
What’s more destructive to the human race – the threat of AI, or the reality of marriage? On the one hand, artificial intelligence seems fairly close to replacing the charmingly antiq…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:05PM[SHARE]What’s more important, the plight of the proletariat, or one’s sex life? As many have discovered over the years, pretending to care about the former is good for the latter. (Excep…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:20PM[SHARE]An aging man and woman, both alone in the world, meet in a nursing home and strike up a friendship over a series of games of gin. It might seem like the premise for a sentimental theatrical …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:18PM[SHARE]Imagine an essay on camp and performance disguised as a play. No, don’t imagine that – the play is too entertaining. Imagine instead a theatrical commentary on camp, with two drag perfor…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:52PM[SHARE]Victoria Lynne Barclay’s Camping is about an emotional wilderness rather than a literal one. Across 25 years, two women remain caught in a cycle of love, denial, and recrimination, returni…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:03PM[SHARE]On Monday, June 22nd, an audience of people showed up at 11:00am at the Circle in the Square Theater at 50th St. They, and I, were planning to sit there for twelve hours until past 11:00 at…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:27AM[SHARE]Camping is the most I’ve ever cried during a play that’s set outdoors. Based on the title, I thought the show might have something to do with nature – you know, the wonderment of se…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:49PM[SHARE]In playwright Catherine Weingarten’s I Wanttt a Unicorn Frappé!!!, a young woman’s craving for a limited-edition and highly caloric Starbucks beverage becomes a sharp and satirical expl…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:56AM[SHARE]Relationships make people crazy, and sometimes, in order to get your sanity back, you have to do something a little crazy yourself. To quote Lena Dunham from her recently released memoir: …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:25PM[SHARE]You might think it’s impossible to turn a melodrama about young women, struggling with mental illness in a psychiatric facility, into musical theater. Well, yes and no. Girl, Interrupted, …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:37AM[SHARE]Audible’s Minetta Lane Theater has a spacious, airy set, and the lighting design is beautiful, and subtle, in the way it can make actors seem suffused with golden light, or plunged into ic…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:56PM[SHARE]Broken Snow starts with a young, scruffy-looking guy rummaging around a dilapidated winter cottage. He has rumpled clothes, a furtive air, and no apparent concern for the continued survival …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:33PM[SHARE]You die. It doesn’t really matter how, but you’re dead. You fell out of a hot-air-balloon, or drowned off the side of a boat, or passed away peacefully in your nineties, with your loving…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:53PM[SHARE]Remember when people went on psychedelic mushroom trips as part of a spiritual journey to discover themselves? I don’t. In my zillennial world, people take mushrooms to confron…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:57PM[SHARE]How can you trust a man who lies about doing yoga? In the intimate one-man-show Touch, directed by Jonathan Silverstein and written by playwright Kenny Finkle, the actor Anthony Rapp deliver…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:31AM[SHARE]Why do couples stay together? Mutual comfort? Desire? Self-destructive neurotic drives? Is it because nobody else knows how to make that Cajun chicken alfredo just the way you like it? Or is…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:00PM[SHARE]Let's say you have all the money in the world. You've ruthlessly built a global corporate tech empire from nothing; it's taken you your whole life. Legions of employees do the hokey-pokey wh…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:17PM[SHARE]Popesical!, a musical by Adam Overett, is set during the papal conclave, the election in which cardinals vote for a new pope, and it features a motley crew of cardinals who are put through s…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:50AM[SHARE]Now in its 24th season, the National Asian-American Theater Company (NAATCO) is presenting Awake and Sing!, Clifford Odets' Depression-era play about the Bergers, a Jewish family, living in …
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