To do: The Comic Book Theater Festival!
I admit there are lot of things to do in New York City if you like comics, and here's et another one. Please don't...
Fun Home musical wins major awards, Broadway bound
Fun Home, the musical based on Alison Bechdel's graphic novel memoir about her closeted gay father and her own coming out, is racking up...
Disney’s Aladdin on Broadway: A Sneak Preview
Before I get into the nitty gritty..
Buy your tickets NOW.
Stop reading, and go buy them. This is "Lion King" big. This is "plan...
Spiegelman and Johnston’s WORDLESS! coming to the US
or at least to BAM in Brooklyn.
WORDLESS! originally was staged as a one-off in Sydney, Australia last year and features a multimedia mix of...
31 Days of Halloween: Toby Cypress’s Frankenstein
Here's an awesome piece by Rodd Racer/Head Lopper/Black Science/much more artist Toby Cypress, who informs us that you can buy it as a poster...
Tell-all book on the Spidey musical is on its way
About 10 years ago, when I ran a tiny item on a proposed Spider-Man musical with music by U2 on the old Comicon-com site,...
The Marvel Experience will be 4D, dynamic, transformative, coming to a town near you
It turns out the drama- and deficit-plagued Spider-man Broadway musical wasn't enough to turn Marvel off live theatrical events. Thus they are launching 'The...
The FUN HOME musical is coming to the Public Theater this fall
We've been following the development a musical based on Alison Bechdel's classic comics memoir Fun Home for a while, and nowNew York's prestigious Public...
Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer Go “Live” at Bard College
The Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College in Red Hook, New York, hosted "An Evening with Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer"...
Review: It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane…It’s Superman
I saw the final night of the ENCORE! concert staging of the Adams/Strouse Superman musical last night and I truly wish I had seen...
It’s a Bird…It’s a Plane…It’s Superman hits the stage this week
Theater fans and Superman fans have some fun in store for them this week when the Encore production of It's a Bird, It's Plane...It's Superman hits the stage with Edward Watts as Clark/Superman, Jenny Power as Lois Lane and Alli Mauzey as Sydney Carlton. Originally produced in 1966 with music and lyrics by Charles Strause and Lee Adams and book by David Newman and Robert Benton, it's definitely a retro view of Superman -- he's dating Lois for one thing -- but if you like the most iconic view of the Man of Steel, this fits the bill. Plus - show tunes.
Carousel brings comics and their creators to the stage
About four times a year, noted cartoonist Robert Sikoryak (Masterpiece Comics) hosts Carousel: Cartoon Slide Shows and Other Projected Pictures. This is an event where artists and writers present their comics though a slide show while vocalizing the dialogue and narrative, sometimes incorporating music and sound design. For those in attendance, the resulting experience comes closer to watching a play than a movie or an animation. Sikoryak describes it as “a cross-pollination of theater and comics.”
