The Shaggs‘ ramshackle 1969 debut album, the outsider art cult classic Philosophy of the World, is getting a vinyl reissue via the good people at Light in the Attic which will be out September 9. The ...

2012 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Book of a Musical Joy Gregory 2012 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical Sarah Sokolovic 2012 Drama Desk ...

NEW YORK (AP) — "My girls are gonna play in a band!" declares Austin Wiggin in "The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World." Aw. Isn't it nice, with Father's Day coming and all, to hear a dad dream big for ...

The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World (Playwrights Horizons) is a complexly unhappy musical about simple unhappy people. Its hook, making it both intriguing and unendurable, comes from its being a ...

Compelled by prophecy, a desperate father forces his misfit daughters out of school and into the recording studio. The Shaggs have been called “better than the Beatles,” “the worst band ever,” ...

“The band is primarily notable today for their perceived ineptitude at playing conventional rock music; the band was described in one Rolling Stone article as “…sounding like lobotomized Trapp Family ...

From: Photo Flash: THE SHAGGS Opens at Playwrights Horizons Playwrights Horizons (Artistic Director, Tim Sanford; Managing Director, Leslie Marcus) and New York Theatre Workshop (Artistic Director, ...

NEW YORK (AP) - "My girls are gonna play in a band!" declares Austin Wiggin in "The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World." Aw. Isn't it nice, with Father's Day coming and all, to hear a dad dream big for ...