Thursday, November 13, 2025
The pandemic and its aftermath got the people at One Year Lease Theatre company thinking about grief. "Wake'" is the fruit of their ruminations. As one might expect, it is serious and often …
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 02:11PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 13, 2025
The romance of Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner was only 8 years long, cut short by her death from ovarian cancer. But for those who were around in the 1980s, we remember a romance for the ages.…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 12:38PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 10, 2025
If there was ever a time we needed a good farce, this is it. Fortunately for us, the Red Bull Theater has put together a production of Moliere's final work, "The Imaginary Invalid." Like all…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 12:27PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 29, 2025
"The Imaginary Invalid" by Moliere is opening at New World Stages in Manhattan on Monday, June 2, starring Mark Linn-Baker. Stagebiz was lucky enough to get a few moments of his time to disc…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 12:09PM[SHARE]Friday, April 18, 2025
The play's title is a reference to one of the most important nights in Irish soccer (football), the night in 1993 when Ireland and Northern Ireland played to a 1-1 draw. That was good enough…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 10:52AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 17, 2025
Tom Moran has brought his one-man show to New York as part of the Origin First Irish Festival, and it is the kind of production that makes this sort of festivals so wonderful. Moran is a cha…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 10:09AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 27, 2025
Every year, the Origin Theatre Company treats New York audiences to the Origin 1st Irish Theatre Festival, showcasing Irish artists both established and up-and-coming. This year, Stagebiz wa…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 06:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Stagebiz.com got a chance to chat with Britt Lafield, the managing director of the Soho Playhouse, and we talked about the International Fringe Encore Festival. The festival opened the first…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 07:59PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 3, 2024
The Museum of Broadway has announced today an exclusive new exhibit that will celebrate 30 years of Disney on Broadway entitled: Disney on Broadway: 30 Years of Magic. The exhibit, presented…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 12:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 11, 2024
New York Theatre Barn will honor four women who have made an impact on the company's 17-year history at 7PM on October 7th, 2024 at Gotham Comedy Club (208 West 23rd Street). The co…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 05:07PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 11, 2024
Push Party is the story of five black women who have gathered to celebrate one of them giving birth. Set in a community room of a Harlem apartment building, the piece is not for the faint of…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 10:06AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 9, 2024
David Leopold, Claire Fraenkel, Joseph Cullen, Lawrence Boothman, and Sasha Wilson in The Brief Life and Mysterious Death of Boris III " King of Bulgaria. Photo by Carol Rosegg.Stagebiz is h…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 07:30PM[SHARE]Friday, August 4, 2023
Children's theatre is usually treated as an afterthought (if it is thought of at all), not as important as anything done for adults. Disney has given us some exceptions to this, but few prod…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 09:45AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 30, 2023
Summer in New York means, among a lot of other things, free performances in outdoor spaces. At Lincoln Center, Damroch Park, we had the third annual BAAND Together Dance Festival. For five n…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 04:22PM[SHARE]Monday, March 27, 2023
The Public Theater presents this stage version of the 1972 film by the same name. It was the first Jamaican feature film, just a decade after independence, and the first film that exposed a …
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 12:07PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 28, 2023
The world knows Betty Smith as the woman who wrote the coming-of-age novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, a minor (or arguable a major) American classic. The irony is that she considered herself …
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 03:08PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 8, 2022
Henry Naylor brought is award winning one-man show "Afghanistan is Not Funny" at the Soho Playhouse as part of its International Fringe Encore festival. In between performing to packed house…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 10:34AM[SHARE]Monday, December 5, 2022
The Soho Playhouse is an artistic institution in New York that punches well-above its weight in the theatre world. Much of this rests on the Fringe Encore Series, which brings some of the be…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 03:58PM[SHARE]Monday, October 24, 2022
Every actor, writer or musician starts out with a side hustle to make ends meet. In the case of actor and playwright Abbe Tanenbaum, it was organizing people's apartments. While working with…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 10:53AM[SHARE]Monday, July 11, 2022
This summer, the Public Theater is celebrating the 60th season of Shakespeare in the Park, and it is one of the events that makes living in New York City a privilege. The first of the plays …
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 12:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 21, 2022
Montreal's Mainline Theatre has brought "Gratitude" by Oren Safdie to New York's Urban Stages, and it is quite a strong premier for the show. Set in a private school in Canada in a disused l…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 09:40AM[SHARE]Monday, June 6, 2022
BROADWAYCON REVEALS STAR-STUDDED LINE-UP OF TOP BROADWAY SHOWS AND PERFORMERS FOR ITS HIGHLY-ANTICIPATED IN-PERSON RETURN TO NEW YORK CITY Â Performers from A Strange Loop, POTUS, CHICAGO,…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 10:11AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 24, 2022
The Manhattan Theatre Club has revived Paula Vogel's "How I Learned to Drive," using the same two main actors who performed it back in 1997, David Morse (Uncle Peck) and Mary-Louise Parker (…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 09:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 20, 2022
In mid-2020 with the theaters closed and the pandemic raging, Second State Theater;s President and Artistic Director Carole Rothman checked in with playwright JC Lee to see how he was doing …
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 11:52AM[SHARE]Monday, March 14, 2022
David Byrne's American Utopia has had an interesting, pandemic-interrupted run on Broadway, and it will be closing at the St. James Theatre April 3. This seemed an appropriate time to reflec…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 08:15PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 13, 2022
David Byrne is far from your typical rock star. The fast car, fast women, drug-addled stereotype just doesn't fit him. It should not be a surprise, therefore, that his show on Broadway is no…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 10:21AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 31, 2021
Here are some of the new shows opening this fall in New York (not an exhaustive list): Pass Over Open now and running through October 10 at the August Wilson Theatre. Lackawanna Blues Previe…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 12:19PM[SHARE]New York Theatre is reopening! Here are the shows that were running when the pandemic shut us down that are returning: Hadestown From September 2 at the Walter Kerr Theatre. Waitress From Se…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 12:00PM[SHARE]Monday, March 15, 2021
This letter arrived in my email inbox late last week, and I think it bears sharing with the readers of Stagebiz.com. Erez Ziv is in charge of both the Kraine Theater and Under St. Mark's as …
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 11:40AM[SHARE]Monday, February 22, 2021
The premise of the play is simple enough. Jackie (David Feliz) is a former drug dealer freshly out of prison and determined to go straight. His girlfriend Veronica (Jillian K. Waters) is thr…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 07:17PM[SHARE]Friday, January 8, 2021
This little puppet show concerns Xavi, a little girl who has been sentenced like the rest of us to spending the pandemic in our homes. Her mom orders her off the video games and tells her to…
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