• ARCHIVE of articles
  • Acting, Singing, Dancing, Scratching
  • ABOUT ROBERT VIAGAS – Ai Lead Writer
  • ARTIST PROFILE: Robert Liebowitz, in-coming artistic director, FROM SCRATCH PERFORMANCE COMPANY
  • Alex sees Pod-Possibilities
  • Robert Viagas in the Twilight Zone … with ABDICATION
  • THIS Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood is far darker
  • Face to Face Films winds down 2020 with a double feature hitting both its themes: original works and classic plays-into-movies
  • Viagas Views pre-TONYs
  • Robert Viagas picks DANDELION
  • Ai Spotlight: Arts Veteran Laurie Rae Waugh
  • Dandelion: A New Musical Grows in NYC
  • The Lions of 21st Century Live Art
  • William Hand and HUNGER
  • Robert Viagas is in 2071
  • Matt Webster goes forth with BACK
  • André Vauthey, a doctor turned actor, had a truly unique story to tell. 
  • The Professor and the Theatre Festival
  • The Mime Talks-the-Talk
  • Robert Viagas goes BACK
  • William Considine and The Greeks
  • Universal Themes that are all in our heads.
  • Finding Yourself On Stage
  • Robert Viagas on Choir Boy
  • Hot “Chill:” Robert Viagas at BE MORE CHILL
  • Viagas is Down-Under with Hofmann
  • Robert Viagas @ Sleep At Your Own Risk
  • Standing with Jazmyn & Janelle is Step 1
  • Mime Time
  • Robert Viagas says “There’s Much Ado at the Delacorte”
  • Robert Viagas and Two Crazy Broke Asians
  • Robert Viagas at The Prom
  • Robert Viagas and King Kong
  • Robert Viagas and Cher
  • נמרוד דנישמן שובר את הקירות ב׳בורדרס׳ (Nimrod Danishman breaks down walls in BORDERS)
  • Robert Viagas at My Fair Lady
  • Robert Viagas at True West
  • Robert Viagas on the “Floor”
  • Viagas Views pre-TONYs
  • Robert Viagas examines The Lifespan of a Fact
  • Hero’s Story … Told Heroically
  • Viagas and Vernovsky’s Carcass
  • Endorsing “Blood”
  • Pvt. Wayne Miner and Playwright Kenthedo Robinson
  • Allison & Arthur
  • Kadigan & King
  • Alex Riad and “Floor Is Lava:” A Parable of the Next Generation
  • Rev[erend] Mary and Rev[iewer] Robert
  • War of Words Part I
  • Do you hear the people sing …
  • Yes, Yes, Nannette! Take the IRTE to laughter.
  • Robert Viagas at Moral Support
  • Robert Viagas at Henry V
  • Room for Improv-ment
  • COMMON GROUND: Learning from reading
  • “TALKING IT OUT:” A TOUCHING VEHICLE OF EXPRESSION
  • Family Secrets
  • William Considine, playwright, poet, and producer
  • Funny and Fresh
  • Too Much Dressing
  • Once More Unto The Breach!
  • Johnny B. Dunn’s FREE RANGE is back in the saddle.
  • The Inner Mind Out … On Stage
  • Mario Lantigua and family drama
  • “Long Rail’s” Journey North
  • It Ain’t Just Pac-Man!
  • Chorus Line Stars Old and New Unite at TRU Benefit 
  • Baayork Lee: One Singular Sensation
  • Dancing Shadows in Love
  • An Englishman, an Irishman and an American Wake Up in Plato’s Cave
  • Adam Belvo and the Brutes
  • La Dolce DiVita
  • Welcome to the Indie Stage: Joey McKneely
  • A Moment with Tandy Cronyn
  • As You may or may not Like It
  • “I draw inspiration from Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, and Carl Reiner… their ‘laugh till you think’ philosophy”
  • Divination has some spirit
  • A hell of a good time
  • RA-RA! TaRaRaBOOM
  • Hagins’ canon strives to form a more perfect union
  • Power Couple with a Successful “Ego” Offer-Up A Presidential Revival
  • Relentless Pleasant … and Focused … and Smart … and Ambitious … and …
  • Art Imitates Life … But here, Life Survives to do the Art.
  • CALIGULA!
  • A View of WTC
  • Religious Affiliation
  • The Indie Mom Brought Down The House!
  • PROFILE: Jessica Jennings
  • “Jilted to Perfection” & “Common Ground” Two Musicals at NYNW Theater Fest
  • Bond … Irving Bond
  • R. K. Rich offers a tough topic for laughs
  • Creating “Common Ground” with Granville Wyche Burgess
  • Twelfth Night Review By Robert Viagas; Free Shakespeare in the Park at the Delacorte Theater
  • Powerhouse Cast now part of Powerhouse Night of Powerhouse Plays presented by a Powerhouse Company
  • Body of [Brilliant] Work
  • About Last Night
  • This Orchard bore marvelous fruit
  • Who Shot A.L.
  • Life “Raft”
  • … singing a song of angry men
  • #TenthPlanet: Lynda Crawford
  • #TenthPlanet: THIS STRETCH OF MONTPELIER
  • Great Writing about Rewriting
  • Trans Theatre Festival: Sandy Gooen and Pass/Fail
  • Life is in Session
  • Dark Times Ahead
  • G.I. Jack & Danny
  • EV A-OK!
  • #TenthPlanet: Anthony P. Pennino
  • Dan: One-on-one about his one-man show
  • Dorian is Divine
  • Ed Levine is PREEMO in our book!
  • Adam Seely is Sax-y!
  • Does Improv need actors or is it just an act?
  • RA-RA! TaRaRaBOOM
  • Spotlight On: RICHARD SKIPPER by Anthony J. Piccione
  • AI celebrates the “serious artist” and that starts with the playwright. What guides their pen?
  • Body [of work] SLAM
  • Stage Soldiers Armed with Art Take Downtown NYC
  • STEVE SILVER: ” I saw a different side of New York.”
  • J.E. Robinson is a STRONG MAN at DUAF
  • Kim Yaged tells YOU who you are
  • Getting to the meat of Anghus
  • ‘Tiz the season…  but what about the rest of the year? 
  • Reality presented AS IS
  • Playwright Kate Gill to the “Rescue”
  • Step 1 Theatre Project & Michael Hagins: Making Quality Art with a Vengeance!
  • Playwright Spotlight: Gary Morgenstein
  • Alex sees Pod-Possibilities
  • Cabaret Legend, Richard Holbrook at GRANNY’S BLUE-MERS
  • Robert Viagas says Yokko is EN-chanting
  • “Trilogy” Hearkens to a more Poetic time
  • Powerful Piccione Play
  • Robert Viagas says Yokko is EN-chanting
  • Viagas and the Renaissance Man
  • ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: BROADWAY PRODUCER, JIM KIERSTEAD
  • Carney on Henslowe: The Producer’s The Thing!
  • Ditko was his own worst [super] villain.
  • Phil Paradis and the End of the World … as we know it.
  • A satisfying Richard
  • Cat Parker is creating a monster
  • An Earthy Night of Plays
  • Akin to Success
  • Mary Elizabeth Micari: Life in C-Sharp
  • T. Adamson and the Road to Revolution
  • Robert Viagas and Shelter in Place
  • It’s no Secret how good Derren Brown is.
  • Robert Viagas is A Real Lulu
  • Evita still conquers.
  • Robert, Rattlestick, and the Monsoon
  • Viagas and The Hope Hypothesis
  • Robert Viagas at the SEA WALL/A LIFE
  • “Straights” Talk from Robert Viagas
  • Robert Viagas is on a Steeplchase
  • Robert Viagas gives a warm response to a Snowshow
  • A Gorgeous – but lacking – Monster
  • An Angry Young Man Matures
  • Jay Michaels takes Ten with Lenny, Desi, Monica, and Drew
  • High Quality
  • Robert Viagas and Rats
  • The PaperKids answer: What is this thing called LOVE.
