Monday, 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 12:34PMTuesday, September 13, 2016
Playwright Julia Cho has crafted an engaging and universal work that unevenly blends reality with mysticism. The characters are all very well delineated and the dialogue is flavorful and re…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:39AMThursday, September 8, 2016
Director Kira Simring’s superior staging theatrically presents the play’s complicated situations with clarity and surrealistic flourishes. Characters often enter and exit through unlike…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:26PMSaturday, September 3, 2016
Besides achieving sensitive and strong performances from the cast, director David Drake masterfully fulfills the playwright’s intentions with his lively and brisk staging. The collaborati…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:40PMTuesday, August 30, 2016
Gwenllian Higginson and Michael Humphrey in a scene from “The Good Earth” (Photo credit: Tom Flannery) Darryl Reilly, Critic “Then there’s the queen and she lives in Buckingham Palac…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:05PMSunday, August 28, 2016
"Crashlight" is a musical that is so inept that the recurring age-old mental question while watching it is, “What were they thinking?” The "King Lear"-style eye gouging sequence in the …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:49PMTuesday, August 23, 2016
The dynamic cast is made up of Marquis Gibson, Lauren Shaye, Nicole Stacie and Christian Lee Branch. These four very talented performers all portray numerous characters during this 75-minut…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:12AMMonday, August 15, 2016
Writer Gustavo Pace is the handsome, youthful and animated performer of this autobiographical exploration. He loudly rattles on in Portuguese and English while adequately portraying himself…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:53PMThursday, August 11, 2016
The August Strindberg Repertory Theatre presents this production. Since 2012, they have produced a number of the author’s works in New York City and for this one it was decided to condens…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:24PMMonday, August 8, 2016
Darryl Reilly, Critic “Speak up! Don’t look at the floor! When you’re onstage I want to see your talent not your training!” were among the sharp comments that Aaron Frankel bellowed …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:36PMFriday, August 5, 2016
Thomas G. Waites has a long list of major credits that go back to the film "The Warriors" in 1979. As Austin, he gives one of the strangest performances in memory. It’s a monotonously up…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:15AMMonday, August 1, 2016
“We’re actually going to be talking about 14th century Italian literature,” proclaims BenDeLaCreme near the start of his/her entertaining multimedia solo show" BenDeLaCreme’s Inferno…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:37AMSaturday, July 30, 2016
The charming and charismatic Broadway leading man Santino Fontana performs the role of Elliot Rosewater with as much commitment as if he were playing J. Pierrepont Finch. Mr. Fontana’s pe…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:42AMFriday, July 29, 2016
“The characters in this play both the living and the dead are completely fictional.” This statement explains the play’s overall contrived quality. Both of the lead characters have su…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:54PMTuesday, July 26, 2016
These are among the choice zingers in playwright Anne Adams’ emotionally raw, earthy and often very funny contemporary dysfunctional Texas-set, family drama, "Strange Country." This enter…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:33PMSunday, July 24, 2016
Dressed in black slacks, a white shirt and a black vest, Ms. Wolpe demonstrates a fluid physicality and a soothing vocal expressiveness. Wolpe quite adeptly offers rich characterizations of…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:56PMFriday, July 22, 2016
Director Richard Romagnoli who also staged the 2007 production and he has done an excellent job of visualizing the scope of the scenes. Action on the battlefield, political conflicts in Mos…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:55PMMonday, July 18, 2016
After a less then engrossing hour of prattling and a too stylized presentation, in its last thirty minutes "The Red Room" becomes the powerful family drama it intends to be.
The post The Red…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:37AMFriday, July 15, 2016
The score that Mr. Antin composed and wrote the lyrics for is a serviceable collection of songs that could possibly have succeeded in a show about the conflicts among married couples. Wedge…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:47AMSunday, July 10, 2016
It is August 11, 2033, and there’s a wild party happening because the world is ending. That’s the setup of the exuberant one-hour multimedia fantasia "HYPERBOLIC! (The Last Spectacle)."…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:57PMThursday, July 7, 2016
At one point stumbling around in a sleep mask and wearing a colorful nightgown, the 88 year-old Estelle Parsons has a field day as the 88 year-old Evelyn, a former journalist for The Interna…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:13PMThursday, June 30, 2016
A leggy dark blonde young woman with her hair pulled up, wearing a black skirt, a patterned short gray blouse and high heels walks through the audience and onto the bare black stage. She be…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:53PMWednesday, June 29, 2016
The Wheelhouse Theater Company presents this fast-paced and faithful version of the romantic classic. Co-directors Jeff Wise and Matt Harrington have inventively pared down William Shakespea…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:00PMTuesday, June 28, 2016
Rolling Stone magazine’s 2014 controversial article "A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA" about an alleged rape at a University of Virginia fraternity house …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:50PMMonday, June 27, 2016
Darryl Reilly, Critic Paul Newman as The Stage ManagerCredit: Westport Country Playhouse/Everett Collection Recently on one of the NYC Subway Art Tours that I conduct (www.nycsubwaytour.com…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:44PMThursday, June 23, 2016
Chris Doi winningly conveys Ichiro’s anguish and holds attention as this leading character with his emotional performance. The personable Glenn Kubota is deeply gentle as Pa, and Mr. Kubo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:00PMTuesday, June 21, 2016
Ms. Feiffer’s rudimentary characters communicate by the sledgehammer approach to comedy. Until the mawkish finale there is a barrage of zingers, one-liners and vulgarisms. If a theatrica…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:11AMSaturday, June 18, 2016
"Blankets and Bedtime: 3 Restless Plays" is produced by the theater company A Pixie Theory and is presented as part of The Planet Connections Festivity.The stated theme of the three plays is…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:14PMSaturday, June 11, 2016
First performed in 1979, this is a relatively early work by the supreme British dramatist Alan Ayckbourn (b. 1939) who is as of this writing up to his 79th play, "Hero’s Welcome.' The new …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:03PMFriday, June 10, 2016
Since his youthful career heyday of the 1980’s with major roles on Broadway in Neil Simon plays and starring in the enduring cultural touchstone film "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," Mr. Broder…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:42PMThursday, June 9, 2016
There’s a cascade of military interrogations, implied torture, romantic interludes, sex talk, political sloganeering, vague reminiscences, and other semi-comprehensible digressions that fi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:51PM 
