Friday, September 28, 2018
One 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 09:19AMWednesday, September 26, 2018
Ms. Rebeck’s compelling new play explores in depth Sarah Bernhardt’s struggles with playing “Hamlet” and her compassion for being a “thinking” actor who works her craft with “f…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:32AMTuesday, September 25, 2018
“I Was Most Alive with You” explores the complex ways we communicate with or without speaking and hearing. Whether our language is English or ASL, how we insinuate, describe, perceive, …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:30AMSunday, September 23, 2018
Tennessee Williams’ 1979 play “A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur” connects deeply with all (individuals, governments, nation-states) suffering the malaise of loss or lack of identity and…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 04:55PMFriday, September 21, 2018
Currently playing at Walkerspace, The Pond Theatre Company’s “The Naturalists” is a compelling look at how one’s “secret” past can suddenly and unexpectedly encroach on the prese…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 10:43AMMonday, August 27, 2018
The moral turpitude of those who “consume” is in the spotlight in Lillian Hellman’s 1936 “Days to Come” currently running at Mint Theater Company at Theatre Row’s Beckett Theatre.
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:41AMTuesday, August 14, 2018
Under Joshua Bergasse’s direction, the cast (five men and four women) fills Beowulf Boritt’s towering Café set with solo numbers, duets, trios, quartets, quintets and full company numbe…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 06:40PMMonday, August 13, 2018
The hype surrounding “Be More Chill,” including its extensive marketing campaign, and the musical itself cannot and should not be a substitute for the real work required to discover who …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 11:12AMTuesday, July 31, 2018
During one of many sitcom scenes, crowded on the sofa in matching plaid pajamas provided by Ed, the father-sons quartet share Chinese takeout while trash talking, texting, and drudging up ch…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 01:52PMSince its original presentation by the New York Stage and Film Company and the Powerhouse Theatre at Vassar in 2012, Marcus Gardley’s important play has been performed across the country a…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 08:40AMFriday, July 27, 2018
Under Lila Neugebauer’s exquisite direction, the actors playing Mary Page each give intriguing performances that focus on the pastiche of one “ordinary” American facing the dangers inh…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 08:50AMTuesday, July 24, 2018
Under Daniel Aukin’s carefully executed direction, the characters explore their individual pasts and their histories with family and friends with honesty. Their portraits are authentic.
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:25PMMonday, July 23, 2018
Director Marissa Wolf and the three-member cast grapple successfully with Rinne Groff’s demanding script which results in a sometimes mind-spinning tumble into the playwright’s wonderlan…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 12:16PMSaturday, July 21, 2018
Although Bertolt Brecht understood the importance and power of the comedic, his writings are overwhelmingly dark and, like a sharp scalpel, cut deeply beneath the facia into the “guts” o…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 10:05AMTuesday, July 17, 2018
Playwright David Ireland has pushed the plot driven by this character’s maniacal temperament to the limit of moral turpitude and beyond.
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 01:00PMSaturday, July 14, 2018
Mike Lew has assembled characters whose conflicts are engaging and believable and the plot these “problems” drive is complex, layered, and relevant to the conversations about the dynamic…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 04:47PMTuesday, July 3, 2018
Melissa Errico gives her “split personalities” depth and authenticity and Stephen Bogardus serves as a formidable chauvinistic foil to both women.
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 06:27PMSaturday, June 30, 2018
Under Pam MacKinnon’s direction, the superb cast enlivens Jordan Harrison’s script as he meanders through perhaps too many issues for one play. The strength of his play lies not in the b…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:25PMTuesday, June 26, 2018
The themes of Miles Malleson’s “Conflict,” currently running at the Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row, could not be more relevant and the playwright’s treatment of these themes could no…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:22PMFriday, June 22, 2018
Under Christopher Murrah’s deft direction, Angela Pierce leads a brilliant ensemble cast whose intricate conflicts drive a mysterious and often challenging plot with enough twists and turn…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 05:39PMSunday, June 17, 2018
Angelina Fiordellisi and Michael O’Keefe are wonderful together and give their respective characters a depth and authenticity that often rises above what they are given in Mr. Mee’s scri…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 01:44PMSaturday, June 16, 2018
Mr. Byrnes’ script does address the promised issues of the ascent of man, including snippets of BBC’s Michael Parkinson’s 1970s interviews with Jamie’s grandfather who affirmed the c…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 04:18PMThursday, June 14, 2018
After its previous three-time extended sold out run at the York Theatre Company, “Desperate Measures” is back Off-Broadway and the antics of rabble-rousing Johnny Blood are as bodacious …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 08:57AMWednesday, June 13, 2018
The playwright’s attempt to find Martha at the end of Albee’s play “destroyed by this idea of motherhood, of not living up to this very traditional idea of what it means to be a woman�…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:47AMFriday, June 8, 2018
Ms. Ensler attempts to continue that commitment in “Fruit Trilogy,” Abingdon Theatre Company’s final mainstage production of its twenty-fifth anniversary season. Currently in its “Ne…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:27PMMonday, June 4, 2018
Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), global leader in music rights management, has extended the application deadline for The BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Librettists Workshop to Friday, June 8th…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:30PMThis lyrical and lushly realized play is part of poet, filmmaker and playwright Donja R. Love’s exploration of queer love at pivotal moments in Black history.
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 12:34PMFriday, June 1, 2018
Condola Rashad explores the layers of Saint Joan’s character with a finesse that leaves little of “The Maid’s) personality undefined. The journey from soldier to prisoner to saint is b…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:35PMTuesday, May 29, 2018
The New York Theatre Workshop has revived this critically important 1976 drama at an opportune time. Like Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America,” Caryl Churchill’s “Light Shining in Bu…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 11:10AMSaturday, May 26, 2018
Ciarán O’Reilly directs with his keen eye for subtlety and with his steady hand of encouragement. He teases from the exceptional cast the nuances of each character, especially important i…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 12:12PMMonday, May 14, 2018
In an explosive unison Greek-Chorus, the girls share their wish that society would urge the importance of their personal individuality as much as their sexually stereotyped identities. It is…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:51PM 
