Tuesday, September 24, 2019
As a result of playwright Mfoniso Udofia’s profound interest in the African Diaspora, perhaps no fictional couple in the recent history of Off-Broadway theatre have had their histories mor…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 07:00PMThursday, September 19, 2019
Part group therapy, part intervention, part Doctors Phil and Ruth, “Fern Hill,” currently running at 59E59 Theaters through Sunday October 20, 2019, rehearses the events at Sunny’s (Ji…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 07:00PMMonday, September 16, 2019
Playwrights Roy and Webb never lose site of the significance of the young Richard’s crime. The “Guide” is not about claiming innocence. It is about Richard’s sense of entitlement. Hi…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 12:26PMThursday, September 12, 2019
Writing a play about two iconic figures like Paul McCartney and John Lennon is risky business. Detailed information about their lives, their work, and their relationships is abundant and rea…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 07:15PMWednesday, September 11, 2019
Jonathan Spector’s “Eureka Day,” currently running at Walkerspace through Saturday September 21, is a complex and thoughtful trope for the upside and downside of such moral ambiguity a…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:36PMSunday, September 8, 2019
Keith Hamilton Cobb has been on an urgent mission, crisscrossing the United States since 2013 performing his “American Moor.” Mr. Cobb’s almost-one-man-show is a trope, here an extende…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:00PMThursday, September 5, 2019
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s groundbreaking “On Death and Dying” was first published in 1969. The Grief Cycle outlined in this book remains the standard for understanding the “stages” …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 07:30PMWednesday, September 4, 2019
Chatillion Stage Company’s “Tech Support,” currently running at 59E59 Theaters, begins with the play’s protagonist Pamela Stark (Margot White) frantically pacing around in her West V…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 07:30PMAfter a successful run at the Public’s Newman Theater earlier this year, “Sea Wall / A Life” by Simon Stephens and Nick Payne opened at Broadway’s Hudson Theatre on August 8th, 2019.…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 12:20PMTuesday, September 3, 2019
Currently running at Theatre Row, Ma-Yi Theater Company’s “Felix Starro” launches the Company’s 30th Anniversary Season. The musical is based on Filipino-American writer Lysley Tenor…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 07:00PMFriday, August 30, 2019
In the first forty minutes of “Make Believe,” under Michael Greif’s careful direction, the young cast of four successfully provides the needed exposition for the success of the final 4…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 12:18PMWednesday, August 21, 2019
In her somewhat autobiographical play “Rinse, Repeat” which will end its extended successful run at The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre at The Pershing Square Signature Center on Saturd…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 06:51PMThe producers of the Off-Broadway return of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken’s landmark musical “Little Shop of Horrors” have announced that Tony Award nominee Gideon Glick (“To Kill A …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 01:19PMMonday, August 12, 2019
David: Lenore, your new off-Broadway show “The Exes” officially opens on Thursday August 15th at Theatre Row. That’s getting close! What are your thoughts and feelings as the opening a…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 10:54AMSunday, August 4, 2019
Necromancy does not fare well in Esteban R. Alvarez III’s “Just Outside the Door” which just ended its three-performance run at the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival. The play’s protag…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 12:12PMSaturday, August 3, 2019
In “Florida Man” by Michael Presley Bobbitt, a young man racked with guilt digs up his dead father William Crud (the crud of a memory John Higgins) to give him the proper Viking funeral …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:34PMThursday, July 25, 2019
Over the period of a year, three generations of Irish women share their stories ad seriatim while in a medical office waiting room. Amber (a spitfire Lauren O’Leary) rehearses her life fro…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:00PMSunday, July 21, 2019
In a celebratory move uptown to the theater district, the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival, celebrating its third year in Manhattan, has announced its 2019 season lineup at Theatre Row, 410 W…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 10:57AMMonday, June 24, 2019
To celebrate its third year of presenting an LGBTQ+ opera in the month of June – and the 50th Anniversary of the Riots at Greenwich Village’s Stonewall Inn – the New York City Opera co…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 01:40PMThursday, June 20, 2019
Charlotte Moore directs the cast of "The Plough and the Stars" with a passionate commitment to excellence. Her staging brings out the best in each actor and assures that each actor’s chara…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 05:59PMMonday, June 17, 2019
Last season, two off-Broadway plays – “Daddy” and “Slave Play” (both by Jeremy O. Harris) – highlighted significant issues about the self-identity of young black gay and queer me…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:45PMSaturday, June 15, 2019
After a successful run in 2008 of the musical “Enter Laughing” a revised version of the original “So Long 174th Street” which was a Broadway flop in 1976, The York Theatre Company ha…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 12:17PMWednesday, June 12, 2019
There is nothing new in “Nomad Motel” and the important themes the play shrouds are ineffectively and weakly developed. The young actors give the play their very best and cannot be held …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 10:25AMMonday, June 10, 2019
Although Christopher Shinn’s characters are well developed and their conflicts believable enough, the plot developed by those “problems” is not as believable and suffers from a lack of…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:29AMThursday, June 6, 2019
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts in Dave Malloy’s a cappela musical “Octet” currently playing in The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre at The Pershing Square Signature Cen…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:08PMTuesday, June 4, 2019
“I can’t abide seeing a body stuffed into the wrong role.” – Jo to Meg in “Little Women” Kate Hamill’s retelling of Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women” plays at Primary St…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:00PMThursday, May 30, 2019
“Pretend that we’re the only two people in the entire world, that’s what I’m doing, and it all falls into place.” – Johnny to Frankie Moonlight – the kind of light that shines …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:30PMWednesday, May 29, 2019
Charlotte and Doug Walker’s son Kai will be home from prison in three months to begin his court remanded probation. Kai is a white university student athlete who was convicted of raping a …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 07:00PMTuesday, May 21, 2019
Because the playwright chooses to include a compendium of LGBTQ history, the script becomes didactic and cumbersome. Elise Forier Edie would have been better off allowing Trisha to take cent…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 06:24PMSunday, May 19, 2019
What a pleasant surprise to walk into the Studio space at Cherry Lane Theatre and see a fresh, new look developed for the exciting new production “Original Sound” by Adam Seidel. Scenic …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 04:14PMThursday, May 16, 2019
Happy talk – the type of verbal communication, replete with counterfeit smiles, that too often serves as a replacement for authentic connection between individuals – cascades across the …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:00PM 
