Michael Friedman

Theater Summer Guide: In Mr. Burns, A Post-apocalyptic World Is Held Together Only by The Simpsons

OBIES 2012: What Off-Broadway Needs Now

We asked Off- and Off-Off theatermakers what they feel the scene is missing

Q&A: Gabriel Kahane On Distracted Listening, Internet Addiction, And The Golden Age Of Pop That Was 2003

​This week in the Voice I profiled the Brooklyn composer-songwriter-singer-multiinstrumentalist Gabriel Kahane, whose new album Where Are The Arms (Second Story Sound) is being celebrated at Littlefield next Wednesday. A couple of days before our chat, he posted a provocative rant on Spotify a ... More >>

DUCK À LA THEATRE

The Civilians look back

The Civilians

In the Footprint's Hoop Schemes

The Civilians charge into the Atlantic Yards project

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, La Bete, and A Life in the Theatre--Second Helpings on 45th Street

A fake Andrew Jackson and a fake Moliere join a real Patrick Stewart on Broadway

Bloody Bloody Broadway Warfare: Public Theater's Emo-Rock Opera Attacked by Indians!

​If you haven't already heard of it, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson is an emo-rock opera by young theater provocateurs Michael Friedman and Alex Timbers, who's also the guy responsible for mounting a "Hell House" in bougie-Brooklyn, a Scientology Christmas Pageant, and a version of Henrik Ibsen' ... More >>

Anyone Can Whistle, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, The Addams Family

Three musicals—two of them new, one from the '60s—all sing of crazy worlds

ROCK THE WHITE HOUSE

Andrew Jackson gets all emo

Les Freres Corbusier Give Old Hickory the Stick

Obies 2009: What's Your Worst Theater Experience?

A celebration of the worst that theater has to offer

EMO PRESIDENCY

Andrew Jackson like you've never seen him

Spring Guide: David Levine Messes with Imperfection in Venice Saved: A Seminar

This Beautiful City, Our Town, and Winter's Tale

Plays about place oddly displaced

Three New Plays Struggle With Information

Albee's Occupant interrogates sculptor Louise Nevelson, while Saved pursues Christianity

Spring Theater Preview: The Sound and the Fury, An Idiot's Tale

ERS follows up Fitzgerald with Faulkner

They, Robots

Auteurs! Strap-ons! A theater critic's New Year's wish list

2006–2007 Obie Award Winners

Obies, She Wrote

The History Plays

Riots! Devils! Mopey Danes! The famous shows we're most sorry we missed.

Let's Take This Outside

Al fresco shows for real New Yorkers (and their houseguests)

Mourning Sickness

A drowned child, the tooth fairy, and spirals of words

Snappy Meal

Documentary revue takes the cat out of the suspicious bag

New Blood From Noir

Bell's thriller wonders: When chronicler meets criminal, whose death is this, anyway?

In Search of Lost Ties

The Civilians play hide-and-seek with New York miscellany