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How Do You Play 240 Years' Worth of Music?
By ELIZA BENT
Thursday, September 22, 2016  •   Borough Play  •    0 comments Share This
Thu Sep 22, 2016  •   Borough Play  •    0 comments Share This
Meet the music director of Taylor Mac's wildly ambitious new show   ---  Welcome to Borough Play, our look at theatre in Brooklyn, Queens, and Beyond  The title of Taylor Mac's latest work is quite literal. A 24-Decade History of Popular Music does indeed cover 240 years of beloved tunes, featuring over 246 songs dating all the...
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The Last Night of Nat Turner's Life
By JANICE C. SIMPSON
Wednesday, September 21, 2016  •   Off-Broadway  •    0 comments Share This
Wed Sep 21, 2016  •   Off-Broadway  •    0 comments Share This
A new play imagines the rebellious leader's final hours --- Nathan Alan Davis doesn't recall when he first heard about Nat Turner, the slave preacher who led a bloody uprising in Virginia in 1831. But he does recall his reaction when he read The Confessions of Nat Turner, an account of the revolt that a white lawyer named Thomas R. Gray claimed to...
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Why is the 'Holiday Inn' Musical So Different From the Movie?
By FRANK RIZZO
Tuesday, September 20, 2016  •   Broadway  •    0 comments Share This
Tue Sep 20, 2016  •   Broadway  •    0 comments Share This
How a cinematic trifle became a Broadway show --- How do you turn a cinematic trifle into a big Broadway musical? Holiday Inn, the 1942 film starring Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby, began as a vehicle for composer Irving Berlin to highlight a calendar's worth of evergreen songs, including "Easter Parade," "White Christmas," and "Happy Holidays." But...
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Let's Geek Out Over Shelagh Delaney's Glorious Play 'A Taste of Honey'
By MARK BLANKENSHIP
Monday, September 19, 2016  •   Geek Out Freak Out  •    0 comments Share This
Mon Sep 19, 2016  •   Geek Out Freak Out  •    0 comments Share This
You can see it right now at the Pearl --- Welcome to Geek Out Freak Out, where theatre fans get enthusiastic about things. Through October 30, the Pearl Theatre Company is presenting A Taste of Honey, Shelagh Delaney's 1958 play about Jo, a rowdy, headstrong teenager in working-class England who's trying to make a decent life alongside her equally...
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A Theatre's Quest for Trans Literacy
By MAYBE BURKE
Friday, September 16, 2016  •   Off-Off-Broadway  •    0 comments Share This
Fri Sep 16, 2016  •   Off-Off-Broadway  •    0 comments Share This
Inside the Trans Literacy Project from Honest Accomplice Theatre --- I grew up with deep roots in musical theatre. I was trained as a director in theatre arts. I studied and was immersed in mainstream theatre from a very young age. I loved it, but soon came to learn that there wasn't much of a place for me there. As a trans person and an advocate,...
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Dance Is Part of the World at Large
By SUSAN REITER
Thursday, September 15, 2016  •   Dance  •    0 comments Share This
Thu Sep 15, 2016  •   Dance  •    0 comments Share This
Choreographer John Jasperse sees history (and the future) in his latest work --- What's left behind after a dance is performed? Given the art form's notoriously ephemeral nature, how do long-gone dance events retain their impact and influence? Can one identify the remnants of a dance, as one can with a human body? These questions underscore Remains,...
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How Do You Talk to Your Family in an Election Year?
By FRANK RIZZO
Wednesday, September 14, 2016  •   Off-Broadway  •    0 comments Share This
Wed Sep 14, 2016  •   Off-Broadway  •    0 comments Share This
Richard Nelson takes another look at the Gabriels --- Playwright Richard Nelson wants you to know that his three-play cycle The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family is less about politics than kinship. Specifically, it's about the connections among the Gabriels, a middle-class clan in Rhinebeck, N.Y., which has turned into a trendy bedroom...
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Musical Theatre Alert: You Can Finally See 'Fiorello!' On Stage
By MARK BLANKENSHIP
Tuesday, September 13, 2016  •   Musicals  •    0 comments Share This
Tue Sep 13, 2016  •   Musicals  •    0 comments Share This
The Pulitzer-winning musical finally returns to New York --- How many of us actually know Fiorello!? Sure, diehard musical theatre fans are aware of the show, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1960 and has a score by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick. They might recall the plot – about the early political and romantic life of Fiorello LaGuardia,...
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