsession and disgust. Such is the ground explored in the 1994 musical Passion (music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by James Lapine,...
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“The Old Boy” - Powerful and Riveting
By Judd HollanderPhoto by Carol Rosegg When making a statement, sometimes the simplest messages are the best, as brilliantly shown in the Keen Company's quietly powerful revival of A.R. Gurney's 1991...
View Article“The North Pool” - Where no one is who or what they seem
By Judd Hollander Perception or the misinterpretation of it is the key in Rajvi Joseph's tension-filled The North Pool at the Vineyard Theatre. It's April, 2007 in Middle America and the beginning of...
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Brooke Davis in “I’m So Sorry… For Everything” at the Metropolitan Room,...
By Rob Hartmann Cabaret at its best allows the singing actor to create an evening which flows effortlessly and inevitably from their own stage personality. It’s no surprise that some of the most...
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"Happy Birthday" - Frosting Without a Cake
By Judd HollanderPhoto by Hunter CanningThe Actors Company Theatre (TACT) has dipped into the theatrical archives and revived the Anita Loos work Happy Birthday which was a Broadway hit for Helen Hayes...
View Article"The Lying Lesson" - A Lesson Not Learned
By Judd HollanderPlaywright Craig Lucas makes a bit of a misstep with his intriguing but unfortunately one-note work The Lying Lesson at the Atlantic Theater Company, offering a story with initial...
View ArticleHe Sang, She Sang: "The Last Five Years" at the Signature Theatre, Arlington,...
Review by Mark A. NewmanHas it really been a decade since I saw the original version of The Last Five Years, the two-person Jason Robert Brown tuner, off-Broadway? Yeah, it has. Oddly, as much acclaim...
View Article"Mass" at the Brick Theater
By Rob HartmannMass, currently finishing its run at the Brick Theater in Williamsburg, is a rock musical which explores the contemporary art world and the lengths to which artists will go to make their...
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"Old Fashioned Prostitutes(A True Romance)" - A Different Plane of Consciousness
By Judd HollanderPhoto by Joan MarcusThe first thing one must understand when attending a Richard Foreman play is that terms such as "liner" and "sequential" often have no meaning. Such is the case...
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Let’s Hear it For Pinoy: "Here Lies Love" Rocks the Public Theater
By Mark A. NewmanPhoto by Joan MarcusIf you would’ve told me that the brains behind "Burning Down the House" and "The Rockefeller Skank" would’ve been two of the driving forces behind one of the most...
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Planet Connections Interview - Lenny Schwartz of "Subject 62"
By Byrne HarrisonName: Lenny Schwartz Show: "Subject 62"Relationship to production: Writer/director Website: http://planetconnections.org/subject-62/How did you first get involved in theatre?I first...
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"The Weight of Water" - A Fragile Hold on Life in Post-Katrina New Orleans
By Byrne HarrisonPhoto by Bobby Miller This is the second time I've seen a performance of Myra Slotnick's moving play, "The Weight of Water," about life and death in post-Katrina New Orleans, but my...
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Naked Boys Improvising - Saturday Nights
Hot Summer Nights: Naked Boys Improvising The Improvisation News Team Presents: HOT SUMMER NIGHTS"You'll Laugh Your Pants Off" Improvisational Theater like you've never seen before... 5 Improv Forms, 1...
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News Roundup - Little Miss Sunshine, Mad Men, and one dedicated usher
Batman '66 launches. DC Comics does a retrospective of the highlights of '66 including "It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's Superman!" which opened that year.Julee Antonellis and Petey Gibson of Boston's...
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