Sunday, May 3, 2015
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Directed by the usually innovative Diane Paulus (whose credits include the critically acclaimed "Hair," "Porgy and Bess," "Pippin"), "Finding Ne…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:29PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 29, 2015
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Unlike D'Amour's last New York play, "Detroit," a Pulitzer Prize finalist which had four characters and a tight arc, "Airline Highway" is diffus…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 28, 2015
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As deftly adapted by British playwright Mike Poulton and vigorously directed by Jeremy Herrin, the plays on the stage of the Winter Garden vivid…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 21, 2015
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Though this sophisticated story was intended for equally sophisticated adults as part of the mores and manners of a society and culture gone wit…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:44PM[SHARE]Friday, April 17, 2015
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The first problem is the attractive modern setting by Walt Spengler of the wedding breakfast of Claudius and Gertrude with a huge cake in the ba…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 15, 2015
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Like Laura Eason's "Sex with Strangers" seen at The Second Stage last summer, "The Undeniable Sound of Right Now," her new play having its world…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:24PM[SHARE]Friday, April 10, 2015
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Ironically, the only script that has survived is the original one by Hebert Fields (Annie Get Your Gun) and Morrie Ryskind (Pulitzer Prize for O…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:01PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 9, 2015
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ERC's unusual evening includes music by Ernest Chausson, Cécile Chaminade and Jacques Offenbach, video taken from George Méliès' silent film …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:57PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 8, 2015
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Since Bedlam theatre company arrives on the radar in 2013, theatergoers have left their performances as devoted fans. Beginning with acclaimed p…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:19PM[SHARE]Friday, April 3, 2015
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The best revival of the season to date, Roundabout's On the Twentieth Century is as streamlined and fast-paced as the actual train and twice as …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:13PM[SHARE]Monday, March 23, 2015
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Bathsheba Doran's new drama, "The Mystery of Love & Sex," now at Lincoln Center Theater's Mitzi E. Newhouse, is yet another play whose titl…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:28PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 22, 2015
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Director Anna D. Shapiro, usually associated with heavier dramas from such authors as Kenneth Lonergan, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Tracy Letts, Bruce…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 19, 2015
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Sometimes stage properties that have been forgotten are lost for a good reason. "Hazel Flagg" is one of those shows. Jule Styne completists, how…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:24PM[SHARE]Monday, March 16, 2015
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Though totally unknown to Americans, Ferenc Molnár's "Fashions for Men" is another treasure newly unearthed by the reliable Mint Theater. Dav…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:25PM[SHARE]This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief
Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's eye-opening The World of Extreme Happiness reveals the urgent problems in contemporary China in which people from rural …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:52PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 12, 2015
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Not seen locally since 1979, Musicals Tonight! is giving this light-hearted romp another outing as a concert staging in the Goodspeed Opera Hous…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 11, 2015
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While Broadhurst is most famous today for the Shubert theater named after him on 44th Street, in his own time he was an expert at light comedy a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:13AM[SHARE]Monday, March 9, 2015
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The advantage of an evening of one acts is that you are bound to like one, while a single long play may disappoint you. After a series of very …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:14PM[SHARE]Friday, March 6, 2015
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Alexander Hamilton may have been the unsung hero among the Founding Fathers of the American Revolution but a new musical will change all that. "…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:47PM[SHARE]Monday, March 2, 2015
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Playwright Jennifer Haley describes her work as delving "into ethics in virtual reality and the impact of technology on our human relationships,…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:26PM[SHARE]Friday, February 27, 2015
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"The Winter's Tale" is classified as one of Shakespeare's "problem plays" or "dark comedies" and as such it does not get produced very often. Un…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:56PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 24, 2015
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Playwright Lucy Thurber is angry about the state of things in America today. As a result she has written an angry play about her feelings and gi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:01PM[SHARE]Monday, February 23, 2015
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Under the assured direction of Cynthia Nixon, renowned actresses Tony Pinkins and Diane Wiest turn Joel Drake Johnson's "Rasheeda Speaking" into…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 18, 2015
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New York Theatre Workshop is hosting Britain's Actors Touring Company production of Scottish playwright David Greig's acclaimed Edinburgh Festiv…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:47PM[SHARE]Monday, February 16, 2015
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Hugely talented singer-comedienne Christina Bianco has become famous for her "Forbidden Broadway" and YouTube appearances where she has performe…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:17PM[SHARE]Friday, February 13, 2015
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While Alan Govenar's "Texas in Paris" is not a musical in the traditional sense, it is definitely a concert in the literal sense. It is also an …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:23PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 10, 2015
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Unlike Strindberg's Dream Play, it is not always possible tell what is real and what is dreamed from what the main characters say. Aside from th…
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