Transgender Take on PYGMALION Set for Brief Run Off-Broadway
by Tyler Peterson - Apr 5, 2016
The Off Broadway company, Always Love Lucy Theatre, has announced that it will present a bold new staging of George Bernard Shaw's PYGMALION, a classic tale of transformation, that will in this production spotlight the issue of Transgender identity - at a time when voices in support of trans rights are increasingly heard across the nation and the globe. The production will run 5 performances only, May 4 - May 8 at Theatre 54@ Shetler Studios, 244 West 54th Street, 12th Floor.
Monsterpiece Theater Collective Extends HAMLET
by Tyler Peterson - Mar 23, 2015
Monsterpiece Theater Collective's Hamlet is entering its second extended week after a solf out first opening, Hamlet continues to explore Shakespeare's classic through the eyes of Hamlet himself as he struggles with grief and betrayal. Played by Jessica Cannizzaro, Hamlet is both fierce and vulnerable clinging to the memory of his father and the remnants of a relationship with his mother played by Sarah Quigley. With new music by the Shirtwaist Sisters and directed by Anthony D. Pound this journey into the mind of debilitating anguish and the turbulence that is left in its wake will engage and surprise even the most diehard Shakespeare fans.
Monsterpiece Theater Collective to Present HAMLET
by Tyler Peterson - Mar 6, 2015
Monsterpiece Theater Collective's Hamlet Importance of Being Earnest takes a new look at Shakespeare's classic through the eyes of Hamlet himself as he struggles with grief and betrayal.
LIGEIA Concert Comes to the Metropolitan Room, 3/14
by BWW
News Desk - Mar 14, 2011
In 1838, Edgar Allan Poe began a journey with a short story about the beautifully haunting Ligeia. This visionary act of romanticizing death would set forth an unstoppable path to the current resurrection of Poe's monster, the musical Ligeia.
At 9:30 p.m. on March 14, 2011, you can begin your own dark education. Onstage at the Metropolitan Room, 344 W. 22nd St., between 5th and 6th Ave., in concert form with six incredibly talented performers, including Michael Lowney (Broadway's La Cage Aux Folles), Lauren Holmes, Nick Boddington (the Wonderland Robbers), Bryan Jarrett, Susanne Layton, and Elyssa Samsel, Ligeia conjures a new genre in musical theater - the horror musical.
LIGEIA Concert Comes to the Metropolitan Room, 3/14
by Caryn Robbins - Feb 22, 2011
In 1838, Edgar Allan Poe began a journey with a short story about the beautifully haunting Ligeia. This visionary act of romanticizing death would set forth an unstoppable path to the current resurrection of Poe's monster, the musical Ligeia.
At 9:30 p.m. on March 14, 2011, you can begin your own dark education. Onstage at the Metropolitan Room, 344 W. 22nd St., between 5th and 6th Ave., in concert form with six incredibly talented performers, including Michael Lowney (Broadway's La Cage Aux Folles), Lauren Holmes, Nick Boddington (the Wonderland Robbers), Bryan Jarrett, Susanne Layton, and Elyssa Samsel, Ligeia conjures a new genre in musical theater - the horror musical.