Tuesday, 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 12:34PMTuesday, 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 11:57PM 
