Thursday, April 16, 2015
This post is by Darryl Reilly
An actor in a suit wearing a pony mask and a tail trots out on stage a few times and later appears some more times without the mask to sing. A woman in a burqa…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 15, 2015
This post is by Darryl Reilly
"A la Carte: A Feast of New Plays" is a presentation of The Workshop Theater's leading playwrights that consists of six short plays, all with the theme of food.…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:17AM[SHARE]Monday, April 13, 2015
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With its ravishing, precise dialogue, very fine structure, and expertly imparted exposition, Skylight, is a model of accomplished playwriting. Mr. Hare is know…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:32PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 5, 2015
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Director Paul Dobie's staging gives the show a fast pace and well utilizes the small playing area, which is the upstairs cabaret theater of The Stonewall Inn, t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:57PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 4, 2015
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In the course of Mr. Siegel's erudite remarks, the work of key figures responsible for these often classic musicals recurred. Composer and lyricist Cole Porter…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:55PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 31, 2015
This post is by Darryl Reilly
"Who Are You," recorded by The Who, starts off "The Book of Moron." It's a well-crafted 80-minute theater piece of observational stand up comedy written and per…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:39PM[SHARE]This post is by Darryl Reilly
Lyrics & Lyricists artistic director Deborah Grace Winer was the show's host. Charming, and with dry humor and passion, Ms. Winer delivered informative and…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:09PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 21, 2015
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The concert series Encores! "celebrates the rarely heard works of America's most important composers and lyricists." With "Paint Your Wagon," they have selecte…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:11AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 19, 2015
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Dream sequences, fantasies, and confessional monologues add to the play's eclectic form. There's a rapid montage portion with racing NYC denizens including bus…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:37AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 17, 2015
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The play's scenes alternate between the scientific research institute and the couple's apartment. The theatrical device of having one set representing both …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:58AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 14, 2015
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This play was originally produced in London's West End in 2013. Ms. Mirren was awarded The Olivier and Evening Standard Award as best actress. She is repeating …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 12, 2015
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This hasn't played London's West End, and has not been performed in the United States until now. The Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church's Theatre Fellowship has p…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:12PM[SHARE]Monday, March 9, 2015
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Beaming Broadway musical comedy veteran, Lee Roy Reams presented the final honor, the ASCAP Major Engagement Award to Lillias White. "My grandmother's table was…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:49PM[SHARE]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 08:45PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 12:28AM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 gifted p…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:22PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 11:56AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 12:50PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 has sha…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:19AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 03:04PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 01:14PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 pred…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:55PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 o…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:45AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 com…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:37AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 07:51PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 10:19PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:53PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 3, 2015
This post is by Darryl Reilly
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 03:16PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 04:43PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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. L…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:29PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 depicts the…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:25AM[SHARE] 
