Tuesday, June 7, 2022
Diriwachter is particularly skilled in writing working class vernacular. The Father and Tim speak the same language and he catches all the subtleties of decades of ups and downs. He also…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:59PMSaturday, June 4, 2022
Origin Theatre Company’s stark production of Kees Roorda’s A Kid Like Rishi is a totally involving Rashomon-like take on a real-life tragedy: In November of 2012, 17-year-old Rishi Cha…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:09PMWednesday, May 25, 2022
Takiff is a skilled performer who never loses the audience no matter how angry or sardonic he gets. He is helped by the mood setting lighting of Elizabeth M. Stewart and the sound and vide…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:14AMWednesday, May 18, 2022
Alison Leiby’s "Oh God, A Show About Abortion" is probably the most level-headed work about that much debated subject, perhaps too level-headed. While the United States is going through …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:45PMThursday, May 5, 2022
Deliriously and explicitly profane, Michael R. Jackson’s Pulitzer Prize winning musical, "A Strange Loop" has—unbelievably—made it to Broadway, produced by Playwrights Horizons, Page 7…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:36PMSaturday, April 30, 2022
This Broadway production, a godchild of a recent 2019 production at The Public Theater (directed by Leah C. Gardiner), is directed and choreographed by modern dance luminary Camille A. Brown…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:03PMMonday, April 25, 2022
The final work was the world premiere of “Only One Will Rise,” a work by a new choreographer Olivier Tarpaga to a colorful score he co-wrote with Tim Motzer who was one of the three on s…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:46AMTuesday, April 12, 2022
The ubiquitous Billy Porter was given command of the most recent New York City Center Encores! presentation, the 1997 musical "The Life." His direction and re-interpretation of this tawdry…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:14PMDominique Morisseau’s "Confederates," her second play of her Signature Theatre Residency 5, is a clever, but overly talky dissertation on race, power and family. She offers the audience …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:02PMTuesday, March 22, 2022
Who knew that Marshall McLuhan was such a nut? "The Medium," a dance-theater work conceived and directed by Anne Bogart puts McLuhan through her particular way of combining dance and words…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:04PMFriday, March 18, 2022
Songwriter Steve Earle, a three-time Grammy Award winner, returns providing homey, twangy music and acting as an understanding host/narrator. With charm that belies the depth of Coal Count…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:57PMSunday, March 13, 2022
Whether or not Tracy Weller’s "Hart Island" directly harkens back to Masters, it certainly has similarities, most particularly in its poetically rendered revelations of the underbelly of l…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:48PMTuesday, March 8, 2022
By far, the audience favorite was the world premiere “Time Spell,” an entertaining attempt at a hybrid of tap dancing (choreographed by Michelle Dorrance and Jillian Meyers) and ballet (…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:22PMSunday, February 27, 2022
A plea for understanding the pain of being Muslin-American, Sevan’s First Down at the 59E59 Theaters focuses on the plight of an adored football player who decides to kneel and pray during…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:27PMMonday, February 14, 2022
In her selection of the movements and structure of "Four Quartets," Tamowitz chose to ignore the depth and imagery of the poems, producing a cool Merce Cunningham-like ballet that glided alo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:27AMThursday, February 10, 2022
Wheeldon and Pulitzer Award-winning playwright Lynn Nottage make every effort to hide the fact that MJ is a jukebox musical, despite the fact that the first notes of every song elicited loud…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:59PMWednesday, February 9, 2022
Who knew that SPAM has figured so importantly in Korean and Korean-American cuisines? Jaime Sunwoo’s "Specially Processed American Me" tells that story and much more. "Specially Processe…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:55AMFriday, February 4, 2022
Let’s start with the best: The great Joshua Henry’s 11 o’clock number, “William’s Song,” a gut-wrenching revelatory song sung by the title character’s emotionally distant fat…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:31PMMonday, January 24, 2022
The New Yiddish Rep’s (David Mandelbaum, artistic director) production of the Yiddish language "Di Froyen (The Women)" is a bittersweet, anger-inducing portrait of modern day Chasid women …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:23PMFriday, January 21, 2022
Turning the plight of New York City’s homeless into a game is an iffy proposition to say the least. At best, the audience for the theatrical effort, "Addressless: A Walk in Our Shoes," l…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:18AMTuesday, January 11, 2022
He used the gimmick of preparing to perform the very show he was performing for his audience in the Cabaret Theater of the Theater for the New City; but by the end of his fascinating and gru…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:45PMFriday, December 10, 2021
Parsons’ first work on the program was the tour de force solo “Balance of Power” performed by the phenomenal Zoey Anderson. Clad in Barbara Erin Delo’s brilliantly colored tight co…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:40PMMonday, November 22, 2021
If you are a Princess Diana completist, "Diana: The Musical" will satisfy your needs along with the deeper Spencer and The Queen and all the innumerable documentaries about this ill-fated fa…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:50PMSunday, November 21, 2021
When Sonny Marie Lee stepped onto the stage of the Actors Temple Theatre as the eponymous "The Bronx Babe" I thought she was putting the audience on, acting the stereotypical, Noo Yawk accen…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:05PMTuesday, November 16, 2021
Unfolding from a stand-up comedy routine—“A prisoner walks into a bar…!”—and set in a comedy venue designed with ingenuity and style by Walt Spangler, Turtle veers from hokey to ho…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:07PMTuesday, November 9, 2021
"Caroline, or Change" is an important musical, more now than in 2004. It should be seen. The Roundabout production, though somewhat flawed, still communicates the complicated relationshi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:41AMFriday, November 5, 2021
Now there’s "Swan Lake Rock Opera" created by Mirit Shem-Ur (book and lyrics), Tsedi Sarfati (director and dramaturge) and Sharona Pick (music production and additional music). The show …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:59AMThursday, October 21, 2021
Before the dancers appeared live, "Dance" commenced with a burst of Glass’ iconic, pulsating music—here pre-recorded, originally performed live—and a still from LeWitt’s original vid…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:26PMTuesday, October 19, 2021
The final work on Program 1 was its finest. A.I.M. By Kyle Abraham presented its director’s “Our Indigo: If We Were a Love Song,” a deeply moving paean to the darker meanings of love…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:23PMMonday, October 11, 2021
DiMurro writes with an acute sense of the rhythm of New York speech and its old-school jargon, helped by director William Roudebush’s complementary sense of timing, not to mention four exp…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:54AMSunday, October 3, 2021
The dances on this program are perfect examples of the Denishawn aesthetic which combined what was then exoticism with impeccable theatricality. The Denishawn troupe was very much of its t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:43PM 
