David Stallings‘s play Dark Water is the tale of a mother turtle as she and her son negotiate the sea along with a host of other animals — like a land-loving dolphin, a vain heron, and a gluttonous gull — … Continue reading →

We all make terrible decisions at some point. With any luck, those terrible decisions only lead to some heartache, or maybe just some slight lingering shame, perhaps a small scar or two. But for some terrible decisions, the consequences are … Continue reading →

You probably remember that old saying, “The clothes make the man.” And while you might want to dispute it, or actively fight it (my stint as a goody-two-shoes honors student male with long hair in high school was my small … Continue reading →

The New York Shakespeare Exchange recently presented Othello, setting the play’s Venice in a contemporary urban setting, with the Bard’s military officers becoming ranking police officers. For adapter/director Cristina Lundy, the analogues between Shakespeare’s tragedy set amidst the jealousies of … Continue reading →

I think of Hedda Gabler as one of those Mount Everest sort of shows; “exciting and daunting,” as one of the guests on today’s episode puts it. The ideas and challenges of Ibsen’s classic are brought smack-dab between the play’s original … Continue reading →

I make this podcast because I love sound, and I love theatre; Go See a Show! is a great way to unite the two. And I’m an amateur sound-designer, and make radio dramas, for much the same reason. For this episode … Continue reading →

If you’ve seen any press about We Were Nothing!, the first thing you probably noticed was that you don’t know where you can see it. The play, written by Will Arbery, is being performed in an undisclosed location of a … Continue reading →

I’ll admit, I’m not much of a musical guy. But if anyone’s going to convince me otherwise, Pipe Dream Theatre has got a great shot at it. After two new Christmas musicals based on classic tales — The Nutcracker in … Continue reading →

In 1903, Thomas Edison publicly electrocuted Topsy the elephant at Coney Island, in a demonstration of the “dangers” of alternating current. The event was filmed by Edison, later becoming a huge hit as the new ‘moving pictures’ were shown across … Continue reading →

How does one go from writing contemporary comedies to writing historically-based musicals, reintroducing certain figures who popular culture have largely forgotten? As Island Girls director/co-author Barbara Kahn notes in our conversation, she made that transition out of a desire to … Continue reading →