Wednesday, August 21, 2019
The 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 09:00PMThursday, 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 03:42PM 
