He's the Only Director Who Makes Her Comfortable Enough to Bare All
The Pain of My Belligerence, Halley Feiffer’s searing portrait of the destructiveness of the patriarchy, chronicles the devolution of an unhealthy relationship as Donald Trump ascends to the presidency.
5 Theatres You Need to Know: Women's Theatre Companies in NYC
Harriet Tubman, Nellie Bly and Molly Brown are just a handful of the sheroes being celebrated on New York stages.
Singing the Praises of Chick Flicks on Stage
According to Suzy Conn, who wrote the book and songs for Chick Flick the Musical, there's no reason to be embarrassed about loving movies that provide so much happiness, hope and, yes, even empowerment to women.
How Being a Dad Helped Tom Kitt Write His New Musical
Superhero at Second Stage Theatre is a homecoming for Tom Kitt, who is back at the Off-Broadway stage working on another show about a family in need of salvation —and he's writing the music and lyrics this time.
Why Smashing the Patriarchy Is So Exhausting
Abby Rosebrock's world-premiere play, Blue Ridge at the Atlantic Theater Company, had been described by one of her mentors as filled with “plasma hot rage.”
Finally Centerstage and Singing: ‘The Hello Girls’ at 59E59 Theaters
It was the phrase “unsung heroes” that captured Cara Reichel’s attention. The hour-long PBS documentary spotlighting women in the military only devoted about two minutes to the Hello Girls, the female phone operator working as telephone operators during World War I. But the story resonated with Reichel, and the founding artistic director of Prospect Theater Company got to work.
Role Call: Executive Director: Robert Serrell
“I’m such a nerd,” laughs Robert Serrell, executive director of the Barrow Group Theatre Company and School, then launches into a detailed explanation of search engine optimization techniques. This is hardly a tangent: SEO is a key to how to Serrell, a former student of the school, rescued the New York City theatre company and performing arts training center from bankruptcy in 2014.
Intimate Exchanges
Sex scenes require as much careful choreography as fights or dances, especially in the #MeToo era. Is your rehearsal room ready to go there?
How Do You Conjure a Feminist Icon Onstage?
How playwright Emily Mann turned Gloria Steinem's life into activist theatre
How Immersive Theater Is Bringing Intimacy Back to Entertainment
Where is Narnia?” I joked as I stepped through the back of the large wooden wardrobe featured in the center of a Lower East Side basement. I didn’t actually expect to find myself in the magical land of “The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe,” but this tour of Wildrence, a performance space home to inventive immersive projects, certainly invited flights of fancy.
Be More Chill
Theater is just one of the social rituals featured in this new musical that skewers and satirizes societal norms and rituals in an ambitiously entertaining, but slightly disappointing, take.
How Do You Direct Two Musicals at Once?
Working on two shows simultaneously has driven Andy Sandberg to drink — large quantities of Pepsi Max.
"The actors frequently tease me because I am constantly carrying two-liter bottles in my hand," says the director, who's helming the romantic musical comedy Neurosis and the political satire R.R.R.E.D. in repertory at the DR2 Theatre.
This Ain't No Disco
Despite a top-notch creative team and an undeniably talented cast, viewing this musical requires a protective sheen for one’s vision.
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
There’s a reason why some shows have never succeeded. As much as fans might love them in spite of — or because of — their flaws, their creators simply cannot make them work.
Desperate Measures
The unabashedly old-fashioned musical (the book is written entirely in rhyming couplets) is an undeniably all-too-relevant production.
How One Man Turned His Love For Theater Into A Grammy-Winning Company
"It's almost like I had a crystal ball," Van Dean reflected. "If you look at a lot of the things I've done over the past 20 years, a lot of the courses I took [in college] were like a road map to that.”
Navigating Through the Darkness in ‘The Seafarer’
Conor McPherson's tale of despair and redemption on a drunken Christmas Eve, is a decidedly male affair. In fact, according to Ciarán O'Reilly, the director of Irish Repertory Theatre's current revival, "This play could be called The Absence of Women."
‘Angels in America’ Conquers Broadway Again
Directed by Marianne Elliott and playing at the Neil Simon Theater, the two plays — Millennium Approaches and Perestroika, performed in repertory by a stunning ensemble — pulse with an urgency that speaks to audiences in 2018 with startling clarity.