Thursday, November 12, 2015
This post is by Darryl Reilly
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 02:26PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 10:20AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 perf…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:28PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 waistcoat …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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, or…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:24PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 03:14PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 movin…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:13AM[SHARE]This 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 12:10AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 13, 2015
This post is by Darryl Reilly
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 12:59AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 Carha…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:12AM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 10:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 09:43PM[SHARE]This 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 05:15PM[SHARE]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 09:41AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 11:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 s…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:30AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 and does…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 11:39AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 12:34PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 12:17AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 10:14AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 century is rel…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:25PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 01:39PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 on July…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:57PM[SHARE]This 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 before" …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:33PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 07:52PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 e…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:10PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 littl…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:23AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 01:27PM[SHARE]This 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 j…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:04PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 Recommended" i…
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