135 stories by "Brittani Samuel"
Somewhere in Bayonne, New Jersey, a middle-aged truck driver pines to care for his estranged wife, a woman he's loved "the fuck outta" for "two decades and a year almost." A car accident mis…
The Broadway Applause Series salutes Funny Girl!
The Broadway Applause Series Salutes The Lion King.
High school love is often blind. My affair with Khaled Hosseini's novel "The Kite Runner" was no exception. Equally harrowing and hopeful, the book was easy to cherish as a child. But the ab…
Like most folks who lay claim to being a former theater kid, a solid portion of my childhood was spent watching a grainy PBS taping of "Into the Woods" on Youtube. There is at least a decade…
The Broadway Applause Series Salutes Tina.
There are an infinite number of ways a comedy can get its audience to laugh. Selina Fillinger's Broadway-debut play, "POTUS," successfully tries its hand at most. Raunchy language? Well, tha…
Greek philosopher Heraclitus said that change is the only constant of life. In "The Skin of Our Teeth," Thornton Wilder argues that tragedy is another. His sweeping comedy, now resurrected o…
It starts with a step. Stomp. Clap. A crescendo of joyous movement and affirmations ("ayeee, yessss, you better") erupts on stage and is immediately echoed by members of the audience, most n…
The titular character of "The Little Prince" travels between planets. The theatrical adaptation of the acclaimed novella is traveling between nations " France, Australia, the United Arab Emi…