Monday, June 3, 2019
“It’s best when each performer is older, or younger, or of a different gender- expression, ethnicity, or ability than you might expect. This keeps the play vibrating in your imagination�…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:18AMFriday, May 31, 2019
Eliza Lynch (1833-1886) was an Irishwoman who grew up in France and became a courtesan. In 1854 she began a relationship with Francisco Solano López, the son of Paraguay’s president. He l…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:38PMWednesday, May 29, 2019
Flashbacks, speechifying, conspiracy theories involving J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI, disco sequences, the scourge of crack cocaine, hip hop numbers, other-worldly fantasies and violence all …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:27PMSunday, May 19, 2019
Abrasive as a subpar episode of Maude and reaching a sour psychological thriller-style finale out of Craig’s Wife, Happy Talk is playwright Jesse Eisenberg’s muddled family drama. It�…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:53PMTuesday, May 14, 2019
The black-accented stage has a raised runway platform, a square platform, a bench and some furniture. From these basic elements, scenic designer Susannah Hyde crafts an ideal landscape for t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:10PMSunday, May 12, 2019
Laughter and oohs and ahs abound from an audience of all ages during this exuberant and wildly theatrical stage adaptation of Jules Verne’s classic adventure novel "Around the World in 80 …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:59PMFriday, May 10, 2019
The eternal heartbreak of show business is given a fresh spin in playwright Adam Seidel’s exhilarating contemporary drama, "Original Sound" that skewers the music industry. Mr. Seidel’s …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:41PMWednesday, May 8, 2019
Viewing the abstract configuration onstage that could be from a Whitney Biennial before "Friendly's Fire" begins instantly informs us we’ll be in a fantasyland. Indeed, playwright John Pat…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:22PMTuesday, May 7, 2019
Ernie Morris is a middle-aged widowed African-American writer who arrives at a contemporary unnamed prison to be a volunteer. A young corrections officer explains in great detail all of th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:10PMSunday, May 5, 2019
Is a young Asian woman a ghost or a melancholiac’s hallucination? That is the haunting question vividly answered in playwright Prince Gomolvilas’ gripping thriller "The Brothers Paranorm…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:58PMFriday, May 3, 2019
"The Bigot"’s mouthpiece is the splendid Stephen Payne. Scruffy and silver-haired, Mr. Payne revels in Jim’s cantankerousness and physical decrepitude. Bellowing in his resonant twangy v…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:28PMThursday, May 2, 2019
"Kinky Boots" ’ uplifting finale "Raise You Up/Just Be" was a euphoric highlight of The New York Pops’ marvelous tribute concert "Hat Full Of Stars: The Songs Of Cyndi Lauper. " The 2013…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:58PMWednesday, May 1, 2019
Culturally relevant, emotionally resonant but languidly conceived, "Entangled" dramatizes the issue of gun violence in the contemporary United States. Playwrights Gabriel Jason Dean and Char…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:11PMSunday, April 28, 2019
“Welcome to the smallest circus in the world!” exclaims the beaming Isabella Rossellini at the start of her self-written whimsical performance piece "Link Link Circus." “This show is a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:31PMFriday, 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 06:23PM 
