49 stories by "Jeff Myhre"
The pandemic and its aftermath got the people at One Year Lease Theatre company thinking about grief. "Wake'" is the fruit of their ruminations. As one might expect, it is serious and often …
The romance of Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner was only 8 years long, cut short by her death from ovarian cancer. But for those who were around in the 1980s, we remember a romance for the ages.…
If there was ever a time we needed a good farce, this is it. Fortunately for us, the Red Bull Theater has put together a production of Moliere's final work, "The Imaginary Invalid." Like all…
"The Imaginary Invalid" by Moliere is opening at New World Stages in Manhattan on Monday, June 2, starring Mark Linn-Baker. Stagebiz was lucky enough to get a few moments of his time to disc…
The play's title is a reference to one of the most important nights in Irish soccer (football), the night in 1993 when Ireland and Northern Ireland played to a 1-1 draw. That was good enough…
Tom Moran has brought his one-man show to New York as part of the Origin First Irish Festival, and it is the kind of production that makes this sort of festivals so wonderful. Moran is a cha…
Every year, the Origin Theatre Company treats New York audiences to the Origin 1st Irish Theatre Festival, showcasing Irish artists both established and up-and-coming. This year, Stagebiz wa…
Stagebiz.com got a chance to chat with Britt Lafield, the managing director of the Soho Playhouse, and we talked about the International Fringe Encore Festival. The festival opened the first…
The Museum of Broadway has announced today an exclusive new exhibit that will celebrate 30 years of Disney on Broadway entitled: Disney on Broadway: 30 Years of Magic. The exhibit, presented…
New York Theatre Barn will honor four women who have made an impact on the company's 17-year history at 7PM on October 7th, 2024 at Gotham Comedy Club (208 West 23rd Street). The co…
Push Party is the story of five black women who have gathered to celebrate one of them giving birth. Set in a community room of a Harlem apartment building, the piece is not for the faint of…
David Leopold, Claire Fraenkel, Joseph Cullen, Lawrence Boothman, and Sasha Wilson in The Brief Life and Mysterious Death of Boris III " King of Bulgaria. Photo by Carol Rosegg.Stagebiz is h…
Children's theatre is usually treated as an afterthought (if it is thought of at all), not as important as anything done for adults. Disney has given us some exceptions to this, but few prod…
Summer in New York means, among a lot of other things, free performances in outdoor spaces. At Lincoln Center, Damroch Park, we had the third annual BAAND Together Dance Festival. For five n…
The Public Theater presents this stage version of the 1972 film by the same name. It was the first Jamaican feature film, just a decade after independence, and the first film that exposed a …
The world knows Betty Smith as the woman who wrote the coming-of-age novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, a minor (or arguable a major) American classic. The irony is that she considered herself …
Henry Naylor brought is award winning one-man show "Afghanistan is Not Funny" at the Soho Playhouse as part of its International Fringe Encore festival. In between performing to packed house…
The Soho Playhouse is an artistic institution in New York that punches well-above its weight in the theatre world. Much of this rests on the Fringe Encore Series, which brings some of the be…
Every actor, writer or musician starts out with a side hustle to make ends meet. In the case of actor and playwright Abbe Tanenbaum, it was organizing people's apartments. While working with…
This summer, the Public Theater is celebrating the 60th season of Shakespeare in the Park, and it is one of the events that makes living in New York City a privilege. The first of the plays …
Montreal's Mainline Theatre has brought "Gratitude" by Oren Safdie to New York's Urban Stages, and it is quite a strong premier for the show. Set in a private school in Canada in a disused l…
BROADWAYCON REVEALS STAR-STUDDED LINE-UP OF TOP BROADWAY SHOWS AND PERFORMERS FOR ITS HIGHLY-ANTICIPATED IN-PERSON RETURN TO NEW YORK CITY Â Performers from A Strange Loop, POTUS, CHICAGO,…
The Manhattan Theatre Club has revived Paula Vogel's "How I Learned to Drive," using the same two main actors who performed it back in 1997, David Morse (Uncle Peck) and Mary-Louise Parker (…
In mid-2020 with the theaters closed and the pandemic raging, Second State Theater;s President and Artistic Director Carole Rothman checked in with playwright JC Lee to see how he was doing …
David Byrne's American Utopia has had an interesting, pandemic-interrupted run on Broadway, and it will be closing at the St. James Theatre April 3. This seemed an appropriate time to reflec…
