Friday, August 31, 2018
Although "Smokey Joe’s Café" has been seen in New York before, the new production now at Stage 42 is an entirely different incarnation of the show that still holds the record for Broadway…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:14PMThursday, August 30, 2018
The mellow sound of Brandt’s score proves to be easy listening, but the individual musical numbers do not build to any dramatic climaxes so that the show seems tamer than material concerni…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:41PMWednesday, August 29, 2018
"Days to Come" fills in the gap in Hellman’s career between her first play, the controversial "The Children’s Hour," and the immediate successors, the hugely commercial hit and often rev…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:40PMMonday, August 27, 2018
"Be More Chill" is an impressive musical version of Ned Vizzini’s cult novel. Not only does it reproduce the plot on stage, it also gives it a high tech look that dramatizes the story wher…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:58AMThursday, August 23, 2018
The clever invention is that each of them has a best friend who only they can see and hear: Neurosis (Brennan Caldwell) is Frank’s best buddy, a more cautious, nervous version of Frank, an…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:08PMMonday, August 20, 2018
If the show plays like it was written by a committee, in fact, it has been. The book is by producer/ writer Ken Davenport and The Grundleshotz who turn out to be a group of performers and wr…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:03PMFriday, August 17, 2018
Comedian/monologist Mike Birbiglia, best known for "Sleepwalk with Me," has the remarkable knack of finding humor in autobiographical crises that shouldn’t be funny but in his hands are up…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:05PMFriday, August 10, 2018
Shaina Taub’s joyful and sunny updated musical version of Shakespeare’s comedy, "Twelfth Night," is back in a full production courtesy of Free Shakespeare in the Park and Public Works wh…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:58PMThursday, August 9, 2018
Under Michael Mayer’s fast-paced direction, "Head Over Heels" starts badly and busily but eventually slows down to a delightful Elizabethan parody on love and gender. While not all of The …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:00PMWednesday, August 8, 2018
Along with its twists and turns, Bohjalian’s "Grounded" is so fully explored that it is hard to believe that it is a first play. On the long wait on the runway at Kennedy Airport for a fli…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:12PMTuesday, August 7, 2018
Gardley makes use of a little known piece of American history: while Louisiana was under Spanish and later French rule, it had a three-tiered racial system. Aside from white settlers and bla…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:57AMSunday, August 5, 2018
The plays in Summer Shorts 2018 - Festival of New American Short Plays have often had a theme running through all the offerings in one evening, however they were concealed or obscured. This …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:54PMFriday, August 3, 2018
Having added the 200-seat indoor Touchstone Theatre in 2009 to the outdoor Hill Theater with a capacity of 1,089, the season which began on June 14 now runs until November 18. It currently s…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:26AMWednesday, July 25, 2018
If "The After-Dinner Joke"’s 66 scenes seem cinematic, that is due to the fact that it originally was a teleplay commissioned by BBC for the series "Plays for Today" examining public issue…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:10PMMonday, July 23, 2018
n what easily could have become a one-man show, playwright Strand has cleverly created dramatic tension by first introducing us to a second character and later a third. Set during the 2012-2…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:42PMMonday, July 9, 2018
Charlotte Moore’s version streamlines the plot somewhat from Lerner’s original by eliminating Daisy’s fiancé for whom she wants to quit smoking as well as a subplot with Greek shippin…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:47AMSunday, July 8, 2018
Add to this list Mike Lew’s new witty and clever "Teenage Dick" (being given its world premiere by Ma-Yi Theater Company in association with the Public Theater), both an update and a parod…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:46PMFriday, July 6, 2018
Sixtyish Eric Miller is an angry white man, hating Catholics, Blacks, homosexuals, women, and other groups. He has also become very nationalistic. He not only wants to tell the world, he thi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:29PMTuesday, July 3, 2018
Using a tremendously talented and versatile cast of nine actors (three black male actors, three black female actors, as well as three white performers) playing from three roles to 12, the st…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:57PMSunday, July 1, 2018
Unlike the musicals "Rent" (an update on Puccini’s "La Boheme"), and "Miss Saigon' (inspired by Puccini’s "Madame Butterfly") both of which had all new music by other composers for their…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:22PMSaturday, June 30, 2018
With Miles Malleson’s 1925 "Conflict," being given its New York premiere, the Mint has uncovered a brilliant political and social drama which has tremendous relevance for today with its di…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:18PMFriday, June 29, 2018
Harmon’s new play resembles "Admissions," his last New York offering seen at Lincoln Center this March, in that it debates a topic from many sides but then fails to give us the author’s …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:08PMWednesday, June 27, 2018
Jackie Sibblies Drury is a unique new voice in the American theater. Her use of metatheater is all her own. "Fairview" has a great deal to say about race in America and the angle you see thi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:31PMMonday, June 25, 2018
Although the advance publicity for Ben Josephson’s "The Property" refers to it as a comedy, there is nothing funny about it, neither jokes nor comic situations. In fact, the heroine’s de…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:12PMWednesday, June 20, 2018
In the recent Metropolitan Opera production of Verdi’s "Otello," Otello was white which left no reason for his jealousy if he was identical to all the Venetians around him. In the current …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:53PMDirector Lucy Gram uses six actors to play 11 roles which has worked for such companies as Bedlam and Fiasco. However, here the four actresses play both men and women, three of them never ch…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:49PMSunday, June 17, 2018
The chance to see Anton Chekhov’s first produced play, "Ivanov," not only in the original Russian (with English surtitles) but in modern dress proves to be a revelation. Staged by Russia�…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:00AMThursday, June 14, 2018
Her newest work, "Fruit Trilogy," an evening of three one acts, “Pomegranate,” “Avocado” and “Coconut,” has all of the strengths and weaknesses of her previous stage plays which …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:05PMTuesday, June 12, 2018
Though it wouldn’t be fair to reveal it here for audiences about to see the play, the “secret” actually turns out to be one that has been widely known for some time as it is all over t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:36PMMonday, June 4, 2018
The letters alternate with the musical portions played by Ji on piano, Ari Evan on cello and Stephanie Zyzak on violin in various combinations which are beautiful but it is never clear in wh…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:59PMSunday, June 3, 2018
While "Brokeback Mountain" impresses in its sincerity, it does not move which is a serious problem considering the romantic and tragic plot. Director Jacopo Spirei’s cast is in fine form a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:38AM 
