Jessi Blue Gormezano, a dedicated and passionate theater artist, is attracted to powerful subject matter that reverberates with up-to-the-minute social issues. Last summer I interviewed …
Having a conversation with internationally renowned theater artist and activist Lisa Wolpe is a feast for the mind and imagination. A lover of words and their power and a fierce passiona…
I had the privilege of seeing mezzo-soprano Hai-Ting Chinn's astounding performance as Brother in The Scarlet Ibis, a new American opera by Stefan Weisman produced at HERE for the 2015 Proto…
Phrases, hashtags and statistics abound about gender and racial parity in the American theater today. Theater artist Nandita Shenoy, a multi-talented petite powerhouse, doesn't just talk abo…
Lawrence Edelson, founder and producing artistic director of American Lyric Theater (ALT) wears many hats in the opera world and beyond. For the past nine years, ALT's Composer Libret…
Recently, I had the pleasure of talking about the new play I and You by Lauren Gunderson, having its New York premiere Off Broadway at 59E59, and the process of developing new work with thea…
Invigorating fun best describes an early Sunday afternoon conversation with theater director Sean Daniels in the empty 59E59 theater, where Friday night I'd just seen the first preview of La…
Brooklyn-based Canadian librettist Royce Vavrek is a very busy man these days, and New York audiences are very lucky! This month, the 2016 Prototype Festival features two of his operas, …
Deep into the process of rehearsing and shaping their new musical theater piece The Good Swimmer, a First Look Presentation at the 2016 Prototype Festival, librettist Donna Di Novel…
After seeing Fellowship for Performing Arts’Â moving adaptation of C.S. Lewis' profound novel The Great Divorce, playing at The Pearl Theater, I had the chance to speak with Max McLe…
After a fifteen year hiatus, Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes is back in New York, bringing to life a rotating cast of forty characters in his new show The Daisy Theatre at the Baryshni…
You've probably heard of the New York International Fringe Festival, which is now in its 19th year. But have you ever heard of FringeJR?  FringeJR is part of FringeNYC and f…
It seems apropos to meet up with dedicated theater artists Jessi Blue Gormezano and KJ Sanchez in a slightly battered second floor theater space off of 10th Avenue on 52nd Street; the kind o…
Playwright Catherine Filloux possesses a calming presence amidst the cacophony of a bus load of tourists eager to munch pastries and slurp cappuccinos at Amy's in midtown Manhattan. Fortunat…
On a rainy Tuesday afternoon, I meet up with Jasper Grant, artistic director of B-Side Productions for a chat at Amy's Bakery in Hell's Kitchen. Although it is gloomy outside, sitting at a s…
Composer and sound artist Ellen Reid, whose opera Winter's Child is part of the 2015 Prototype Festival produced by Beth Morrison Projects, is keenly observant. As we meet up at Amy's on 9th…
Baruch Performing Arts Center's theater is buzzing with activity; people are scurrying above me on catwalks focusing lights and drills buzz on the stage as the production crew assemble the s…