Month: October 2023

Broadway Review: “Gutenberg! The Musical!” at the James Earl Jones Theatre (Closed Sunday, January 28, 2024)

One of the latest offerings to open on the Great White Way is no stranger to New York theatre audiences since it has had several productions Off Broadway since the mid-2000s, after it was developed by Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre as a forty-five-minute, one act. In this present, over produced, Broadway incarnation, you might start to feel as if it…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors” at New World Stages (Closed Sunday, January 7, 2024)

The new Off-Broadway show “Dracula a Comedy of Terrors,” now playing at New World Stages, certainly lives up to its title, ensuring lots of laughs infused into the original storyline along with some brilliant performances. Playwrights Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen have penned a script that skewers the original novel with gender bending characters, risqué innuendos, and over the top…

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Theatre News: Broadway Bound Theatre Festival, in Partnership with The Town Players of New Cannan, Connecticut, Finds a New Home

Broadway Bound Theatre Festival, the only theatre festival where playwrights take center stage, will be back and better than ever in the summer of 2024 with a beautiful new theatre space thanks to an exciting new partnership with The Town Players of New Canaan. When asked about the festival’s return, Festival Director Lenore Skomal said “After five successful seasons and…

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Broadway Review: “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (Closed Sunday, November 19, 2023)

Manhattan Theatre Club is presenting a new Broadway production entitled “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” penned by Jocelyn Bioh at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Ms. Bioh has set her dramedy inside a hair braiding shop located in Harlem, during one entire day, and has filled the establishment with an array of colorful and outlandish employees and clientele. The occasional street…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Infinite Life” at Atlantic Theater Company’s Linda Gross Theater (Closed Saturday, October 14, 2023)

Five women in their forties to seventies and one man in his forties gather at a clinic two hours north of San Francisco to continue to deal with their pain. The regimen includes fasting and drinking a variety of beverages. Eileen (Marylouise Burke) is hungry and tired. Elaine (Brenda Pressley) has osteoporosis. Ginnie (Kristine Nielsen) has “auto-immune thyroid stuff but…

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Benefit Performance News/Preview: “I Put a Spell on You: Witches ERA” at Sony Hall on Monday, October 23 at 8:00 p.m.

Jay Armstrong Johnson welcomes a new cast of characters for this year’s Halloween concert-meets-dance-part “I Put a Spell on You: The Witches ERA,” including Tony Award Nominee Justin Cooley (Kimberly Akimbo), Tony Award Nominee Robyn Hurder (Moulin Rouge!, A Beautiful Noise), recording artist Mila Jam, reigning SIX Queen Taylor Iman Jones (The Devil Wears Prada)RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 15’s Marcia…

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