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 05:28PMThough the stage show does not have the imitable and irrepressible Jack Black, it does have rising stars Alex Brightman and Sierra Boggess who make the roles of hero Dewey Finn and Principal…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:53PMThe cast includes beloved NYGASP favorites as well as some less familiar faces. Coloratura soprano Sarah Caldwell Smith’s Mabel wins a justly earned ovation signing her aria, “Poor Wande…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:37PMJerry Mayer’s "2 Across" will remind of a great many other romantic comedies but in the hands of Andrea McArdle and Kip Gilman, it is a charming light-hearted evening in the theater. At le…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:15PMAlthough this is the eighth show minimalist director Ivo van Hove has directed for New York Theatre Workshop, one would be hard put to recognize it as his. The production uses Tal Yarden’s…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:00PMBelgian–born director Ivo van Hove has brought his London Young Vic revival of Arthur Miller’s" A View from the Bridge" to Broadway in a production so stripped down to its essentials tha…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:41PMThis post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief While C.S. Lewis’ famous theological allegory, "The Great Divorce," is written as a series of conversations, you might not expect that it woul…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:34PMThis post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief "Gigantic," the new feel-good musical, is a dynamic up-to-date show about teenagers at a summer weight-loss camp. Previously seen as Fat Camp in…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:41PMThis post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief The new musical is similar to Sater’s "Spring Awakening" in that it takes a group of people in a specific historic time and place (here New Yo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:19PMThis post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief The legendary stage actress Kathleen Chalfant is appearing in her second one-woman show, a follow-up to her “Mrs. Dalloway” in The Party, fr…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:19PMThis post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief Pendleton has made some strange directorial choices. Characters appear on stage and stand silently long before their entrances. This is distract…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:11PMThis post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief The great mid-20th century American poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell were friends from 1947 until his sudden death 30 years later. As th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:41PMThis post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief Metropolitan Playhouse has done itself proud with its revival of the rarely seen "Alison’s House." Alex Roe’s splendid production with its a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:49PMThis post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief Aside from the obvious theme of morality in politics, the play also deals devastatingly with issues of privacy in public life and in the informa…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:55PMThis post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief The best role in the story is that of sociopath, deranged Annie Wilkes. Metcalf runs the gamut of emotions from bliss to murderous rage and back…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:04PMThis post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief In this centennial of the birth of jazz great Billie Holiday, The New York Pops November concert was devoted to Harlem Renaissance ladies like E…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:37PMThis post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief The title refers to three generations of women whose lives have been derailed by early pregnancies. When the play begins, we are in the modest h…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:46PMThis post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief Handled as stand-up comedy, Story tells us that he did not at first accept Dr. Gray’s theories until he heard one of his lectures, and then he…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:53AMThis post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief For the first half of Stephen Karam’s “The Humans,” the Blake family Thanksgiving seems to be nothing but a banal seasonal gathering. And …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:34PMThis post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief Kate Baldwin (John & Jen, Giant, Big Fish, Finian’s Rainbow) as self-absorbed country western star Tammy Tripp gives a big bravura perfor…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:18PMThis post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief Roundabout Theatre Company has commissioned yet another new stage adaptation from British playwright Helen Edmondson, whose previous plays also …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:31PMThis post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief New Worlds Theatre Project’s mission is to present English language translations of Yiddish plays as comparable to their contemporaries Chekho…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:29PMThis post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief Twenty-two years after writing "First Lady Suite," four linked musicals about Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Truman, Mamie Eisenhower, Jacqueline Bouvi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:27PMThis post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief "Perfect Arrangement," Topher Payne’s first play to reach New York, is a well-crafted and engrossing play with much to say and has been magnif…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:33PMThis post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief The surviving original creators, book writer Sherman Yellen and lyricist Sheldon Harnick, have written a new streamlined version of the show now…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:20PMThis post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief Initially based on Plautus’ Roman comedy, "Amphitryon," "Out of This World" is an uneasy mix of 1950’s slang and idiom, and classic Greek th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:54PMThis post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief Havergal’s adaptation is unusual in that it uses four male actors to play 25 roles including the central role of Aunt Augusta, with all the ac…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:13PMThis post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief Robert O’Hara’s "Barbecue" may seem like a series of sleights of hand, but as a satirist of American culture, the playwright has a good deal…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:58PMThis post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief What is most remarkable about Caryl Churchill’s time traveling comedy "Cloud Nine" is that this prescient play about sexual politics and repre…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:52PMThis post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief From the evidence of Colgan’s Musicals Tonight! production, "Oh, Kay!" not only still works in the original but has a glorious score including…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:41AMThis post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief With a cast led by downtown icons Joey Arias and Julie Atlas Muz, "Sisters’ Follies" includes life size puppets, flying ghosts, music and danc…
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