42 stories by "Navida Stein"
Any budding young artistic directors dreaming of starting a theatre that nurtures and produces new work should be required to meet and hang out with Joe Brancato, founding artistic director …
Certainly Passageways: Songs of Connection, Abnormal & Sublime, a theater piece of original songs, mixed media art, dance and storytelling created, written and performed by Amy Oestreich…
In the opening scene of the revival of John Wulp's The Saintliness of Margery Kempe at The Duke on 42nd Street, Andrus Nichols comes barreling on stage in a red dress as the title character …
The United States leads the world in incarceration by a hefty margin, according to the International Centre for Prison Studies; there are over 2.2 million people imprisoned and it is not nec…
Operation Crucible by Kieran Knowles (who is also a cast member, playing the affable Tommy) is part of the Brits Off Broadway series at 59E59 Theaters. Alternating between harrowing and …
The prolific English playwright and director Alan Ayckbourn is back at 59E59 Theaters. His funny and poignant new comedy A Brief History of Women is part of Brits Off Broadway 2018, with a c…
Starting off her sprightly one woman show A Good Girl Doesn't by pulling a drugstore paternity test out of a plastic bag, writer and performer Abby Stokes sets up the journey she'll take her…
If you missed The Lion, acclaimed singer, songwriter and guitarist Benjamin Scheuer's beautiful solo show, when it was here in New York a few years ago at Manhattan Theater Club and then at …
Theater director Maria Mileaf is back at Primary Stages for a third time with the production Feeding the Dragon, written and performed by theater and television veteran Sharon Washington. Fe…
International theater director Karin Coonrod has a fierce commitment to whatever text she is working with, whether it is the drama of Shakespeare, the stories of Flannery O'Connor or the poe…
Award-winning British actress Melody Grove has been a bit of a New Yorker lately — first with the downtown hit The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (The National Theater of Scotland) …
The opera-requiem IYOV fuses Biblical and liturgical texts with an extraordinary exploration of musical ideas from classical to folk to jazz, rock and electronics and practically all the sou…
Belgian indie band Dez Mona and Flemish B.O.X. (Baroque Orchestration X) wound up the 2018 Prototype Festival with an encore performance, bringing back their theatrical song cycle Sága…
Playwright Lucy Kirkwood's vivid, thought-provoking West End hit The Children has also made a big impact in New York. Now playing on Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club with the original Brit…
Politics. Sex. Love. Secrets. Intrigue. Power. Betrayal. All elements you'd find in a good spy thriller are also to be found in the new opera Fellow Travelers, receiving its New York prem…
Three extraordinary women are the visionary producers behind the Prototype Festival: Beth Morrison (Beth Morrison Projects), Kristin Martig (Artistic Director, HERE) and Kim Whitener (Produc…
Perched in the back row of Classic Stage Company's (CSC) bare brick wall theater a couple hours before a preview performance I speak with Jessie Austrian, actress, director and one third of …
Director Amanda Dehnert pairs up with playwright and actress Kate Hamill for a production of Pride and Prejudice at Primary Stages that is ridiculously fun, intoxicatingly spirited and deepl…
The quandary. You are an established playwright with a great new play you'd like to share with New York audiences, showcase to New York industry people and use New York talent, but no es…
In John Doyle's pared down As You Like It, opening Classic Stage Company's 50th season, the forest of Arden is not filled with trees but rather a grove of globe-shaped lights hanging f…
It's a guarantee you will learn something new when talking with actor Mark Shanahan, currently playing Walt Disney in Frederick Stroppel's play Small World: a fantasia at 59E59 Theater…
Take a new play by two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony Award nominee Sarah Ruhl, add a cast of seasoned New York actors including the great Kathleen Chalfant, let innovative theater di…
Japan Society celebrates its 110th anniversary and its newly renovated theater with the North American premiere of Four Nights of Dream, a chamber opera by composer Moto Osada; the ope…
Up-and-coming English actress Jade Anouka, who plays Ariel in the Donmar Warehouse's acclaimed production of The Tempest at St. Ann's Warehouse, graciously allowed me to chat with her on her…
It's been said it takes five to ten years to get a musical produced, which obviously makes writing a musical a genuine labor of love. I was fortunate to experience a few of these l…
