Monday, November 14, 2022
LaTanya Richardson Jackson (Samuel L. Jackson’s wife) has directed in a desultory fashion. Long, revealing monologues, the backbone of this particular play, are delivered directly to the…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:12AMThursday, November 10, 2022
Chung has the six characters played by three actors, each playing a parent/child duo switching from one to the other in confusing frequency. In addition, each actor plays a parent of the opp…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:02PMMonday, November 7, 2022
World events have inadvertently raised the significance of the New York City Center’s Annual Gala presentation of the brilliant new staging of the Jason Robert Brown/Alfred Uhry musical Pa…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:53PMSunday, November 6, 2022
You won’t find Vatican Falls on any map about picturesque raging waters. No, Frank J. Avella’s new play, "Vatican Falls," is, instead, a passionate, sometimes humorous, indictment of t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:44AMTuesday, November 1, 2022
The venerable, historic Negro Ensemble Company is presenting an intriguing program at the equally venerable, historic Cherry Lane Theatre: "Our Voices, Our Time: One-Act Play Festival." The …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:19PMSaturday, October 29, 2022
A scene from Twyla Tharp’s “In the Upper Room” at New York City Center (Photo credit: Benjamin Miller) Joel Benjamin, Critic When Twyla Tharp’s ballets are good, they are great: wor…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:00PMMonday, October 24, 2022
It’s not clear what Amaterasu Za’s mission is. If, as Dachs’ program comments indicate, it is to bring Japanese culture to modern audiences, the company needs to be less stodgy and m…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:35PMTuesday, October 18, 2022
Directed by Jeffrey L. Page (who also did the simplistic choreography) and Diane Paulus, this production’s well-meaning gimmick is to have all the historic characters played by a “cast t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:37AMMonday, October 10, 2022
Krevolin is a clever writer, turning Wilder’s American folk tale into a modern comedy/drama with relevance to today’s audiences. Although he often makes his points a bit too obviously …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:51PMMonday, October 3, 2022
"Men of Kyiv," choreographed to high-spirited traditional folk music by Pavlo Virsky, pitted two groups of men—one wearing blue T-shirts, the other yellow, the colors of the Ukrainian nati…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:57PMMonday, September 26, 2022
Perhaps the supreme dance festival in New York City, maybe even in the world, New York City Center’s Fall for Dance 2022 is celebrating its 19th year of presenting a panoply of domestic an…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:50PMWednesday, September 21, 2022
Greenspan isn’t always totally clear when switching points of view, but made up for this by turning the entire, long script into a wonderland of gestures, vocalizations, postures and movem…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:45PMSunday, September 18, 2022
"Love, Sex & Real Estate" moves swiftly, thanks to John D. McNally’s direction. He skillfully manages the quick shifts between romantic liaisons, real estate discussions, Ugo’s you…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:30PMMonday, September 12, 2022
From the clever double entendre title to its fantastical involvement of three famous long dead physicists, Carole Buggé’s "Strings Attached" tries very hard to rise out of the morass what…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:50PMMonday, August 29, 2022
If Samuel Beckett had been a Jew, his "Waiting for Godot"’s Estragon and Vladimir could have emerged as the equally quirky "Two Jews, Talking," in the appealing new two-hander by Ed. Weinb…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:17PMFriday, August 26, 2022
Part of Ramón’s game plan to increase attendance is to create a Randy’s Dandy Coaster Castle mascot. In a move that changes his life, Arlo is drafted to don a hilarious, smelly rat co…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:45PMFriday, August 19, 2022
The second Ashton ballet was "Varii Capricci," his clever take on Bronislava Nijinska’s "Les Biches" from 1924. Her ballet was a tongue-in-cheek comment on the sexually liberated, chic y…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:45PMFriday, August 12, 2022
The dancers were attired in puffy white tutus and black tights, the men bare-chested—chic costumes by the choreographer. They pranced, undulated their torsos, tossed each other around an…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:56PMWednesday, August 3, 2022
A tiny dynamo, Bell Wolff, early in her career, found the perfect role as Ermengarde in several productions of "Hello, Dolly!". She yearned to perform the bigger part of Minnie Faye and near…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:22PMFriday, July 29, 2022
Ng has a far-reaching imagination and spins the many stories and characters of her "Happy Life" with admiral skill and abandon. But it is just too heavy-handedly, head-scratchingly abstrus…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:34AMTuesday, July 19, 2022
The chips fall into place by the end of A Black and White Cookie, perhaps a bit too smoothly, but the path to the ending is well constructed and fascinating. Morgenstein has caught the nuanc…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:00PMSunday, July 17, 2022
It may be a bit unfair, but there’s no escaping comparing "Notre Dame De Paris," currently exploding on the stage of the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, with its immensely popular…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:17PMMonday, July 11, 2022
Pendleton, in a program note, assures us that "Alice" is not a retelling of Carroll’s book. Rather, he used some of the events and characters from the book, dividing the evening-length w…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:21PMTuesday, July 5, 2022
If you ever lived through the angst of an unrequited love, a romance impossible for one reason or another, then Billy Hipkins’ "Prince Charming, You’re Late" will hit the spot. Directe…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:00PMFriday, July 1, 2022
"The Rise and Fall, then Brief and Modest Rise Followed by a Relative Fall of…Jean Claude Van Damme as Gleaned by a Single Reading of His Wikipedia Page Months Earlier" is the brobdinagian…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:33PMSaturday, June 25, 2022
For the company’s director, Peter Boal, this short season was a homecoming of sorts. He was a principal dancer in the New York City Ballet which calls the David H. Koch its artistic home…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:46PMWednesday, June 22, 2022
Romy Nordlinger has written and is performing the monodrama, "Garden of Alla: The Alla Nazimova Story," at the TheaterLab. Directed by Lorca Peress, "Garden of Alla" gives us this eccentri…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:03PMFriday, June 17, 2022
The new work on the program, a world premiere, was “Hope Is the Thing with Feathers” by Michelle Manzanales, choreographed to John Lennon & Paul McCartney, Bob Marley, Harry Woods an…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:13PMMonday, June 13, 2022
Kaliski attempts a clever conceit marrying "The Oresteia" characters to the modern tragic story of the homeless hordes. Does "The Oresteia" provide an effective jumping off point to explore …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:42PMTuesday, 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 01:09PM 
