By Marilyn Lester***Take a true event, a bona fide fish story, throw it into the waters of zaniness where a group of creative minds will reel in their own Monty Pythonesque version, and voila: Catch […]
By Marilyn Lester***Perfectly timed for the Halloween Season, the vaudeville-cum Victorianesque Dreadful Episodes at 59E59 Theaters is a fiesta of madcap macabre, a delicious mashup of the weird and fanciful, mining the dark but oh-so-clever […]
By Marilyn Lester***In 2011, Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman published Thinking, Fast and Slow, a heady book about decision-making. Some years later, acclaimed playwright Jonathan Spector brought that book more or less to life in his […]
Nonprofit 59E59 Theaters has announced the lineup of its Winter 2025/26 season, plus Resident Off Broadway Theater Company Primary Stages’ full program for the year including Alex Lin’s Laowang: A Chinatown King Lear, an imaginative […]
By Marilyn Lester***What would Shakespeare say? After all, the Bard’s work has endured for well over 400 years: pushed, pulled and transmogrified in multiple (and sometimes mind-bending) productions over time. That phenomenon is part of […]
By Marilyn Lester***The 2024 Edinburgh Fringe Festival sell-out and subsequent West End hit, The Last Laugh, knows a thing or two about comedy, particularly that it’s hard. “Dying is easy. Comedy is hard,” said actor […]
59E59 Theaters is again hosting the Brits Off Broadway festival, from Tuesday, April 22- Sunday, June 29, celebrating the best of independent British theater. This year’s edition of Brits Off Broadway will include eight shows […]
By Marilyn Lester***The song lyric “Forget your troubles, come on get happy” may well be the message of playwright Ken Ludwig‘s Dear Jack, Dear Louise, now playing at 59E59 Theaters. Dear Jack, Dear Louise is […]
Celebrating 20 years, 59E59 Theaters (Artistic Director Val Day and Managing Director Brian Beirne) has announced the lineup of its Fall 2024 season, which includes 8 productions under the Off Broadway theater’s rent-free model. In […]
The Off-Broadway venue, 59E59 Theaters will kick off its second annual AMPLIFY Festival begginning on Tuesday, August 13. The one-of-a-kind festival spotlights three original works by the same playwright across all three stages in the […]
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