Sunday, February 9, 2025
The play is not very consistent with life in 1949. It is unlikely that middle class married women cursed, smoked marijuana, quoted Simone de Beauvoir or engaged in affairs with other women. …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:25PMFriday, January 31, 2025
Robin Lord Taylor as Tennessee Williams and Brandon Flynn as Marlon Brando in a scene from Gregg Ostrin’s “Kowalski” at The Duke on 42nd Street (Photo credit: Russ Rowland) Tennessee W…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:15PMTuesday, January 21, 2025
When the audience enters the theater, they are asked to fill out a slip of paper with one word that has been on their mind. Part of the show is made up of audience participation and these sl…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:42PMMonday, January 20, 2025
Not only are the paintings massive but they also cover all sorts of modern periods of art without Kissajukian having known their work (abstract work by Picasso, Matisse, Joan Miró, Jackson …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:41PMFriday, January 17, 2025
If only he had carried through on that idea. We will never know if this staging might have worked as Herskovits has sabotaged all that is best in the original and made it both more confusing…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:26PMTuesday, January 14, 2025
Audra McDonald in a scene from George C. Wolfe’s production of “Gypsy” at the Majestic Theatre (Photo credit: Julia Cervantes) Mama Rose in the musical Gypsy, the 1959 collaboration of…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:01PMThursday, December 26, 2024
Must you love your immediate family unconditionally if you know they drive you crazy? And must you show up for family gatherings like Christmas if it always evolves into a vicious fighting m…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:46PMWednesday, December 25, 2024
Typical of Singer stories about 19th century Polish Jewry, these three dramatizations combine Jewish mysticism and demonology with Baker as the narrator of two of the stories while also play…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:33PMTuesday, December 17, 2024
Director Shira Milikowsky keeps increasing the tension as the 85-minute play peels away revelation after revelation. Each man has a guilty secret and may have betrayed a friend which is eati…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:57PMWednesday, December 11, 2024
If one did not read Laura’s extensive program notes in the Playbill given out at the Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre at the A.R.T./New York Theatres, it would not be until three quarters o…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:30PMWednesday, December 4, 2024
The trio demonstrates that their voices are as supple and fine as they ever were. Each gets to play their best suit: Winokur’s loud, clarion voice, Bundy’s wry wit and Butler’s recount…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:39PMMonday, December 2, 2024
Katori Halls’ "The Blood Quilt" is fine as a family drama about warring sisters who both love and resent the mother who has just died. However, as a story of secrets and revelations it tak…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:38PMSaturday, November 30, 2024
There is much rewriting and updating plus uncalled for interpolation like speeches from 'Romeo and Juliet" for Jessica and one of Shakespeare’s sonnets (“My Mistress’ eyes are nothing …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:41PMWednesday, November 27, 2024
Katie Brayben in a scene from Elton John’s new musical “Tammy Faye” at the Palace Theatre (Photo credit: Matthew Murphy) Tammy Faye, the new Broadway musical arriving at the recently r…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:43PMTuesday, November 26, 2024
Besides the fact that many know the story of the Essex (later told in Melville’s "Moby Dick") or the Mignonette told in The Avett Brothers’ album of the same name, Logan has made his mai…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:55PMSunday, November 24, 2024
How can you make a new play about a couple on a blind date in a bar interesting for today’s jaded audience? In "Strategic Love Play," British playwright Miriam Battye makes them play games…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:56PMSaturday, November 23, 2024
Arliss Howard and Marisa Tomei in a scene from The New Group’s production of Jessica Goldberg’s “Babe” at The Pershing Square Signature Center (Photo credit: Monique Carboni) If you …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:53PMWednesday, November 20, 2024
Helen J Shen and Darren Criss in a scene from the new musical “Maybe Happy Ending” at the Belasco Theatre (Photo credit: Matthew Murphy & Evan Zimmerman) The new musical Maybe Happy …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:26PMSunday, November 17, 2024
Firstly, the play has been shortened to two hours without any intermissions, when most recent productions have been three and a half hours with one intermission. This makes all of the events…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:28PMTuesday, November 12, 2024
Nevertheless, the play is one of several interesting takes on climate change in the theater recently like "Deep History." As the play evolves we are more and more immersed in the problems of…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:29PMMonday, November 11, 2024
This is another one of those cut down versions of Shakespeare with only ten actors in total. As result, seven of the ten actors double (one triples). The problem is that almost all of the ac…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:08PMSunday, November 3, 2024
David Pittu, Victoria Clark and John Ellison Conlee in a scene from the MasterVoices concert production of the Gershwins’ “Strike Up the Band” at Carnegie Hall on October 29, 2024 (Pho…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:50PMThursday, October 31, 2024
Following her star turn as “Celine Dion” in "Titaníque" which she co-wrote, Marla Mindelle has a new role in "The Big Gay Jamboree," another parody musical which she co-wrote with Jonat…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:38PMTuesday, October 29, 2024
Adam Driver in a scene from Kenneth Lonergan’s “Hold on to Me Darling” at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (Photo credit: Julieta Cervantes) Film and stage star Adam Driver has stepped into …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:54PMSunday, October 27, 2024
Although the play is graceful and appealing, it is mainly presented in narrative form with Delia played by Julianna Margulies in New York and Peter Gallagher playing Dr. Peter Rutter, her su…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:21PMSaturday, October 26, 2024
Wilder’s experimental play uses no scenery except for two tables, some chairs, a piano and usually two ladders for the upstairs bedroom windows of the young people. Here, however, Leon and…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:45PMWednesday, October 23, 2024
Directed by Annette Mees, "Deep History" is a real eye opener but it is not depressing. Finnigan is so upbeat and compelling a storyteller it is not possible not be pulled into events as he …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:32PMTuesday, October 22, 2024
Lloyd Suh writes quirky historical plays from a unique perspective as ironic comedies. In "Franklinland," the latest entry in the EST/Sloan Project, commissioning and developing plays about …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:17PMMonday, October 21, 2024
James Ijames’ new play now at The Public Theater is quite different from his satiric Pulitzer Prizing-winning "Fat Ham" which appeared there two years ago. "Good Bones" is a realistic de…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:55PMThursday, October 17, 2024
While "Sump’n Like Wings" is a lovely little play about a feisty 16-year-old girl who wants her independence in the 1913-16 period just after Oklahoma became a state, unfortunately Raelle …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:47PMTuesday, October 15, 2024
As in Ayad Akhtar’s plays "Disgraced," "JUNK" and "The Who and the What," all of which have been produced by the Lincoln Center Theater, "McNeal" is always interesting, always arresting. U…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:53PM 
