http://showbusinessweekly.com/ http://showbusinessweekly.com/ http://showbusinessweekly.com/ http://showbusinessweekly.com/ http://showbusinessweekly.com/ http://showbusinessweekly.com/ http://showbusinessweekly.com/ http://showbusinessweekly.com/ http://showbusinessweekly.com/ http://showbusinessweekly.com/ http://showbusinessweekly.com/ http://showbusinessweekly.com/ http://showbusinessweekly.com/ http://showbusinessweekly.com/ http://showbusinessweekly.com/ http://showbusinessweekly.com/ The man behind the curtain at NYMF talks about why we need new musicals now more than ever From its humble but ambitious origins in 2004 as a showcase for budding tuners, the New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) has emerged as the go-to event for top-notch musical theater creators.]]> Fifteen Steps to a Successful Modeling Career A pretty face can make a model, but hard work and smart decisions make a career. Modeling is a competitive field where finding the right agent and building a proper portfolio are just as important as smiling for the camera. ]]> UNDER St. Marks Storyteller extraordinaire Slash Coleman brings the audience along for a ride back to 1976, when Evel Knievel’s bicentennial jump over a tank of great white sharks drew major news coverage.]]> This is the time of the year when I think OTB ought to mean Off Tony Betting. I mean, it’s the theater community’s biggest horse race, and there’s not even a production of Guys and Dolls in sight!]]> This is the time of the year when I think OTB ought to mean Off Tony Betting. I mean, it’s the theater community’s biggest horse race, and there’s not even a production of Guys and Dolls in sight!]]> Theatre at St. Clements Dulcy Rogers, writer and performer of the solo show I Am a Tree, spins a fabulously elaborate version of self investigation.]]> New earnings report shows good news for film and TV companies Move over, hedge-fund billionaires. Show business CEOs are now making more money than Wall Street executives, according to a new earning estimates published by The New York Post. ]]> Little Shubert Theatre – May 19 ­– August 12 While “Potted Potter” doesn’t exactly deliver the seven Potter books with any sort of detail or accuracy (how could it in just seventy minutes?), it does deliver a respite for parents and nannies alike in an hour and a quarter.]]> Little Shubert Theatre – May 19 ­– August 12 While “Potted Potter” doesn’t exactly deliver the seven Potter books with any sort of detail or accuracy (how could it in just seventy minutes?), it does deliver a respite for parents and nannies alike in an hour and a quarter.]]> Theatre at St. Clements Dulcy Rogers, writer and performer of the solo show I Am a Tree, spins a fabulously elaborate version of self investigation.]]> Twenty great works every actor should read Having an extensive knowledge of lesser-known plays, specifically the ones being written today by young and international writers, will broaden your scope of what it means to be an actor. ]]> Learn the common pitfalls that could stand between you and your next acting gig Auditioning for a role is one of the most important aspects of an actor’s life.]]> By Sam Shepard I am pleased to report about a new theater company called One Old Crow Productions, which is dedicated to producing works that explore the reality and truth in situations that "exist outside of daily life yet illuminate our existence."]]> The Hunchback Variations: A Chamber Opera Music by Mark Messing Libretto by Mickle Maher 59E59 Theaters   The Hunchback Variations is based on a simple although completely unexpected premise:]]> For The Week of 6/18/2012 THE ICE FACTORY COMETH: In the heat of summer, you can cool off with the 19th Season of the 2012 Obie Award-winning Ice Factory Festival.]]> Working actors discuss the difference between acting in theater and acting on film Liev Schreiber is a true New Yorker. He is often seen downtown walking his dog, and more often seen on stage at the Publ]]> Need a Boost this Summer? Show Business offers tips on how actors can increase their potential and get back to work. ]]> How to find a New York apartment without paying New York prices. Getting a great deal on a Manhattan apartment is almost as good as winning the lottery. ]]> By John Rowell • JULY 9-15 ALL THE WORLD’S A…FESTIVAL: July in New York is hot, hot, hot and I’m not just talking about the weather. Theater festivals really keep our theatrical landscape on the front burner during the summer...]]> Written by Sean Graney at The Flea Theater The Flea Theater is hosting one of the best parties downtown theater has ever seen. With the simple purchase of a ticket, the audience can meet and mingle with the actors, make new friends...]]> Written by Abi Morgan at 59E59 Theaters Is there such a thing as a freak accident, or does everything have a logical cause and effect? This is one of many questions that are explored in the New York premiere of Abi Morgan’s Tiny Dynamite. ]]> Written by Sean Graney at The Flea Theater The Flea Theater is hosting one of the best parties downtown theater has ever seen. With the simple purchase of a ticket, the audience can meet and mingle with the actors, make new friends...]]