Thursday, 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 09:41AMTuesday, September 22, 2015
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Playwright Dewey Moss has crafted a well structured, taut, and seemingly conventional romance among clashing cultures that shockingly switches gears. Inventivel…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:48AMTuesday, September 15, 2015
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With the quirky poignancy of Lanford Wilson, the ferociousness of Edward Albee, and the farcical precision of Alan Ayckbourn, playwright Matthew-Lee Erlbach’s…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:30AMFriday, September 11, 2015
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Director Kareem Fahmy is also ambiguously credited as “Co-Developer.” Mr. Fahmy’s staging is purposeful when it grapples with the problematic first act an…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:01PMTuesday, September 8, 2015
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Dressed in black slacks, a sequined white blouse and a gray blazer, the svelte, energetic, and soon to be 78 year-old Tony Award-winning stage and television st…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:39AMFriday, September 4, 2015
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If "In Bed With Roy Cohn" were seen at a theater event such as The New York Fringe Festival, it could be viewed as a promising offbeat creation. But as a commer…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:34PMSaturday, August 29, 2015
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A titanic ensemble of six highly talented actors plays the prisoners as well as multiple roles including females with slight costume changes. Derrick Baskin, N…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:17AMThursday, August 27, 2015
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Mr. Urban does an excellent job of dramatizing and explaining a complex historical situation in this fictional treatment of a real case. In 1994, Rwandan Presi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:14AMTuesday, August 18, 2015
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“I’m tired of being a prisoner in a sequined tube dress,” declares actor Glenn Milstead to his legendary alter ego Divine. “The drag queen of the centur…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:25PMSunday, August 16, 2015
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Contemporary theater is skewered as a young Canadian gay male playwright heralds avant-garde artists in this often vitriolic and personal polemic.
The post Thea…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:39PMTuesday, August 11, 2015
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“Papa” was the elder Theodore Bikel’s sobriquet to the younger members of the touring company of "Fiddler on The Roof." Mr. Bikel died at the age of 91 o…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:57PMThis post is by Darryl Reilly
“The epitomy of a true triple threat performer,” was how Mr. Reineke introduced Ms. Foster. “I’ve never been here or sung outside with a big orchestra …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:33PMTuesday, August 4, 2015
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"Delirium's Daughters" by Nicholas Korn is faithful to the form and figures of Commedia dell'arte. This theatrical genre is grounded in comedic improvisation a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:52PMFriday, July 31, 2015
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Like most of the other of the author’s works, the three characters here are very colorful individuals who histrionically clash with each other while verbosely…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:10PMMonday, July 27, 2015
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Mark Vogel and Lynn Shore in a scene from “Happy 50ish” (Photo credit: Jeremy Daniel) My sleeping Johnson needs to wake I need a charmer for my snake This l…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:23AMFriday, July 24, 2015
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Conveying the joyous spirit and monumental artistry of Eugene Ionesco, Nichols and May, as well as Monty Python, the clever comedy of "Odd Birdz" is universal, …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:27PMThis post is by Darryl Reilly
Eric, a young man in his early 20’s nervously enters through a door onstage and sits at a piano and plays. He is writing a musical about his life and is soon…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:04PMMonday, July 20, 2015
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“Audience members are encouraged to come dressed in their best funeral attire” is in the promotional material for "Deep Love" and “Funeral Attire Recommen…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:33PMThis post is by Darryl Reilly
His commanding voice often begins with a light and an expected approach to these often very familiar songs and then veer off into surprisingly much deeper tones…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:15PMSaturday, July 18, 2015
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Sutton Foster is electrifying as Queenie the sexually insatiable nightclub performer who incites men to violence in this revival of the 2000 Off-Broadway musica…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:22PMThursday, July 16, 2015
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Wearing a red plaid shirt, black shorts, and black combat boots, the acclaimed lesbian performance artist Marga Gomez vibrantly barrels through her solo show "P…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:29PMMonday, July 13, 2015
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Mr. McPherson has written a rich and engrossing play that is appealing in it’s well-crafted simplicity. Each of the five commonplace characters is precisely …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:10AMFriday, July 3, 2015
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By: Darryl Reilly Catherine Russell Including me there were 28 people at the Wednesday matinee on July 1, 2015, of the 11,568th performance of Perfect Crime. Th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:22PMTuesday, June 30, 2015
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The very talented and youthful Jonathan Groff is excellent as Gordon. His charming presence known from his work on stage (Spring Awakening, Hair) and on televi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:51PMFriday, June 26, 2015
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Ms. Winkler’s writing is so simple but exquisite in its execution. In twenty minutes the sad lives of the girls are deftly dramatized with a compelling range…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:16PMThis post is by Darryl Reilly
Hobbling on crutches and with one injured leg encased in a large boot, all due to a recent automobile accident, Sahr Ngaujah made a dramatic entrance from the w…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:13AMFriday, June 19, 2015
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"The Tour" follows in the success of the same company’s "The Ride" that is an audience participation theatrical version of a New York City bus tour. CEO/COO R…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:19PMTuesday, June 16, 2015
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This compelling and moving solo play recounts Yoel's gradual coming out that starts in 1986 when he was ten in Caracas. Comical and dramatic incidents in his c…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:33PMMonday, June 15, 2015
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“It’s been a rough two years,” Mr. Jackson observed. Deaths in his family, a disintegrating romantic relationship, and becoming sober, were all detailed d…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:26PMWednesday, June 10, 2015
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“Don’t step on the sand,” cautions the usher as she hands out programs and directs patrons to the their seats at The Gym at Judson. Indeed, the stage and…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:20AMTuesday, June 9, 2015
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This 90-minute intermission-less play is a comic and occasionally serious address to the audience by God who often sits on a large white couch as he revises The…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:36PM 
