Off-Broadway News: MCC Theater Launches Casting Search for Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Artists for Upcoming NYC Premiere of the Play “Charm”

December 21, 2016 | broadway company mail, gloria, hand to god, harmony, LGBTQ+, News, Off-Broadway, pretty woman, the lion king | Tags:

MCC Theater (Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, William Cantler, Artistic Directors; Blake West, Executive Director) announces today a casting search for transgender and gender non-conforming performers as it prepares for the newly announced first show of its 2017-18 Season: the NYC premiere of Charm, a play by Chicago-based, Jefferson Award-winning playwright Philip Dawkins to be directed by Helen Hayes Award winner…

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Off-Broadway Review: “His Royal Hipness Lord Buckley” Bristles with Truth at 59E59 Theaters

December 13, 2016 | Cabaret, hamilton, Off-Broadway | Tags:

“The Theater must always be a safe and special place. The cast of Hamilton was very rude last night to a very good man, Mike Pence. Apologize!” – The Real Donald Trump at 5:56 a.m. on November 19 2016 Just when you think the theatre is a safe place again after the president-elect’s recent challenge to the producers and creative…

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BroadwayCon 2017 Announces “In Trousers” Reunion January 27 – 29, 2017

December 8, 2016 | Broadway | Tags: ,

BroadwayCon announced today that a special “In Trousers” Reunion will take place at BroadwayCon 2017, January 27-29 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. Moderated by musical theatre historian Jennifer Ashley Tepper, the Reunion will include original cast members Chip Zien (Marvin), Alison Fraser (His Wife), and Mary Testa (Miss Goldberg), William Finn (Book, Music, Lyrics, Director), André Bishop, and…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Rancho Viejo” at Playwrights Horizons

December 8, 2016 | Off-Broadway, on beckett, on the head of a pin | Tags:

Would you want to move into a desert community where the homes are interchangeable, and making new friends with the neighbors may feel like high school all over again? In fact, would you even want to spend an evening with someone who does? If it all sounds fine and dandy, you may enjoy “Rancho Viejo,” the new play by Dan…

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Off-Broadway Review: “This Day Forward” at the Vineyard Theatre

December 6, 2016 | days of rage broadway, days of rage theatre, hand to god, last stand city center, LGBTQ+, mother night, Off-Broadway, the nap | Tags:

“In the Name of God, I take you to be my husband/wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, until we are parted by death. This is my solemn vow.” – From “The Book of Common Prayer” In 1958 Martin…

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Broadway Review: “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812” Sparkles at the Imperial Theatre

November 30, 2016 | be more, Best Bet, Broadway, on the head of a pin, the field | Tags:

“I never thought that I’d end up like this./I used to be better.” – Pierre What is “The Great Comet?” The masterful musical, recently transferred to the Imperial Theatre on Broadway, seems to evoke disparate responses and critical interpretations. Some insist this is a complex musical requiring extensive knowledge of the French Invasion of Russia in 1812 and the ability…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Terms of Endearment” at 59E59 Theaters

November 23, 2016 | Off-Broadway | Tags:

It is always a difficult task to adapt for the stage a novel that has turned into a successful screenplay. The current American premier of Dan Gordon’s adaptation of “Terms of Endearment” has even greater obstacles to overcome following after the familiar dramatic tearjerker associated with brilliant performances by iconic film actors. These difficulties have nothing to do with comparing…

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Off-Broadway Review: “The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World AKA The Negro Book of the Dead” at the Pershing Square Signature Center

November 23, 2016 | Best Bet, evan ross broadway, evan ross off-broadway, history, last stand city center, Off-Broadway, on the head of a pin, slave play, tim j ryan off broadway, watermelon | Tags:

“Yesterday today next summer tomorrow just uh moment uhgoh in 1317 dieded thuh last black man in thuh whole entire world. Uh! Oh. Dont be uhlarmed. Do not be afeared. It was painless. Uh painless passin. He falls twenty-three floors to his death. 23 floors from uh passin ship from space tuh splat on thuh pavement. He have uh head…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Finian’s Rainbow” at Irish Repertory Company

November 6, 2016 | harmony, irish repertory, Off-Broadway, tim j ryan off broadway | Tags:

The 2016 Presidential Election has been perhaps the most contentious in modern history. Erupting from the three debates – as well as prior to the nominations – there has been a disturbing barrage of bigotry, xenophobia, sexism, and racism. Economic disparity has been used to woo voters without providing them any concrete paths to a better future. For these reasons,…

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Off-Broadway Review: “The Roads to Home” at Primary Stages at Cherry Lane Theatre

November 5, 2016 | mother night, Off-Broadway, sense and | Tags: ,

If the idiom “home is where the heart is” has any veracity, then the characters in Horton Foote’s 1982 “The Roads to Home” are as far from home as anyone might be. Geographically, the main characters – the three women in the first two short plays of the somewhat interconnected trilogy – are refugees from their original homes and have…

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