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Adaeze Oforiwaa's "Declarant" Gets World Premiere at The Meridian Workshop
The announcement that Adaeze Oforiwaa's "Declarant" will receive its world premiere at The Meridian Workshop this November is worth more than a calendar note.
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Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial news"The Inventory of Damage" Finds a Screen. It Earns One.
The Foundling Stage filmed "The Inventory of Damage" over three performances last winter, and the announcement that the stage film will debut on Clearview next month means that Celeste
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial newsCasting Set for Yemisi Adade's "The Silt Beneath" at the Canopy
The full cast for Yemisi Adade's "The Silt Beneath" is set, and the ensemble director Marguerite Fontenot has assembled for the October Off-Broadway premiere looks like it was chosen by someone who
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial news"Dead Channel" at Meridian Stage Is the Announcement That Actually Matters
Zora Adeyemi's "Dead Channel" is coming to Meridian Stage this November, and the announcement is not primarily a casting story.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial news"The Littoral Register" Is the Fall Downtown Opening That Matters
The Dunmore Workshop's production of "The Littoral Register" opens September 12, and the question Cressida Abara has baked into its formal structure is not a comfortable one: what does verbatim
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial newsLighthouse Workshop Sets Creative Team for Sola Mabunda Premiere
Sola Mabunda's "Where the Floor Softens" is structurally unusual in a way that is either going to be its defining strength or its central problem, and the Lighthouse Workshop's decision to attach
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial newsAll the Waiting Rooms Gets Its Cast for October World Premiere
The world premiere of Celestine Achebe-Morris's All the Waiting Rooms will open at The Bowery Workshop this October, and the newly announced cast confirms that director Farida Kazmi is not blinking.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial newsNadia Okonkwo's "What the Hands Hold" Gets Off-Broadway Berth
Nadia Okonkwo's "What the Hands Hold" is formally the most interesting new play scheduled for Off-Broadway this fall, and the announcement that Meridian Stage will produce it at the Calloway Street
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial newsFull Cast Set for Adaeze Chukwudi's "The Partial Register" at The Colfax
The most structurally ambitious new play opening downtown this fall belongs to a playwright most of you haven't heard of yet.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial newsZara Okonkwo Has Found a New Grammar for the Inheritance Play
Zara Okonkwo is the most structurally ambitious playwright I have encountered in three years of watching downtown writers try to solve the multigenerational family play.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial news"Gone Signal" Casts Its Lead — and the Premise Earns the Attention
"Gone Signal" is formally organized around a question that theater has not often asked this directly: what does it mean to search for someone when the searching itself becomes a performance?
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial newsThe Fall Revival Race Just Got a Frontrunner — and I Called It
With "The Gilded Hour" and two other revivals now dated for the fall, the shape of next spring's Tony race is already visible. Here is who's actually in it.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial newsA Pop Diva Is Bringing Her Stadium Show to Broadway. Eight Times a Week.
Naya Sinclair is moving her arena spectacle into a Broadway house for a limited run. The question isn't whether she can sing it — it's whether the room can hold it.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial newsThe Choreographer Broadway Was Fighting Over Just Signed On
Yesenia Roldán turned down three shows this year. She just said yes to "Brass Heaven" — and the reason she gave is the most exciting thing about it.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial newsMarisol Vega Returns to Broadway in a Star Vehicle Built for Her
After six years away, Marisol Vega is coming back to Broadway in "Comet Season" — a new musical written around her voice. That last part is the whole story.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial news"The Condition" Gets Its Earned Extension at Olive Street
The Olive Street Theatre announced yesterday that Rafaela Nkosi's The Condition will extend through September 20th, and I mean this without qualification: the play has earned it.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial news"Supernova" Books a Broadway House and a Twenty-Two-Dancer Ensemble
The pop-scored spectacle "Supernova" just landed a Broadway theater and confirmed an ensemble of twenty-two dancers. Let me tell you why that second number is the story.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial news"The Gilded Hour" Revival Lands a Leading Lady — and a Reason to Exist
A revival has to earn its place on a stage. The Coronet's fall remount of "The Gilded Hour" just found its reason, and her name is Renata Vidal.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial newsNadia Seo-Brandt's Next Play Is Already the One to Watch This Fall
The announcement that Nadia Seo-Brandt is returning to New York with a new play — "The Stays," set for a limited off-Broadway run this fall at the Tidewater Lab — is the kind of news that actually
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial newsA Legend Booked Six Weeks at the Coronet, and the Band Is the Headline
A soul legend is playing a limited Broadway residency this fall. Imani says the twelve-piece band she's bringing is the reason to fight for a ticket.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial newsLateral Line Gets the Extension It Deserves
The news that Lateral Line is extending through August 22nd gives everyone who missed Davi Okonkwo's site-specific play at the Meridian Building a second shot at the most formally interesting piece
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial newsWren Alcántara's "Saltwater Road" Sets Cast for Polestar World Premiere
The Polestar has done something quietly confident with its fall announcement: they've given Wren Alcántara seventy-two seats and a mandate to write the domestic immigrant play as temporal argument
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial news"The Longest Night" Revival Lands the Director Nobody Saw Coming
A sweeping, sentimental warhorse of a musical just handed its revival to a director known for cold, stripped-down plays. Carmen is cautiously thrilled.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial news"Proof of Residency" Gets the Form Right and the Ending Wrong
Mateo Delacroix's "Proof of Residency," which opened last week at The Silt Lab, is running at about eighty percent of what it's attempting — and what it's attempting is formally demanding enough that
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial news"Gravity Always Wins" Extends, and the Aerial Sequence Is the Whole Reason
The season's most talked-about spectacle just added twelve weeks. Imani breaks down the ninety seconds of flying that are selling every one of those tickets.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial newsOff-Broadway's Best New Play Is Moving to a Bigger House. That's the Problem.
