A Naked Girl on the Appian WayStarts September 13 "Unfortunately, there's no nudity in the show," rising star Matthew Morrison Hairspray, The Light in the Piazza laughingly explains about Richard Greenberg's provocatively titled new play A Naked Girl on the Appian Way. The play does however offer some heady insights into parent-child relationships with a big helping of Greenberg's usual clever wit.... MORE |
LatinologuesStarts September 13 What is Latinologues? "It's a series of monologues about the Latino experience," explains Cheech Marin, the show's first-time Broadway director and comedy icon thanks to his days as one-half of stoned comedy duo Cheech and Chong. "It's very theatrical—it's not people coming out and doing stand-up. There is an interior cohesion to it... MORE |
Absurd Person SingularStarts September 22 Fans and there are many of Alan Ayckbourn's delightful brand of silliness know that it would be absurd to miss the Manhattan Theatre Club's revival of the playwright's Absurd Person Singular. This comedy of semi-controlled chaos, directed by John Tillinger, follows three couples in three kitchens of three successive Christmas Eve parties... MORE |
In My LifeStarts September 27 "Honest to God, I don't know where it came from," first-time Broadway composer Joe Brooks says when pressed about the origin of his show In My Life. "I just sat down and started to write it." It is an existential musical about a boy and girl who fall in love in contemporary Manhattan, but with a catch—the boy has Tourette Syndrome and the girl... MORE |