Monday, March 4, 2024
Playwright Joyce Griffen’s idea of farce in her new play "The Script in the Closet" is a series of 48, mostly very short scenes in which to keep the plot going she continually introduces n…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:50PMThursday, February 29, 2024
While "The Seven Year Disappear" may challenge and confuse many theatergoers, people used to performance art may get the in-jokes. Jordan Seavey whose play "Homos, or Everyone in America" wa…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:08PMTuesday, February 27, 2024
While we could use a good murder mystery stage play, "Deadly Stages" is too derivative to suit the bill. The cast work hard mostly playing multiple roles, but the play seems to have attempte…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:47PMSunday, February 25, 2024
When she arrives dressed in a white pant suit, Labeija steals the stage with Hillary’s number “Miss Me Now” which trumps them all with a series of Broadway parodies paying tribute to C…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:46PMMonday, February 19, 2024
At the performance under review, part of the audience found the show hilariously funny, while others proverbially sat on their hands. The show makes use of history, parody, satire, burlesque…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:47PMSaturday, February 17, 2024
Inspired by 20th century film and video games based on the classic Chinese novel of the 15th century, 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms," Damon Chua’s delightful and engrossing "Warrior Siste…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:51PMFriday, February 16, 2024
Unfortunately, at 70 minutes the play seems skimpy. Structured in a great many short scenes, only one thing happens in each, so that there is a sameness to it all. Basically a two character …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:53PMThursday, February 15, 2024
Like its unwieldy title, Corinne Jaber’s "Munich Medea: Happy Family" takes its time getting where it is going but is ultimately powerful and revealing in its almost unspeakable tale. It d…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:51PMTuesday, February 13, 2024
Sarah Gancher’s "Russian Troll Farm: A Workplace Comedy" is seemingly torn from the headlines - if this were the lead-up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election which pitted Hillary Clinton…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:41PMWednesday, February 7, 2024
Although written and directed by Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone of 600 Highwaymen, "The Following Evening" is a tribute and a summing up of the 50 year career and marriage of experim…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:14PMSaturday, February 3, 2024
The play is best at its mysteries which are only slowly revealed. However, audience members may be confused part of the time as to the sequence of events and the relationships. A great deal …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:46AMSunday, January 28, 2024
The title of Michael Aguirre’s "The Greatest Hits Down Route 66," the story of the Franco family’s road trip during the summer of 1999, refers to Carl Sandburg’s 1927 "The American Son…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:20PMFriday, January 26, 2024
Tadeusz Slobodzianek’s "Our Class" is epic in its storytelling and shocking in its specifics. At three hours, the play is never long or boring as every line of dialogue offers new details …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:58PMTuesday, January 23, 2024
While “Pride” has come to stand for Gay Liberation in contemporary times, Beatrice has named her house after Jane Austen’s novel as it is made clear when she names her new guesthouse �…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:44AMWednesday, January 10, 2024
Not only is Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ "Appropriate" a classic American family drama with a new wrinkle, it is also a trenchant and scorching look at American racism which is just under the s…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:58PMMonday, January 8, 2024
Aside from the title not being explained, the Jean Graham-Jones translation seems to end very abruptly. Nothing is settled at the end of its short running time and it certainly feels like mo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:43PMWednesday, December 27, 2023
Joy filled Carnegie Hall with The New York Pops’ annual two-night Christmas concert entitled "The Best Christmas of All" led by genial host, music director and conductor Steven Reineke. Th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:04PMTuesday, December 26, 2023
The latest Tennessee Williams revival is the first major New York staging of "The Night of the Iguana" since Roundabout Theatre’s 1996 production. Emily Mann’s version with a great many …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:19PMWednesday, December 20, 2023
While the exciting new stage musical Buena Vista Social Club shares the same name with the acclaimed 1999 documentary by Wim Wenders, playwright Marco Ramirez’s book for the new show takes…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:41PMThursday, December 14, 2023
Mary Kathryn Nagle’s "Manahatta" now at The Public Theater, just blocks from where most of the story takes place, is a fascinating combination of American history and recent events. Nagle …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:47PMWednesday, December 13, 2023
Until now it has been believed that the 1937 Joris Ivens-Ernest Hemingway documentary "The Spanish Earth" was paid for by a corporation called Contemporary Historians sponsored by some of th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:46PMThursday, December 7, 2023
Playing women of a certain age, four women stars of stage and screen who became famous a while ago play friends of a certain age who meet for a birthday brunch in Sandra Tsing Loh’s "Madwo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:48PMMonday, December 4, 2023
"The Jerusalem Syndrome" is a pleasant new musical comedy with some fine clever songs and good comic moments. However, Don Stephenson’s production does not take the farcical elements far e…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:37PMSunday, December 3, 2023
Michael John LaChiusa’s "The Gardens of Anuncia" is an interesting attempt to tell choreographer Graciela Daniele’s adolescent story. Unfortunately, as of now the show does not make the …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:44PMWednesday, November 29, 2023
"Hell’s Kitchen" is both ambitious and noble in its intentions. However, as of now the show on the stage of The Newman at The Public Theater is not there yet. With very few characters deve…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:43PMSunday, November 26, 2023
Milo Cramer’s delightful solo musical "School Pictures," part of a festival of new one person shows running in repertory at Playwrights Horizons, is wildly inventive, hilarious funny, and …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:58PMSaturday, November 25, 2023
As Kenneth/Kate Marlowe, Wade McCollum not only becomes the character but inhabits it. Required to act as narrator as well as performer in both male and female attire, McCollum is totally co…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:53AMFriday, November 24, 2023
The pairing of Broadway legends Sutton Foster and Kelli O’Hara proved felicitous just like the previous pairing of Julie Andrews and Carol Burnett, with each lady using her special gifts: …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:57PMTuesday, November 21, 2023
Ironically there is no rapport or chemistry between Shannon and Sparks playing friends who have been traveling together for 50 years. As Estragon, in need of sleep and with shoes that don’…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:53PMFriday, November 17, 2023
This being Bedlam famous for its experimental revivals, the second act is handled differently. The audience is asked to leave their seats in the amphitheater and when they return are given o…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:08PMThursday, November 16, 2023
Although playwright Qui Nguyen declared early in his earlier play "Vietgone" that “all characters appearing in this work are fictitious,” in his sequel "Poor Yella Rednecks" now at Manha…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:08PM 