> Written by Abi Morgan at 59E59 Theaters Is there such a thing as a freak accident, or does everything have a logical cause and effect? This is one of many questions that are explored in the New York premiere of Abi Morgan’s Tiny Dynamite. ]]> Written by Mac Rogers at The Secret Theatre - LIC In the third and final installment of the Honey Comb Trilogy, humanity is struggling to rebuild after their extraterrestrial occupation and to restore law and order.]]> It will be exactly two years ago this Wednesday that one of the world’s most recognized spies, Anna Chapman was apprehended.]]> It will be exactly two years ago this Wednesday that one of the world’s most recognized spies, Anna Chapman was apprehended.]]> New & Noteworthy in New York Theater This Week Diversity is key in a theater season, and leave it to PTP/NYC (formerly known as Potomac Theater Project).]]> For The Week of 6/18/2012 THE ICE FACTORY COMETH: In the heat of summer, you can cool off with the 19th Season of the 2012 Obie Award-winning Ice Factory Festival.]]> The man behind the curtain at NYMF talks about why we need new musicals now more than ever From its humble but ambitious origins in 2004 as a showcase for budding tuners, the New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) has emerged as the go-to event for top-notch musical theater creators.]]> Written by Richard Sheinmel at The Club at La MaMa It’s a tough day for Mitch (Richard Sheinmel). The gay performance artist and his mother Joy (Wendy Merritt) are heading to Staten Island to identify the body of Mitch’s brother, Robby (Chris Orbach, son of Jerry). Robby has committed suicide...]]> July Theater Festivals and Shows It’s an unassailable fact that Rent was/is one of the most successful musicals in Off-Broadway history. ]]> Book and Lyrics by Marshall Pailet, Bryce Norbitz, and Stephen Wargo at The Soho Playhouse What happened that fateful day at Jurassic Park when the dinosaurs escaped to wreak havoc on those silly humans?]]> Book and Lyrics by Marshall Pailet, Bryce Norbitz, and Stephen Wargo at The Soho Playhouse What happened that fateful day at Jurassic Park when the dinosaurs escaped to wreak havoc on those silly humans?]]> Book and Lyrics by Marshall Pailet, Bryce Norbitz, and Stephen Wargo at The Soho Playhouse What happened that fateful day at Jurassic Park when the dinosaurs escaped to wreak havoc on those silly humans?]]> Book and Lyrics by Marshall Pailet, Bryce Norbitz, and Stephen Wargo at The Soho Playhouse What happened that fateful day at Jurassic Park when the dinosaurs escaped to wreak havoc on those silly humans?]]> By John Rowell • JULY 9-15 ALL THE WORLD’S A…FESTIVAL: July in New York is hot, hot, hot and I’m not just talking about the weather. Theater festivals really keep our theatrical landscape on the front burner during the summer...]]> Twenty great works every actor should read Having an extensive knowledge of lesser-known plays, specifically the ones being written today by young and international writers, will broaden your scope of what it means to be an actor. ]]> Yes, Virginia, there is a John Waters! And what perverse fun it might be to take a sleigh ride with the fabulously dirty-minded filmmaker/author laureate of Baltimore this time of year.]]> In Ken Kaissar’s daring new satire, A Modest Suggestion, four yes-men weigh the pros and cons of some pretty tough questions: What does it mean to be Jewish?]]> Alloy Theater Company In 1849, Charlotte Brontë’s future was shaping up to be as bleak as her past. The sole survivor in a family of six siblings, the 33-year-old spinster faced spending the rest of her years caring for her elderly father.]]> Alloy Theater Company In 1849, Charlotte Brontë’s future was shaping up to be as bleak as her past. The sole survivor in a family of six siblings, the 33-year-old spinster faced spending the rest of her years caring for her elderly father.]]> In Ken Kaissar’s daring new satire, A Modest Suggestion, four yes-men weigh the pros and cons of some pretty tough questions: What does it mean to be Jewish?]]> In Ken Kaissar’s daring new satire, A Modest Suggestion, four yes-men weigh the pros and cons of some pretty tough questions: What does it mean to be Jewish?]]> Playwrights Horizons At a frenetic 90 minutes, Dan LeFranc’s The Big Meal may seem like fast food, but it still manages to serve up a hefty portion of real-life insight into marriage, parenting, divorce, dealing with those pesky in-laws, and finding a place in the family.]]> The Pearl Theatre Company As any O’Neill fan knows, several of his most celebrated dramas explore heartbreaking universal themes about loneliness, despair, the search for love, and the possibility of final redemption for one’s sins.]]> ]]> What actor doesn’t remember the thrill of being cast in your first or second or third play, and being handed your very own Samuel French script?]]