John Turturro stars with Max Casella, Didi Conn and Aida Turturro in Theatre for a New Audience’s staging of Eduardo De Filippo’s Souls of Naples, starting Off-Broadway, April 2.
Roman Paska directs the American premiere of a new TFANA-commissioned translation of the work by Village Voice critic Michael Feingold. The show will officially open April 14 […]
China Doll, Elizabeth Wong’s new play that was inspired by the life of silver-screen star Anna May Wong, begins performances April 2 at Off-Broadway’s West End Theatre.
Directed by Tisa Chang, the production is presented by Pan Asian Repertory Theatre to celebrate the 100th birthday of Anna May Wong, whose film credits include “The Toll of […]
The Audience, a new musical created by a collaboration of 100 people, debuts March 31 Off-Broadway, in a staging by Transport Group.
Transport Group’s creative artistic director Jack Cummings III and producing artistic director Robyn Hussa announced that the centerpiece of the company’s fourth season is one of the largest off-Broadway projects in recent memory. Conceived […]
Audrey II, that blood-thirsty little plant from Mushnick’s Flower Shop, just keeps growing.
Roger Corman introduced the pushy, people-eating plant in his 1960 B-film “Little Shop of Horrors.” Twenty years later, Audrey II popped up in a campy off-Broadway musical of the same name that blossomed into the 1986 movie version starring Rick Moranis and Steve […]
“McReele.”
The title of Stephen Belber’s new play, at the Roundabout’s Laura Pels Theatre, suggests McMuffin or McChicken, something processed, something - note the spelling - not quite real.
It’s the name of a politician, and Belber’s drama is about the way public life is corrupted by candidates who are phonies, who say what they think is […]
Writing about Off-Broadway in The Best Plays of 1965-1966, the late Otis L. Guernsey praised its influence yet fretted over “66 shows as compared to 75 a year ago.” A decade later, he noted how the Off-Broadway scene of the ’60s had yielded, by the ’70s, “a mini-Broadway.” Yet today, overall productions are fewer, commercial […]
Bombay Dreams, the Andrew Lloyd Webber-produced musical that first played London and later Broadway, may wind up in the city that inspired its rags-to-riches story.
Reuters reports that the Bollywood-themed musical may play Bombay and other Asian cities within the next year’s time. Kerry Comerford, the general manager of Really Useful Company in the Asia Pacific, […]
The New Group’s current Off-Broadway revival of David Rabe’s Hurlyburly at the 199-seat Acorn Theatre will transfer to a new, larger Off-Broadway house in April, confirmed a production spokesperson.
Following its current run through March 19 at the Acorn Theatre, the acclaimed production will reopen April 4 at the 499-seat theatre at 37 Arts, which is […]
Flight, a new play by Garth Wingfield, will debut Off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel Theatre May 8-June 19.
The Melting Pot Theatre Company will produce and Kerry O’Malley will star. Also in the cast are Gregg Edelman, Brian D’Arcy James, Adam Heller, Rex Young and Victoria Mack.
Edelman and O’Malley will play aviator Charles Lindbergh and his […]