Off-Off-Broadway Interviews

Join Elmo, Cookie Monster, Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, Abby Cadabby and more when Sesame Street Live! Let's Party! visits the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden from Saturday, February 19 through Sunday, February 27, 2022!...

For those of us (all of us) who are missing the joys of experiencing a live performance, actor and producer Shelby Bond has the perfect solution. Bond has created the exciting and interactive Adventure Parties, bringing immersive theater directly to you on Zoom....

Ivan Anderson has created an entirely original, completely improvised show around the concept of writing and sending emails to strangers, and the result is the highly entertaining and incredibly creative Email Pro....

Theater 2020, Brooklyn Heights' only professional and award-winning theater company, presents the first NYC revival of the Sondheim/ Lapine musical Sondheim on Sondheim, a revue that brings many of this musical genius' works together to create quite a show in itself. With a magnificent cast and crew...

Anna Karenina: a riff is a fresh, comedic reimagining of the classic Tolstoy tale by Gwen Kingston, opening November 23rd 2019 at the Flea Theater. Created with Notch Theatre Company and featuring an original, folk-punk score by Christie Baugher, Teresa Lotz, Yan Li and Will Turner, Anna Karenina: a...

They say art imitates life, and Paul David Young is no stranger to this....

James Clements is an artist of many talents, fearlessly tackling the issues through art. His latest piece, developed with Sophia Frank, is MEDEA/BRITNEY. We took a moment to speak with Clements about the upcoming show, see what he had to say about how it's all coming together!...

It's true what they say; the classics never do go out of style. That's particularly true with 1927's The Jazz Singer. The first feature-length 'sound film,' Alan Crosland's The Jazz Singer made history with its use of synchronized sound, however it's also remembered for its controversial use of blac...

20 years later, returns to the spotlight with LULU XX, a new cross-media performance that celebrates WaxFactory's 20th anniversary with Latta in the starring role at the Connelly Theater. Ivan Talijancic took the time to chat with BroadwayWorld about the upcoming production....

Lead singer for the world famous acapella group Klapa Cambi, Vlad Garic is about to make his American (and New York City) debut on Friday night March 15th in Queens at The Secret Theater. BWW caught up with Vlad during his rehearsal and got him to take a break from his preparations to chat with us. ...

BWW Interview: Dan Foster, director of SWITZERLAND at 59E59th...

David Herskovits is the Founding Artistic Director of Target Margin Theater currently remounting Pay No Attention to the Girl. Herskovits took a moment to speak with BroadwayWorld about his powerful project....

James Clements is an actor, writer, producer and director splitting his time between Scotland, London and New York. His New York based theatre company What Would the Neighbors Say? is currently workshopping a new play exploring the career of Leni Riefenstahl, a filmmaker who got her start working du...

Ensemble Studio Theatre is currently hosting the world premiere of Travisville by William Jackson Harper. Brian D. Coats took a moment to speak with BroadwayWorld about the complicated issues at play and his role both in the play and in its development over the years....

Andrew R. Butler is the mastermind behind the new show Rags Parkland Sings The Songs Of The Future telling the story of music across the ages, catapulting audiences 250 years into the future for a concert they'll remember for years to come. Hear what Butler has to say about his otherworldly new piec...

New York City burlesque performer, producer, and porn star Chris Harder is known for exhilarating audiences and leaving them breathless. This week, he performs in the world premiere of his debut solo-play #BIGBRIGHTSTAR. To get the skinny on the show, we caught up with Harder for a chat....

AfterWork Theater, a New York City nonprofit designed to make theater available to all, is magnifying the importance of community in its fall main stage production, West Side Story. While our world continues to experience conflict, uncertainty, and injustice, AfterWork Theater is that beacon of ligh...

Winkler saw interest in her work increase dramatically when a play was placed on The Kilroys' The List...

Broadwayworld.com interviewed Emily Schwend, playwright for UTILITY. The show is presented by The Amoralists and will be onstage at Rattlesnake Playwrights Theater from January 28th to February 20th....

