Tuesday, August 29, 2023
While the misnamed "How to Steal an Election: A Dirty Politics Musical" is no lost masterpiece and at times seems long, it is a diverting political revue which offers an interesting take on …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:30AMThursday, August 24, 2023
Directed by Karen Carpenter, "Pay the Writer" by best-selling novelist Tawni O’Dell is slick and superficial but entertaining and engrossing. The play about the 45 year friendship between …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:01PMMonday, August 21, 2023
Another problem with the play is that although the subject is “Improv” we never actually witness any, just theater games to prepare for group improvs. Games like Mind Meld, Mating Call, …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:42PMWednesday, August 16, 2023
"Back to the Future: The Musical," the time travel adventure, joins a long line of problematic screen to stage musicalizations which do not improve on the originals in any way. Joining the l…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:35PMMonday, August 7, 2023
The family-oriented TheaterWorksUSA’s latest musical adaptation of the best-selling children’s novels of Dev Pilkey is "Cat Kid Comic Club: The Musical," an exuberant colorful one hour i…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:23PMSaturday, August 5, 2023
What appears to be filmmaker Jing Ma’s first stage play, "Wheel of Fortune" is a touching story of a depressed man about to turn 30 and without a job or a girlfriend. His bad luck changes…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:47PMTuesday, August 1, 2023
Whether you follow basketball or not, Candrice Jones’ "Flex" is exciting theater. Actually, the play is not only about women’s high school basketball but also passions, future plans, rom…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:27PMMonday, July 31, 2023
Although Sandy Rustin’s "The Cottage," now arrived at Broadway’s Helen Hayes Theater, bills itself as “A Romantic and (Not Quite) Murderous Comedy of Manners,” it is devoid of the tw…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:30PMSunday, July 23, 2023
Another head scratcher is that advance publicity on the play calls it “an uproarious comedy”; however, as there are no more than two laughs in the whole play as currently produced on the…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:14PMTuesday, July 18, 2023
Among the problems with the production is the fact that there is no chemistry between Siff and Alexander. We are supposed to believe that their encounter not only brings Lady Torrance back t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:36PMWednesday, July 12, 2023
Pyle is an engaging performer. However, not only does her story wander around but the interruptions by her father or rather her day dreams about past lovers become hard to follow due to all …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:37PMMonday, July 10, 2023
Juliet Stevenson as Dr. Ruth Wolff in a scene from Robert Icke’s “The Doctor” at the Park Avenue Armory (Photo credit: Stephanie Berger) Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief Robert Icke’s T…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:46PMMonday, July 3, 2023
The only problem with Hartmere’s plot is that it remains undeveloped. None of the princesses get to read Friedan's book (there is initially only one copy) and they take it on faith that it…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:11PMFriday, June 30, 2023
For this year’s Free Shakespeare in the Park, director Kenny Leon has set his modern dress "Hamlet" in what looks like the same Georgia estate as his acclaimed 2019 production of "Much Ado…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:47PMTuesday, June 27, 2023
Based on a range of Eisenhower’s memoirs, speeches and letters, the play demonstrates without a doubt his belief in moderation and his liberal bent of which many people today are unaware. …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:05PMSunday, June 25, 2023
While the show approximates a magic show, it also is a lecture demonstration. However, if you are hoping to hear how the tricks are accomplished you will be disappointed. Cuiffo who has a ch…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:49PMTuesday, June 20, 2023
Scheduled to run only until July 1, "Lizard Boy" deserves a longer life as one of the most satisfying musical theater offerings to be seen currently in New York. While the message of toleran…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:40PMWednesday, June 14, 2023
Lucas’ script remains faithful to Miller’s teleplay (with the excision of Joe’s delirium tremens in the psycho ward or his second hospitalization) and much of the dialogue is actually …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:39PMMonday, June 12, 2023
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ "The Comeuppance," the culmination of his decade as a Premiere Resident playwright at Signature Theatre, does for the millennials what "The Big Chill" did for the B…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:20PMFriday, June 9, 2023
The problem with the play is that it has a one joke plot, simply what will happen when Maurice appears – if he does. The play runs out of steam very early on. However, if the drunken scene…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:45PMThursday, June 8, 2023
The little OPERA theatre of ny has become known for its adventurous programing of rarely seen and heard operas in English including the New York premieres of Benjamin Britten’s opera for t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:02PMWednesday, May 31, 2023
Whether you are a basketball fan or not, Rajiv Joseph’s "King James" is an intriguing depiction of an unlikely friendship over 12 years. Under Kenny Leon’s polished direction, Glenn Davi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:08PMMonday, May 29, 2023
The six-member cast creates a believable ensemble though their roles are not all clearly defined. While the play reveals much about the Haitian community living in Brooklyn, as 'Bernarda’s…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:07PMSaturday, May 27, 2023
The world premiere of Emma Sheanshang’s "The Fears" is a hilarious and poignant satire on self-help groups and the sort of people who take their emotional temperature all day long – lite…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:47PMTuesday, May 23, 2023
As directed by the astute Josh Sharp, Kayne begins his show as a stand-up act, but warns us “This is a comedy show. BUT it is also sad. There will be long stretches where you will not be l…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:41PMSaturday, May 20, 2023
All of this is told by Baer in Twain’s humorous and inimitable style filled with anecdotes both true and untrue. As we are told from the author himself, “I have never been a man to allow…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:12PMTuesday, May 16, 2023
"New York, New York" is a big, jazzy show in the style of golden age musicals we have not seen for a while. While it removes the abusive relationship between Jimmy and Francine from the film…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:06PMSunday, May 14, 2023
However, both every scene as written by Maldonado and directed by Theatre East’s artistic director Judson Jones is staged as though it were the climax. It is one thing to enact a play up t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:34PMThursday, May 11, 2023
MasterVoices concluded its 2022-23 season with a lovely concert staging performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s rarely seen comic opera "Iolanthe (or The Peer and the Peri)" staged and cond…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:23PMTuesday, May 9, 2023
Sean Hayes, up till now best known for his Emmy Award-winning performance as Jack McFarland on "Will and Grace," gives a titanic performance as humorist, raconteur and pianist Oscar Levant o…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:22PMWednesday, May 3, 2023
Directors Noah Brody and Emily Young, both of the Fiasco Theater, have neatly trimmed the dialogue and some of the minor characters so that the play comes in at two hours and 15 minutes. How…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:25PM 
