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Podcast Episode 29 is now live.  Pick your favorite service provider through these links:  iTunes  Spotify  Stitcher  Google Podcast and Buzzsprout.

Plays and musicals reviewed before the coronavirus isolation began.  Plus two virtual pieces.  One a podcast of a new musical with the timeliest of titles: “Monotony: The Musical.”  Also, the beginning of a new online series called CyberTank.

I hope you enjoy the March 2020 Podcast.  Comments and suggestions are always welcome.  Please send any thoughts to this email: theaterreviewsfrommyseat@comcast.net.

Podcast Episode 28 is now live.  Pick your favorite service provider through these links:  iTunes  Spotify  Stitcher  Google Podcast and Buzzsprout.

This month’s theater recap has nineteen reviews including three Broadway shows, many off and off-off Broadway productions including dance, puppetry and children’s theater.  In addition, I interview Sara Juli prior to seeing her very personal comedic-dance performance piece titled Burnt-Out Wife.

Shows from Broadway on this episode are David Byrne’s American Utopia, A Soldier’s Play and West Side Story.  Theater companies and venues covered include Theater for the New City, The Tank, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Dixon Place, New York City Center, The Flea Theater, Roundabout Theatre, Mint Theater, Chelsea Music Hall, Vineyard Theatre and the Transport Group.  Plus a visit to the Off-Broadway hit revival of Little Shop of Horrors.

I hope you enjoy the February 2020 Podcast.  Comments and suggestions are always welcome.  Please send any thoughts to this email: theaterreviewsfrommyseat@comcast.net.

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Podcast Episode 27 is now live.  Pick your favorite service provider through these links:  iTunes  Spotify  Stitcher  Google Podcast or by clicking this Buzzsprout link:

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This month’s recap includes three Broadway shows, five productions from the Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival, many Off and Off-Off Broadway plays and a few dance performances.

The Broadway shows discussed are Slava’s Snowshow, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical and Jagged Little Pill based on Alannis Morrisette’s music.  Off-Off Broadway theaters companies visited this month include the Tank, The Barrow Group, Metropolitan Playhouse and LaMama.  A review of a contemporary take on Medea starring Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale.  Plus a few tips for upcoming sure-bets opening this spring.

Finally, if you’ve ever wanted to know what’s going on inside your phone, find out in my review of a fun new musical, Emojiland.  A show to make you smize.

I hope you enjoy the January 2020 Podcast.  Comments and suggestions are always welcome.  Please send any thoughts to this email: theaterreviewsfrommyseat@comcast.net.

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Podcast Episode 26 is now live.  Pick your favorite service through these links:  iTunes  Spotify  Stitcher  Google Podcast or by clicking the Buzzsprout link below.

This podcast is a monthly recap from TheaterReviewsFromMySeat covering plays, musicals and other performances.  This month’s episode includes a number of holiday themed offerings including multiple variations on A Christmas Carol.  From Harlem to Campbell Scott’s Broadway turn as Scrooge.  A presentation from the Czechoslovak American Marionette Theatre.  A two person version told in a Greenwich Village mansion.  On the lighter side, I discuss the touring show created by RuPaul’s Drag Race superstars BenDeLaCreme and Jinkx Monsoon called All I Want For Christmas is Attention.

I hope you enjoy the December 2019 Podcast.  Comments and suggestions are always welcome.  Please send any thoughts to this email: theaterreviewsfrommyseat@comcast.net.

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Podcast Episode 25 is now live.  Pick your favorite service through these links:  iTunes  Spotify  Stitcher  Google Podcast or by clicking the Buzzsprout link below.

Monthly recap from www.theaterreviewsfrommyseat.com covering shows primarily in New York City.  In this episode, three Broadway plays are reviewed including The Great Society with Brian Cox as LBJ, The Sound Inside starring Mary Louise Parker and the two part epic The Inheritance.

Off-Broadway coverage includes Game of Thrones’ Peter Dinklage as Cyrano in a new musical.  Other recommended plays discussed are Heroes of the Fourth Turning, History of Violence from Schaubühne Berlin and Will Eno’s The Underlying Chris.  Additionally, two immersive pieces are reviewed:  The Black History Museum… According to the United States and Unmaking Toulouse Lautrec.  Sixteen different productions in total PLUS a new sound effect !

This month also features one out-of-town production at the University of Notre Dame (Indiana) entitled Staging the Daffy Dame.

The mission of theaterreviewsfrommyseat is to record my experiences without plot spoilers in order to share my passion for live theater.  I hope to inspire you to see a play, musical or theater company you may not have known about.  Free email subscriptions for newly published reviews are available at www.theaterreviewsfrommyseat.com.

I hope you enjoy the November 2019 Podcast.  Comments and suggestions are always welcome.  Please send any thoughts to this email: theaterreviewsfrommyseat@comcast.net.

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Podcast Episode 24 is now live.  Pick your favorite service through these links:  iTunes  Spotify  Stitcher  Google Podcast or by clicking the Buzzsprout link below.

