Friday, April 26, 2019
Mr. Asher here continues to mine the subject of human sexuality, but lightning has not struck twice. That is chiefly due to Asher’s misguidedly grandiose direction (with associate director…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:44AMTuesday, April 23, 2019
Playwright Georgina Escobar presents an exuberant hodgepodge of sci-fi elements and satirical corporate bits with a feminist slant. Ms. Escobar’s punchy pseudo-scientific dialogue carries…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:58PMJaw-dropping plot twists, painfully forced au courant dialogue, awkward sex scenes and a jagged central performance all make the world premiere of Halley Feiffer's "The Pain of My Belligeren…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:06AMMonday, April 22, 2019
chorus line of singing and dancing fetuses follows the eerily comical beginning of "The Appointment" where we first meet them posed as if they’re in wombs and babbling in baby talk. When o…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:05PMMonday, April 15, 2019
“These are difficult times, a character observes in playwright Stephen Unwin's engrossing historical drama, "All Our Children," that crackles with tension. Nazi Germany’s forced euthanas…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:58PMFriday, April 12, 2019
The blonde, animated and spunky Ms. McAuliffe portrays 16-year-old Dublin resident Annie who’s been dancing since childhood. Wearing tights, a T-shirt and a varsity jacket, McAuliffe’s d…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:28PMMonday, April 8, 2019
Absent scenery, with a character excised and fiercely performed, this stripped down taut revival of Jean-Paul Sartre’s "No Exit" is quite compelling and faithful to the spirit of the origi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:12PMSunday, April 7, 2019
The personable Alton Alburo as Don manages to make this underdeveloped character compelling with his charming presence. Playing his father David with easygoing humor and poignancy is the out…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:12PMWednesday, April 3, 2019
Director Sharon Ann Fogarty’s colossal staging weaves together the many disparate technical elements into a unified mini-epic event. Actors sit at a long rectangular table and their images…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:03AMTuesday, April 2, 2019
Tony Award-winning choreographer Christopher Gattelli’s direction melded the performers with expert physical placement sprinkled with occasional dance bits that made for lively presentatio…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:23PMSunday, March 31, 2019
Referencing the 1950 women’s prison drama "Caged" and synthesizing all of the conventions of that cinematic genre, the late playwright Tom Eyen crafted the 1975 camp classic "Women Behind …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:30AMSaturday, March 30, 2019
"Ain't Too Proud to Beg," “Get Ready,” “The Way You Do the Things You Do,” “Since I Lost My Baby,” “You're My Everything” and of course “Papa Was a Rollin' Stone” are am…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:38AMFriday, March 29, 2019
“Did you know that this play is called "Life Sucks"?” says a character in playwright Aaron Posner’s meta-theatrical Life Sucks. It’s a wild yet emotionally resonant work “sort of …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:34PMTuesday, March 26, 2019
“Everything is copy” was Nora Ephron’s maxim about the potential of all of one’s life experiences to be fashioned into narrative material if one has the cachet to be paid attention …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:56PMMonday, March 25, 2019
The death of a long inactive performer with a fine career during Broadway’s Golden Age understandably went unnoticed. He was my neighbor in the 1980’s.
The post Remembering Duane Bodin …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:50AMSunday, March 24, 2019
A searing epiphany at "The Day I Became Black"’s climax redeems its uneven mixture of confessional and stand-up. The show is written and performed by the engaging biracial young comedian a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:27AMSaturday, March 16, 2019
It’s billed as “Two Ways” because this event is comprised of differing versions performed in repertory. There is the self-explanatory “Conventional Casting” and the “Reversed Cas…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:23PMWednesday, March 13, 2019
There’s stinging dialogue, solid construction and high powers of observation that accurately render the fractious literary milieu with Imran’s offstage agent a major figure. These all en…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:33PMTuesday, March 12, 2019
Suzy Conn’s zesty score is a fusion of her peppy music and well-crafted lyrics. “Quandary” is rhymed with “laundry” and among the 14 bright songs there’s a comical ode to Meryl S…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:06PMMonday, March 11, 2019
Dynamically presented and sensationally performed, "If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka" is playwright Tori Sampson's maddeningly overblown adaptation of a fable with music. A surfeit o…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:44PMThursday, March 7, 2019
Employing his rumbling deep voice, his thinning hair slicked back and veering from snarling cheeriness to reflective introspection, Jeremiah Kissel swaggering in a power suit gleefully give…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:22PMTuesday, March 5, 2019
Devilishly enigmatic and culminating in an eerie denouement, playwright Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas' stylized warring brothers yarn "Recent Alien Abductions" confidentially veers tonally, seemi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:45PMMonday, March 4, 2019
Lanford Wilson’s celebrated humanistic style and spirit are wonderfully evoked by playwright Linda Faigao-Hall in her moving family drama "Dying in Boulder." Its articulate characters con…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:05PMTuesday, February 26, 2019
A scorching and ingeniously plotted exploration of feminism versus rape culture in the contemporary United States is achieved in "Good Friday." Playwright Kristiana Rae Colón’s audacious,…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:27AMMonday, February 25, 2019
In this madcap universe, passengers on a jet are caught in a space warp known as a “corn hole” that was caused by Amazon’s tampering with the atmosphere to speed up delivery times, Ama…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:14PMThursday, February 21, 2019
The show’s talented mastermind is Preston Max Allen. Mr. Allen’s rollicking score is a pounding collection of catchy pop and showtune melodies matched with sharp lyrics. Allen’s well-c…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:51PMTuesday, February 19, 2019
The iconoclastic gay British film director sadly died 25 years ago today at the age of 52 from AIDS. Encountering him from afar made a great impression on me.
The post Reflections of Derek …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:33AMSaturday, February 16, 2019
"The Whole World Was Watching: My Life Under the Media Microscope" is the autobiography of the South Carolina native journalist and television production figure Frank Beacham that was publis…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:57AMMonday, February 11, 2019
Filichia has had a long and storied career as a theater critic and author of several books on the topic. His having witnessed a multitude of productions, this immersion informs "God Shows Up…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:31AMWednesday, February 6, 2019
A delightful new collection of material from that flamboyant sage. There’s the script of his one-man show, unseen poems and pithy observations galore.
The post Book review: “And One …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:11AMMonday, February 4, 2019
Comprised of 27 short scenes in two parts that are each designated as being two acts and ranging from 1945 to 1954, "The Glen" is a stewpot of a play inspired by a real person’s life. Glen…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:33PM 
