Friday, March 17, 2023
While playwright Scovell has a facility for language, she does not have the wit to mimic Wilde’s classic one-liners. Instead, she borrows expressions from the play and attempts to imitate …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:01PMTuesday, March 14, 2023
While this first New York revival of the 1995 "Crumbs from the Table of Joy" does not reach the heights of Nottage’s later Pulitzer Prize-winning plays, "Ruined" and "Sweat," it proves to …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:13PMSunday, March 12, 2023
Eric Bogosian’s latest play to reach New York is his 2008 "1+1" which feels like a made for television movie written without taking into consideration the #MeToo movement that has occurred…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:09PMSaturday, March 11, 2023
Shayok Misha Chowdhury’s "Public Obscenities" having its world premiere at the Soho Rep is an immersive story into Bengali culture in Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta. Directed by the a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:36PMMonday, March 6, 2023
Unfortunately, the latest revival now at the BAM Harvey Theater cannot be counted as having reversed the play’s fortunes. It still seems vastly overwritten and verbose as it attempts to co…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:41PMAlexander Zeldin’s "LOVE" seems much longer than it actually is due to much silence and the reenactment of everyday tasks usually skipped onstage in plays. There is little dialogue and wha…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:18AMFriday, March 3, 2023
Aside from the problem of which translation from the Russian to use, the thorny problem with American productions of the plays of playwright Anton Chekhov is how to deal with the fact the …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:46PMWednesday, March 1, 2023
Originally entitled "Francie Nolan," the same as the title character of her later "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," but unrelated to that story except for sharing its Brooklyn setting, the play do…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:03PMTuesday, February 28, 2023
The second play of Samuel D. Hunter’s residency at Signature Theatre is the first New York revival of his 2011 Obie Award winning 'A Bright New Boise," not seen by too many people in its s…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:39PMFriday, February 24, 2023
Although British playwright Simon Stephens has written three musicals with composer/lyricist Mark Eitzel, formerly of the indie rock band American Music Club, Cornelia Street, set on a quiet…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:46AMTuesday, February 21, 2023
The latest play to reach New York by Anna Ziegler, author of 'Photography 51," "Boy," "The Last Match" and "Actually," has a complicated structure she appears to have invented. "The Wanderer…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:45PMSunday, February 19, 2023
The problem with rediscovering lost plays from the past is that works that are 100 years old may have gotten dated or express views no longer held. Back in the 1920’s, Harlem Renaissance a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:51PMTuesday, February 14, 2023
When the Countess Olivia played by glamorous Christina Sajous declares “How wonderful!” in the final scene of The Classical Theatre of Harlem’s return engagement of its production of W…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:20PMTuesday, January 31, 2023
Unfortunately, this is musical comedy and does not need operatic voices, Lawrence being famously a singer with a very small range, while Kaye came from cabaret and night club. With all of th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:40PMMonday, January 30, 2023
"Ari Wind’s Inner Circle" is so incredible that it defies the imagination. Can these be called sleights of hand when we see everything that happens at all times? It is the sort of show tha…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:44PMSaturday, January 28, 2023
Singer/songwriter Jill Sobule’s life story is on display in the charming cabaret musical "F*ck7thGrade" – with a difference. Sobule, the original “I Kissed a Girl” composer/lyricist,…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:29PMTuesday, January 24, 2023
"Small Talk," like its title suggests, is less unified than Quinn’s earlier shows. He also uses its format to wander from topic to topic, seemingly randomly without much structure. It allo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:39PMNot only is Livian Yeh’s "Memorial" revealing in its historic depiction of a recent piece of American history, it is additionally a very satisfying dramatic work. It is also very pertinent…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:46AMThursday, January 19, 2023
Eduardo Machado’s 11th play to premiere at Theater for the New City is called "Not About Me" which is a complete misnomer as it is about his life for the last 40 years with his alter ego a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:04PMMonday, January 16, 2023
Ivan Faute’s "The Dog Show" is ambitious in trying to tell a story by holding back on the details. Unfortunately, the method has grave, unresolved problems. For most of the first act we ha…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:57PMMonday, January 9, 2023
While Bettany and Pope are each very convincing as Warhol and Basquiat since they are made up to look exactly like they did in life, they seem to be in two different plays, using different a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:30PMThursday, January 5, 2023
While Albert Bergeret’s old-fashioned production does not sparkle, it is a solid, steady ship that satisfies with all its jokes intact plus a few new ones like the hilarious drunken scene …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:58PMTuesday, January 3, 2023
Under the direction of Karl Janes and Andy Smith, Tim Crouch is a very commanding performer, using his resonant baritone to paint pictures with words, holding our attention at all times. Nar…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:58PMWednesday, December 21, 2022
McDonald is mesmerizing as she speaks Kennedy’s strong, clear, poetic and evocative prose. We never forget that McDonald’s Suzanne Alexander is giving a lecture but she changes ages in a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:57PMTuesday, December 20, 2022
Michael Shannon, Hari Nef, Heather Alicia Simms, Arliss Howard and Johanna Day in a scene from Denis Johnson’s “Des Moines” at Theatre for a New Audience (Photo credit: Gerry Goldstein…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:44PMSunday, December 18, 2022
In any event, Ruhl has not written a play set in 1692 or a sequel to "The Crucible" but a comedy about free-spirited Becky Nurse, a descendant of the accused witch Rebecca Nurse, a pious 71-…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:55PMMonday, December 12, 2022
Erik Ehn’s title "The Weak and the Strong" taken from St. Paul may refer to the bad choices that some people make that others avoid, but it seems to only reinforce the clichés of most wes…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:15PMSaturday, December 10, 2022
Jordan E. Cooper’s scathing new racial comedy, "Ain’t No Mo’" has made the successful transition to Broadway with five of the six original actors from the previous Public Theater stagi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:22PMTuesday, December 6, 2022
Famed performance artist John Kelly has brought his latest show, "Underneath the Skin" to La MaMa, subtitled “A Penetrative Portrayal of a Queer Giant Based on the life and work of Samuel …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:25PMWednesday, November 30, 2022
The cast is a combination of New York stage favorites (Stark Sands, "Kinky Boots," and Betsy Wolfe, "Waitress," "Falsettos" and "The Mystery of Edwin Drood"), new faces (Lorna Courtney, Ben …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:19PMSunday, November 27, 2022
Visually the show pulls out all of the stops continually making stage magic. Every scene offers new scenic effects and things that appear impossible but are right there on stage before you, …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:55PM 
