Monday, May 25, 2015
Performer Todd Robbins serves up some chills, a few laughs, a little macabre history, and several incredible illusions in this contemporary riff on midnight spook shows.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThe Civilians' newest documentary musical theater piece artfully serves up the issues surrounding and emotions inspired by the proposed development of the Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn, amusing…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMShakespeare's play about abuse of power, miscarried justice, and sexual intrigue has surprisingly little heat in this production that's been touring to community groups throughout the city.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThe Annihilation Point's Philly Sci-Fi
SOURCE: Village Voice at 05:58PMThis intimate, uneven staging of Shakespeare's late romance uses only six performers, two of whom deliver sterling turns.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThough compellingly acted and handsomely staged, this rarely produced surrealistic play by Federico García Lorca remains frustratingly elusive in its meaning.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMIn "White People," playwright Neil Cuthbert turns the clock back to 1975 to take a peek at a comfortably middle-class New Jersey family as its façade of respectability crumbles.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThough beautifully designed and dynamically directed and performed, Bryony Lavery's portrait of life among a group of amateur boxers has surprisingly little dramatic punch.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMWednesday, May 20, 2015
Noah Galvin and Kristine Nielsen in What I Did Last Summer
(©Joan Marcus)
Amusing and affecting, A.R. Gurney’s What I Did Last Summer turns the clock back some 70 years to tell …
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 10:49AMTuesday, May 12, 2015
Leon Addison Brown and Caleb McLaughlin in The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek
(©Joan Marcus)
The question of what constitutes the sum total of a man’s life lies at the center o…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 07:14AMThursday, April 16, 2015
The company of Finding Neverland.
(Photo © Carol Rosegg)
For over 100 years now, J.M. Barrie’s tale of “the boy who wouldn’t grow up” (i.e. Peter Pan) has spark…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 09:07AMTuesday, April 14, 2015
Tom Galantich, Kerry Butler, and Duke LafoonClinton The Musical.
(Photo © Russ Rowland)
A chance to revisit the glories and infamies of President William Jefferson Clinton’s eigh…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 08:55AMFriday, April 10, 2015
Ben Miles and Lydia Leonard in Wolf Hall.
(©Johan Persson)
Played in two parts that collectively run just under six hours, the stage version of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall, which …
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 07:38AMThursday, April 9, 2015
Grantham Coleman, Tessa Ferrer, and Michael Stahl-David in Buzzer.
(©Joan Marcus)
Being pioneers in a rough neighborhood in Brooklyn that’s gentrifying has a host of unexpected…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 08:49AMTuesday, March 10, 2015
Fan Fare, a roundtable series from Stage17 is honoring the 50th anniversary of Fiddler on the Roof with a special four-part episode dedicated to one of the all-time classics of musical theat…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 12:11PMMonday, March 9, 2015
Helen Mirren in The Audience.
(©Joan Marcus)
Perhaps under different circumstances, Queen Elizabeth II might have made a particularly shrewd therapist. At least that’s the overr…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 07:21AMThursday, March 5, 2015
Conor Ryan and Kate Baldwin in John & Jen.
(©Carol Rosegg)
Spanning nearly four decades and encompassing everything from the Viet Nam War to the rise of talk television in the late…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 10:47AMThursday, February 26, 2015
Jo Mei, Jennifer Lim and Francis Jue in The World of Extreme Happiness.
(©Matthew Murphy)
Playwright Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig reveals a richly dangerous universe in The World of Extreme H…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 09:20AMTuesday, February 24, 2015
Stacey Sargeant, Rebecca Naomi Jones and Libby Winter in Big Love.
(©T. Charles Erickson)
The battle of the sexes probably has never looked as pretty as it does in the Signature Theatr…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 05:41AMMonday, February 23, 2015
James Lecesne in The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey.
(Photo courtesy of the company)
There’s wondrous magic going on at Dixon Place in James Lecesne’s astonishing one-man…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 06:07AMThursday, February 19, 2015
Ronald Keaton in Churchill.
(Photo courtesy of the company)
For people who can’t get enough of British history or for anyone who has yet to catch The Audience on Broadway, the new sol…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 07:28AMWednesday, February 18, 2015
Daveed Diggs, Okieriete Onaodowan, Anthony Ramos, and Lin-Manuel Mirandain Hamilton
(©Joan Marcus)
The use of hyperbole and superlatives in reviews can be a dangerous thing. A critic w…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 07:43AMFriday, February 13, 2015
Clifford Samuel and Neve McIntosh in The Events
(©Matthew Murphy)
Part modern day Greek tragedy and part internal psychological drama, David Greig’s searing play The Events, whi…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 10:14AMMonday, February 9, 2015
Benjamin Scheuer in The Lion
(©Matthew Murphy)
Last June, Benjamin Scheuer took me, my colleagues, and theatergoers by surprise when he opened his solo autobiographical musical The Li…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 09:45AMFriday, February 6, 2015
Cheryl Stern and Steven Rattazzi in City Of.
(Photo: Matthew Murphy)
Guys flirt with guys. An older woman begins to embrace her mortality, even as a younger one pines to unleash the opera…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 10:35AMTuesday, January 27, 2015
Betty Gilpin and Reed Birney in I’m Gonna Pray for You So Hard.
(Photo: Ahron Foster)
Halley Feiffer’s new play I’m Gonna Pray for You So Hard, which opened last week at …
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 11:35AMMonday, January 26, 2015
A scene from Nevermore.
(Photo courtesy of the company)
A torrent of song and rhyming couplets stream through the new music-theater piece Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death …
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 05:11AMFriday, January 23, 2015
(clockwise from top) Emily Young, Ben Steinfield, Claire Karpen, Patrick Mulryan, Noah Brody, Jennifer Mudge, and Andy Grotelueschen in Into the Woods.
(Photo: Joan Marcus)
Theatrical whim…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 09:31AMThursday, December 18, 2014
Eric Idle, Victoria Clark, William Ferguson, Lauren Worsham, and Marc Kudisch in Not the Messiah (He’s a Very Naughty Boy)
(©Erin Baiano)
The holiday season in New York got a lo…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 03:47PMMonday, November 24, 2014
As 2014 winds down, there are a lot of new recordings to talk about, both cast recordings and individual vocalists. Releases from the former category are being covered in a column on B…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 07:46PMStephen Rea and Lloyd Hutchinson in A Particle of Dread (Oedipus Variations)
(©Matthew Murphy)
One part Greek myth and one part television procedural Sam Shepard’s newest play …
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 06:26AM 
