Josh Tyson

Review: North Shore Music Theatre's THE SHARK IS BROKEN Looks Inside Jaws
by R. Scott Reedy - May 7, 2025

In the summer of 1975, moviegoers flocked to theaters to see “Jaws,” the story of the hunt for a man-eating great white shark attacking beachgoers at a summer vacation spot, making the picture the first summer blockbuster.

THE SHARK IS BROKEN to Open at North Shore Music Theatre
by Emmy Rice - Apr 4, 2025

Bill Hanney’s North Shore Music Theatre (NSMT) kicks off the expanded 70th Anniversary 2025 Season with West End and Broadway smash hit play, The Shark is Broken.

Loni Ackerman To Star In Industry Reading Of TO LIFE
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 21, 2025

FMC Productions LLC will present an industry reading of TO LIFE. TO LIFE portrays one afternoon in a hospital room in a death-defying traumedy revealing family secrets.

Vote For The 2024 BroadwayWorld Off-Broadway Awards; LA LLAMADA at Spanish Theatre Repertory Company Leads Best Musical!
by BWW Awards - Dec 16, 2024

Voting continues for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Off-Broadway Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!

Phoenix Theatre Ensemble Presents CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, January 19- 28
by A.A. Cristi - Dec 22, 2023

Phoenix Theatre Ensemble presents 'Crime and Punishment' at A.R.T./New York Theatres from January 19-28. This production was a standout at the 2023 Phoenix Live Arts Festival in Nyack.

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT Set To Kickoff Of Second Annual Phoenix Festival: Live Arts In Hudson Valley, September 28
by A.A. Cristi - Sep 8, 2023

Award-winning 90-minute Adaptation of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment kicks off Second Annual Phoenix Festival in Nyack NY on September 28. 

Penguin Rep Theatre and Phoenix Theatre Ensemble Reveal Stephen H. Grant Student Playwright Festival Winning Play Readings
by Stephi Wild - May 11, 2023

Four local high school students will have their new plays read on May 30 by professional actors as part of the Stephen H. Grant Student Playwrights Festival presented by Penguin Rep Theatre and the Phoenix Theatre Ensemble.

Boston Symphony Orchestra Announces 2023 Tanglewood Season Featuring World Premieres, BSO Commissions & More
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 1, 2023

The 85th Tanglewood season will offer audiences a wide range of programs and events that spotlight favorite guest artists and repertoire, while introducing dynamic new performers, conductors, and composers, with 48 artists in their Tanglewood or BSO debuts, and works by 28 living composers, including world premieres and five BSO commissions.

Review: TWINKIE AND THE BEAST at Drag Daddy Productions
by Taylor Clemons - Dec 2, 2022

What did our critic think of TWINKIE AND THE BEAST at Drag Daddy Productions?

Cast Announced for THE CONVENT OF PLEASURE Benefit Reading
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 9, 2022

Red Bull Theater today announced the cast for the online benefit reading Margaret Cavendish’s The Convent of Pleasure, presented in collaboration with R/18 Collective. This benefit reading in celebration of Women’s History Month is “Pay What You Can.” All of Red Bull’s current online-only programs are FREE.

Red Bull Theater Presents Livestream Benefit Reading of AMERICAN MOOR
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Oct 7, 2020

RED BULL THEATER today announced that its fall offerings will continue with an informal benefit livestream reading of Keith Hamilton Cobb's American Moor, which the company produced Off-Broadway in the fall of 2019.

BWW Review: Keith Hamilton Cobb's Breathtaking Exploration Of American Theatre's Intrinsic Racism, AMERICAN MOOR
by Michael Dale - Sep 15, 2019

A bit over 400 years ago, a white Englishman named William Shakespeare scripted a play based on a story by a white Italian known as Cinthio about a Moorish general serving in the Venetian army, who is regarded as an outsider by his white colleagues because of his skin color.

Photo Flash: AMERICAN MOOR Celebrates Opening Night
by Julie Musbach - Sep 9, 2019

Red Bull Theater presents Keith Hamilton Cobb's acclaimed play American Moor, making its Off-Broadway premiere at Cherry Lane Theatre (38 Commerce St), in a production directed by Kim Weild and produced in collaboration with Evangeline Morphos, Frederick M. Zollo, Elizabeth I. McCann and Tom Shea.

BWW Review: AMERICAN MOOR at Anacostia Playhouse
by Sarah Murphy - Jan 18, 2019

AMERICAN MOOR is an intimate portrait of an artist and a cry of grief for the boundaries we impose upon our artistic lives. Using the role of 'Othello' as both an anchor and a jumping off point, Keith Hamilton Cobb skillfully takes the audience through a deeply personal examination of race and privilege in the theatre.

Phoenix Theatre Ensemble Presents Young, Hot & Dickensian - Contemporary Remixes Of Charles Dickens
by Stephi Wild - Dec 7, 2018

Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, a nonprofit theatre company now in its 15th season, announces a unique-and unpredictable--evening of readings of new commissioned short plays about Charles Dickens on Saturday, December 15 at Downtown Arts, 70 E 4th Street, NYC. The world-premiere plays will be read impromptu by a group of assembled actors whose roles will be determined, regardless of age or gender, by drawing names out of a hat. Actors will be given their script and 5 minutes of prep time.

AMERICAN MOOR Returns to Anacostia Playhouse for Four Weeks Only
by Julie Musbach - Oct 31, 2018

Shakespeare, race, and America - not necessarily in that order - are explored when AUDELCO, IRNE, and Elliot Norton Award-winning American Moor returns to the Anacostia Playhouse for a back-by-popular-demand four-week engagement, January 9 - February 3, 2019.

Leviathan Lab Presents THE WALL: IMMIGRATION IN THE TIME OF 45
by BWW News Desk - Oct 27, 2018

Leviathan Lab (Ariel Estrada, Producing Artistic Director) will present THE WALL: IMMIGRATION IN THE TIME OF 45, featuring new short plays on the immigration crisis by Asian American playwrights at The Tank (312 West 36th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues) on Friday, October 26 at 7:00 PM and Today, October 27 at 7:00 PM.

Leviathan Lab Presents THE WALL: IMMIGRATION IN THE TIME OF 45
by BWW News Desk - Oct 26, 2018

Leviathan Lab (Ariel Estrada, Producing Artistic Director) will present THE WALL: IMMIGRATION IN THE TIME OF 45, featuring new short plays on the immigration crisis by Asian American playwrights at The Tank (312 West 36th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues) today, October 26 at 7:00 PM and Saturday, October 27 at 7:00 PM.

Leviathan Lab Presents THE WALL: IMMIGRATION IN THE TIME OF 45
by Julie Musbach - Oct 24, 2018

Leviathan Lab (Ariel Estrada, Producing Artistic Director) will present THE WALL: IMMIGRATION IN THE TIME OF 45, featuring new short plays on the immigration crisis by Asian American playwrights at The Tank (312 West 36th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues) on Friday, October 26 at 7:00 PM and Saturday, October 27 at 7:00 PM.

JUDAS By Robert Patrick Opens 4/29 at Phoenix Theatre Ensemble
by Julie Musbach - Mar 12, 2018

Phoenix Theatre Ensemble announces the casting, directors, design team for Robert Patrick's Judas, which will start previews on April 27, with official opening Sun April 29,  and will run through May 13 at The Wild Project at 195 East 3rd Street in NYC.