Broadwayworld.com interviewed Renee Philippi about 'The Bellagio Fountain Has Been Known to Make Me Cry.' Philippi is the writer of the show and she also co-directs it with Eric Nightengale. It will be onstage at HERE in New York City from November 27th to December 13th....

Broadwayworld.com interviewed playwright, essayist and storyteller, Lisa Lewis about her career and her upcoming show, SCHOOLED....

Broadwayworld.com interviewed Playwright Lisi DeHaas about her career and her current show, 'Leave Me Green,' now being performed in New York City through April 11th....

Broadwayworld.com interviewed Jeremy Duncan Pape about his career and Woyzeck, FJF that will be on stage at the New Ohio Theatre though March 21st....

'You On The Moors Now' is written by Jaclyn Backhaus and directed by John Kurzynowski. The show will be on stage at HERE in New York City from February 13th to February 28th. Broadwayworld.com interviewed Backhaus and Kurzynowski about their careers and the upcoming show....

Canadian transplants and New York based theater artists AnimalParts, co-founded by Anthony Johnston and Nathan Schwartz, are bringing their latest play to life in New York. A QUIET SIP OF COFFEE: OR, THIS IS NOT THE PLAY WE'VE WRITTEN opens this weekend at New York City's Dixon Place. In anticipatio...

Premiering today, November 1st and running weekends the entire month, the Galli Theater's Rapunzel delivers a show that remains true to the original Brother's Grimm fairytale. Rapunzel lives in a tower deep in the forest where her only companion is Mother Gothel. After living in a tower for so long,...

Theater artist Taylor Mac makes his New York Live Arts debut with A 24-Decade History of Popular Music: 1900-1950s, presented by New York Live Arts as part of The Public Theater's Under the Radar Festival, January 13-25, 2015....

Have you ever wondered what it takes to transform? Are you curious what it is like when one becomes a drag queen? Are you curious about gender? If you answered yes or no to any of these questions, Donald C. Shorter's original one-man show GENDEROSITY is sure to entertain and enlighten you. Recently,...

In celebration of its fourth season, Sanguine Theatre Company will produce EXIT 27, a new work by award-winning playwright, Aleks Merilo and directed by Mark Kara?n. Based on a true story, EXIT 27 combines the themes of rejection, survival, and redemption in exploration of the human experience. As t...

Picture it: a young man from Pennsylvania trains in ballet, moves to New York, and then finds success as a musical theatre dancer. It sounds like the stuff of fairy tales, doesn't it? Well, for 22-year-old Michael McIlwee, it was reality. This young dancer from Scranton is currently serving as the d...

New York's Fringe Festival starts August 10th, and BWW interviewed New Jersey's Bradley Campbell, who is producing THE ABDUCTION OF BECKY MORRIS....

n August 26 and 27, Nikki Blonsky--the Golden Globe-nominated star of the 2007 hit movie musical HAIRSPRAY--will join Tony nominee Lainie Kazan in the Atlantic City premiere of the hit off-Broadway smash MY BIG GAY ITALIAN WEDDING at the Hilton Hotel Casino Resort. Before the show premieres, NNikki ...

Welcome to 99 AND UNDER THE RADAR: A LOOK AT INDIE THEATER'S MOVERS AND SHAKERS, BroadwayWorld's new weekly series that showcases standout productions and production companies from the independent theater scene in New York City. Each week, independent producer Michael Roderick will be discussing the...

Winner of the 2006 Best of Fringe Award Andrew Unterberg returns with new work to 2009 Fringe Festival....

Pan Asian Rep Artistic Director Tisa Chang interviewed about upcoming season highlights and history of the theatre....

Phil Geoffrey Bond discusses the process of bringing a play from page to stage....

Baltimore playwright, Adam Michael Cohen, makes his Off-Off-Broadway debut with 'The Cascade Falls.'...