Gerald vanHeerden: Communicating the Human Experience on Stage

It isn’t often we get to interview a director of Gerald vanHeerden’s caliber. An award-winning director of new musical theatre works and plays, Gerald has been in the director’s chair for more than a quarter century and has worked with many distinguished arts organizations throughout New York City and the neighboring regions, including the Hudson […]

Anthony J. Piccione picks DANDELION!

Review: “Dandelion” at Feinstein’s/54 Below by Anthony J. Piccione Over the course of the past decade, more and more attention has rightfully been given in the arts to the issue of mental health. While they arguably do little more than scratch the surface of these vital issues, Next to Normal and Dear Evan Hansen have […]

OuterStage Round-Table: Shakespeare in New York

Carrie Edel Isaacman’s theatrical troupe earns its name this fall by presenting a double header: The Tempest in Brooklyn and then, Park to Park, with Two Gentlemen of Verona. For the astute aficionado of the bard you know these are his first and last plays. Ms. Isaacman is doing them literally throughout New York, opening […]

Philosophizing with Topher Wallace

A featured event for the 10th anniversary THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY DREAM UP FESTIVAL 2019 is Abdication! Filled with gallows-humor, song, dance, and multi-media, the show is a triumvirate of short plays episode shows how abdication of a portion of human existence pulls a piece out of the house of cards that we call our lives. […]

Looking [at] “BACK”

“Back” at Teatro SEA reviewed by ANTHONY J. PICCIONE When its summer in New York City, it typically means only one thing in the world of independent theatre: festival season! With more and more indie theatre festivals either restructuring or disappearing altogether, the landscape of opportunities for new playwrights on the festival circuit is ever […]

Look … Up in the Sky … Seriously

Review: “2071: The World We’ll Leave Our Grandchildren” at the Episcopal Actors Guild By Anthony J. Piccione With the 2020 presidential primaries rapidly approaching, there is also a rapid increase in debate and discussion over various issues dividing various candidates vying to take on Donald Trump, perhaps most crucially of all of them being the […]

For Brytanie, it’s all brand new; for Ken, just another day at the ranch!

The wit of playwright Shirley Beth Newbery coupled with the steady hand of director Laurie Rae Waugh will make even the saddest occasion a joy in AFTER THE WAKE, running Wednesday – Sundays, August 7 – 18 at the Serene Sargent Theatre – part of the American Theatre of Actors complex of arthouses. Wednesday – […]