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• Theater Roundup, Yearbook Style

  

  A yearbook-style update on some of my recent theatergoing.Best Discovery: MasterVoicesPhoto credit: Erin BaianoI'm kind of late to the party on this one. Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2015 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Checking In With Fringe Encores: Part 2

  

  As you enter the SoHo Playhouse for Wasted, an Edinburgh Fringe transfer, there is a fun, club-like energy. Loud music plays, lights flash, and the actors,... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2015 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Q&A with Jenn Kent, Currently Starring in Rocking Dead: Bedlam

  

  If you dream of zombie apocalypses, you can soon live out that fantasy in the new interactive show, Rocking Dead: Bedlam. It runs from October 22 through Octobe... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2015 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Checking in with Fringe Encores

  

  This year, I was out of town for most of the New York International Fringe Festival (for those interested, you can read about some of my summer travels here... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2015 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Musical Comedy, Politics, and Free Donuts

  

  When you enter the Actors' Temple Theatre for Who's Your Baghdaddy? Or How I Started the The Iraq War, you might wonder if you're in the right place. Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2015 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Let's Talk About Sex... And Talk... And Talk

  

  Threesome might be the least sexy ménage a trois ever. The sex talk is theoretical, not dirty, and foreplay involves establishing context. But at 59E59 through... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2015 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Girls and Boys

  

  Feminist. Body image. Cougar. Needy. Pushy. Family. Biological clock. These words--which immediately make one think of women--are written on a white panel on th... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2015 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Drinks and Shakespeare

  I love Shakespeare. I love seeing his plays performed classically. And I'm also always down to see a modern interpretation. Drunk Shakespeare caters to both... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2015 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• I Saw Entourage And That Doesn't Make Me A Terrible Person

  

  According to many posts on my Facebook and Twitter feeds, the Entourage movie is the worst thing to happen in the history of cinema. Maybe even in the history o... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2015 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• The New Group is on A Roll

  

  To tell you the truth, The New Group has always been pretty hit or miss for me. But this 20th anniversary season has made up for all the misses with Sticks and... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2015 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Marathon Theater + Sugary Cereal = A Good Way To Spend a Sunday

  

  Madeleine Bundy as Kapow-i GoGo, Photo credit: Crystal ArnetteI often joke that the perfect run time is 75–90 minutes with no intermission. Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2015 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Two Shocking Plays Written 400 Years Apart

  

  In December, I wrote a blog post for Theasy.com about how I was unsettled (in a good way) by a lot of theater I had been seeing. Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2015 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Thoughts on the 2015 Tony Nominations

  We all know that awards are subjective and don't mean that much and all that, but boy, do we theater fans love talking (and tweeting and writing) about them.... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2015 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Some Dialogue In Small Mouth Sounds, But The Rest is Silence

  

  "Each time we invite you to Ars Nova, we go all out to deliver an experience like no other," reads the program note from Jason Eagan and Renee Blinkwolt,... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2015 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Want Discount Tickets to The Lion?

  I recently wrote a story about how Benjamin Scheuer turned his life into the musical The Lion with the help of director Sean Daniels. You can read it in TDF... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2015 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• So, Why Was The Baker's Wife A Flop?

  

  Fans of musical theater history have the rare chance to see The Baker's Wife, the troubled 1976 musical that played a pre-Broadway tour but never made it to... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2015 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Long Story Short at 59E59

  

  If you're meant to be with someone, you'll know. That's what Hope (Pearl Sun) and Charles (Bryce Ryness) were raised to believe. Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2015 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• The Seeing Place Takes on Othello

  

  The mission of off-off-Broadway theater company The Seeing Place is one that I think everyone can get behind--to make theater approachable and affordable (all... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2015 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• One Day Has A Case Of The Glee Problem

  

  The program of One Day: The Musical includes statistics about problems that teenagers face. Approximately 2.7 million students are bullied each year. Suicide... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2015 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• An Introduction to Baba Brinkman

  

  On Sunday, I saw my first (and probably not my last) Baba Brinkman show, Rap Guide to Religion. It's the latest of the Canadian hip-hop artist's rap guides (he'... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2015 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA