• ARCHIVE of articles
  • Acting, Singing, Dancing, Scratching
  • Lester Cook reviews “The Joe Hill Revival”
  • 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
  • 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,
  • Rollin Jewett’s caper-comedy, OUR LITTLE SECRET premieres at Playwrights Horizons
  • Hail! Caesar
  • The Maria Konner Interview Series Part 2 of 3: Who can turn the world on with her smile?
  • The Powers behind The Lincolns of Springfield
  • DAVID SABELLA: A LIFE
  • Ambra Ferraris: “Art is a language … beautiful, harsh”
  • Robert Liebowitz is triggered by BULLET POINTS
  • Why Shakespeare Today: the actors from ATA’s Julius Caesar talk about the Bard’s importance in the 21st Century.
  • Carolyn Brown explores Storme DeLarverie
  • Kevin Davis IS One in a Million — Part I
  • Wendy Stuart just met a girl named MARIA
  • All is Swell with Lauryn Withnell by Jen Bush
  • The Theatre According to Robert
  • Resurrecting a Phenominal Play
  • Marcello at the Movies: PREET
  • Theatre Artist, Anna Capunay, makes the jump to film with “Your Silent Face”
  • Jen Bush goes Underground with Scrumbly of the Cockettes!
  • Liann Herder scratched the surface of One-in-a-Million
  • JMGC and IFT Network form partnership.
  • Moretti is a knock-out!
  • Jen Bush sheds light on Denise Flemming’s darkness.
  • Play- and Filmmaker Nicholas Kennedy hatches a new stage play tackling dark topics
  • A few words as Scrumbly boards the plane to NYC
  • Maestro Peter Mintun at the Public this Saturday with an historic troupe
  • Scrambled Emotions … Brilliant Performance: Nicholas Kennedy’s EGG FRAME
  • The Independent Theatre Coalition
  • Jim Catapano reviews Brian Alejandro – Lord Brian Alejandro Ring-A-Ding Dings the Changes
  • An artist in Purgatory: Baudelaire’s Passion by Henry Keen
  • A Robert Viagas Review: Here Lies Love
  • Better to Serve in Heaven: James Catapano reviews The Purgatory Trial of Vito Marcantonio with photos by Dan Lane Williams                             
  • Season of the Witch: Jim Catapano reviews Gillian Britt’s Powerful Thought-Provoking Play at the Chain
  • Katherine Alice – Katy – White appears with … herself
  • Right This Way: A Conversation with Robert Viagas at the Drama Book Shop
  • An Afterlife with a Price: Jim Catapano reviews “Price in Purgatory”
  • MEET THE COMPANY OF “CHOICES:” Creator, John Krupa
  • TV Series Review: Play It By Ear
  • “I Haunt You” is scary good! Emily Ulibarri interview Part II
  • Jim Catapano is at the ATA with The Buffalo Hero of World War I: The Wayne Miner Story
  • Men Behaving (Slightly) Badly: Jim Catapano looks at Two Gentlemen of Verona at the ATA
  • Guest Writer, DAVID SABELLA, reviews Manhattan School of Music’s A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
  • For Styrmir Elí … it’s getting “REAL”
  • Styrmir Elí has gathered a team of international visionary artists taking theatre AND film to the next level.
  • FIRST LADIES AND THE BIG WHITE LIE comes to New York
  • Two Broadway Legends compare … BOOKS
  • OPENING NIGHT PRESS & INDUSTRY EVENT scheduled for the FEDERICA BORLENGHI’S UNTIL DARK
  • Boris McGiver to lead a strong cast in Catherine Gropper’s drama based on actual events: THE MEETING: THE INTEPRETER
  • Et Alia Theater to present Until Dark by Federica Borlenghi, Off-Broadway
  • Hell’s Kitchen Roars Again: Jim Catapano is at Fifth Avenue, a Jazz Musical Comedy
  • A Director’s Memoir: Laurie Rae Waugh remembers Irving Greenfield on the eve of premiering another of his plays.
  • Eight First Ladies … Live(?) on Stage.
  • Callie Stribling sheds light on “Until Dark”
  • For Meg Flather, Life really IS a Cabaret
  • Broadway alum, BART SHATTO, joins the company of FINDING HELENA for its New York debut.
  • The Drama Book Shop Events: Showering April & Flowering May
  • AMERICAN THEATRE OF ACTORS ARCHIVE NOW ACTIVE: A half century of new works in New York
  • Alice Camarota & Thoeger Hansen’s 80th Anniversary Production of Jean-Paul Sartre’s NO EXIT
  • Exploring LGBTQ+ narratives during the Holocaust.
  • Jim Catapano Examines The Journey from Trauma to Joy
  • Callie Stribling is over the moon about Shakespeare Under The Moon
  • Brian Mertes to helm Catherine Gropper’s drama based on actual events: THE MEETING: THE INTERPRETER
  • From Near-Death to Affirmed Life—in His Own Words: Jim Catapano reviews 45 Scenes of Bad Sickness
  • Love, Revenge, and Redemption on Both Sides of the Veil: Jim Catapano reviews “The Secrets We Keep”
  • Five Minutes with David Gutierrez
  • Hell (and Heaven Too) is Other People: Jim Catapano reviews NO EXIT
  • ENTER: NO EXIT
  • Three’s Dysfunctional Company: Jim Catapano reviews ATA’s “Crazy Love”
  • Tony Award winner, FRANK WOOD and KELLEY CURRAN of HBO’s The Gilded Age star in THE MEETING: THE INTERPRETER, a new play written by Catherine Gropper and directed by BrIan Mertes. 
  • STILL WAITING FOR LEFTY: Luke Bond couldn’t wait!
  • Hell is MORE people: Michael Hagin’s immersive interpretation of Sartre’s NO EXIT continues the 80th anniversary (interview: Matthew Tiemstra)
  • Fernando Buzhar Segall can kill it!
  • A Reading from the Book of Renovations: Jim Catapano reviews Ripple Effect’s RADIANT VERMIN
  • The Theater Under St. Marks has many exits, but none of them are meant for our three already-doomed protagonists, says Jim Catapano. 
  • Where Have You Gone, Lefty? Jim Catapano wants to know
  • Nick Payne’s Constellations takes a Quantum Leap Across the Roads Not Taken — and Jim Catapano was there.
  • Who did it better? Paris Martino 
  • Jim Catapano reviews the first act of a Rebellion Fueled by Music and Laughter
  • A Warrior to Direct Warriors
  • Jim Catapano reviews The Meeting: The Interpreter
  • American Theatre of Actors presents what is considered by some to be Shaksepeare’s masterpiece: King Lear (article by Kaitlyn E. Clark)
  • Pall in the Family: Jim Catapano reviews “Bringer of Doom”
  • Jim Catapano is Living, Lying, Leaving and Loving in Corporate America
  • Jim Catapano, ZORA, and The Harlem Renaissance
  • Jamal Rana on Charlie Chaplin, Broadway, Black Cats … and going a STRAY (Part II)
  • Cleats, Chords, and Connections: Jim Catapano reviews 2 by Ken Couglin
  • Jim Catapano reviews the revival of “The Buffalo Hero”
  • Jim Catapano on how they died.
  • Jim Catapano and the Well-Mannered Wife Swap
  • Jim Catapano Review: A New Musical Casts the Spotlight on a 20th Century Legend
  • Jim Catapano reviews a Letter-Perfect Power Play
  • Jim Catapano explores the 21st Century Dating Scene with his review of “He’s Different”
  • Searching for Hope in a State of Decay: Jim Catapano reviews Black & White City Blues
  • Brad Dickson’s LOVELY IDIOTS comes to NY
  • Jim Catapano dreams a little dream of three: Rich and Dale Baron’s Delightful Dream On, Baransky! Returns for an Encore
  • High Praise from Jim Catapano for SKYSCRAPER
  • ALL-OUT ARTS honors NYC Councilman Erik Bottcher and Communications Professor Jay Michaels
  • “This is NOT A Drill” New Musical to Hold Private Industry Reading in NYC on Theatre Row
  • “The Butterfly Soars” says Jim Catapano
  • Jim Catapano Music Review: In It to Win It!: Atti Juhasz Brings Old School Anthem Rock Roaring into the Modern Day
  • AMT Theater announces opening of UPSIDE DOWN, a new musical — Opening March 8 @ 7:00 p.m. at AMT Theater
  • Jim Catapano reviews the creation & connection in AMT’s Upside Down
  • Jim Catapano reviews a dying gasp of a senator’s soul with Michael Hagins’ “The Senator Speaks”
  • Holly Doubet: A Musical Legacy in the Making with a musical lineage that spans generations,
  • Jim Catapano views the creative view from “Over the Shoulder”
  • REVIEW by JIM CATAPANO: A Fractured Family Searches for Connection
  • Jim Catapano warns us of Tragedies of the Past, Warnings for the Future
  • Joshua Crone and Thoeger Hansen: Bridging Divides Through Theatre
  • Jim Catapano views the creative view from “Over the Shoulder”
  • From “Tonight Show” Writer to Funerals with Punchlines: Brad Dickson’s “Lovely Idiots” Comes to NYC
  • Charles Evered’s CLASS directed and starring Ben Atkinson with Eliza Banaszak comes to New York
  • Knock Knock, Whodunnit? Jim Catapano finds fun at CLUE
  • Jim Catapano views the ATA’s New Life for Prince Hal
  • MONARCH A Mexican-American Musical Exploring the lives of undocumented immigrants in the United States, will be presented at Harvard University. 
  • Is That in the Script? asks Jim Catapano regarding Joseph P. Krawczyk’s Living the Play
  • Jim Catapano had a Joyful Afternoon of LGBTQ Voices with the Fresh Fruit Festival
  • The Wit and Wisdom of Felipe Luz as written by Jim Catapano
  • Jim Catapano Saddled-Up for a Gay Rodeo!
  • Jim Catapano spies a Glimmer of Hope Amidst the Misery, wallowing in MUD (at the ATA)
  • The Case of AI vs. Humanity Shall Now Be Heard by Judge Jim Catapano
  • Nothing Left but the Kindness of Strangers: A Jim Catapano Review
  • Julie Lorson: A Theatrical Force Multiplied in MCTLI’s “As Bees in Honey Drown”
  • CAST ANNOUNCED for “the other Shakespeare in the Park:” Shakespeare Sports’ Comedy of Errors directed by Michael Hagins
  • The Midtown International Theatre Festival announces the first production to be part of MITF 2026: The Anxiety of Laughing by Andrew Justvig
  • Double the Drama, Double the Daring: Sarah Vindigni and Amy Losi Unveil Thought-Provoking Plays at ATA
  • Jim Catapano at a Compelling Double-Header: Takes on Corrupt Authority and Injustice
  • Jim Catapano Wishes for Many Beautiful Hours at “Birthday Candles”
  • CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Midtown International Theatre Festival, July 2026. 
  • BRAVO to Parmeet Singh in Sense & Sensibility
  • CHAZZ PALMINTERI will appear Saturday, August 2 ONLY for a talkback after the performance of LIGHTHOUSE REPERTORY THEATRE’s production of A BRONX TALE, the musical 
  • “The Interlude of Youth”: A 16th-Century Morality Play Resurrected by Dr. Jeff Dailey, Featuring David Ezell
  • Playwright J. Bernard Taylor & Jay Michaels take JOHN STILLWAGGON as TENNESSEE WILLIAMS to LONDON
  • The Swan Inside Every Little Duck or “Take A Quack At It, Timothy L. Michuda’s Rocking Revelation for All Ages — an international review
  • “A Marine Walks Up to the Pearly Gates” at Yellow Bicycle Theatre: Josh Crone’s 250-Year Journey of the Corps
  • Kevin Davis’ Uplifting Musical Story of Hope in Troubled Times, reviewed by Jim Catapano
  • Jim Catapano goes to the Other Side of Sondheim with Barry Joseph’s New Book
  • Spotlight on Authors Domnica Radulescu and Carol Campbell
  • Jim Catapano notes that the Prince Clowns so the Bat Can Fly: Joshuah Patriarco’s Brilliant Merging of Shakespeare and Batman Rises at the ATA.
  • Broadway Icon, LEN CARIOU to star in New York Premiere of RICHARD VETERE’s riveting new drama, ZAGŁADA
  • American Theatre of Actors announces Jessica Jennings as New Executive Director on Eve of 50th Anniversary
  • Jim Catapano attends A Majestic Production in Celebration of 50 Great Years
  • Star Power and Seasoned Talent: The Cast Bringing Richard Vetere’s “ZAGŁADA” to the ATA Stage
  • At the American Theatre of Actors: “In the Wilderness of Demons,” a Ukrainian Folk Thriller by acclaimed American playwright Don Nigro. 
  • John Stillwaggon & Carolyn Dellinger celebrate the works of BERNARD J. TAYLOR with a special private showing of TENNESSEE WILLIAMS: PORTRAIT OF A GAY ICON 
  • A Jim Catapano Review: Don Nigro’s In the Wilderness of Demons Blends Ukranian Legend with Life’s Great Questions
  • Marlin Thomas’s REPARATIONS Set for Limited New York Run After International Win
  • Review by Jim Catapano: Tom Nemec’s A Cat in a Box Is a Moving Journey from Trauma to Healing
  • A Delightful Double Feature at the Delightful American Theatre of Actors, reviewed by the Delightful Jim Catapano
  • Absurdity, Activism, and the Authentic Self: Julie Lorson’s Vision for Five Lesbians Eating Quiche
  • Jim Catapano, Danny, and Roberta, take a Plunge into the Deep End
  • The American Theatre of Actors invites you to join us for A REPERTORY OF TWO PLAYS from ground-breaking playwright, Anne L. Thompson-Scretching
  • Jim Catapano attends A Powerful Double Bill for Dark Times
  • Jim Catapano witnesses Grief, Rage and the Ruins of a Revolution: Dennis Leroy Kangalee’s Masterpiece My Dying City: Vol II Looks at Profound Grief both Cultural and Personal
  • The King of Villains in the Concrete Jungle: Adriana Alter and Atlas Shakespeare Company Take on Richard III
  • Jim Catapano examines A Legend Restored with the ATA production of Kenthedo Robinson‘s The Lewis & Clark Expedition: The Story of York
  • Jim Catapano and the Early Days of Eugene
  • Broadway Legend Meets Baltimore Nightlife: Flipping the Script Productions Announces “Musicals Without Music”
  • Music Among the Tumbleweeds: Jim Catapano reviews James Jennings’ New Dancing in the Meadow.
  • The Bard in the Boroughs: Rodney Hakim and the Digital Renaissance of “New York Shakespeare”
  • It’s Mean to Be the King: Jim Catapano at RICHARD III (Atlas Shakespeare)
  • Jim Catapano reviews Richard Vetere’s Compelling “Poet on a String” which draws eerie parallels between 1939 and today
  • Stage Whisper Celebrates Five Years as LeadingIndependent Arts Podcast
  • American Theatre of Actors Announces 50th Anniversary Gala; Playwright LYLE KESSLER and TONY-winning actor, LEN CARIOU to Receive Lifetime Achievement Honors. 
  • New Theatrical Production Company, Diamond Mesh Inc., Announces “The Manifestival:” A New Frontier for NYC Independent Theater
  • THE BARD TAKES BROADWAY: SIXTH ANNUAL NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE AWARDS CELEBRATES RECORD-BREAKING 2025 SEASON
  • Gothic Musical “MY GHOSTS”to Headline ‘One Night Only” Seriesat Inaugural ManiFestival in NYC
  • The Archaeology of Intimacy: Excavating Love, History, and Modern Disconnect in Dennis Bush’s The Sloppy Abandon of Excavated Love.
  • The MITF is back and ATA has got them!
  • “My Kingdom for a Tour De Force” cries Jim Catapano about A Dizney-fied Retelling of Richard III Delights at the American Theatre of Actors
  • A Tangled Web Gives Way to Connection and Love: Jim Catapano reviews Reginald T. Jackson’s Hilarious and Heartfelt When We Practice to Deceive Shines at the Fresh Fruit Festival
  • Jim Catapano has a view of the ‘80s from the Edge of Your Seat at Sean Szak Prasso’s Obscene Desire at the ATA
  • Jim Catapano has [Camp] Growing Pains thanks to Esme Roberts Hilarious Coming-of-Age Comedy Little Bitches Lights Up the Fresh Fruit Festival
  • Diamond Mesh Incorporated Unveils the 2026 “ManiFestival” Lineup
  • “My Bestie, The Car” says Jim Catapano about Let Mezaluca Buy Your Car Revs Its Engine at the Downtown Urban Arts Festival
  • Jim Catapano visited a Modern Family in a Chekhovian Masterwork
  • ALL THE WORLD IS THIS STAGE: Jay Michaels and New York Shakespeare Launch “The Global Bard Initiative”
  • A Jim Catapano Review: The Iphigeniamachine Rages Against the Neverending Atrocities of the Patriarchy
  • Jim Catapano explores an Unearthed Comedy Classic
  • Jim Catapano reviews A Musical About a Musical: John Allman and David Ceci’s Fur Pajamas Delights at The Producer’s Club
  • THE RETURN OF THE FESTIVAL GIANT: Midtown International Theatre Festival Announces Triumphant NYC Comeback with a powerhouse 2026 Season
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• Jim Catapano asks “How’s Annie and The American Dream?” at Kate Gill’s AMERICARING at the MITF
• BEHIND THE SPEAKEASY DOORS: Directing the Supernatural Soul of ‘One Night at the Blackbird’
• REWRITING HISTORY WITH A ROCK BEAT: JAY STEPHENSON’S STEAMPUNK MUSICAL ‘BEETHOVEN’S WRONG NOTE’ HEADLINES THE MITF COMÈBACK
• Out the Cauldron and onto the Stage: “Shangri-La-La” Brings Big-Vegas Mythos and White-Tiger Hyperbole to MITF 2026
• Jim Catapano reviews A Moving Musical About Identity Lost and Found
• Inside the Inaugural Diamond Mesh Manifestival at Paradise Factory Theatre
• “Anger Turned Inward Is…: find out from Jim Catapano as he reviews How to Swallow a Volcano
• “The NPR of Theatre” Approaches 5th Anniversary:Stage Whisper Launches $15K Fundraising Campaign to Sustain Independent Arts Journalism
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