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There’s going to be a First Annual Times Square International Theatre Festival in January. Ignore for the moment that Times Square has been an ongoing international theater festival of sorts for over a century. If you’ve got a script in a drawer that you think might fit the bill, the deadline for submissions is Thursday. … Continue reading »

The Goodspeed’s Herman-izing again—Mame! And they have just announced where and when—Mame! It’s directed by Ray Roderick—he did My One and Only too But it’ll be a while ‘til we know who’s playing Mame, who who who who? With a couple of weeks to go in their current season, Goodspeed Musicals is whetting appetites for … Continue reading »

Street Scenes Through Nov. 12 at the Yale Cabaret, 217 Park St., New Haven. Conceived by Maayan Strauss and Colin Mannex. Co-directors: Mannex, Strauss and Jessica Rizzo. Set Design: Edward T. Morris. Lighting Design: Benjamin Ehrenreich. Projection Design: Micah Stieglitz. Sound Composition: Palmer. Performers: Mannex, Strauss, Huei Li Leow, Matthew Maturi-Kioi, Tameka Norris, Eric Sirakian. … Continue reading »

To my deepest noir chagrin, I have not yet seen City of Angels at Goodspeed Opera House. Oh, I assuredly will—it’s up through nearly the end of November, and this rousing hardboiled musical is so rarely revived that this production is an unmissable opportunity. I have wonderful memories of the original Broadway production (which won … Continue reading »

NHTJ reader Ted Brooks sent this in: a page three article in Crain’s New York, the business paper, about Ray Cullom and his revitalization of the Queens Theatre in Queens, New York. Not where I usually think to look for theater news, but this is a multi-million dollar business transformation story. Cullom, you might recall, … Continue reading »

I’ve hipped you to Acorn TV before. It’s the online mini-network broadcasting famous British series such as Upstairs Downstairs, Midsomer Murders and others distributed on DVD by Acorn Media, for $25 a year. They put up one complete season of each of several series on the Acorn TV site at a time, then rotate them … Continue reading »

So we did Gozzi’s Love of Three Oranges, with a cast of nine children. The king role absorbed the Truffaldino and Pantalone roles as well, and Smeraldina handled some of the Truffaldino exposition and got a pie in the face (as did Fata Morgana). I’ve posted the entire 12-minute epic on the NHTJ Play in … Continue reading »

Doing another of my quirky Play in a Day kids’ theater projects today, Tuesday Nov. 8, at Never Ending Books (810 State St., New Haven). Videos of previous projects are on NHTJ’s dedicated Play in a Day page, here. Often I don’t know for sure which classic script from world theater we’ll be adapting, until … Continue reading »

How daring of the Riverdale High School drama club to be staging a Tarzan drama 25 years before the Disney Broadway version. This story appears in Archie Giant Series Magazine #504, March 1981. The animated Disney movie which begat the Broadway show was released in 1999. There is a Tarzan stage legacy dating back to … Continue reading »

Joey Fly Private Eye 2 in Big Hairy Drama Written by Aaron Reynolds, illustrated by Neil Numberman. Henry Holt & Co., 2010) Insect noir adventure in which a private eye who has the compound eyes of a fly and who is a magnet for atrocious puns (“I do believe your fly is down.” “So I … Continue reading »