Adaeze Nwoku's "The Arithmetic of Ghosts" announced this week that it will transfer from the Foundry Box — where it has been running to houses of fifty-two people for four months — to the Meridian
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial newsRotating Cast Joins Abioye's "Partial Inventory" at the Clementine
Sela Abioye's Partial Inventory was always going to be a play about the instability of testimony, so the Clementine Stage's decision to announce a rotating principal cast for its fall run reads less
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial news"Neon Vespers" Hired a Club Choreographer to Rewrite Its Ensemble
A club choreographer with no Broadway credits just got a major musical — and the casting call already tells you the ensemble is going to move differently. Imani's watching.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial newsThe Tony Eligibility Cutoff Just Reshuffled the Entire Fall
A quiet calendar change moved the awards eligibility line, and suddenly three fall productions are racing to open early. Carmen reads the new board.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial newsSoledad Rivas Joins "The Interval" Off-Broadway — the Play Earns It
Theodora Vance's "The Interval" is the most formally rigorous new play downtown has produced this season, and it just got more interesting.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial news'The Interval' Finds a New Grammar for Grief — Then Steps Outside It
Nadia Ferreira-Bloom's The Interval, now in its world premiere at the Meridian Stage Loft, is the most formally serious new play I have seen downtown this summer.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial newsDelia Sorrentino Takes the Lead in "Paper Kingdom" — the Gamble Is the Point
Casting a dramatic actress with no musical credits as the lead of a big fall musical is a risk. Carmen explains why it's the smartest risk of the season.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial newsAdaeze Okonkwo's "What Remains" Is the Off-Broadway Opening Worth Your Attention
"What Remains," which opened Thursday at Thistle Rep, is the best new play I've seen this season at a house under 150 seats, and it's not particularly close.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial news"Kaleidoscope" Revealed Its Turntable Today, and I Took Measurements
The design reveal for "Kaleidoscope" dropped one number that tells you exactly what kind of spectacle this is. Imani explains why the turntable is the whole show.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial newsThe Seam Theatre's New Season Is a Formal Argument, Not a Collection
Lena Voronova's debut season as artistic director at The Seam Theatre does something that off-Broadway programming almost never does: it has a thesis.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial news"Ovation" Books a Return Engagement, and the Ticket Math Finally Works
The musical everyone claimed they couldn't get into is coming back to the Halcyon this fall. The real news isn't the return — it's who's in the pit.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial news"Daughters of the Harmattan" Is Going to Broadway With the Cast It Needs
"Daughters of the Harmattan" earned its transfer. Let me say that before the details, because the details will make more sense that way.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial newsRising Stars Take Over Off-Broadway with "Awakening"
Off-Broadway's latest sensation, "Awakening," has drawn attention to a new wave of female voices emerging in theater.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial newsTeen Wunderkinds Take Off-Broadway by Storm in “Unseen”
Rising playwright Avni Patel’s debut work, "Unseen," makes its world premiere at the intimate Workshop Theater this month.
Broadway Show Girls (AI-generated atmosphere art) / Broadway Show Girls Editorial newsFold & Press Heads to Second Stage After Record Downtown Run
Priya Raghunathan reports on the announced transfer of Kwame Osei-Bonsu's landmark new play from the Vineyard Theatre to Second Stage, where it will open in September.
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