Saturday, February 4, 2017
Periodically the cast calls for a “Family Meeting.” The theme from Jeopardy is played on a kazoo and three audience members are picked to come up. The one who is wearing the funniest n…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:43AMThursday, February 2, 2017
What truly distinguishes the show is Dixon’s fearless psychological focus on Rose and himself. The predominant theme is of hero worship and its bruising disappointments. It also attempts…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:22AMTuesday, January 31, 2017
Darryl Reilly, Critic Dazzling visualizations of nine, iconic songs are superbly choreographed by Dwight Rhoden in Star Dust: A Ballet Tribute to David Bowie. The Complexions Contemporary Ba…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:29PMFriday, January 27, 2017
Mr. Refael’s simple but well-crafted scenario takes place in a contemporary apartment in Israel, and has the elderly Salvado looking back at his past. This is theatrically achieved by hav…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:17PMWednesday, January 25, 2017
Darryl Reilly, Critic SUNDAY With the countenance of a vintage stuffed owl and that of a Friar’s Club Buddha, and wearing a cranberry blazer, JOE FRANKLIN sat through the penultimate p…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:00AMTuesday, January 24, 2017
A major flaw is Peer Gynt. Personable, co-composer Park plays the title role. When we first see him, he’s wearing a hipster wool cap, plaid shirt and eyeglasses. Possessed of a good sing…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:58PMEssentially it’s a glorified and arch 90-minute, scripted, sketch comedy show. The conceit is that it’s inspired by audience suggestions. The composition of the program changes from per…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:52PMSaturday, January 21, 2017
Reading David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest while lying on a couch is Jay, a slacker-looking type in his 30’s. Sitting in the living room nearby is his 60ish mother who enjoys watching…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:50PMThursday, January 19, 2017
As Paul Harold, a 60ish artist, Pendleton has a leading role that wonderfully showcases his idiosyncratic and considerable talents. With his unruly white hair, limber physicality and distin…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:21PMWednesday, January 18, 2017
O'Connell’s script is a well-structured series of confessional anecdotes interwoven with the lore of the movies. His performance is a riveting blend of stand-up comedy and grand stage act…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:28PMMonday, January 16, 2017
In "DannyKrisDonnaVeronica," playwright Lawrence Dial bitingly delves into the lives of two Brooklyn couples each with two small children. Through his precise, often humorous and realistic …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:31PMTuesday, January 10, 2017
Mr. Rosenblum’s dense book is a rudimentary and repetitive serio-comic treatment imparting the minutia of that cause célèbre. In 1972, burglars connected to Republican President Richard…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:34PMSunday, January 8, 2017
Playwright Beth Hyland’s very effective conceit is that we’re watching the dress rehearsal of Annie Lambert’s memorial celebration in an auditorium of the State University of New York …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:32PMMonday, December 26, 2016
Director and choreographer Jessica Burr has created a number of dazzling moments with her precise unison of expressive staging, movement and dance. With only a few vintage trunks and a door…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:51AMFriday, December 23, 2016
The Heath, The McKittrick Hotel’s restaurant, bar and music venue, has been dressed up with appropriate signs and objects such as a stuffed wolf to resemble a pub in Scotland. After the a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:02PMTuesday, December 20, 2016
“The Little Drummer Boy” was an emotionally shattering highlight of Richard Holbrook: "Always December." Mr. Holbrook’s performance of this perennial was revelatory due to the intensi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:25PMMonday, December 19, 2016
The beautiful wreath and garlands hanging above the stage were festively lit up for the wonderful finale, the “Jingle Jangle Sing-Along.” All of the performers appeared and encouraged t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:44AMFriday, December 16, 2016
The score by Kristen Anderson-Lopez, James-Allen Ford, Russ Kaplan and Sara Wordsworth is a pleasant collection of serviceable songs. Their book, based on their original concept, is a workm…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:11PMWednesday, December 14, 2016
Raucous highlights include a jive reinterpretation of A Christmas Carol, “by Chazzie D, about a cat called Scrooge...who lives in Scrooge Tower.” There’s also Buckley’s irreverent t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:30PMFriday, December 9, 2016
The audience sits on either side of the large runway stage that set designer Laura Jellinek has arrestingly fashioned into an indoor soccer field. It’s a green vista of Astro Turf that gi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:45PMThursday, December 8, 2016
LeFranc’s dialogue is a marvelous blend of the realistic and mundane. The well-delineated main characters all express themselves with true to life simplicity. Plot developments are the c…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:40PMTuesday, December 6, 2016
"The Big Uncut Flick is a 1953 live, mid-day movie program broadcast on the Dumont network. The audience is addressed as if they were the studio audience. The stereotypical hosts are a marr…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:24PMMonday, December 5, 2016
The real life Internet hacktivist and Reddit developer Aaron Swartz contrives to have his fictional childhood friend Billy, who is a theater teacher of prisoners, to collaborate on a play ab…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:07AMMonday, November 28, 2016
Besides guiding these engaging performances, director Christopher Martin has meticulously staged the action on the arresting minimalist set that he designed. The floor and brick walls are …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:32PMTuesday, November 22, 2016
Mr. Irving has an amazing singing voice that soars from octave to octave. His witty songs include a funny one about texting. He tells an epic story about his parents meeting. His musician…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:25PMThat sequence is just one of the highlights of John Doyle’s commanding direction. Best known for his vibrant minimalist approach to musicals, Mr. Doyle brings that precise and visually ex…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:05PMThursday, November 17, 2016
“He” and “She” are a 40ish upper middle class couple who divorced ten years earlier following the traumatic death of their young son who was hit by a car. Due to toxic waste from a …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:51PMMonday, November 14, 2016
Darryl Reilly, Critic “I’m profoundly grateful I’m not on it,” said Frank Langella during his moving speech at The Episcopal Actors’ Guild’s annual Memorial Service for deceased …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:39AMSunday, November 13, 2016
Shrouded by clear shower curtains, the actors enter the stage and bring out furniture, including a gramophone, and chat with each other. There is newsreel footage proclaiming the end of W.W…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:42PMWednesday, November 9, 2016
The pomposity of the Tony Kushner-style title extends to naming its leading characters “The Academic” and “The Writer.” They’re two gay men in their late 20’s and the play chart…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:10PMSunday, November 6, 2016
"Lavender Songs: A Queer Cabaret in Weimar Berlin" has the mature and slim Mr. Lawrence in drag virtually for the entire length of the performance. In a dirty-blonde curled wig, his face ga…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:26PM 
