Thursday, 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 09:00PMThursday, May 9, 2019
Poet-playwright Aziza Barnes puts many ingredients into their script blender to whip up a “comedic look” at the lives of Octavia (Paige Gilbert), Imani (Alfie Fuller), and June (Antoinet…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 08:30PMMonday, April 29, 2019
High school junior Jeremy Heere (an awkward and amiable Will Rowland) would like his chill factor to be higher. He does not want to be “special,” but he just wants “to survive.” From…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 11:40AMWednesday, April 24, 2019
Outer Critics Circle, the organization of writers and commentators covering New York theater for out-of-town newspapers, national publications and other media beyond Broadway, announced toda…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 12:31PMFriday, April 12, 2019
Daniel Fish’s revival fails to deliver authentic characters with believable conflicts. Despite the admirable and important diverse casting choices, the characters are not interesting – t…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 05:48PMMonday, March 25, 2019
MIRACLE IN RWANDA – the play by Leslie Lewis and Edward Vilga – scheduled to premiere Off Broadway following an acclaimed world tour, with preview performances beginning April 4 prior to…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:39PMMonday, March 18, 2019
As “The Mother” plays out, scene after scene – with scene/act changes indicated in projections on the back wall in French – Anne continues to give evidence of her shattered emotional…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 05:33PMMonday, March 11, 2019
Thanks to Tori Sampson’s crisp writing style, it is evident from the start that the audience is being engaged in a retelling of an important Nigerian folktale. This retelling begins with a…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:33AMFriday, March 8, 2019
Tradition. Culture. Politics. Love. Tevye grapples with these four and more in National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s “Fiddler on the Roof” currently running at Stage 42.
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:58PMThursday, March 7, 2019
The characters – all of them – are underdeveloped, mostly static, with less than interesting conflicts. So how could there possibly be an engaging plot? They seem not to care for themsel…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 11:19AMManhattan Theatre Club’s New York premiere of The Cake, written by Bekah Brunstetter (“This Is Us,” “American Gods,” The Oregon Trail) and directed by MTC’s award-winning Artisti…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 11:18AMAVENUE Q – winner of three 2004 Tony Awards including Best Musical – is extending its previously announced closing date 4 weeks, due to popular demand, with a new end date set for May 26…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 11:10AMWednesday, March 6, 2019
After a successful and extended run at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, Tarell Alvin McCraney’s important and engaging “Choir Boy” closes on Sunday March 10, 2019…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:42PMSunday, February 10, 2019
Afrikaans protagonist Mies Julie (Elise Kibler) and Xhosa antagonist John (James Udom), though childhood friends, are from vastly different social orders. Now in their twenties, they are sep…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 07:47PMMonday, January 14, 2019
The Clubbed Thumb, True Love, and New York Theatre Workshop production of "What the Constitution Means to Me: will come to Broadway this spring for a 12-week limited engagement, beginning pe…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 11:16AMFriday, January 11, 2019
Award-winning playwright and director Emily Mann, who has served as the Artistic Director and Resident Playwright of the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, New Jersey since 1990, will ret…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:48PMTuesday, January 8, 2019
Abby Rosebrock introduces an interesting mélange of broken characters in her new play “Blue Ridge” currently running at Atlantic Theater Company’s Linda Gross Theater. She drops these…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:33AMFriday, December 21, 2018
“Network” addresses important themes and raises equally significant enduring questions. “Network” parses the word ‘network’ in a variety of ways, adding richness and layered dept…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 12:29PMMonday, December 3, 2018
Josh Cohen’s year long (Valentine’s Day to Valentine’s Day) struggle with the vicissitudes of life is chronicled in eleven musical numbers by an energetic and talented cast that not on…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 05:29PMFriday, November 30, 2018
In this revival of “Thom Pain (based on nothing)” at The Pershing Square Signature Center’s Irene Diamond Stage, Will Eno steps over, under, and in between the resting places – and t…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:21PMFriday, November 2, 2018
“India Pale Ale” remains a stalwart attempt to “see” and “understand” and to stay woke to the social injustices extant just outside (and most likely within) the doors of the thea…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 01:29PMThe journey to achieving Arnold’s commendable goals is a universal one as are the hopes and dreams of the characters in “Torch Song.” One wishes for even more relevant themes for the L…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 08:40AMWednesday, October 31, 2018
Rooms full of missed opportunities sprawl across Second Stage’s Tony Kiser Theatre where Steven Levenson’s new play “Days of Rage” is running through November 2018. Mr. Levenson, the…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 08:38AMFriday, October 26, 2018
For ninety minutes, Ms. Schreck rehearses those speeches not for prize money but to remind the audience that the Constitution has been less protective of human rights than its drafters inten…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:14PMMonday, October 22, 2018
The obvious connection to the current debate concerning the place of truth in politics plays well in “The Lifespan of a Fact.” The playwrights develop their argument carefully and with t…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:27PMTuesday, October 16, 2018
DeWanda Wise and Khris Davis are electrifying in their roles as Olivia and Charles. Under Saheem Ali’s poignant and surgically precise direction, Ms. Wise and Mr. Davis explore every nerve…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:25AMThursday, October 11, 2018
“Hitler’s Tasters” is also a gripping extended metaphor for how women who have been victims of sexual violence carry lifelong cultural shame that prevents them from coming forward to t…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 04:55PM“Mother Night’s” themes are as important in the present as they were when Vonnegut wrote the novel. It is remarkable how relevant the important issues of white supremacism, anti-Semiti…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:40AMThursday, October 4, 2018
“On Beckett” is about Bill Irwin’s process and the metacognition involved in that creative process as he shares the push-pull relationship he has with existentialism’s bard. This is …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 10:33AMFriday, September 28, 2018
Humor tempered with caring is necessary to pull off something as zany as “Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties.” Less humor and more opportunities to care about these Betties seems neede…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:41PMOne would think mounting a Broadway show about snooker would be perilous. Richard Bean’s “The Nap,” currently running at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, unfortun…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:19AM 
