Friday, February 7, 2020
An author can be too close to his or her material so that the real story fails to be revealed. Inspired by his own family events, Buzz McLaughlin’s Sister Calling My Name has a fascinating…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:20PMFriday, January 31, 2020
The New York Pops’ latest concert, Find Your Dream, was a glorious tribute to nostalgia. Not only was it an evening of the beloved songs of Rodgers and Hammerstein with selectionsfrom all …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:31PMTuesday, January 28, 2020
Laura Linney is never one to avoid a challenge. When she last appeared at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre she was alternating in the roles of “Regina” and “Birdie…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:22PMMonday, January 27, 2020
When a playwright adapts a famous, well-known story for the stage the problem becomes how to tell it in a new way that makes it seem unfamiliar and fresh. Otherwise, why bother retelling it …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:51PMThursday, January 23, 2020
On paper the concept should not work: scenes and characters have been cut, a Shakespeare sonnet has been added set to music, as well as a Greek song, and four characters originally written f…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:36PMIt is not difficult to see what attracted Metropolitan Playhouse to Ardrey’s drama: its message that one cannot shut one’s self off from the problems of the world as the America First mo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:06AMWednesday, January 8, 2020
Speaking alternately, the six women talk of food, traditions, love, family, beliefs, ethics, dreams, abuse and New Zealand men. They speak of their dreams of a future and a better life. The …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:44PMSunday, December 29, 2019
Dion Boucicault’s "London Assurance" is still a witty and lively play after almost 180 years. With its farcical elements laid over a drawing room comedy plot, Charlotte Moore’s adroit pr…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:23PMFriday, December 27, 2019
Leland Fowler, Jamyl Dobson and Edward Mawere in a scene from Donja R. Love’s “one in two” in a world premiere production by The New Group at The Pershing Square Signature Center (Phot…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:36PMTuesday, December 24, 2019
Samuel H. Levine, Kyle Soller and Andrew Burnap in a scene from Matthew Lopez’s “The Inheritance” at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre (Photo credit: Marc Brenner) Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Ch…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:16PMMonday, December 23, 2019
A product of the tumultuous thirties whose work was banned by the Nazis even though he was not Jewish, Von Horváth was particularly interested in social criticism of the middle-class and wa…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:47PMSaturday, December 21, 2019
Beloved television stars Harry Hamlin (L.A. Law) and Stefanie Powers (Hart to Hart) return to the New York stage in Joshua Ravetch’s "One November Yankee" which they previously performed a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:25PMTuesday, December 17, 2019
Told in leisurely style, Greater Clements is about the decline (and possible fall) of the American dream. Hunter appears to be saying that this is a long-time coming and its roots go very de…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:49PMThursday, December 12, 2019
Alyssa May Gold, Rebecca Jimenez, Carmen Berkeley and Malika Samuel in a scene from Alexis Scheer’s “Our Dear Dead Drug Lord” at the McGinn/Cazale Theater (Photo credit: Shira Friedman…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:58PMTuesday, December 10, 2019
Tony Triano as Santa Claus in a scene from the Argyle Theatre production of Meredith Willson’s “Miracle on 34th Street, The Musical” (Photo credit: Richard Termine) Victor Gluck, Edito…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:04PMFriday, December 6, 2019
Another way to look at the play is as the twelve stages of man and woman, going Shakespeare five more steps. Unlike Tracy Letts’ Mary Page Marlowe, in which the heroine was played by a dif…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:26PMWednesday, December 4, 2019
Having won the 2014 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award for "I and You," this is the fourth production of a Lauren Gunderson play in New York since …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:50PMMonday, December 2, 2019
For those younger members of the audience who do not know Edmond Rostand’s classic French play, "Cyrano de Bergerac," the new musical "Cyrano" presented by The New Group at the Darryl Roth…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:17PMSaturday, November 30, 2019
While María Irene Fornés' "Fefu and Her Friends" is considered a feminist statement, in performance the play seems not to be very revealing about women or their positions other than the f…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:24PMFriday, November 29, 2019
Having had a success with Of Thee I Sing in 2017, MasterVoices had chosen to stage the sequel with an equally starry cast made up of most of the singers from the previous show in the same ro…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:46PMMonday, November 25, 2019
As produced by Bedlam in association with The Nora, Arthur Miller’s 1953 tragedy, "The Crucible," based on the Salem Witch Trials proves to be both riveting and relevant all over again. In…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:47PMFriday, November 22, 2019
Alan Lightman’s 1992 internationally best-selling novel "Einstein’s Dreams" would seem like an unlikely choice for stage adaptation as the original book is made up of 30 variations on th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:53PMTuesday, November 19, 2019
"Truffles: Music! Mushrooms! Murder!!!" is a dinner theater musical mystery set in the very restaurant (The Secret Room) where the audience is having dinner. This return engagement of the lo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:37PMMonday, November 18, 2019
"Slava’s Snowshow" is a unique experience. It is clowning of a sophisticated sort with its wordless skits which takes it beyond language. Its set pieces are outrageous enough to transcend …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:35PMFriday, November 15, 2019
Produced by Transport Group in association with The Public Theater and directed with precision, clarity and simplicity by Transport Group’s artistic director Jack Cummings III, this story …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:54PMSunday, November 10, 2019
There have been many adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth but none of them probably as entertaining as the new musical "Scotland, PA." Presented in the cartoon style of "Little Shop of Horr…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:46PMRichard Nelson’s latest play, "The Michaels" (subtitled a “Conversation During Difficult Times”) is a thing of beauty. Low-key like his "Apple Family" quartet and his "The Gabriels" tr…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:02PMFriday, November 8, 2019
As directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel, the play is fast-paced and engrossing and the smell of garlic coming from the stage convinces us that real cooking is going on. The completely working …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:53PMThursday, November 7, 2019
Plays about lives of quiet desperation are difficult to pull off because you run the risk of boring the audience. Liza Birkenmeier’s “Dr. Ride’s American Beach House” has all the ele…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:41PMSunday, November 3, 2019
Kathleen Chalfant adds another feather to her cap as Emily Dickinson’s posthumous editor Mabel Loomis Todd in the world premiere of Rebecca Gilman’s new one-woman play, "A Woman of the W…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:38PMSaturday, November 2, 2019
"The Lightning Thief - The Percy Jackson Musical" settles down a bit more in the second act and becomes more engrossing but the damage has been done. The actors in the first act all seem to …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:50PM 
