Monday, January 13, 2025
Some Broadway musicals are classics, revived over and over again. And then there are the divas, the performers who create the starring roles. If you are lucky enough to see them, you will wi…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 1, 2025
The Board of Directors of Eureka Day school, a private school in upscale Berkeley, California, prizes inclusivity above all else. So no issues will be resolved without complete agreement. "W…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:08PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" is considered a 'problem' play with its ambiguous tone, shifting from humor to dark elements in the person of one of the central characters, the Jewish…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:53PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 8, 2024
Photo by Julieta Cervantes So much theater is about family dynamics where we often recognize ourselves and our families on stage. However, sometimes we are relieved that it is NOT our family…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:39AM[SHARE]Monday, November 25, 2024
How far would you go to retain your youth? Theater and film are replete with tales of women attempting to stay young. If the woman is Maddy Ashton, an egotistical narcissistic performer, one…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:01PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 21, 2024
With his raspy gravelly voice and broad smile, trumpet-player Louis Armstrong has become an iconic figure. Yet his story is much more complex than that. The new Broadway bio-musical, "It's A…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:03PM[SHARE]Monday, November 18, 2024
When people need to recharge, they take a nap or have a cup of coffee or a piece of chocolate. When the charming Helper Bots in the different quirky new musical, "Maybe Happy Ending" need a …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:17PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 16, 2024
Is there anyone who doesn't know the story of Romeo and Juliet, the young star-crossed lovers? The challenge for a director, then, is how to retell the story to appeal to a younger audience.…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:13AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 6, 2024
The chemistry between Julianna Margulies and Peter Gallagher is charming, and that's the most compelling reason to see the new play "Left on Tenth". The autobiographical play by novelist, sc…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:38PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 31, 2024
In "Gypsy" three strippers explain the key to success by singing "You Gotta Get a Gimmick." Lately that seems to be the theme of Broadway revivals. The goal is to differentiate the show from…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:05AM[SHARE]Friday, October 25, 2024
Vladimir Putin is an intriguing figure and last spring, he was one of the two main characters in playwright Peter Morgan's play "Patriots." This season, a second show by Erika Sheffer called…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:22PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 22, 2024
We grow up, seek partners and then we die. That's the storyline of "Thornton Wilder's Our Town". There's very little cutesy and kitschy about the play which begins in 1901 in Grover's Corner…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:49AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 17, 2024
Jez Butterworth's latest play, "Hills of California" moves so smoothly that you are never aware of its 2 hours and 45 minutes running time. Arriving on Broadway after a successful London run…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:55PM[SHARE]Monday, October 14, 2024
They say you can't go home again. Yet in "Good Bones," the new play by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright James Ijames ("Fat Ham") that's what Aisha (Susan Kelechi Watson) is doing when she a…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:44PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 9, 2024
I'm a sucker for the Iron Man movies. I love Tony Stark who uses his wealth to combat crime and terrorism. Robert Downey, Jr plays Tony Stark aka Iron Man, and his role has won him a legion …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 5, 2024
It can't be easy portraying a living person, and it must be even more daunting when the person you are playing is the person who wrote the play. Such is the task for Daniel Dae Kim, the good…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:40AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 28, 2024
This season Broadway is hoping to use star power to boost ticket sales. So popular movie and television performers are headlining new theatrical productions as well as revivals. Producers ho…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:49AM[SHARE]Friday, August 16, 2024
They say you never forget your first time and one of the first shows I ever saw was "Once Upon a Mattress" starring comedienne Carol Burnett. It was unforgettable! Incomparable! For me, it w…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:07PM[SHARE]Friday, August 9, 2024
Jane makes me uncomfortable. Maybe it's her nervousness and twitching. Maybe it is the gun she is brandishing as the play JOB begins. According to Anton Chekhov, if a writer includes a gun i…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 1, 2024
Orthodox Jews won't work on the Sabbath. Work includes simple tasks, such as turning on air conditioners and lights. Over the years they have enlisted the aid of a Shabbos Goy, a non-Jew who…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:16PM[SHARE]Monday, July 15, 2024
What can the audience learn from the new production "Empire: The Musical" directed by Cady Huffman? The building was originally supposed to be named after former governor Alfred E. Smith. Th…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:48AM[SHARE]Friday, July 5, 2024
I had a stressful week and was really hoping to see a lighthearted play, certainly not one about politics. However, "N/A," the new play by Mario Correa, was next in the queue. Correa comes t…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:29PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 19, 2024
Cephus Miles never wanted to leave his home in Crossroads, North Carolina. The central figure of the beautiful revival of Samm " Art Williams's "Home" presented at Roundabout's Todd Haimes T…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:16AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 9, 2024
Can two extremely talented female performers overcome their history of unhappy relationships and learn to love again? Zoe Sarnak and Rachel Bonds's rock musical, The Lonely Few, is a lesbian…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:25PM[SHARE]Monday, June 3, 2024
Brian Friel's play "Molly Sweeney" directed by Charlotte Moore is staged in the simplest form imaginable. The three major characters are seated in chairs on stage. They speak directly to the…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:26AM[SHARE]Monday, May 27, 2024
It's estimated that there are over 5 million people who belong to book clubs and 80% of the participants are women. Some of the clubs are organized and have a paid leader while others are mo…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:39PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 21, 2024
The NYTW production of "Here There Were Blueberries" in a co-production with Tectonic Theater Project, begins with a single object onstage. It is a Leica camera and the narrator explains how…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:51AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 16, 2024
Imagine you are the fly on the wall in a recording studio. One of your favorite groups is scheduled to record its latest album. It's the 1970's, and the group has an album on The Billboard c…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:57PM[SHARE]Monday, May 13, 2024
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SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:31AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 12, 2024
The revision of "Uncle Vanya" at Lincoln Center is notable for two reasons. One is that it has been modernized by Heidi Schreck ("What the Constitution Means to Me") making it more relatable…
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