Monday, May 2, 2022
This 2022 "Macbeth" appears to be entirely a director’s project, but Sam Gold has done his actors no service with the busy activity he has added to the play. Fine actors like Daniel Craig …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:55AMFriday, April 29, 2022
Taking the law into your own hands can be a risky business as Harry Wade and friends find out in Martin McDonagh’s hilarious dark comedy "Hangmen" which finally made its Broadway debut aft…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:34PMSunday, April 24, 2022
Tracy Letts’ "The Minutes" is both a fine political comedy as well as an indictment of how most Americans live today. It ultimately asks us to look at our values as well as our connection …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:52PMTuesday, April 19, 2022
Playwright Martin Crimp, an adherent of the ”in-yer-face” school of British playwriting, has taken Edmond Rostand’s turn-of-the-last century verse drama, Cyrano de Bergerac, and not on…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:31PMMonday, April 18, 2022
Although 25 years have gone by since "Harmony" first tried out at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego, the Barry Manilow/Bruce Sussman musical about the Comedian Harmonists is still relevant…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:28AMFriday, April 15, 2022
"Birthday Candles" also has an unusual theatrical device: we follow Ernestine Ashford from 17 to 107 meeting her on her various birthdays that are depicted. The other characters come and g…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:01PMMonday, April 11, 2022
As the most respected player in baseball, Williams has a quiet dignity and charm as a man of few words and few outward motions. While his wry remarks do not often come through as humor, he i…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:04PMThursday, April 7, 2022
The musical gets a great deal of mileage out of its humor particular in its parody of recognizable tropes. "Penelope, Or How The Odyssey Was Really Written" is an entertaining musical comedy…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:51PMSunday, April 3, 2022
On one level, "Gong Lum’s Legacy" is revealing in that it demonstrates Southern racism against not only African Americans but also Chinese immigrants who were given the same treatment. On …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:52PMThursday, March 31, 2022
Given one hour to decide and vote, the union committee must come to a decision in real time. On one level the play is very much like Reginald Rose’s "12 Angry Men" in which a group of disp…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:08PMMonday, March 28, 2022
Poet and Yale professor Rankine’s play makes use of a narrator/interviewer as her stand-in played by April Matthis. According to program notes by Rankine herself, “The text spoken by whi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:21PMSunday, March 27, 2022
While Gabriel Jason Dean’s "Heartland" is an enlightening play about Afghan culture mentioning the classic poet Rumi and the contemporary novelist Atiq Rahimi, some of it will still be opa…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:48PMMonday, March 21, 2022
As a play about neuroscience, Sam Chanse’s "what you are now" needs a great deal more data and information. As a play about the plight of Cambodian refugees, what are you now needs to be c…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:06PMSunday, March 20, 2022
Although when MasterVoices chose the third of the four Stephen Sondheim/Arthur Laurents collaborations, "Anyone Can Whistle," as part of their 80th season at Carnegie Hall, they had no way o…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:18PMThursday, March 17, 2022
C. Julian Jiménez’s "Bruise & Thorn" is not for everyone. Older theatergoers may be put off by both the raw language and street slang that they will not know. However, if you want to …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:26PMTuesday, March 15, 2022
Page 73’s world premiere of John J. Caswell, Jr.’s "Man Cave" is an exciting, riveting supernatural horror story. While at times it seems overwrought and overstuffed with too many issues…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:52PMWednesday, March 9, 2022
The world premiere of Peter Gil-Sheridan’s "This Space Between Us" gives itself away in its title: it is about a dysfunctional family that does nothing but argue when they get together. Jo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:56PMTuesday, March 8, 2022
Aleshea Harris’ third New York stage play following her form-bending "Is God Is" and "What to Send Up When It Goes Down" is epic in all senses of the word: it includes poetry, dance, incan…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:40PMFriday, March 4, 2022
The production is a combination of film and theater techniques which keep reminding us that we are watching a dramatization: realistic sets (designed by Jacquelyn Scott) give way to scenes i…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:46PMMonday, February 28, 2022
You may have never thought about it before but you are defined by your language. Your identity is shaped by the words you have and the words you don’t. You can say certain things in one la…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:30PMThursday, February 24, 2022
The Mint Theater Company which gave the first New York production of "The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd," Lawrence’s best play and one of the great British tragedies of modern drama, has revive…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:33PMTuesday, February 22, 2022
Because of changing social mores, some Broadway musicals are assumed to make audiences uncomfortable today. Take for example Rodgers and Hammerstein’s "Carousel" whose protagonist is a wif…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:39PMSaturday, February 19, 2022
"Black No More," the new musical inspired by George S. Schuyler’s 1931 Afrofuturist novel, is the most exciting and inventive new show to be seen so far this season in New York though it i…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:49PMWednesday, February 16, 2022
Arin Arbus, resident director at Theatre for a New Audience, staging her tenth classic for them took a great risk with her new production of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice: not only …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:51PMTuesday, February 15, 2022
Hansol Jung’s "Wolf Play" is a fantasy on several levels but it is also rather confusing in its details. Inspired by the true case of an Asian adoptee who was “re-homed” on the Interne…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:55PMFriday, February 11, 2022
The new opera, "Intimate Apparel" is a very impressive, accessible work. If it has a fault, it is completely humorless but then the original play did not include comic relief either. Unlike …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:17PMTuesday, February 8, 2022
Joshua Harmon’s latest play, the dense, untidy, brilliant and timely Prayer for the French Republic, is his most ambitious, epical play covering five generations of one French Jewish famil…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:12PMSunday, February 6, 2022
Warning: "Shhhh," a world premiere commissioned by Atlantic Theater Company from Clare Barron, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize-winner for "Dance Nation," may just be the most visceral play you w…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:44PMMonday, January 31, 2022
While Gordon has said in interviews that his model for the music was Puccini, in fact, the atonal orchestral score sounds more like operas by Gian Carlo Menotti, Carlisle Floyd and Dominick …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:14PMSaturday, January 22, 2022
The songs which are mainly sung by Alex Boniello (usually with a guitar) and Molly Hager as the ghostly narrators are folk ballads which though lovely sound like a continuation of the same s…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:51PMTuesday, January 18, 2022
"Ectoplasm" counts among its themes and topics: poetry, women’s rights, prostitution, women’s suffrage, love, death, the paranormal, the supernatural, fraudulent mediums – and the love…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:40AM 
