What to do this week: Free ice skating, NYU Club Fest, student film festival
The Daybook is WSN’s weekly column listing in-person and online events at NYU and across New York City. This week: Jan. 30-Feb. 5.
Does ‘Moulin Rouge!’ Deserve to Be on Broadway?
A classic story of star-crossed lovers set in late 19th-century France raises questions on whether the jukebox musical is necessary.
A Mary Shelley One-Woman Show Electrifies Audiences
In a gothic retelling of Mary Shelley’s life, this production details the events that led up to the creation of “Frankenstein.”
Aspiring Playwrights, Submit Your Work Here
Have a potential Pulitzer winner tucked away in a drawer somewhere? These New York City theater companies accept play submissions, sans entry fee, from unpublished writers.
‘It’s Okay to Feel Angry About This Play’
Tisch professor William Electric Black’s new play, “The Whites,” is controversial and loaded. But what should audiences take away from it?
‘Stupid F-cking Bird’ Soars in Its Reinvention of a Chekhov Classic
In an adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s play “The Seagull,” Aaron Posner’s “Stupid F-cking Bird” entertains while breaking convention and examining the role of theater in the world today.
Tisch’s ‘Fiction’ Asks, ‘What Does It Mean to Be a Spectator?’
The new performance piece, written and directed by theatermakers 600 Highwaymen, explores the nature of art and spectatorship through the work of photographer Diane Arbus.
