James Sims

off-broadway

  • Sofa Snark: Alicia Silverstone Does Porn on Broadway

    Sofa Snark: Alicia Silverstone Does Porn on Broadway

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    James Sims

    Sofa Snark: Alicia Silverstone joins Henry Winkler and Cheyenne Jackson in Broadway’s “The Performers,” a play about the porn industry. It’s a gang bang of a good time.

  • Peter Pan Crows Again With Disney Magic, Off-Broadway

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    James Sims

    Red hair. Green tights. Cap and feather. It’s a getup every child could recognize and quickly pick out as belonging to Peter Pan, that mischievous youth that never seems to grow up. He might be an English character, penned by a Scottish writer, but Peter Pan embodies a timeless personality, one that has remained the…

  • Hollywood Talent Births Sweet ‘Kid’ Off-Broadway

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    James Sims

    Hollywood has been dabbling in the New York theatre scene since the early days of movie making, although in the beginning it was Broadway shows that ended up being adapted to the screen rather than the current trend of rushing blockbuster films to the stage. As the past few seasons on Broadway can attest, Hollywood’s…

  • ‘Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson’ Tears Down Musical Theatre Tradition

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    James Sims

    Musical theatre old timers have been circling the proverbial wagons for quite sometime now, grasping at revival after revival in hopes of retaining the fading glory of yesteryear song and dance shows. Over the course of the past couple seasons on and off Broadway, a rebellion of sorts has been afoot, and if anyone has…

  • Marvelous Wonderettes Closes Its Gym Doors

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    James Sims

    Move over Rydell High, there is a new group of singing teenage starlets on stage hailing from Springfield High, and they are making audiences flip as they relive their 1958 Senior Prom to some doo-wop classics. Off-Broadway’s The Marvelous Wonderettes has been playing to enthusiastic crowds at The Westside Theatre since it settled in New…

  • ‘Amish Project’ Comes to Life Off-Broadway

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    James Sims

    School shootings seem to grace the headlines of newspapers far too often in this country, with the Virginia Tech and Columbine incidents springing up every few years. But, when the otherwise unknown community of Nickel Mines in Pennsylvania experienced a killing spree in 2006 leaving five young girls dead, more than just shock came over…