> Castillo Theatre If you were to ask an educated U.S. citizen what African-American woman is most strongly associated with the birth of the modern civil rights movement, chances are great that the answer you would get is the activist Rosa Parks.]]> Living Theatre Currently underway at the Living Theatre, the Women Center Stage 2012 Festival is designed as a forum for female theater artists to experiment and “see what sticks.”]]> New Perspectives Theatre Company Farm Boy is not a sequel in the conventional sense. While its story picks up decades after War Horse, it has a different creative team and producing company.]]> 59E59 Theaters Eddie has already struck out on his first dinner date with Crystal before Kissing Sid James, Robert Farquhar’s entertaining British comedy, even begins.]]> Other Side Productions and 28bars Productions Death looms large over Grant James Varjas’s new portrait of gay men from different generations commiserating at a Lower East Side bar.]]> When mental illness comes home, the entire family has special needs. That’s the guiding ethos of writer/performer Anne Pasquale’s 90-minute new solo piece.]]> Cherry Lane Theatre Writer and director Clifford Streit takes a light-hearted look at the pressures of being a gay leading man in Hollywood with his new piece, Him, at Cherry Lane Theatre.]]> New Stage Theatre Company Written by its director, Ildiko Nemeth, with Colm O’Shea and Marie Glancy O’Shea, Hypnotik splatters varying times, places, tones and motifs onto an exceedingly large canvas.]]> I received one of my best Christmas presents right before the holidays from Alfred A. Knopf — the world-famous book publisher, of course.]]> Japan Society A generally decent man, a normal fellow with a “salary job,” is confronted by tragedy and in his desire for restitution becomes immersed in self-righteous cruelty, blind to his descent into darkness.]]> New Ohio Theatre The New Ohio Theatre has a hit on its hands with Samuel & Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War, a radio play-within-a-play set in post-apocalyptic Russia.]]> I dearly love the theatrical awards season in New York, and two of our most venerable awards organizations are front and center this week. Really, we're all winners. ]]> Star throws his weight behind a new program for playwrights The Singers Forum on Friday announced that it is teaming up with 30 Rock star Alec Baldwin for a new program to help playwrights with the development and advancement of original theatrical works.]]> Canal Park Playhouse Canal Park Playhouse presents A Christmas Carol, subtitled “as told by Charles Dickens (himself).” Actor Jimmy Kiefer plays the novelist, who has come to the theater to enact his well-known Christmas classic.]]> It doesn’t happen often (not nearly enough, in fact), so when an off-Broadway production lands on television, I am most excited to tell you about it.]]> 59E59 Theaters When the middle-aged Fay Schorsch and her estranged daughter, Rachel Browney, first check in to a nondescript motel room, they do not seem very different from many mothers and adult daughters.]]> 59E59 Theaters In the tradition of Ray Bradbury, Theodore Sturgeon and Harlan Ellison, One Thousand Blinks uses a taut short-story format to deliver lurid sci-fi fun while also holding a cautionary mirror to contemporary society.]]> Those of you who know the iconoclastic plays of the great absurdist playwright Eugene Ionesco might not think that his works would lend themselves readily to musicalization.]]> Gideon Productions Advance Man opens with a seemingly typical conflict in which distressed wife Amelia discusses her potentially cheating husband, Bill, with a private investigator named Lynn.]]> January/February 2012 New York’s summer acting intensives give students the opportunity to sample the different teaching styles and techniques before enrolling in a full-time program. ]]> Get the latest issue of Show Business magazine: the Teens in Theater Issue, March/April 2012.]]> Barrow Street Theatre Close your eyes and listen to the symphony that surrounds you. The car horn honks in the distant, the refrigerator hums, your neighbor stomps around upstairs, and people laugh while passing on the street.]]> Find out why second best can be a valuable stepping stone for your career Talk about a thankless job. While understudying may not be your ultimate goal, it’s not a bad stop on your way to the top. ]]> Find out why second best can be a valuable stepping stone for your career Talk about a thankless job. While understudying may not be your ultimate goal, it’s not a bad stop on your way to the top. ]]> Get the latest issue of Show Business magazine: the Teens in Theater Issue, March/April 2012.]]> Company XIV Judge Me Paris is another deft offering from Austin McCormick and Company XIV.]]> Working actors discuss the difference between acting in theater and acting on film Liev Schreiber is a true New Yorker. He is often seen downtown walking his dog, and more often seen on stage at the Publ]]> Three women come together one afternoon for a reading at the Middletown, New Jersey, home of a psychic, trying to come to terms with the loss of a loved one.]]