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Only a 30 page treatment and five songs remained from the original show by the Johnstone brothers, writer Will B. and composer Tom. Diamond has written new lyrics for music by Tom Johnston a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:09PMNow having its American premiere in repertory with "Confusions," one of Ayckbourn’s earliest plays, with the same actors in both, the production which is directed by the author is from the…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:51PMAside from the obvious misogyny of Shakespeare’s comedy for modern audiences, there is the problem of the heroine’s unpalatable final speech in which she berates women for not being more…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:33AMAdam Rapp’s plays are often about loners and people outside of mainstream society. "The Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois" now at Atlantic Stage 2 in a production directed by the author fall…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:32PM"Now I Ask You" turns out to be comedy of pretentious New York bohemians in 1916, while "Recklessness" is a Strindbergian psychological revenge play. While both have hints of the more famous…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:31PMAlthough "Hamilton" had been nominated for 16 awards in 13 categories, it failed to break the record of Mel Brooks’ "The Producers" which remains the all-time winner with a total of 12. Ha…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:37PM'Universal Robots" uses historic characters like journalist and playwright Capek and President Masaryk of Czechoslovakia, characters taken from Capek’s play like Rossum, Helena and Radius,…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:17PMMaggie Lacey as Nora Helmer and John Douglas Thompson as Torvald Helmer in a scene from “A Doll’s House” (Photo credit: Gerry Goodstein) Was Swedish playwright August Strindberg a miso…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:36AMThis is heady theater and demands concentration. However, the excellent cast of four made of Geneva Carr (Theatre World Award winner for "Hand to God"), Charlie Cox (Netflick’s" Daredevil"…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:03PMAs with many CSC productions, the modern dress costumes (here designed by Ann Hould-Ward) are entirely in black and white. A small handful of props are used (a tin of buttons, an onion) but …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:04PMBritish film star Rupert Everett gives a bravura performance as playwright and author Oscar Wilde in the Chichester Festival Theater revival of "The Judas Kiss" by David Hare now at the BAM …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:01PMCompleting New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players’ 40th Season was a rare revival of 1884 "Princess Ida," the team’s eighth operetta and the only one in which the dialogue is in blank …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:45PMThe production of "Indecent" now on the stage of the Vineyard is remarkable on many levels, not the least which is how engrossing it is considering the events are all historical record and t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:56AMStylish and stylized, the stage design includes Es Devlin’s white box of a set which transforms instantaneously into apartments, offices, restaurants, discos, a health club, a locker room,…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:10PMOn the ferry, audience members listen to a previously downloaded soundscape which includes a voice-over by Katie (played by Emma Meltzer) who has always seen ghosts and ends up investigating…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:42PMThe problem with the new show with a libretto by first timers Claudia Shear and Tim Federle now at the Broadhurst Theatre is that it is all so bland - which is not true of the novel which ha…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:46PMStaged by director/choreographer Doug Varone, "Dido and Aeneas" was amusingly presented in modern dress with Varone’s dancers playing the ensemble in both operas and pantomiming unseen pro…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:24PMRed Bull Theater which has specialized in Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedies has moved on to the 18th century with Marc Vietor’s exquisite and stylish revival of "The School for Scandal," …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:38AMShanahan’s adaptation has a great many delicious one-liners and double-entendres (“I don’t go out for mutton when I can have filet mignon at home;” “Keep referring to me as a plate…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:59PMWhile many of the scenes are right on target, others seem too metaphoric and anarchic to make much impression, while others take on too many targets to make their point. The best ones deal w…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:52PMYou might wonder why Morag, Fiona’s mother, in Sharman Macdonald’s groundbreaking Scottish play, "When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout," is so repressive about sex. What the prog…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:45PMThe Royal Shakespeare Company’s "King and Country: Shakespeare’s Great Cycle of Kings" is a magnificent achievement and a fitting tribute in this 400th anniversary of the bard’s death.…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:02PMVan Hove sets his version in a modern classroom. When the curtain goes up we first see the girls who will later accuse various people in Salem, Massachusetts, of having bewitched them, seate…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:10PMFlorian Zeller is the most famous French playwright you probably never heard of. He won France’s highest theatrical honor, the Moliere Award, in 2011 for his play, "The Mother," and the Mo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:35PMThe problem with the staging begins from the outset. Daniels' Ray, tense and rigid, pushes demanding, triumphant Una into a corporate break room. He is upset to see her, and she is all confi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:22PMTarell Alvin McCraney’s "Head of Passes" is an advance over his earlier work seen in New York ("The Brother/Sister Plays," "Wig Out," "Choir Boy") in its attempt to take on bigger themes a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:45PM"The Effect" investigates the emotional, physical and ethical effects of drug testing, certainly a hot button issue in our time when we have come to expect a pill to solve all of our problem…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:29PM"Wonderful Town" is one of those musical comedies which seem to get better as they age due in this case to the classic quality of the Bernstein/ Comden & Green score and the witty book …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:55PMThomas Kail (one of the geniuses behind Hamilton) has staged the world premiere of Sarah Burgess’ riveting "Dry Powder" in as cool a fashion as Rachel Hauck’s cobalt blue set with its cu…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:55PMPosner has turned Chekhov’s four-act play into two-part meta-theater: not only do the actors acknowledge the audience and solicit our participation, but they each have a monologue addresse…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:35PMIn the hands of someone other than Timothy Olyphant, Strings McCabe might be a self-pitying monster too extreme to take seriously. However, this brilliantly accomplished actor has just the r…
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