Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Displaying her flawless vocal abilities, superb comic timing, dramatic range and exuberant presence, Ann Harada was the standout of the six-member company. She was in the original Broadway …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:10PMSunday, January 10, 2016
The title is never explained and remains a cryptic point of thought. Is it the name of the jet that the plot revolves around? Is it a reference to a woman? What could it mean? Knowing the …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:25PMTuesday, January 5, 2016
The personable Mr. Mitchell is the evening’s host and starts off the show by explaining the format. The six performers then go through the theater asking audience members for missing word…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:18PMTuesday, December 22, 2015
Opening with a soaring symphonic “Deck the Halls” and then joined by the wonderful Essential Voices USA chorus for it, The New York Pops closed their concert, "It’s Christmas Time in t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:03PMDarryl Reilly, Critic A good audition is one in which the actor finds a way to bring some real piece of himself to the proceedings. The lines don’t matter. Those doing the hiring have hear…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:23AMSaturday, December 19, 2015
Playwright Marsha Norman’s book brilliantly and very faithfully streamlines and extracts the events and themes of the novel and film. These include racism, sexism, self-esteem and same-se…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:53PMWednesday, December 16, 2015
Playwright Jordan Harrison is a graduate of the Brown University M.F.A. program and the recipient of several prestigious awards such as a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Kesselring Prize. On a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:52PMMonday, December 14, 2015
Besides playing Boyce, Gwyther depicts other British soldiers as well as Germans. It is an exhilarating display of rapid vocal and physical transformations subtly giving each brief characte…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:12AMThursday, December 10, 2015
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Marko Mandič is an award-winning acclaimed classical actor from Slovenia who has worked several times with Mr. Buljan. His talent, charisma, and physicality j…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:47AMMonday, December 7, 2015
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Over the course of just over an hour, the actors enact Dylan Thomas’ classic prose work of his childhood recollections interspersed with their sweet performan…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:59AMThis post is by Darryl Reilly
Victor Morales enters and introduces himself and notes that we are at Dixon Place. Mr. Morales who created this piece is stocky, bald, bespectacled, and posses…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:15AMFriday, December 4, 2015
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Bejeweled codpieces, sequined thongs, taut bustiers, powdered wigs, elaborate masks, frock coats, tutus, and leather harnesses, are among the eye-catching eleme…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:56PMWednesday, December 2, 2015
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Author Jane Martin has taken the familiar dramatic staple of a love story between two clashing opposites and rendered it compellingly here. There are plot twis…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:57PMWednesday, November 25, 2015
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From offstage we hear the hyperbolic exclamations of a young man, Copious Fairchild, as he masturbates mixed with the soundtrack of a television cooking show. …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:59PMTuesday, November 24, 2015
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Ms. Rush is also the performer and she is stupendous. In addition to playing Bernadette, she portrays a gallery of characters she encounters. These include he…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:40PMTuesday, November 17, 2015
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Stanley Kubrick’s "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" appears to be a titular and stylistic inspiration. Like that classi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:46PMMonday, November 16, 2015
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Sergio Trujillo’s exhilarating choreography is a ceaseless extravaganza of mostly Salsa numbers. The costumes by designer ESosa are appropriately heavy on g…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:29PMThursday, November 12, 2015
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The energizing conceit of the play is its reliance on audience participation that adds considerably to the entertainment. During the action, the audience gets …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:26PMMonday, November 9, 2015
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Ms. Nielsen has long been a treasured award-winning fixture of the New York stage with her quirky idiosyncratic comedic and dramatic talents. Here as the omnipo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:20AMWednesday, November 4, 2015
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On Union Street” with music by Wesley Whatley is the lively and wistful opening track of the delightful jazz based recording, The Hope of Christmas. It is pe…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:28PMSaturday, October 31, 2015
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“The golden age of transportation!” intoned the ebullient, mellifluous, mutton-chopped ringmaster John Kennedy Kane. Clad in a red and black striped waistc…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:06AMThursday, October 29, 2015
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The musical first appeared in 1966 at the small historic Off-Off Broadway performance space Café Cino in New York City’s Greenwich Village as "Dames at Sea, …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:24PMMonday, October 26, 2015
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Though it touches on complex societal issues during this turbulent time period in the United States, the show's overall lack of depth depicting these conditions…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:14PMMonday, October 19, 2015
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With its realistic and detailed dialogue, Mr. Lindsay-Abaire’s very well constructed script is a superior work of playwriting containing many humorous and mov…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:13AMThis post is by Darryl Reilly
The downstairs of the gay leather bar, The Eagle, has been configured into a runway-style performance space with rows of white folding chairs. This setup is fo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:10AMTuesday, October 13, 2015
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This is the fault of director Daniel Aukin who also staged it at The Williamstown Theatre Festival. Besides obtaining just competent performances from his cast…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:59AMWednesday, October 7, 2015
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Heavyset and with a sullen countenance, Mr. Marinelli plays Trey by ably conveying the character’s melancholy and witty expressiveness. The charming John Car…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:12AMSaturday, October 3, 2015
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Mr. Maloney is a veteran character actor of stage and screen with New York City theater credits going back to 1964. This leading role of Hugh Pugh is a marvelo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:54AMTuesday, September 29, 2015
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Mr. Farmer has crafted a suspenseful and gripping tale based on the reality of child abduction with mythical overtones. The dialogue is very fine and is evocat…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:43PMThis post is by Darryl Reilly
Two bearded and long-haired pony-ailed men in dark gray space suits with black Velcro patches appear as the lights come up. For the next ten minutes, they wrest…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:15PMThursday, September 24, 2015
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Before its increasing gentrification, the Lower East Side was an outpost of creative expression. That the BREAD Arts Collective theater company presents this wo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:41AM 
