Possessed of an awesome soaring tenor voice, the magnetic Dutch-German Mr. Ratzke offers not a conventional cover band-style tribute show with slavish imitation, but instead a thrilling perf…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:12PMAfter pillaging Ibsen in "A Doll's House, Part 2" and lampooning the former First Couple for "Hillary and Clinton," vaunted playwright Lucas Hnath’s latest piffle, "The Thin Place" is a Wa…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:04AMFabulous technical elements and spirited performances from a large ensemble of actors, singers and dancers cannot overcome the authorial negligence of the musical science fiction pastiche, "…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:56PMCariou is now appearing Off-Broadway as the titular character in playwright George Eastman’s slight though moving two-character work, Harry Townsend's Last Stand. Sharp one-liners, funny s…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:40PMProminent Georgia attorney Dep Kirkland “decided to listen to his own voice, and walked away from the legal field altogether to pursue his previously private dream of acting, writing, and …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:50PMMaddeningly alternating between being an absorbing historical drama and a grating exercise in self-indulgence, "A Bright Room Called Day" is author Tony Kushner’s reimagining of his 198…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:59PMYes, Mr. Foote’s eloquent take on the souring of the American Dream has shades of Arthur Miller’s "Death of a Salesman," but with his idiosyncratic and powerful command of dramatic writi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:07PMAn old man who is an homage to Noam Chomsky is metamorphosed into an owl through the aid of a cloth mask and a print costume with a technician behind him flapping the wings, accompanied by t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:06AMThe late NYC performer’s 60th birthday was commemorated by a lovely concert at The Duplex with the proceeds benefitting Big Brothers Big Sisters of America. The post Dear Laurie Lawrence a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:52PMFollowing a comically exaggerated shootout, the two men make out. A cowgirl and a Mexican woman get together. At one point performers blindfold audience members for a brief bit. There’s a …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:37PMSolea Pfeiffer in a scene from New York City Center’s revival of “Evita” (Photo credit: Joan Marcus) Darryl Reilly, Critic Abandoning elaborate scenery and projections for her spirited…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:50PMThe Reverend Al Sharpton, Angela Davis, and Sonny Carson are among the two dozen celebrities, cross section of New Yorkers, and male and female integral figures of diverse ethnicities that a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:24AMThe life of the prolific theater producer whose career began in the 1940’s is chronicled in this eventful and entertaining show business documentary. The post Film review: “Leonard Solo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:25AMSeven vibrant and diverse women of color take the stage and speak, sing and dance at the start of this shining revival of author Ntozake Shange’s landmark play, "For Colored Girls Who Have…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:00PMRevolutionary War patriots Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Richard Henry Lee, John Hancock and Benjamin Franklin are eerily represented by male and female black performers wearing tweaked 18th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:14AMA seated actor dressed all in black wearing a beret beats a conga drum on a confined playing area. Other actors in period costumes sit at small cabaret tables and chairs as thick wafts of …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:39PMLBJ’s ambitious social programs in the United States of the 1960’s being sidetracked by the folly of the Vietnam War and his mishandling of the unrest caused by the Civil Rights Movement…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:25PMThe enduring resonance of its source material is evident in "An Enchanted April" during this uneven stage musical adaptation. Lasting two hours and 45 minutes with an intermission, its initi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:03PMMr. Burnam’s futuristic conceit is engrossing and the theme of a repressed figure looking back at a more joyous way of life is potent. The present day portions are amiable but only fitfull…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:28PMHillary Clinton wearing a glittery red pantsuit leading a Gene Kelly/Stanley Donen-style production number set in a Busby Berkeleyesque recreation of a McDonald’s with giant sparkling Fren…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:37PMSearching Facebook recently, I discovered that a brilliant, colorful and unsung creative figure I encountered in my youth, died earlier this year. The post Remembering Mary E. Allen (1954 �…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:39PM"The Cosby Show," "Home Improvement" and "Roseanne" are among Mr. Williams’ prominent credits as a television writer and producer. Williams also has had several plays produced and has dire…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:00AMAs is Mr. Friel’s The Faith Healer, Molly Sweeney is a monologue play. Here, instead of being separated in individual acts, the three characters appear on stage together without interactin…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:36PMAdmirers of the legendary performer should be enthralled by this quite probably definitive chronicle of her life and career that’s written with zest. The post Book review: Still Here: The…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:00PMAdmirers of the legendary performer should be enthralled by this quite probably definitive chronicle of her life and career that’s written with zest. The post Book review: “Still Here: …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:44PMBearded, bald and utilizing a pronounced Irish accent, the physically imposing Jeffrey Bean is towering as John. The beaming Mr. Bean’s delightful bonhomie gives way to harrowing anguish a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:56PMThis is the latest edition of creator, writer and director Gerard Alessandrini’s enduring musical spoof skewering present and past NYC theater that he inaugurated- in 1982 and has had over…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:15AMA mulatto slave is sodomized with a large black dildo while in a canopy bed by his master’s wife who is decked out in Madonna-style dominatrix regalia. A white indentured servant fellates …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:55AMNumb from two straight-through hours of far-right speechifying emoted in perpetual semi-darkness, the audience at "Heroes of the Fourth Turning" then endures a ghastly aria of despair by a L…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:27AMA downer by its nature, "Nothing Gold Can Stay" is playwright Chad Beckim’s heartbreaking 95-minute family drama depicting the ravages of rampant opioid addiction in the present day United…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:06AMIt’s 1948 and we’re in an Italian prison where “The Beast of Rome,” German SS Colonel Herbert Kappler (1907-1978) is serving a life sentence for war crimes. Kappler was the Chief of …
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