Thursday, December 19, 2019
Israeli-born choreographer Zvi Gotheiner created "Maim ('Water' in Hebrew)," a somber meditation on water, drought, misery, community and survival for seven members of ZviDance, all brillian…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:34PMFriday, December 13, 2019
Ensemble Signal, Marjorie Folkman, Daniel Pettrow and Kristen Foote in a scene from “Peter & the Wolf,” costumes by Isaac Mizrahi, choreography by John Heginbotham (Photo credit: Dan…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:00PMWednesday, December 11, 2019
After marveling at Ken Jennings’ power of memorization, one has to admire his ability to deliver the entire text of "The Gospel of John" with unwavering clarity and devotion to its meaning…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:09PMMonday, December 9, 2019
Goldfaden’s escapist musical fantasy combines bits and pieces from many sources: the Cinderella fairy tale; Gilbert-and-Sullivan-esque rapid-fire, tongue twister songs; old-fashioned (even…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:25PMWednesday, November 27, 2019
His more abstract ballets for The Chase Brock Experience, such as its current presentation at Theatre Row, "The Four Seasons" to the Vivaldi score (a revival from 2006), did not fare quite a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:11AMSunday, November 24, 2019
Do we really need another Jukebox Musical on Broadway—another hum-along, sing-along, déjà vu, vaguely autobiographical songfest? When the subject is as charged up as Tina Turner, the ans…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:47PMTuesday, November 19, 2019
Artistic director Enrique Cruz DeJesus presented a performance of Alpha Omega in preparation for the troupe’s fiftieth anniversary season next year. This concert featured two works by th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:18PMSaturday, November 16, 2019
Tiffany Mills’ "Not then, not yet," a world premiere dance/theater work at The Flea proposed a dark, slightly chaotic view of relationships and alienation choreographed on her own troupe, …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:26AMWednesday, November 13, 2019
In 1957 Truman Capote disingenuously misled the legendary actor Marlon Brando into opening up to him under the guise of helping to publicize the soppy melodrama, Sayonara which Brando was th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:07PMTuesday, November 5, 2019
In a counterintuitive casting coup, handsome Jonathan Groff stars as the nebbish Seymour Krelborn who works at Mushnik’s (a funny, kvetchy Tom Alan Robbins) failing flower shop on Skid Row…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:04PMWednesday, October 30, 2019
On Broadway every once in a while writing, acting, directing and the technical production come together to profound, memorable effect. Adam Rapp’s "The Sound Inside" at Studio 54 is a su…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:36PMMonday, October 21, 2019
"Games" shines a light on the long forgotten stories of two Jewish athletes in post-World War I Germany, a Germany that slid into National Socialism by the 1930’s, effecting the lives of H…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:16PMWednesday, October 16, 2019
Monica Bill Barnes totally changed the mood with her thoroughly delightful “The Running Show” which used physical contests as a metaphor for dance. Barnes stood in the midst of sixteen…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:33AMMonday, October 14, 2019
The final work, “Unveiling” by Sonya Tayeh, director of Tayeh Dance, known now as the choreographer of the Broadway hit 'Moulin Rouge!," used a trio which appeared to be about a female (…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:02PMThursday, October 10, 2019
It is Ginger Grace as Amanda that is the crowning glory of this production. Though slender and frail looking, she is still a powerful, if bothersome figure, memories of a golden southern b…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:21AMThursday, October 3, 2019
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s "The Little Prince" (1943) has been studied, analyzed, and staged as any number of plays, ballets, musicals and an unsuccessful film. So, it was with great in…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:00PMThese four characters are, unfortunately, not interesting enough to fill a 90-minute musical, especially one that covers territory better served by other shows like "A Chorus Line," "Fame" a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:30PMSunday, September 22, 2019
Quite simply, Rubberband, the Montreal-based dance troupe’s season at The Joyce Theater was a spectacular success. Directed by Victor Quijada, Rubberband performed his "Ever So Slightly,…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:54PMSaturday, September 14, 2019
The trouble is Lee’s almost catatonic approach to Gene. He speaks in a toneless monotone and adapts a monolithic physical approach, his hands constantly held stiffly at his sides. When…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:39PMWednesday, September 11, 2019
What raised "The Ringdove" above mere creative story-time theater was the exquisite artwork and detailed performances. The perfect, colorful costumes (by Casey Compton) that evoked everyth…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:04PMFriday, August 23, 2019
Presented at Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater by the China Arts and Entertainment Group Ltd., the company used its impressive resource of dancers in two large-scale ballets: "Godde…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:34PMSunday, August 11, 2019
Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival 2019 presented the lavish, yet somehow intimate, "Under Siege," a stunning production of the Yang Liping Contemporary Dance Company of China.Its chi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:17AMSaturday, August 10, 2019
The Joyce Theater is presenting a two-week Ballet Festival, four programs under the artistic direction of Kevin O’Hare, director of The Royal Ballet. Each program is curated by a differe…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:28PMJoseph Sissens in Sir Frederick Ashton’s “Dance of the Blessed Spirits,” in The Joyce Theater’s Ballet Festival (Program A) (Photo credit: Maria Baranova)The Joyce Theater is present…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:34PMMonday, August 5, 2019
Co-conceived by Asante and Kenrik “H2O” Sandy who choreographed and directed the production, "Blak Whyte Gray" was constructed in two parts and three sections. Part I began with “Why…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:23PMTuesday, July 30, 2019
The title of playwright Dianne Nora’s fascinating new work, "Monica: This Play is Not About Monica Lewinsky," is disingenuous. Is it about you-know-who? Well, yes and no. There were …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:08PMFriday, July 26, 2019
How Freddie resolves his amorous adventures is cleverly handled by Blackstone using an imaginative combination of ballet, modern dance, mime and popular dance forms. The score is made up o…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:57PMThursday, July 18, 2019
Russian-born Maria Kochetkova, the petite ballerina who spent the major portion of her career with the San Francisco Ballet, has turned herself into a small-scale Diaghilev. Her Maria Koch…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:54PM"Six Years Old" is a gem of a play, its facets polished by the director Helen Handelman. Every emotional revelation, no matter how subtle is illuminated by the acting of its four-member ca…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:00PMFriday, July 12, 2019
The world premiere “Sport,” choreographed to more than twenty bits and pieces by Erik Satie, appropriately named “Sports et divertissements” (played by the brilliant pianist Colin Fo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:22PMThursday, July 11, 2019
The second part of the program was a bonanza of Bournonville excerpts, danced to not particularly memorable scores, that worked well even without colorful scenery. The beautiful, colorful …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:10PM 