> The Hive / Theater for the New City / the Cell The gender-reversed casting of Helena and Lysander still works seamlessly, and the same-sex marriage concept rings true once again.]]> Epic Theatre Ensemble The new production of Macbeth by Epic Theatre Ensemble is perhaps as ambitious as its notorious title character.]]> Epic Theatre Ensemble The new production of Macbeth by Epic Theatre Ensemble is perhaps as ambitious as its notorious title character.]]> The Hive / Theater for the New City / the Cell The gender-reversed casting of Helena and Lysander still works seamlessly, and the same-sex marriage concept rings true once again.]]> Three women come together one afternoon for a reading at the Middletown, New Jersey, home of a psychic, trying to come to terms with the loss of a loved one.]]> Three women come together one afternoon for a reading at the Middletown, New Jersey, home of a psychic, trying to come to terms with the loss of a loved one.]]> Flamboyan Theater Though there’s plenty of variety to be found in the Shelter’s anthology of thematically linked one-acts, the entries are alike in the high caliber of their performances.]]> Have you ever thought about when the first beauty contest might have been held? I mean, there’s a first time for everything.]]> 59E59 Theaters While it may be premature to identify a current trend in theater from the British Isles, it is certainly noticeable that many recent imports have a structural approach in common.]]> Alloy Theater Company In 1849, Charlotte Brontë’s future was shaping up to be as bleak as her past. The sole survivor in a family of six siblings, the 33-year-old spinster faced spending the rest of her years caring for her elderly father.]]> Honoring the best in local high school musical theater at the Gershwin Awards Melissa Caolo, managing director of Camp Broadway, recently spoke with Show Business about the Gershwin Awards and where they are heading.]]> Why the best performers are the ones who know how to take direction In the highly collaborative worlds of theater and film, the actor’s role is just one of countless ingredients that make up the finished product.]]> Actors who know how to sing and dance are better equipped to find work on stage these days.]]> The man behind the curtain at NYMF talks about why we need new musicals now more than ever From its humble but ambitious origins in 2004 as a showcase for budding tuners, the New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) has emerged as the go-to event for top-notch musical theater creators.]]> Company XIV Judge Me Paris is another deft offering from Austin McCormick and Company XIV.]]> 2012 ceremony honors the best and brightest of NYC high school theater The staff at Show Business would like to congratulate all the students who participated at this year’s Gershwin Awards, which took place on May 19 at Manhattan’s CAP21.]]> Inside Broadway revs up its annual Beacon Awards The 2012 Broadway Beacon Awards, an awards ceremony run by the arts-education organization Inside Broadway, will honor the teen crooner Nick Jonas.]]> Ribbon Cutting Ceremony For New Auditorium The ribbon cutting of the newly renovated South Shore Auditorium in Canarsie, Brooklyn was followed by an all-student version of "Footloose" by Brooklyn Theatre Arts High School. ]]> Senior class at Susan E. Wagner High School pursue acting in college Coming off of a successful student production of Sweeney Todd, many members of the senior class at Susan E. Wagner High School will continue to pursue acting in college.]]> New earnings report shows good news for film and TV companies Move over, hedge-fund billionaires. Show business CEOs are now making more money than Wall Street executives, according to a new earning estimates published by The New York Post. ]]> Inside Broadway revs up its annual Beacon Awards The 2012 Broadway Beacon Awards, an awards ceremony run by the arts-education organization Inside Broadway, will honor the teen crooner Nick Jonas.]]> A plethora of playwrights takes on our ever-evolving language in The Urban Dictionary Plays, which kicks off 2012 for Ars Nova.]]> Theatre Row Despite some wonderful moments and vibrant characters, Russian Transport still feels like it’s a few drafts away from realizing its potential.]]> La Mama The paintings of Hieronymus Bosch predated the Salvador Dali and Max Ernst t by over three hundred years. Yet Bosch’s whimsical, terrifying world of imaginary monsters, sinners and angels is nothing if not surrealistic.]]> One of Off-Broadway’s finest companies, Signature Theatre, is moving to a fabulous new home. ]]> A new play looks at the universal awkwardness of love just in time for Valentine’s Day An Evening of Awkward Romance, a new play from the actress and playwright Wendy Herlich, introduces a collection of oddball characters on their quest to find love. ]]> Canal Park Playhouse The college application process can be both exciting and nerve-racking for the applicant. Hopefuls everywhere sit and think about the best way to impress the admissions board.]]