The Spotlight podcast is hosted by Jena Tesse Fox. Guests: Eliana Theologides Rodriguez and Miranda Cornell Co-Production with Rattlestick TheaterIndian Princessesby Eliana Theologides Rodri…
The Spotlight podcast is hosted by Jena Tesse Fox. Guest: Michael John LaChiusa Michael John LaChiusa on: Facebook | Concord Theatricals The Wild Party @ New York City Center. Production Ima…
Grief certainly makes for good drama: Unpredictable, unreliable and messy, it can be a great basis for an emotionally intense play. Unfortunately, in Grief Camp, the new play written by Eliy…
The cavernous Vivian Beaumont theater at Lincoln Center is a surprisingly brilliant choice for staging the Broadway premiere of Floyd Collins, Tina Landau and Adam Guettel's 1994 musical abo…
Caryl Churchill is famous"or perhaps infamous"for taking bold leaps in her plays and circumventing both theatrical conventions and audience expectations, leveraging both fantasy and surreali…
After a season of "reimaginings" of classic works that completely overhaul original concepts, it is somewhat refreshing to have a more traditional revival of Ghosts, Henrik Ibsen's classic t…
One of Stephen Sondheim's most famous maxims was that a musical's content should dictate each song's form"in other words, the framework of the musical itself will determine what the songs sh…
While any number of musicals are based on popular movies, precious few are based on documentaries. Fortunately, Saheem Ali had the wonderful idea to bring Wim Wender's 1999 documentary Buena…
The latest revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats, which closed this weekend at the Perelman Performing Arts Center in New York City's financial district after multiple extensions, may well b…
If Lincoln Center's revival of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya feels both timely and timeless, we can thank playwright and actress Heidi Schreck for her smart adaptation of the 1898 classic. Wit…
Peter Morgan has written any number of excellent plays, movies and TV series about world leaders, from Richard Nixon to Idi Amin to Queen Elizabeth II. But Patriots, his latest piece directe…
We all knew the musical adaptations of The Great Gatsby would be coming as soon as F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 book entered the public domain, and the first of what will inevitably be many su…
Sally Hemings is one of the great known-unknowns of American history. We know she existed. We know she bore children to Thomas Jefferson, the man who enslaved her. We know she was likely the…
The timing feels very right for a revival of John Kander, Fred Ebb and Joe Masteroff's seminal musical Cabaret. It's only been 10 years since the last Broadway revival of the show but seems …
When John Patrick Shanley wrote Doubt in 2004, it was (allegedly) meant to be a parable, connecting the bombshell 2002 Boston Globe expose of sexual abuse by Catholic priests with the U.S.' …
The Spotlight podcast is hosted by Jena Tesse Fox. Guest: Jessica Molaskey On this episode, Jena talks with Jessica Molaskey about The Connector, her previous shows with Daisy Prince and Jas…
If you had told me a few months ago that I would spend two hours and change laughing hysterically at a cheesy, corny new musical reportedly inspired by the classic TV show Hee-Haw, I would h…
Sometimes, all the elements for an excellent musical come together and the sparks simply don't fly. Such is the case with New York, New York, a new musical based on a 1977 romantic movie. Wi…
Madeleine Albright once said that there is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women. That quote could be at the heart of Prima Facie, a new one-woman play by Suzie Miller…
Bob Fosse developed the musical Dancin' as both a tribute to and a departure from his signature choreographic style. The show, which premiered on Broadway in 1978, was conceived as a celebra…
There is something powerfully cathartic about art created out of trauma, especially when that art reminds us that we aren't alone in our pain. In Plays for the Plague Year, which opened last…
Yet again, Andrew Lloyd Webber has created a musical with a titular protagonist rejected by mainstream society for not meeting popular beauty standards"but unlike The Phantom of the Opera, B…
Performer Ali Ewoldt has spent the past month as one of the featured performers at Irish Repertory Theatre's production of A Child's Christmas in Wales, Charlotte Moore's musical adaptation …
The Spotlight podcast is hosted by Jena Tesse Fox. Guest: David Staller, Artistic Director of Gingold Theatrical Group On this episode, Jena talks with David Staller, artistic director of Gi…
When the theaters shut down and performers could not perform in public anymore, actor and singer Todd Buonopane took to his bathtub and turned his shower curtain into a theater curtain, perf…