Sunday, March 8, 2015
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The Peccadillo Theater Company has finely and faithfully revived this rarely seen Odets play, the 6th of his plays to be produced in the late thirties. They are…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:45PMMonday, March 2, 2015
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Inspired by real life events of the 1860's and concerned with telling the relatively unknown stories of women pioneers, "Abundance" is highly engrossing, steepe…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:28AMSaturday, February 28, 2015
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Director Mindy Cooper’s very well executed transitions between the show’s 27 numbers, the personable Scott Siegel’s erudite remarks, and the variety of gi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:22PMSunday, February 22, 2015
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Premiering in 1982 as a one-act play with music, author Eduardo Machado, has now revised and expanded it into a full length musical. The first act is a decent …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:56AMMonday, February 16, 2015
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Venerable and accomplished fixture of the theater, Austin Pendleton has perfectly directed the play. The characters and their relationships have all been minut…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:50PMSaturday, February 14, 2015
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It’s a stylized “family secrets” drama, presented with a broad comedic tone. Heightened and arch (often including lengthy florid speeches) the dialogue h…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:19AMMonday, February 9, 2015
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Mr. Busch, known as a playwright of campy homages to old movies in which he often plays female roles, was an appropriate and authoritative host. For most of th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:04PMFriday, February 6, 2015
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One of the chief pleasures here is the first appearance in more than 30 years by the legendary Tommy Tune in a New York City musical. Since his Tony Award-winn…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:14PMSaturday, January 31, 2015
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Theatergoers knowledgeable with "Death and the Maiden" will find "Shesh Yak" very familiar territory. Those who aren’t will still find this play tediously pr…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:55PMSunday, January 25, 2015
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Theatergoers familiar with Richard Foreman’s work with the Ontological Theater will be especially receptive to this frenetic production. There are also traces…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:45AMFriday, January 23, 2015
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This finely constructed memory piece is characterized by comedy and melancholy. Overcoming parental dysfunction is it’s universal theme. It’s rendered with…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:37AMSunday, January 18, 2015
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With "Constellations," Nick Payne has deftly created a unique and very moving romantic work in the tradition of modern British playwrights that is universally a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:51PMTuesday, January 13, 2015
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Hearing these Sondheim classic songs well performed and seeing them vibrantly staged was reason enough for this concert to be considered a success. That it als…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:19PMWednesday, January 7, 2015
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The drawn-out finale is a fiercely acrimonious type of Edward Albee's "Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" style confrontation dealing with class warfare. Here …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:53PMSaturday, January 3, 2015
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An American Worker is an agitprop musical in the spirit and tradition of social consciousness American theater such as the works of Sidney Kingsley, Clifford Od…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:16PMMonday, December 22, 2014
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The mastermind behind this enchanting show is Brenda Bell. Besides writing the well-crafted lyrics for the new songs, she also wrote the clever book that faith…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:43PMThursday, December 18, 2014
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This brilliant production of Samuel D. Hunter’s "Pocatello" is characterized by tremendous depth in characterization and engaging simplicity in presentation. …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:29PMMonday, December 15, 2014
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“Happ’ly ever after…can be a royal pain in the ass!” sings Snow White in Disenchanted!, a pleasant musical spoof of iconic Disney princesses, that depic…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:25AMTuesday, December 9, 2014
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As a director, Horejš has a great command of the visual. The puppets perform in various parts of the stage and fly around and enter from windows and trapdoors.…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:52PMFriday, December 5, 2014
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This musical theater version of "A Christmas Memory" has been performed around the United States in regional theaters, since 2010. This year, The Irish Repertor…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:44PMThis post is by Darryl Reilly
Carrying on like a nutty professor, for the next hour, he dazzles the audience with breathtaking displays of shadow puppetry. Creatures such as a bird, a sea mo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:28AMMonday, December 1, 2014
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The creative script by Mr. Wallace and Ms. Levitsky is adapted from Douglass' writings with evocative excerpts from the plays of William Shakespeare, and includ…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:04PMWednesday, November 26, 2014
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It lasts 90, often shrill minutes, and has a full score performed by musicians and contains many dialogue-laden scenes. It seems implausible that much of this h…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:07PMSunday, November 23, 2014
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Author Tom Dugan has expertly incorporated obviously well-researched historical and biographical details into this dramatization. Theatrical touches besides the…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:00PMThursday, November 20, 2014
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Mr. Celdran weaves these and many other tales and observations into an compelling event that alternates between inciting laughter and thoughtful silence. With h…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:32PMTuesday, November 18, 2014
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Elaine Stritch died at the age of 89, in her hometown of Birmingham, Michigan, on July 17th, 2014, after retiring there a year earlier from New York City. Seven…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:38PMMonday, November 17, 2014
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Author Cecilia Copeland definitely has a feminist agenda but the totality of these pieces advance a universal human concern that any rational person would suppo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:23PMThis post is by Darryl Reilly
The Columbine massacre is the inspiration for Nathaniel Sam Shapiro's play, "The Erlkings." Mr. Shapiro is a 25-year-old playwright who graduated from Brown Uni…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:23PMSunday, November 16, 2014
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"Ladies and Gentlemen! Miss Joan Crawford!" announces the host. Embodying old-time Hollywood glamour, Mr. Epperson regally enters, wearing an elegant black gown…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:32PMFriday, November 14, 2014
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The York is celebrating their 20th season and this is their 100th show. It is fitting that these milestones are being commemorated by showcasing the work of one…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:26AMThursday, November 13, 2014
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Encores!, known for reviving neglected Broadway musicals for limited runs, is presenting the show. Here, it has strayed from its mission by producing this new a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:10PM 