  • Sean DeMers, Ariel Francoeur & FACULTY PORTRAIT: After the shooting stops
  • Robert Viagas in Blackwell Asylum
  • Jay Michaels speaks with Bree O’Connor on PLAYFUL SUBSTANCE
  • Loretta Swit on Art (interview by Jay Michaels)
  • School’s Out
  • Nellie Bly and the Haunted House, Singing Puppets, Hi-Tech Women of Blackwell
  • Part IV: A MURDER MOST FOUL, SOLVED
  • Rattlestick presents a powerful theatre festival … on film.
  • This theater is a SAFE SPACE
  • Essential Nonessential – Spring Awakening
  • Stage Artists to Screen: Madcap Mystery Mansion
  • Jelani Alladin and Claudia Acosta are having a SWELL time.
  • Nine NYC-Based Theatre Companies Join Forces to Present “It Can’t Happen Here” October 28, 2020Based on the Sinclair Lewis NovelAbout the Rise of Fascism in America
  • Andrés Gallardo Bustillo gets Dystopian
  • Domenick Danza’s Shakespeare from the American Point of View
  • ELEGIES FOR ANGELS, PUNKS AND RAGING QUEENS benefitting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, presented December 1
  • Center of GRAVITY
  • Kidding Around
  • She’s Got Friends
  • Through a Child’s Eye
  • Anna and the Arts
  • The Muyun Zhou Collection: Daddy Issues
  • Divine Intervention: Susan Merson talks Tarot-for-Inspiration
  • The Caged Bird Sings
  • Audio Theater of War
  • The time is now for Caytha Jentis
  • Ai Lead Writer, BRENDAN McCALL
  • Look At Me: A response by Brendan McCall
  • “What kind of life do we want to live?”
  • The Burdens of Silence
  • Creating Within the Carceral Surveillance State
  • A Correspondence of Grief
  • Altered States
  • Uplifting This Body
  • The Empty Space of the Telephone
  • Polite Nibbles
  • Coffee, Community, and Country
  • Introducing Matt Frenzel
  • Emerging from plaything to person: QPAC presents Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House”
  • Hell (and Redemption) is Other People, Car Pooling
  • Butoh-ful film by Yokko
  • A Journal of Our Plague Year
  • Face to Face with Tennessee Williams
  • HAMLET returns!
  • Interview Series: Face to Face with Face to Face
  • Michael Hagins and Social Justice
  • Celeste Mancinelli: a veteran artist takes a journey.
  • Experience Kaitana Magno (Part I): Variety [is the spice of] Life
  • INSIDE IRTE: The Return of Improv’s Innovator
  • Life According to Akshata Honnavar
  • Playful Substance Theater Company-Pithy Party: Under the Bridge
  • A film of Pandemic Proportions
  • Familial Laughter
  • S.U.N. in the U.S.A.
  • REVIEW: Gilda Mercado’s Ella y Yo, reviewed by Jen Bush
  • Playing with Eli Sundler
  • Art[ists] Coaching Life
  • Blockbuster Guy is a VCR (valiant creative revival)
  • Dennis Yueh-Yeh Li on the theatre and the theatre of war.
  • A Rae of Sunshine: Laurie Rae Waugh returns to the ATA
  • A Playwright’s View of China Today
  • The Lambs ® Marks its 146th Founding Anniversary
  • Film Review: “Half Truth” is Fully Enaging
  • Someone please tell her how great she is!
  • Arts Influencer, WENDY STUART, on MANDELA
  • A lawyer takes to the stage to state his case.
  • A Moment with arts-journeyman, JOE MOE
  • Alice Jamal: Sassafras’ Dominant Force
  • The BLAME Game
  • “Shalom” Means Hello, Peace, Wholeness… and Lisa
  • THE FRESH FRUIT FESTIVAL RETURNS TO LIVE THEATRE!
