1975 was a rough year for New York City. Garbage piled up in the streets. Subway cars were filthy, covered with graffiti, and unreliable. Crime was soaring. The Bronx was burning. Heroin use and drug trafficking were widespread. Municipal services such as police and sanitation were cut drastically. New York City was broke. The Federal response to New York’s cries for help was summarized in the infamous 1975 New York Daily News headline: “Ford to City: Drop Dead.”
A powerhouse lineup of Hollywood and Broadway talent united at Symphony Space for This Is Crazy!, a moving one-night-only performance supporting the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI).
Mexodus is described as “a two-person live-looped new musical.” Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson have dramatized important ideas in a novel fashion.
The cast of The Porch on Windy Hill – a new play with old music consists of three extremely talented musicians.
I walked into The Brothers Size with high expectations. After all, Tarell Alvin McCraney wrote one of my favorite films, the 2016 Oscar winner for Best Picture, Moonlight, and the production starred one of my favorite actors, the inimitable André Holland.
“Stranger Things: The First Shadow” hit the West End in 2023, delivering audiences an action-packed prequel to the beloved Netflix series, “Stranger Things.” The jaw-dropping play shares the origin stories of iconic characters like Joyce Byers, Jim Hopper, and, of course, Henry Creel.
A struggling theater troupe decides to cash in on the notoriety of the film, The Exorcist.
Samual Taylor Coleridge said that some art must be viewed with “a willing suspension of disbelief.” The audience’s relationship to imaginative works of art is especially true of the theater. This certainly applies to magic shows. Amaze is an ideal example of a show that works best with a “suspension of disbelief.”
Las Vegas offers a wide variety of live shows. From big-name concerts and provocative burlesques to stand-up comedy and magic performances, the one production that is unlike anything else in Sin City is Awakening at the Wynn Las Vegas.