Thursday, March 31, 2016
In 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…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:47PMThe authors of "Straight" would have you believe that in 2016 26-year-old straight- acting investment banker Ben, living in Boston where same sex marriages have been legal for the last eight…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:04PMSunday, March 27, 2016
The staging is unusual in that no punches are thrown. When the actors are supposed to be delivering their blows, they stamp their feet which is actually more sinister and startling. The cast…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:33PMSaturday, March 26, 2016
Directed by the author, "Wolf in the River" is an environmental production as the audience is invited to sit in folding chairs around a mound of earth with forlorn flowers, garbage and debri…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:34PMFriday, March 25, 2016
One problem with reviving musicals from the pre-Sondheim era is that they were often created around the talent of a big, unique star like Ethel Merman, Bob Hope, Mary Martin, Al Jolson, Fann…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:00PMSunday, March 20, 2016
"Southern Comfort" is an ambitious and admirable attempt to depict a community that till now has been left off of our stages. Though the material at times seems tamer that the content would …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:55AMSaturday, March 19, 2016
"Hungry" is both an occasional play (written for this moment in time) and a chamber play. Not much happens but a great deal is implied. It will not please all theatergoers. However, it will …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:16AMFriday, March 18, 2016
The play is made up of a series of six confrontations in which the dialogue is delivered like bullets flying back and forth. While the story is engrossing, the individual conversations all g…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:39AMTuesday, March 15, 2016
Thompson’s direction is taut, nuanced and compelling and she found the ensemble to not only make their characters entirely distinct but to make us feel these women have lived together for …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:03AMMonday, March 14, 2016
Imani’s production of 'Walk Hard" for Metropolitan Playhouse is an exciting piece of theater from an eye-opening rediscovery. Historically, it comes nine years after Clifford Odets’ 'Gol…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:25PMThursday, March 10, 2016
The musical known for its “Let’s put on a show!” plot has a great deal more going for it than one might expect. First off, it has one of the greatest scores ever written for a Broadway…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:42PMWednesday, March 9, 2016
The inspiration for the play began when poet and playwright Dan heard the Fresh Air interview. Paul was already famous as the photographer who took the now iconic 1993 picture of U.S. Staff …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:16PMTuesday, March 8, 2016
The most colorful character in more ways that one is Uncle Jackie (Cantone) who lives upstairs. A closeted gay man in a society that doesn’t accept him, he has become an angry, self-loathi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:50PMMonday, March 7, 2016
Nunn’s adaptation rearranges some of the scenes and adds material from a prose version of the work by George Wilkins, believed to be Shakespeare’s collaborator. Using music, song, dancin…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:02PMFriday, March 4, 2016
Todd Rosenthal’s remarkably atmospheric and evocative setting is waiting for the audience when they come into the theater: a huge expanse of a corrugated ice flow in Northern Minnesota in …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:13PMWednesday, March 2, 2016
The play seems to be saying that life is full of suffering but love will conquer all, not a very new or profound message. One flashback (Violet and Daniel’s first date) is replayed at leas…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:49PMTuesday, March 1, 2016
Under the umbrella title "Tennessee Williams 1982" (the year of both play’s composition the year as well as that of playwright’s death), The Playhouse Creatures Theatre Company is presen…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:53PMWednesday, February 24, 2016
The satire begins early: it turns out that although the department likes having Brian doing his research proving that whites are genetically racist, they are not happy with his conclusions. …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:32PMTuesday, February 16, 2016
Television and film actor Timothée Chalamet (Showtime’s "Homeland" and Christopher Nolan’s "Interstellar") makes an impressive New York stage debut as the play’s young protagonist. Th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:44PMMonday, February 15, 2016
The forest setting by Ortiz seems to envelop the audience as does the sound design which is created by the actors in tandem with violinist Naomi Florin who plays Edward W. Hardy’s melancho…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:57PMWednesday, February 10, 2016
Do not expect an exact reproduction of the original which after four revivals is probably to the good. With the consent of lyricist Sheldon Harnick, the only surviving creator, Sher has adde…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:10PMTuesday, February 9, 2016
At the top of the show Cariou tells us that he made his Broadway debut in the Stratford Connecticut Shakespeare Festival’s transfer of "Henry V" in 1969 and six months later in the spring …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:25PMMonday, February 8, 2016
Schwend’s dialogue is realistic, believable, and true to life, as are the characters. As a play, however, it is a bit of a downer as we watch Amber become wearier without any relief in sig…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:27PMSunday, February 7, 2016
Nevertheless, Wills’ production is continually taking us by surprise both by his casting and his choices. His transgendered characters are played by transgendered actors. Moran’s Wilder …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:34PMThursday, February 4, 2016
So begins a remarkable comedy-drama of two very opposite teenagers who shouldn’t have met and wouldn’t have if Anthony had not chosen the reclusive, mysterious Caroline for his partner. …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:40PMSunday, January 31, 2016
Both teenagers are desperate for our approval and understanding of their lives and what they did, unlike the tabloids which have apparently had headlines branding them as monsters. Listening…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:39PMFriday, January 29, 2016
While Frayn’s roles are juicy parodies of very specific kinds of people, for the laughs to roll in one on top of the other, the play must be performed fast enough that we don’t have time…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:35PMA Dream of Red Pavilions is set in 18th century China during the reign of Emperor Qianlong. The framing story which gives the plot its mythic quality involves a stone and a flower that are r…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:56PMWednesday, January 27, 2016
Director Lordi-Kirkham has unaccountable staged the play as though it were a radio play or a reading, making it more talky and static than it needs to be. While the text is faithful to the R…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:41PMFriday, January 22, 2016
Ross DeGraw as Joseph Stalin and Brian J. Carter as Mikhail Bulgakov in a scene from John Hodge’s “Collaborators” (Photo credit: Michael Abrams) Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief Although …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:45PMWednesday, January 13, 2016
The interpretations are also open to question. Although she should be demure before her sexual awakening, Sara Topham plays Beatrice as experienced and sophisticated which allows her nowhere…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:28PM 
