Wednesday, 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 07:26PMWednesday, November 2, 2016
Healy’s treatment is faithful to the novel with a good deal of it being Clegg’s narration addressed to the audience. There are lengthy conversations between Miranda and Clegg, and her e…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:24PMTuesday, November 1, 2016
Founded in 1991, the National Asian American Theater Company’s mission is to present theater with all Asian-American casts. This is accomplished by producing classics of European and Amer…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:29AMThursday, October 27, 2016
Out of this frustration, Larson in 1991 began performing a rock monologue about his life and stalled career called 30/90, as it was set in 1990 as he turned thirty. Later it was retitled "…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:16PMTuesday, October 25, 2016
Pierce coolly addresses the audience while delivering this mundane litany. His superb comic timing, long evident on the television situation comedy "Frasier," is on glorious display here. …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:22PMMonday, October 24, 2016
British author Stephen Sharkey’s new translation is faithful to Brecht, but the Phoenix Theatre Ensemble has fashioned the presentation as an old-time radio show. Brecht was known for his…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:11AMFriday, October 21, 2016
Despite its formulaic story, "I Like It Like That" is quite exhilarating with its sensational salsa renditions as performed by its appealing cast and excellent band.
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SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:25PMTuesday, October 18, 2016
Obie award-winning playwright José Rivera is an Oscar nominee for his adapted screenplay for "The Motorcycle Diaries." For this adaptation, he has set "The Maids" (which premiered in Paris…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:59PMMonday, October 17, 2016
The scenic design by Brett Banakis is a functional, minimalist configuration of a slightly raised wooden performance platform surrounded by a wooden frame dotted with small antlers suggestin…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:45PMDarryl Reilly, Critic “Hookers and drug addicts are all my agent sends me out for,” said Anna Deavere Smith to her acting class at New York University in 1983. Ms. Smith was articulating…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:30AMFriday, October 14, 2016
Grand highlights of Mr. Horton’s dynamic work includes an analysis of "Animal Farm" while he erases the novel’s seven animal commandments that are written on a blackboard as they are ove…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:14AMMonday, October 10, 2016
Gentili and Davis riotously appear together in a confrontational scene that’s similar in style to one of Tennessee Williams’ outlandish later works written during his 1960’s drug fuele…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:58PMFriday, October 7, 2016
Headsets are on the backs of the audience’s seats when they arrive and which they are asked to wear throughout the show. The stage is set with a desk, several microphones and many water b…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:43PMTuesday, October 4, 2016
The playwright sets the action in Turner’s jail cell where he’s chained up, visited by Gray, and overseen by a guard, the night before his execution. Mr. Davis states that this situatio…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:05PMFriday, September 30, 2016
"All the Ways to Say I Love You" is refreshingly free of this formula. The incidents are straightforwardly depicted and the circular conclusion is simple. LaBute palatably sets up the situ…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:48AMThursday, September 29, 2016
Writer and director Peter Darney’s script is based on and intertwines over 50 hours of interviews with gay men contacted through the gay social media site Grindr. From this real life mate…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:22AMFriday, September 23, 2016
Darryl Reilly, Critic “She creeps me out!” quipped Hedda Lettuce upon the appearance of wild-eyed Eve Harrington wearing her trench coat and funny hat. When Margo Channing roared, “Fas…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:19PMWednesday, September 21, 2016
"Safe" is crammed with so much dysfunction and adolescent angst that if its adult language were excised it would make a perfect "ABC Afterschool Special," if those were still being produced.…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:24PMMonday, September 19, 2016
Playwright Ana Nogueira has a facility for often arch dialogue but not much else. The play’s potentially promising sci-fi premise is undermined by its bizarre vagueness. Not only do the …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:34PM 
