The producers of MISSED CONNECTIONS: A CRAIGSLIST MUSICAL launched an Indiegogo campaign (www.indiegogo.com/projects/missed-connections-a-craigslist), to help fund the US debut of MISSED CONNECTIONS. Directed by Phillip George (Forbidden Broadway) and choreographed by Richard J Hinds, Missed Connections: A Craigslist Musical is a musical based on real Craigslist Ads – “Your Personal Ads Set To Music” written…
COMING SOON: yeah, I met this girl
OnTheRoadRep Repertory Theater Company will present Tea in the Afternoon, a two-character play by Vanessa Shealy, for a limited one week run, February 2 – 7, 2016 at the Studio Theater at Theatre Row. The production is directed by Nick Corley whose recent directing credits include Tim and Scrooge/New York Musical Theatre Festival and Tall…
A Write Teacher(s) Review: The Martian
Dear Bookworms, If you haven’t heard of The Martian by now, you’ve probably been living under a large rock. Andy Weir’s bestselling science-fiction novel has soared to great heights recently, with top reviews and a 2015 film adaptation starring Matt Damon. The Wall Street Journal called the book “the best pure sci-fi novel in years.” And for good reason….
Remember The Dream
Hello Beautiful People, Today we remember Martin Luther King Jr. And I do hope we all took the time to do just that – remember. Remember the man, the dream, his work, and what he stood for. Remember that there is still so much work to be done. Remember that hate is never the answer….
TV Talk: Sons of Anarchy
Hello Beautiful People, What do you when your favorite television shows are on hiatus for the season? Well, you find a new one to watch in the meantime, of course. So, to fill the void of The Affair and Homeland, I started watching Sons of Anarchy. Totally not something I ever expected to watch. Or…
COMING SOON: The White Stag Quadrilogy
Dixon Place’s (Ellie Covan, Founding & Artistic Director) co-production of The White Stag Quadrilogy with On The Rocks Theatre Company, written by On The Rocks founders Christopher Ford & Dakota Rose, and directed by Dakota Rose, will have its world premiere on Friday, February 12th at 7:30 PM. The White Stag Quadrilogy will play six…
COMING SOON: Big Red Sun
Head to New York’s Feinstein’s/54 Below on Tuesday, January 19th, for a celebration of BIG RED SUN, the new musical by John Jiler and Georgia Stitt. Directed by Hunter Foster, this concert presentation features Jill Abramovitz, Adam Cochran, David Josefsberg, Betsy Morgan, Maurice Murphy, and Michael Philip O’Bohn rien singing new orchestrations by Stitt, played expertly…
The Tale of the Dragon’s Tail
Black Box Studios proudly presents The Tale of the Dragon’s Tail, created and directed by Josh Kammerman, and based on a story developed by the Apple Tree Players. The Tale of the Dragon’s Tail, an adventure musical for the kid in all of us, will play eight performances from January 31st through February 21st, 2016…
Beyond Broadway Ponders Beyond Broadway 2016
I have the awesome opportunity this month to vacation in Trinidad for a few weeks. I am looking forward to exploring the theatrical roots of my culture especially The Trinidad Theatre Workshop. This week I was thinking about theatres that I would like to visit and write about this year. So this month’s column is…
The Muralist
In her latest novel, The Muralist (one of our November picks), B.A. Shapiro crafted another great piece of historical fiction about the art world. Goodreads offers the following description: “Alizée Benoit, an American painter working for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), vanishes in New York City in 1940 amid personal and political turmoil. No one…