  • Royal Pain: The Tragedy of Ivan VI
  • Grammy winner, Emilio Solla, is on fire! Fire Island, that is.
  • Have Faith in Kate Gill
  • David Willinger wants ART to INTIMIDATE LIFE!
  • MICHAEL HAGINS ON THEATRE ROW: Rachael Langton on social justice
  • From England to NYC: It’s Amber Brookes
  • Justin Giachetti: Jack of all Trades – Master of All!
  • Louis A. Josephson: “I continue to explore what it means to be an artist.”
  • The World According to Antonia
  • Rewarding RELAPSE
  • Bill Eisenring reviews GIDION’S KNOT
  • “Shot” hit the mark.
  • A very merry “Wives”
  • Just in time for PRIDE: “Here We Are” by Seda Anbarci & Lissette Camacho
  • Come to Vegas with Brian Alejandro
  • A Symphony For Portland: Christina Hemphill
  • Stage notable, David Arthur Bachrach plays film legend John Huston in Carson & Huston
  • The World of Juson Williams
  • Shranjay Arora Interview Part I: the lens is his lab
  • Coni Koepfinger: “…life really IS a play”
  • A Great American Musical from Portland
  • The company of “Antlers” buck a few comments
  • Jane Austen’s Persuasion at The Warwick Institute of Culture
  • Coral Mizrachi: Can’t Kill Me Now
  • Skipping through the Horror of Karaoke
  • At the Piano: Maestro Dan Furman
  • WHAT’S SO FUNNY? POST-PANDEMIC EDITION PART 1
  • From Israel to New York – it’s Noy Marom
  • Help live theatre!
  • Kenthedo Robinson’s powerful drama, “The Buffalo Hero of World War I: The Wayne Miner Story” returns to New York for a special limited engagement
  • “Walter” Gets An A
  • KEN COUGHLIN: Theatre Dignitary
  • Experiencing Ayanda! (Part I)
  • Robert Viagas looks back on some powerhouse productions of the end of 22
  • Gauthier Raad in Focus (Part II)
  • Angela Theresa Egic reviews The Buffalo Hero of WWI by Kenthedo Robinson at the American Theatre of Actors
  • Veronica Moya would love to marry you! 
  • PATRICK HICKEY, JR.: “Comix is a movement. One to tell important stories.” 
  • Rommell Sermons: From the Bronx to Off-Broadway
  • A Star Studded Cast bids us all, “Bon Jour”
  • Chansons: Piaf, Brel & Me at the Town Hall with TGI at the Adelaide Fringe
  • Big Talent … Big Heart, That’s JUDY
  • Lilli Meizner picks The Fruit Trilogy
  • “Job” well done!
  • Hari Bhaskar: A Man for All Stages (Part I)
  • Dream Barons
  • Nothing “mezzo” about this Soprano
  • Lester Cook: Emerging
  • FRESH FRUIT FESTIVAL MULTIMEDIA SEASON 2023
  • David McDermott steps into the pivotal role of “Scott” in OBSESSED
  • Ricardo Melendez surrenders … to vibes and visions
  • New York’s MARK NADLER nominated for the French Tony Award 
  • Latina Playwright Desi Moreno-Penson’s exploration of a dysfunctional Cuban family (via ancient Greek themes) is on display in EL BACALAO: The Catfish Man
  • The Doctor is in … North America
  • A powerful STORMÉ is coming
  • Our greatest president — his greatest love
  • Robert Liebowitz @ ATA: Written in the Stars & Suic!de Bridge
• Hail! Caesar
• Rollin Jewett’s caper-comedy, OUR LITTLE SECRET premieres at Playwrights Horizons
• Carolyn Brown explores Storme DeLarverie
• For Larry Daggett – there is no music without the message
• The Drama Book Shop will serve as host for a special night with celebrated New York playwright, Doug DeVita,
• The Powers behind The Lincolns of Springfield
• DAVID SABELLA: A LIFE
• The Theatre According to Robert
• Ambra Ferraris: “Art is a language … beautiful, harsh”
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