Friday, February 22, 2019
Mystery writer Patricia Highsmith ("Strangers on a Train," "Carol," "The Talented Mr. Ripley") was famously alcoholic, depressive, misogynistic and racist. She was unique as an international…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:02PMWednesday, February 20, 2019
With the audience sitting ringside on three sides of the new theater, and performed by Masden and Belcher at the top of their game, The Light is thrilling theater. Their Gen and Rashad are b…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:46PMSaturday, February 16, 2019
Clark has chosen to direct the play as though it were drawing room comedy. Beginning and ending the play with a game of cards, there is the suggestion that for Edgar and Alice this is all a …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:59PMIt has been well publicized that the Harper Lee estate filed a lawsuit in February 2018 alleging that the play deviated too much from the novel. They should not have worried. As directed by …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:18PMThursday, February 14, 2019
The 1970 play was originally adapted by playwright Saul Levitt (who previously turned the Pulitzer Prize winning novel "Andersonville" into a successful trial play) from Berrigan’s free ve…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:15PMTuesday, February 12, 2019
The York production has been directed and adapted by Marc Acito who has condensed the original two act script into a long one-acter. Realizing that the original setting of 1948 for a tenth y…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:52PMMonday, February 11, 2019
If this family seems familiar, Winkler wrote about them in her 2016 play, "Kentucky," set seven years ago, when Hiro returned home for the first time from NYC in order to stop her sister’s…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:56PMFriday, February 8, 2019
In recent years the play has not fared with such acclaim. A 2008 Broadway revival starring Frank Langella eliminated the narrator character of The Common Man, the play’s cleverest device, …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:31PMThursday, January 31, 2019
Though not in the same class with Alan Jay Lerner’s masterpiece, "My Fair Lady," "Carmelina" has a similar theme: how a young woman reinvents herself. While the three soldiers are under th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:25PMWhile Jessica Dickey’s "The Convent" may not have any new answers and may cover familiar material, it does so with such vitality and theatricality, that it becomes a memorable experience.…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:45PMThursday, January 24, 2019
Six actors, three men and three women, in a company of seven, play many roles in this fluid production designed by Anna Driftmier that uses several different doorways, on-stage props and f…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:41PMHumorist and journalist Calvin Trillin has made his wife Alice Stewart Trillin, educator, writer, mother and muse, famous from such books as "Alice, Let’s Eat," "Travels with Alice" and "F…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:18PMSunday, January 20, 2019
Irish actors Niall Buggy and David Ganly returning to their original roles play two murderers sharing a cell in Dublin’s Montjoy Jail. The fiftyish PJ (Ganly) and the sixtyish Christy (Bug…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:24PMSaturday, January 19, 2019
Ireland gives a big performance that is almost larger than life. From the moment we meet her, she commands the stage. Watch how intently she listens to the others or how you can hear her tho…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:42PMSaturday, December 29, 2018
While "Clueless, The Musical" is never less than slick and professional in the best possible way, for those who know the iconic film it offers no surprises so slavishly does it follow the …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:48PMFriday, December 28, 2018
Nothing is what it seems in Jeremy 0. Harris’ startling and explosive "Slave Play" which investigates where race and sexual relationships intersect. What we have been watching in the play�…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:51PMTuesday, December 25, 2018
In the course of this unusual performance piece, the actor and the audience learn a bit of Farsi, the author’s native language, and actor and author share stories of their lives and likes,…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:52PMMonday, December 24, 2018
Intended for young people and their families, the jokey dialogue will amuse teenagers as well as teach them about the glass ceiling that talented women have had to fight against up until the…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:48PMFriday, December 21, 2018
Director Ivo Van Hove’s stage version of the Paddy Chayefsky cult film "Network" gives Bryan Cranston the role of a lifetime as Howard Beale, the UBS news commentator who has a nervous bre…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:55PMWednesday, December 19, 2018
The holiday season is in for an irreverent satirizing in Gary Apple’s musical comedy "Christmas in Hell," a rude and entertaining fable for adults. With book, music and lyrics by Apple, a …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:33PMThursday, December 13, 2018
The world premiere of "The Apple Boys: A Barbershop Quartet Musical" is a delightful show that pays tribute to this uniquely American art form. In a mash-up of history it also recognizes a g…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:20PMWednesday, December 12, 2018
One of the beauties of the book by Mills and Reichel is that all of the characters in the large dramatis personae are very well defined and we have no trouble knowing who is who. Reichel’s…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:02PMThursday, December 6, 2018
Tom Stoppard, our most cerebral modern playwright, has finally written a play that one would have expected from him all along. "The Hard Problem," his first play in ten years, is literally a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:35PMWednesday, December 5, 2018
"Quicksand," Nella Larsen’s 1928 award-winning first novel, has been given an ambitious, epical stage adaptation by Everyday Inferno Theatre Company working out of the IRT Theater. While R…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:21PMFriday, November 30, 2018
In a time of fake news, these timely and topical questions are raised in the delightful new Broadway play "The Lifespan of a Fact," a dramatization by Jeremy Kareken & David Murrell and…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:00PMWednesday, November 28, 2018
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater is presenting a theatrical event by Idaho theater poet Samuel D. Hunter ("The Whale," "A Bright New Boise," "The Few," "Pocatello," "The Healing," "The Harves…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:06PMMonday, November 26, 2018
While Alex Roe’s minimalist production is both sharp and engrossing, the play offers viewers several problems. Aside from the three main characters, the play has 23 other speaking roles wi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:05PMSunday, November 25, 2018
Ostensibly about domestic abuse, the evidence is all offstage and we must surmise this from the defeated condition of the heroine Irene played by Ms. Daly. Her husband Gerry (John Procaccino…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:31PMSaturday, November 24, 2018
In offering a window on a world most New York theatergoers know little about, Hansol Jung’s Wild Goose Dreams is a fascinating look at Korean culture. On the other hand, what appears to be…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:59PMMonday, November 19, 2018
Both a theatrical surprise and a very accomplished dramatic work, Patricia Ione Lloyd’s "Eve’s Song" is one of the best theatrical experiences to be had in New York at this time. With a …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:51PMFriday, November 16, 2018
As proven elsewhere, Steven Levenson is expert at depicting young people in crisis on stage. "Days of Rage" is very real in its handling of a group of people of similar beliefs living togeth…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:52PM 