Three Broadway shows are featured on this month’s theater recap including Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Freestyle Love Supreme, Jeremy O. Harris’ exceptional Slave Play and Linda Vista, the newest comedy from Tracy Letts (August: Osage County).

I visited two theater companies in Minneapolis this month and report on Snow White at the Children’s Theater and Ride the Cyclone at the Jungle Theater.  From off and off-off Broadway, there are a number of exciting new plays and musicals.  The long overdue return of the groundbreaking 1976 Broadway hit for colored girls who have considered suicide /when the rainbow is enuf has finally been revived at the Public Theater.

The mission of theaterreviewsfrommyseat is to record my experiences without plot spoilers in order to share my passion for live theater.  I hope to inspire you to see a play, musical or theater company you may not have known about.  Free email subscriptions for newly published reviews are available at www.theaterreviewsfrommyseat.com.

I hope you enjoy the October 2019 Podcast.  Comments and suggestions are always welcome.  Please send any thoughts to this email: theaterreviewsfrommyseat@comcast.net.

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Podcast Episode 23 is now live.  Pick your favorite service through these links:  iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify or by clicking the Buzzsprout link below.

This month’s episode is packed full of Off and Off-Off Broadway gems including a play from Scotland about kids on a playground, another which mourns the passing of St. Vincent’s Hospital in Greenwich Village, three pieces staged at the Theater For the New City and three plays from the Flea Theater’s festival called Mac Wellman:  Perfect Catastrophes.  If you’ve got a strained relationship with your parents – or America – or both, this is the episode for you!

The mission of theaterreviewsfrommyseat is to record my experiences without plot spoilers in order to share my passion for live theater.  I hope to inspire you to see a play, musical or theater company you may not have known about.  Free email subscriptions for newly published reviews are available at www.theaterreviewsfrommyseat.com.

I hope you enjoy the September 2019 Podcast.  Comments and suggestions are always welcome.  Please send any thoughts to this email: theaterreviewsfrommyseat@comcast.net.

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The August 2019 Podcast is now live and available on iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify or by clicking the Buzzsprout link below.

Episode 22 concludes coverage of the New York Musical Festival which ran for four weeks this summer.  Under the headline “rave reviews” I discuss two Broadway musicals:  Be More Chill and Beetlejuice.  This month also includes Bat Out of Hell based upon the Meat Loaf album.  A visit to Brooklyn for Company XIV’s latest burlesque extravaganza, Queen of Hearts.  Plus a surprise pop in to a small community theater in Glen Arbor, Michigan and their take on The African Queen.

The mission of theaterreviewsfrommyseat is to record my experiences in concise summaries without plot spoilers in order to share my love of theater.  I hope to inspire you to see a play, musical or theater company you may not have known about.  Free email subscriptions for newly published reviews are available at www.theaterreviewsfrommyseat.com.

I hope you enjoy the August 2019 Podcast.  Comments and suggestions are always welcome.  Please send any thoughts to this email: theaterreviewsfrommyseat@comcast.net.

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The July 2019 Podcast is now live.  You can click the buzzsprout link below or search for theaterreviewsfrommyseat on iTunes, Spotify or Stitcher.

Episode 21 is the longest in the series so far.  This month I cover all the productions and readings at the New York Musical Festival during its first three weeks.  In addition, five Off-Broadway shows, all of which deal with oppression in one form or another.  Plus a visit to the Broadway musical Pretty Woman.

The mission of theaterreviewsfrommyseat is to record my theatergoing experiences in concise summaries without plot spoilers in order to share my love of theater.  I hope to inspire you to see a play, musical or theater company you may not have known about.  Free email subscriptions for newly published reviews are available at www.theaterreviewsfrommyseat.com.

I hope you enjoy the July 2019 Podcast.  Comments and suggestions are always welcome.  Please send any thoughts to this email: theaterreviewsfrommyseat@comcast.net.

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The June 2019 Podcast is now live.  Episode #20 !!!  You can click the buzzsprout link below or search for theaterreviewsfrommyseat on iTunes, Spotify or Stitcher.

This month’s episode covers productions in New York City, Chicago (Steppenwolf Theatre) and San Francisco (American Conservatory Theater).  The play Ink on Broadway.  Duncan Shiek’s new musical The Secret Life of Bees based on Sue Monk Kidd’s bestselling book.  The American premiere of a 1948 play called The Mountains Look Different at the Mint Theater.  And a pile of off-off Broadway works as well.

The mission of theaterreviewsfrommyseat is to record my theatergoing experiences in concise summaries without plot spoilers in order to share my love of theater.  I hope to inspire you to see a play, musical or theater company you may not have known about.  Free email subscriptions for newly published reviews are available at www.theaterreviewsfrommyseat.com.

I hope you enjoy the June 2019 Podcast.  Comments and suggestions are always welcome.  Please send any thoughts to this email: theaterreviewsfrommyseat@comcast.net.  Happy theatergoing!

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