> The Flea There's a common and justifiable gripe amongst living playwrights about an overdependence on canonized work, especially Shakespeare, at the expense of new plays. ]]> Laura Pels Theatre John Osborne’s seminal 1956 play, Look Back in Anger, marked a cultural turning point in British theatre. ]]> Jan Hus Playhouse The premise of Growing Up Gonzales has a lot in common with many other autobiographical solo shows.]]> WorkShop Theater Company What if your car’s navigational system told you not only where to go, but also how to parent, when to invest, even which job offer you should take? ]]> Playwright Kimberly Pau hits some fresh notes on contemporary teen angst in her new comedy/drama, Baby Plays the Banjo.]]> The Drilling Company Theatre A sociopath is generally considered to be an individual with little regard for the feelings and welfare of others.]]> Mint Theater Company When Rutherford & Son premiered at London’s Royal Court in 1912, critics raved that such an astounding drama was the work of a first-time playwright, known only as K.G. Sowerby.]]> ]]> Billed as “a farce of improbable darkness,” John J. Ronan’s The Yeats Game takes a look at middle-aged choices and their ridiculous consequences.]]> Frigid New York Hurricane Katrina may feel like distant history to all of us safely living in New York, but to the people in New Orleans, the horrors continue every day. ]]> Feinstein’s at Loews Regency Judging by the post-broadcast buzz concerning this year’s Academy Awards ceremony, those of us who turned our televisions off and spent the evening of the 26th at Feinstein’s saw a much more enjoyable show.]]> The Flea Theater offers up its New Play Festival beginning April 20, with three world premieres set to hit the boards.]]> Under St. Marks Like many recent dispatches from the front lines of intimacy, Your Boyfriend May Be Imaginary, Larry Kunofsky’s epic relationship comedy, offers little in the way of optimism.]]> What strange things could befall theatergoers who enter a play called Sophie Gets the Horns?]]> National initiative promotes arts education where it's needed most The Obama administration this week recruited some high-profile performers to help push a new national initiative for arts education. Sarah Jessica Parker and Forest Whitaker were among the celebrities on hand.]]> Walter Kerr Theatre Clybourne Park, originally produced off-Broadway in 2010, is proof that things never change. The play went on to win a Pulitzer Prize while we witnessed even more astonishing events tied to race.]]> Culture Project Culture Project presents the world-premiere production of Tennessee Williams’s final play, In Masks Outrageous and Austere.]]> He will forever be known for a handful of some of the greatest American plays ever written, but Tennessee Williams’s output for the theater was deep and vast.]]> Our theatrical literature is full of plays about wartime and servicemen, from Journey’s End to South Pacific, from On The Town to Mister Roberts, from Streamers to Biloxi Blues… the list goes on.]]> A prosperous year for the 'Famed' performing arts high school This year’s annual Spring Drama Festival, produced by the drama department at LaGuardia High School for Music and Art and Performing Arts, turned out to be quite the history lesson.]]> Midwinter Madness Short Play Festival We often hear about acts of violence in the news, or watch staged bloodshed within the framework of a movie. Luckily, we don’t as often have to deal with what it would be like to unexpectedly witness such an act of violence firsthand.]]> Gideon Productions The second part in the Sci-Fi Honeycomb Trilogy, Blast Radius begins 12 years after the first installment, Advance Man, and 12 years after the end of the world as humanity knew it.]]> The always intriguing LAByrinth Theater Company is set to premiere Brett C. Leonard’s play Ninth and Joanie, about a South Philadelphia Italian-American family in crisis.]]> This may not be your grandmother’s Midsummer, but its one for 21st century New York City, with Hermia and Lysander re-imagined as lesbian lovers.]]> Joyseekers Theatre It remains among the most contentious disagreements in theater history: Chekhov called his plays comedies and resented director Stanislavski for diving too fully into the depression and delusion that permeates the work.]]> PITCH ‘PERFECT’ Before Glee made show choirs “the thing,” plenty of golden-throated young lads and young ladies were singing out, Louise, without any accompanime]]> From across the pond and into your local multiplex! That’s the premise of National Theatre Live, a program launched just last year that brings live broadcasts of performan]]> Theater Dispatches From Around the Tri-State Area Upper East Side Once Bitten 59E59 Theaters welcomes the return of Kids With Guns with the world premiere of Wolves, writt]]> Theater Dispatches From Around the Tri-State Area The Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College presents Sound and Vision: At War. Pulitzer Prize-nominated photojournalist Chris Hondros, of Getty Images, and musical director Kenneth Hamrick]]>