Tuesday, 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 04:25PM[SHARE]That 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 expr…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:05PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 nearby g…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:51PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 show busines…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:39AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 09:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 charts their meet…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:10PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 escap…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 Americ…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:29AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 04:16PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 03:22PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 s…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:11AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 11:25PM[SHARE]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 12:59PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 02:45PM[SHARE]Darryl 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 the…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:30AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 overtur…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:14AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 fueled "Sto…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:58PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 bot…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:43PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 situation is…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:05PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 11:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 materi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:22AM[SHARE]Friday, 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, "Fasten yo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:19PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 10:24PM[SHARE]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 le…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:34PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 10:39AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 unlikely p…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:26PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 collaborative…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:40PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 Palace in Eng…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:05PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 seco…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:49PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 11:12AM[SHARE] 
