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– How can you listen to music when your country is falling apart? – Because music is what keeps us together – Ghost Dancer Playwright Robert L. Hecker’s new politically-driven play, Ghost Dancer, unfolds in a hypothetical world set on a fictional Caribbean island. So, in this way, it is both everywhere and nowhere at ... Read The Full Article...
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The concept of adapting La Strada (the 1954 film by masterful auteur Federico Fellini) for the stage is a daring one. And not just daring, but ambitious as well. It’s not easy to take a pre-existing work and re-envision it — on the one hand you’ve got to make sure that you keep the ... Read The Full Article...
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Congratulations to the folks over at T. Schreiber Studio – their production of Kenneth Lonergan’s Lobby Hero will extend for four additional performances November 30th through December 3rd at the company’s Gloria Maddox Theatre (151 West 26th Street, 7th Floor). We loved the show and are thrilled that more audiences will be able to experience ... Read The Full Article...
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Fault Line Theatre’s new production of Frogs – the Ancient Greek play written by Aristophanes – is reminiscent of Cupcake Wars. Wait… stay with me here – I promise this will make sense in a second. So, Cupcake Wars is all about taking the basic ingredients and saying “There … there you go. You all ... Read The Full Article...
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Site-Specific theatre productions are all the rage now, and in a city like New York where every conceivable set already exists in real life it’s really just a matter of finding the perfect spot for your play to unfold. It Is Done written by Alex Goldberg happens to take place in a bar, but ... Read The Full Article...
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15 months ago I had the opportunity to review 23 Feet In 12 Minutes as it premiered in the 2010 NYC Fringe Festival. Since then this show has made it to New Orleans and back with some wonderful work-shopping in the Cape Cod Theatre Project along the way. It came back to New York as ... Read The Full Article...
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Dating in the big city is tough. There are millions of people, many of them interesting, well educated, good looking. How does a single girl who works long hours and hasn’t dated since her relationship ended 18 months ago find love again? If you’re Theresa Bedell (Kate Dulcich) you agree to be set up on ... Read The Full Article...
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Heading into the new play written by an “A-list lineup of writers with 2 Pulitzer Prizes, 4 Obies, 1 Emmy® and 3 Tony® nominations” I expected that the evening would make me laugh … but not till my sides hurt. I expected to be moved … but not to tears. Standing On Ceremony: The Gay ... Read The Full Article...
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A benefit concert is being held to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Ghar Sita Mutu – “House with a Heart” – a charity that offers a children’s home, a children’s learning center, a women’s training center, and a family outreach program to those living in extreme poverty in Kathmandu, Nepal. The Ghar Sita Mutu Benefit Concert is ... Read The Full Article...
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The greatest gift you could give a playwright is time. Endless time to work and re-work the kinks out of a plot, time to make the characters feel more real, time to make the situations ring more true. Time to write and re-write until all you are has been put on that page and there’s ... Read The Full Article...
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There are a few things that are crucial when it comes to producing a successful children’s theatre piece. First of all, your story has to be entertaining. Secondly the action has to be fast-paced. And finally, there has to be a strong lesson underneath all the funny costumes, big movements, and thick accents. Because while ... Read The Full Article...
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Temperatures were rising last night at the first evening of the two part celebration for Doc Wasabassco’s 7th Anniversary Extravaganza. The blazing hot belles were ravishing, revealing and resplendant as they strutted, sauntered and slowly stripped their way across the stage of The Bell House last night. But that was only part of it. ... Read The Full Article...
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